The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-17
SENSIBLE POLICY.

It IS reported InGI the LHe INOlS Chamber of Commerce is now tax ing up the matter with various min ing concerns and individuals looking towards the employment in opera tions conducted during the summer of all-the-year-round residents of this Peninsula.
 That's sensible policy for them and the wonder i9 that it didn't oc- cur to them long ago.
 However this winter the fact that so many sour doughs failed during the past season to get work and in- dividual operations which kept the camp alive shrunk to such an appre- ciable figure that the necessity for something being done has literally forced itself upon many of the more entcrprising business men.
 We know of course that it for the reason of doing themselves good that they would see sour doughs and per. manent residents employed in pre- ference. Those will spend their money in the camp any way and the business men will get the most of it.
 It is better however for all con- cerned-workers as well as any one else. The real reason why employers have shown in some cases, even in many instances, a preference fol chechaco labor is that the sour dough know too much and wanted too much. He understood that you can not live here on Seattle wages an1 he demanded what would be naees- sary for him to exist upon The em ployer hired men in Seattle, especial ly men ignorant of the actual con d.tions here and hired them for less than was essential to living in A. aske.
 Two classes of men are broke here every fall One class that does not get work because he wants standard wages, and the other who get, work at below the Alaska standard and get laid off after short spell to have the place taken upon a resumption of operations by other and cheaper men. These men also are usually the victims of a constituencies class of operators who end up by beating all employees ou, of their wages. The old timers are too wise to work for such as these and most of them arc rot even wanted in any event
 But the business mans point oi view is different. He does not want to eliminate the transient because he is cheaper necessarily, but be- cause he leaves the country and takes what he makes along with him, large or small. He does not spend it where he makes it, and as such is very little benefit to the commercial interests of the camp. Most of the old timers are cheerfully buggy on the auction of making i, a fortune. They prospect perpetually and sink their money buying sup pies in holes in the ground, ana ! their lunacy only increases with | each succeeding disappointment. Literally they are gamblers; very profitable gamblers to be sure with their bump of acquisitiveness by their bump of imagina- tion to the great benefit of all who have things to sell.
 Now it is unquestionably true that although it has been manifestly to the interest of all in business in Nome to see that the permanent re- sidents got work, the home guards were carefully side tracked when il came to jobs. The new corners In- got the work, and it has come to this pass that a man to be sure of his summers work up here has to leave in the Fall taking his financial baggage with him and leav- ing the camp poorer by just shat 
 Candidly speaking we can con sder Nome during the winter huge gambling joi,t with the creeks and tnndras the lay. out, the bank the dealers and the business men the boosters. The dealers get their rake off and if every one were to break even, the bank would mainly hold