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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-10-26

Mr.. Brisbane said of himself that he did not believe that
any other editor in America has been so violently and SO bit
terly pro-ally and anti-German as he has been. A man ought
to be allowed to speak for himself. But the cruel New York
Tribune Games back to say, or rather to quote from the Kol-
.nishche Zeitung, which testified that Mr.. Hearst and his editor
have "been auxiliaries of valued influence" especially because
OF the editorials in the Hearst newspapers" OF course, the
testimony of the Zeitung stands for something, at least the
New York Tribune thinks so.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-10-26

The Germans are now crying out that the president of
the United States will be assuming an awful responsibility if
he does not stop the war. But why did they never think OF
that awful responsibility in starting the war? The response
bnity that the Germans are praing about is simply one of
saving them from getting a licking, a licking fit for their
crimes. 1t is to save themselves that they are crying. 1t is
not that they are worried about others. for the others in this
world they would gladly have slaughtered, all in order to
make more room for the expansion of German kulur.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-10-26

On the day that the kaiser received the reply to his first
peace overtures, the British won their greatest victory against
his soldiers, pouring literally through a twenty-mile gap and
capturing II, 600 prisoners. While the allies are doing such
things, will some one ask them to quit doing it until the dip
lomats have time to talk over peace? No, there will be moth
ing doing of that kind. The men who are doing the fighting
have really more to say about it now than we have, and what
they are saying does not sound like the word quit.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-10-26

When the kaiser hears of influenza in the United States,
perhaps, he will be able to make himself believe that it is
Gods own answer to his prayers to strafe the American peo-
pie for taking up war against him. The kaiser is just about
enough of a divine fool to believe in such things. And he may
be able to turn to his favorite chapters in the old testament
they say he has never reached the new testament as veto
sustain him in his belief.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-10-26

Fight it through" says Roosevelt, and the colonel has
been almost right about everything connected with this war.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-10-26
THE GIFT HORSE OF THE GREEKS

Prince Max of Baden has not been an instantaneous sue
cess in the role of the Trojan horse. What was the Trojan
horse? Well, it was a Greek horse introduced into the Tro-
jan war, the war in which the Greeks took the city of TROY.
one of the great cities of that time. After fighting for it for
ten years without victory, the Greeks sent word to the Tro-
jams that they were tired of war and ready to quit They
begged the Trojans to receive a wooden horse as an offering
to the gods. The Trojans were so delighted with the pros
poets of peace that they accepted the gift of the horse and it
was pushed-it was on wheels-into the CITY. And when tbo
horse was well inside armed Greeks leaped from its sides and
slew the susceptible Trojans. 1t was a case of duplicity and
1T passed into a proverb that we should beware of Greeks
when they come bearing gifts. Now it is true thai w o sbou1d
still beware of Germans when they come offering peace.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-10-26

IL is a gratifying fact that we are maintaining our export
trade, in spite of the war. Exports for August were SIG 600
600 more than for any other August and in these totals no
goods exported for use of the American army were included
But how about the quantity of exports; is the favorable show
ing not due to the fact of prevailing high prices?
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23
LABOR'S POLICY

But apart from this, the question
whether labor will accept a reaction
airy or even stationary policy as an
alternative to progressive or radical
policy with which to guide the move
ment, is only to be solved by the ques-
ton will it rebound to labor's better
ment
The basis of the labor movement is
material basis and it is not founded
on any such thing as sentiment at all.
While such emotional considera-
lions as now and then keep cropping
out and are spectacular enough APP
pear to be the handspring Of the move
ment, in reality the movement is di-
rected by the bread and butter ques-
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23
FINAL NOTICE

In the U. S. Commissioners Court
for the Cape Nome Precinct, Sec
ond Division, Territory of Alaska.
In probate.
In the matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM SCHROEDER, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that James
J. Stokes, Administrator of the Es-
tate of William Schroeder, deceased,
has filed his final account as such
administrator and his petition for the
final distribution of said estate, and
tEat Friday, the END day of Novem-
Der, 1918, at o'clock p. NJ. Of said
day at the courtroom of the Probate
Court in Nome, Alaska, has been fix
ed as the time and place for the hear
ing of the said account and the OBJ
jections thereto, il any, and for the
dictribution of the residue of the
said estate.
JAMES ]. STOKES,
Administrator.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23
OPINIONS OF
THE PRESS

