The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-03

But that number was employed in one camp alone Iast winter ana many camps had from ten to twenty men.
 And the question that the Nome business men who have taken the work of boosting Nome in hand have to consider is what they are going to do about it. They can first of all cut out that stuff of inr tins capital in here. Capital is not ac- cepting those invitations. Whar 1 capital is looking for is lead pipe | cinch It's not throwing favors any | more to Major French's. It's look | | ing after its investments, and 1t looks before it leaps. You deliver the goods and capital delivers the money If you cannot develop ground to deliver the goods, quit thinking that timid old gent like MT. Capital is coming up to Nome
 to scatter dollars to the breezes. lie
 might, once in time have money
 to throw to the birds, but they are
 now tco we'll organized This is the
 day of the expert and if the expert
 says mo- that there is no reason to Invest, that there is nothing in
 sight so far to justify favorable re-
 port the old gent keeps his wad in
 the bank and chews gum. He's
 from Missouri, if you please.
 II Doubtless indeed there are quartz
 and other propositions which will
 pay development and make Nome
 famous. The Industrial Worker
 does not pretend to be an expert
 But we do say that every single
 proposition must first be opened up
 by someone, before capital will cross
 the street to talk about it, to pause
 a moment to think about it, or do
 a damn thing about it.
 In every camp it was the worker who set out and labored and wage worked and then prospected and dug up the maZuma who opened up
 the field for the exploitation by ca- ,pital. Many times the workers were
 backed by business men many times they were backed by their own sas-
 ings. But it began with the muck stick man. The man who was on the pay roll was the man who did the
 work.
 And it cannot be imagined by the
 most vivid imagination that Nome is going to be any different. It's the man who is employed here and
 who lives here who will save the , camp--who will more surely save it , for the business man than for him. self, or than the business man for
 himself.
 It's enough to give man pain to hear talk of boosting this ana , boosting that, and to think that by , spreading out lot of salve and
 peddling a lot of bull, capital vii. be induced to buy something fo. nothing. It is laughable almost to find business men who ought to know better, think that the sharks
 who have and hold the money are
 going to let go before lot of bull would not start common sucker biting. The camp must have some.
 thing behind it to boost and capital isn't looking for tundra scenery nor
 timber claims among the willows.
 Rocks are mighty plenty all over the
 world, and If capital was out for
 the buying of stone, it would invest
 closer home than in Alaska.
 It's fact therefore that coming
 t.own to brass tacks, the man who
 aas got to be helped along, boosted
 at every step, given the best job> |. ard the best pay is the Alaskan worker. It's upon. him tha. the future depends, and It's not upon Ithe hog wash that may be pcddled leut as instructive boosting litera. ture. x. n Now what are the facts concein , ing the Alaskan workers. There's no place in the world that the, l find it so hard to get work al , laround Nome. Even local dredg | ling company owned by Nomelte {. and upheld by Nome business meI i Twill hunt forty-eight hours for 1 a Ichechaco before giving a sourdousl s No,ne.te q job, That's the isrl trath 9 Year after year many a man who's 1. |lahor has maintained your dances t and yonr social functions. and YOU
 rall games. and your card parties