The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-01
ABSENTEEISM.

One cannot but be Struck Dy the constant struggle against mono poly" which Alaskan business inter ests from time to timo make in ., rather futile effort.
 They watch the country drained of it's wealth to pay tribute to trans portation, banking, foreign mining corporations, franchises and fishing interests and they arc left nothing but the dregs of wealth production whereon to satisfy their own critical thirst for wealth. There is no gain saving that they have excellent grounds for these complaints. There is hardly any getting over the tact that upon the resources of Alaska dozens of different companies all owned by absentee interests, are sucking all the rich substance from the territory. And the rest have sundry and divers methods of pre- venting this, but all of them, every one of them, are merely the same thing over and over again in a diff erent form.
 Now most of these interests heye come here representing capital that has been begged to come. They have been piled with tho wiles ol the advertiser and the promoter un- til they did come, and when they do come it is only reasonable to ex- pect that they get their pound of flesh. That's why they invest in the country, not for their health but for their profits, and it is above all things immaterial to them whether in taking those profits, resident ousl- ness interests of Alaska arc left with bare bones to chew on for susten- ance. That is the system. It was the system when commercial inter- ests hoping to benefit by their com ing invited the investment of ab- sentee capitalists here and it IS tie system when they did invest and left their investments to suck drop by drop of the profits that circulated in the commercial veins of the country
 Naturally the business men com plain. They are after their prohts' and when they see this condition they don't like it. Someone has figured out the sum of money that the N. c. Co. took from Fairbanks and its proportion to the total gold output showing that relatively there was but little left for the rest I, would be interesting to learn what proportion of gold produced in the Juneau district finds it's way to for eign lands and the United States proper.
 It would be interesting to know what proportion of the gold goes to the absentee owned banks II Juneau and 70 the absentee owned shipping companies of Seattle and t would be interesting to learp tho small modicum that is left for pure ly Alaskan residents after the for eign corporations have been raid The same thing applies to Nome Absentee banking interests, absen.e' lighterage interests, absentee light ing and power plants, absentee dredging and other mining interests absentee transporation companies all get their big whack out of th' gold outhput leaving just soupcol for business interests residen here.
 We'll what about it? Hasn't l been the cry all the while to ge capital in here to invest? And sure ly it has never been imagined tha capital came to put in two dollar for the sake of philanthropicall. getting back two bits? It wasn imagined surely that capitol cam here for it's health and after 1t ha come upon urgent solicitings to in vest it would leave what it mad in the country?
 Nothing could be more unrcason able. Nothing could be more imposs ible under the system. Tho gam played is dog eat dog. Tho ethi of the whole scheme is to get from the other fellow, regardless o what happens him. It's every firr for itself under this gay old system We don't live in any kind of Ute
 pia and no sort of effort will nal