Department proceeded to hold up the
entire issue of the Nation, and Will
lam H Lemar, the Solicitor for the
Department, solemnly made public a
telegram from an anonymous news
paper suggesting that other newspa-
pers refrain from reprinting the Sc
ditions utterances of the Nation.
To say that this is asinine would
be gross flattery; yet the episode is
wholly characteristic of bureaucratic
methods in dealing with public dis
cussion of issues relating to the war
Last Monday morning the local
newspapers printed a statement from
Deputy Attorney General Becker of
this state carrying the alleged testi-
mony of a nameless interned enemy
alien at Fort Oglethorpe that the Ma
ton and the New Republic were the
periodicals most popular among the
Germans and Austrians informed
there" The intent of this statement
was to make it appear that the Ma
ton and the New Republic are so
fagrantly disloyal that they are the
favorite periodicals of informed enc
my aliens, and that sort of reckless,
irresponsible prescription is carried
on by the Attorney Generals Office
of New York which is supported by
the taxpayers of New York!
The Nation has bilious brain and
it often irritates us nightly. The
New Republic is so deeply concerned
about the fate of democracy in Rus
STA that it shudders when anybody
undertakes to lay an impious hand
upon theb utchering brethren of the
Bolsheviki. but it ought to be appar-
ent, even to the mind of third rate
bueaucrat, that this is not reason or
sedition, and that people have right
to think, in time of war, even though
they arrive at unconventional con-
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23

Because Labor has to very large
evtent abandoned its legitimate aspi-
rations for permanent betterment SO
that there might be no impairment
in the productive output during the
war, publicists devoted to the employ
ing interests are congratulating them
selves that radicalism is wholly elm
mated and that labor has settled
down to accept the status in which
it finds itself with some degree of
stability
Now while labor troubles do oc-
cur even in war essential industry
none of them break out except with
out grave cause as in almost every
instance has been surely shown.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Register.

To ]. N. Flack, Nome KougarOk Con-
solidated Mines Company and Jacob
Zeman, your heirs, executors, admin
istrators and assigns:
You and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex-
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars dur
ing each of the years or 1914, 1915,
1916, and 1917, upon the following
described placer mining claim, situate,
lying and being in the Kougarok Re-
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
to-wit: The upper one half (h) OF
Greek Claim Number Three on Dahl
Greek in the Kougarok Mining Dis
trict.
You are further notified that il
within ninety 600 days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
neglect to contribute your proportion
OF such expenditure, your interest in
said mining claim if any, will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under section 1924 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
AL CAREY
Co-owner.
ublished-Nov 23, so. Dec. 7, IA,
81, %. Jan. A, IL, Is, IS. Feb 1, 8, Is.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23
deductions, notes and comments
are left to the reader himself.)
FREE SPEECH IN WAR

deductions, notes and comments
are left to the reader himself)
FREE SPEECH IN WAR
1t was President Wilson himself,
according to Washington dispatches,
who interviewed to reverse the order
of the Post-Office Department ex-
Guiding the Nation from the mails.
This action is as creditable to the
President as the original action was
discreditable to the bureaucrats of
the Post-Office Department who
seem determined to set up an intel
ltctual reign of terror in the United
States.
The offense of the Nation consisted
in the publication of an editorial
which criticised the mission of Sam
uel Gompers to England and COM
planned that, inasmuch as Mr. Com
pers went abroad 'as neither an OBJ
server nor prophet" we should be
none the wiser about the labor sit
uattion in England after he returned
The Times prints a dispatch from
Washington which states that "The
fact that Mr. Gompers has led labor
ing men of this country to support the
war solidly, it was held by Mr. Burle-
son, entitled him to protection from
criticism This puts Mr. Gompers on
a plane above the President of the
United States, the Supreme Court,
Congress and all the institutions of
the country.
We regard Mr. Gompers as a most
useful and patriotic American citizen.
but it is certainly not seditiops or
treason to declare in print that the
opinion of Cornish miner or a Lam
caster overlooker would help us more
to an understanding of British labor
than and number of observations
from Mr. Gompers." Yet because of
this heretical remark the Post-O nee
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23
SOME PROFITS

The United States Steel Corpora
ton made for the first quarter of the
year profits slightly in excess of
1857, 100000. This is at the rate of
100000 a year. The man that
would classify such enormous gains
under the head of profiteering must
have a very comprehensive concep-
ton of the possibilities of one word
Some new one will have to be coined
to meet the situation, or will we have
to fall back upon the simple words
Of simpler people who called spade
spade and knew what theft was un-
mistakably when they saw it?
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23
FOR HOME
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CONSUMPTION

velde of Belgium, Thomas of France
and Henderson of England.
1t may be doubted whether the war
aims of any country were SO well
stated by it's official spokesman as
were the aims of the Inter-Allied
conference in London last February.
1t is quite correct that they were
modelled apparently upon the four
teen basic suggestions laid down by
Wilson, but they were specifically
amplified and extended so that they
were considered SO important as to
be circulated in America, with the APP
prevail OF the British government and
with the compliments of the White
Star Line" they came to this Office.
Why should American papers have
pretended then, as they did pretend
that the aims of the British and
French socialists and labor leaders
were so completely an unreasonable
peace at any price, and that America S
great leader Sam Gompers had to so
over to make the crooked straight"
Why, moreover should it have been
pretended that it was because of the
eloquence of Mr. Gompers, the social
lists were put to rout and the radical
laborites who followed Henderson
were also so completely defeated and
lost so much prestige when as mat
ter of fact, long before Gompers pre-
sented any kind of evidence that he
had any ideas whatever on the sub
ject of his address, the delegates in
London last February had formulated
a memorandum of the war aims
which Gompers did not even raise
his voice against.
The trouble is this persistent warp
ing and twisting of news to suit some
sinister purpose of those who have no
use whatever for socialism.
They behold the opportunity now
exists because some of the socialists
who have been acclaimed leaders iii
the past betrayed symptoms of pre-
nounced tierhanist sympathy, to d.
stroy socialism altogether as some
thing wholly evil.
Now apart from a temporary abil
ity to mislead the people, apart
wholly from he possibility that SOC
ialist propaganda may be kept away
from those who need it, by this poll
icy of misrepresentation or news sup
preston, the fact remains that social
ism being an effect in itself of capital
ism, being the historic cnild of cap
italsm, it is bound ultimately to be
unaffected by the very effort now be-
ing made against it,
Its advent may be delayed; that's
true enough. But it is the inevitable
that is delayed when socialism is de-
layed
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23

