The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-28


 generous emotions, their instincts to aympatheticalIy share sorrow and to divide disappointment that a brothers portion might be the less bitter and the load less heavy.
 The salvation Of the human race depends now as it always has done upon the instincts which our civiliza tion under a capitalist economy has done it's very hest to suppress or where it could not suppress to per vert
 And despite the discipline of the years of struggle and hardship and hopes deferred which maketh sick the heart these Kougarok miners for another that the burden may be lighter and that the load of grief might press less heavily on the stricked heart, dare everything.
 Nor is this instance which occa- sions these remarks to be passed off with cheap cynicism at it's rarity under the sun. On the contrary if the real story of Alaska's develop ment ever were written, and the same attention paid by the historian to the wonderful mines of human nobility that from time to time were opened up in the course of that de- velopment. as is paid to the discov- cry of the placer or quartz camps of the country. the truth would stand revealed that such cases are not mere isolated instances but repeated facts that stand accompanying the story of the territory, golden page in every chapter of the records. 1 Whatever may be done or said about the North, this country at i least brings out a community of feeling that allows he development ! of mans finer instinct for mutual aid, the handspring of his evolution 1 life. And one of the reasons why men who leave Alaska love Alaska, is because while surrounded by many friends and having every thing that the heart might desire, their memory takes them back to i the camps of the other days when was needed, and men gave and | asked not of the giving.
 These facts are of vital import ance to all of us. When the poss- | ibility of human progress is afforded l in imagination a wider field we are met with the irrelevant sheer that 1 They scoff derisively that society is | relentlessly committed to the savag l cry ''of the devil take the hind | most; that only the fttest survive, ! and that one has to do his neightbor | or his neighbor will certainly do ! him. They preach that human na- ture is innately vile and ignoble and | that only by constant chastening or discipline and purpose can the souls f men be persuaded to aspire to higher things.
 All of which is wrong, and drivel pune and simple. Society has taken human nature and under eXploita tive economies of one sort or an- other, endeavored to drive out every vitalizing instinct therein and to have us all animals with one instinct that of the pursuit of wealth and gain and profits and power at the expense of our fellows. And this capitalist economy has trained it's victims to have only one cast of soul as a foxhound has only one de- veloped sense, it's scent for it's quarry, and that: the instinct to get the dollar, get it anyhow, but get it
 Now all that is not only false but viciously false. And although they have subjected humanity to their disciplines of evil through the cen- turies, human nature as instanced every now and then, and not too seldom either, rises to deeds of heroism which are not regarded by the men who do them as heroic, but as the supremely natural order of , things such they expect that others would do for them were they in need of similar assistance.
 And that's what these men who toiled through hills and creeks and