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

through perfectly legal investments or through investments which were made legal later, which is the same thing. And tho revolution became
 necessary in order that the people
 might emancipate themselves from this yoke that had been forced upon them during the industrial evolu tion of their country whereby oIr.
 ership became foreign, and nativity practically meant dispossession.
 l Now during the piping times o:
 peace when conditions in industries
 came intolerableth ncia l shrdrf
 controlled by foreign owners, or
 conditions in tenementc rented from absentee and forcing landlords be-
 came intolerable, be 1t marked well, the entire resources of the United
 States are placed at the disposal of these foreign proprietors. Such all
 instance, was seen in the great coal lsrike in West Virginia. Treaties
 confer such rights upon ownership;
 readily recognize the international
 nature of commercial, industrial and financial undertakings.
 | None the less, real control inevit-
 ably results from such proprietor-
 ship. It is fact that political con
 trol is merely the manifestation of
 such economic control, and undeni-
 ably and unanswerably 1t Is that class which is dominant industrialiy
 that is also politically dominant.
 Mere geographical dominion cuts
 but little figure as a general rule.
 The real dominion rests in proprie
 torship, acquired no matter how
 It matters very little to the man
 Tho has no land that it is his coun-
 try, when another nationality owns
 the land whereon he labors.
 We get mixed up in matters Of
 this kind, so complex is the appear ance of the capitalist system. Bur a little penetration will reveal dis | tlUCIly WuCTe Ouc ID dI'
 |. Take local application of the question involving no foreign mat
 ter. People in Alaska know well l enough that as soon as outside ca-
 pital comes to Alaska and invests
 and controls from, say New York :. city, domination of Alaskan affairs will ultimately remain with those
 investors.
 The economic factor is the all , powerful factor. When efforts are
 made to control in some measure : certain ndustries in Alaska by the ! residents herein, who own not | tithe of these industries they desire to handle, they find that they are powerless to do so. They cannot
 touch it. Thus have the Alaska : fisheries been immune from every effort which a territorial legislature [ has made to cnntrol them. Indeed ] | it is now come to such pass tha' f so powerful are these fishery com , pines that even a conviction for . ) violation of the fishery laws, such a' ? they are which have been establish ! ed, is next to an impossibility, ant
 elicits from District Judge { e scathing rebuke for lack of integrit, y upon the part of the jurors.
 : What is the case with an Amer l ican industry controlled by Amer : jeans, is exactly the same as in al - American industry controlled b. f European. It is stated that th'
 Treadwell is more or less controlled Il by English capitalists. Everyon 5 knows that the influence of such d company is supreme in Juneau. O sl Its supremacy is only questioned b, la similar corporation, the Alaska c Gastineau.
 {. We say it is incontestable tha $ the interests, home or foreign
 that control the industries, tn (. finance or the commerce of a coun q try will control that country l It1the people control the industries c
 any country, that people is on tn y direct road to collective ownershiI al We cannot help having bropgf 's home toi us every day of qur, Il, live l. how intimately. ipedd ipeduaat4ial Jss sapsrt a macy asserts political supremac! ,f and not only political suprsmac --1 but social supremacy as we'll, entel s. ling into every siS! social phass.u ' ~" .g1 hThc power of the greater corpor. r. tions is enormp6s: 1t aifecta me s-Iin every walk of life. It penetrate sc avery social strata. t q sftssts sss!ai, th