The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-03

cause he is from Nome, be any better appointee than the gentle man from Virginia or from Oregon. Surely as far as capacity to fulfil certain duties is concerned, that depends entirely upon the capacity of the persons receiving the office. But it seems somehow to be accept ed that the very best Alaskan, the | will be chosen, while the very worst | Virginian or Oregonian is selected. Now what in the world is the use of entertaining such preposterous- | ly ridiculous ideas? Activity in po- litical strife in Nome any more than in Virginia or Oregon does not i'm ply of necessity fitness for posi- tion, and the Alaskan who is a po- | litical sluggard is hardly permitted to be matter of consideration.
 Any how, this cry of Alaskans for I Alaska jobs gives one a pain. It makes no difference who is appoint l ed as far as we can see or hear, and we believe that you could bunch the i whole caboodle of federal officials from the very first to the very latest, and grab sample them with out finding any startling differences. | There have been very fit men and | men, but by and large whether AL askans or whether from the Out side, they tipped the scales at about an average weight. We have yet to observe, moreover, the politician who will come right down to cases and prove that the Alaskan appoint ed to office is any better than the Outsider who is appointed thereto, as far as the miners-thereal pro ducers-are concerned.
 It is really absurd to be running off on such political wild goose chases when much larger and more deadly game is at hand if the poli- ticians would only dare tackle them.
 It is contended as a corrollary to the declaration Alaska for Alaskans that inasmuch as the conservation ists have tied up the resources Of the country, Pinchotism has been a blight and a curse and the very antithesis of the principle invo.ved in the slogan.
 While the Industrial Worker has always contended that the conserva- tion theories affected neither for better nor for worse the working classes, none the less the cry of "Pinclntism'', in demanding the opening up of the resources, did not mean exactly what it was intended to imply. Were it not for Pinchot the coal lands of Boring river fields world have been before now absorb ed by syndicates which might have orened them up or might not. but which would have patented ground obtained by prejury, by misrepre- sentation and by fraud. For years there was a standing position for men to go to Alaska and to stake coal and oil ground for these syndi- cates, soldiers. scr,p was another favorite device, and after these hire lings from Seattle had enjoyed a pleasant outing stalking and locat- ing, they are held up as the unfor- tunate prospectors defrauded of years of toll.
 Go over this territory in this sec tion and see what the result has been of lax mining laws. Miles and miles of creeks and hills are staked by hatchet and pencil men who will not do two cents of work upon the ground, and who await the advent of some syndicate to take the ground they grabbed off their hands. Seward Peninsula could stand a whole lot of Pinchotism, and it was one of the most unfor- tunate acts of the last legislature that it repealed the very judicious clauses of the Roden mining law which made the land grabber work or get out.
 As we see it, the best that the opening up these resources offer the workers is a few jobs. That's the best that they can do for them. A master for youself while you are a good slave and dutiful. and pat