The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-31

other gatherings are to solder the closer connections with the more important interests. Their candl- dates are very reserved in their open adoption of any plea for the common people, and they are set with considerable rigidity against any such democracy as finds favor in western and frontier commu- mites.
 The control of the industrial, agricultural and financial situs tioh being absolute and beyond any pro spect of interference, the position which the owners hold is also un- equivocally one of control. Hence the vitality of the republican party which is associated with control Of industry and which can make or m make, or promise, not without ef- feet, to make or unmake prosperi- ty.
 The distinction between this con- dition as it exists in the east and the political situation as it is in Alaska is very marked. But it is not due to any superior psychologi- cal state that prevails here, but rather to the fact that accompany ing the backward economic devel- opment there is also an obscurer and more backward conception Of the relation between politics and economics.
 When Alaska becomes great in- dustrially and more closely settled, when the acreage of free land is de- nied any longer to the hope build- CTS who vision dreams of economic independence, when the industrial relation is so distinct as to be only muddled by over-work or by ignor- ance of the most hopeless type, there will be less buncombe ana more practical issues affected in political campaigns. Not that either the one or the other will bring the workers closer to their goal, but they will have many less obscuring | issi es cast before them so that they lose no sight of the supreme neces- sity for economic organization the only real means whereby political or any other power can be achieved To the electors doubtless the various disputes that will arise dur ing the next few months preceding election, the discussions, denuncia' tions and declarations, will not De so much hot air. They will be | firmly persuaded that the choice be- tween Sulzer and Wickersham Is 6 matter of the utmost gravity and one involving questions of enorm- ous import.
 As a matter of fact, nothing or the kind is the truth. Neither one nor the other will substantially af- l feet the industrial progress of the Territory, and its gradual develop ment from a frontier to a highly civilized and we'll settled country That will take place through the efforts of capital to obtain more ana more profits and will be fast or slow according as it promises great profits or little or mono.
 Under the system that is cer- tainty, regardless of any condition that might follow the election of one man or the other.
 It is quite true of course that 1t may affect local affairs throughout the Territory to a degree. It may result in different appointees ana different administrative methods by such appointces. But that will not very deeply affect the condition of things as they now exist; will not make easier or tighten in any way the struggle to live. Village pump politics be they elevated to the highest plane and be they re. garded with the profoundest gray ity never do.
 And this constant pickering with corporations or with different inter ests which seek to gain control over the country's resources may put of and delay such control but they