Sam Gompers has been visiting
England, France and Belgium, and
we are told that he has won over the
laborites of those countries from the
deceits of socialism to the viewpoint
upheld by the American labor execu-
tive.
In fact it is emphasized that SOC
ialism, more than pacificism, got it's
death blow over in Europe from Sam
Gompers.
One thing we may be certain that
nothing of the kind happened. An
other thing we do know, that despite
the fact that American delegates were
refused attendance to the Interallied
Socialist and Labor Conference to
which they were invited, the war aims
of the European socialists and labor
ties among the Allies are practically
identical with those held by American
socialists, at least by a good many of
them.
Here a booklet entitled A Clean
Peace, by Charles A. M'Curdy NJ. p.
which with an Introductory comment
gives the complete text of the Official
War Aims Memorandum of the Inter
Allied Labour and Socialist Confer
ence, held in London February %,
1918.
predatory remark by M'Curdy in
Inmates that 1.-The statement contains
here and there suggestions which will
be received with more sympathy in
socialist circles than elsewhere" but
he hastens to add, con the great is
sues of war and peace it reveals a
close and welcome agreement be-
tween the purpose and aims of organ
lied labor and those of the British
government and the British people"
Really the main difference between
British Labor and American Labor
policies as administered by Gompers
is that the former has insisted right
along upon participating in any peace
negotiations that would be brot about
while Gompers with self assumed au
thority not authorized by and of the
affiliated labor organizations, appear
ed to think that labor must not dream
of any such matter while the war is
pending.
Furthermore how deeply the SOC
ialiSt thought has affected the con-
ference and the labor movement in
Europe is seen in the appointment
of three socialists as commission
to secure from all governments
promise that at least one representa-
tive from labor and socialism be in
cluded in the official representatives
at any peace conference and that no
country be entitled to more than four
representatives at such conference.
These commissioners are Wander
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23

ION, BY the facts 81 DUR ezsstence and
by the answers which win be gwen to
the demand whether we have reason
to be satisfied with our physical lot
here below.
From time to time, we may feel the
need Of intellectual and spiritual pro.
vender, but as in more aesthetic line
labor is mainly directed by the bread
and butter question, the means where
by we live.
Now if as an actual fact everything
to which we can attain it attained; it
we have sufficient food, clothing and
shelter assured US; If our work, or
occupations are reasonably assured
us, a competence in old age and an
earnest against poverty from siod
ness and accident; if we are guaran-
teed that our families and ourselves
win be afforded at an times access to-
the means of subsistence and our
lives ordered to a great extent by a
necessary social discipline, are none
the less free from arbitrary author
itarian restraint either at work or
play-if all these things are generally
brought about by conservative poll
icy That borders on reaction, we may
be quite sure that conservative pol
icy will be adopted. But If none Of
these things come to the labor move
ment by following that policy, we may
expect the labor movement to incline
more and more towards radicalism.
In other words the tactics that will
be adopted must deliver the goods
and must prove that they are worth
being followed.
We hear much these days about
efficiency Efficiency's sole reason for
existence in industry or anything else
is that it delivers the goods. If it
defeats its own purpose, that is the
purpose for which men adopted it,
it will go into the discard.
We shaall have to apply that prin-
ciple tot he labor movement. The
tactics that are followed must prove
their efficiency and bring home the
bacon. 1t is quite inimateriai wheth-
er that bacon is brot home by this
policy or by that or by the adoption
of one now and the other then, we
may be sure that the only test for any
tactics is that it brings home the ba-
con.
The labor movement whatever may
be the sentimental considerations
that some may be inclined to extend
it, is material one. 1t must be judged
by results and only by results and
there is no manner of use doing this
| or doing that because it is hallowed
by precedent or because it is approved
by this one or by that unless indeed it
makes good.
Anytime any person clings to a
policy because he is afraid that by
changing it he will be termed reac-
tionary or the reverse, we may be
quite sure that he is not acting in an
efficient Or intelligent manner.
1t is true that we are all more or
less swayed by our emotions, by our
sentiments and by our feelings, but
when We let any of these get the bet
ter of our reason and especially if we
for one minute stop to think what
will be said of us by the other fellow,
we have quit being an intelligent be-
ing and organizations or aggregations
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-23
States Patent for the Pl.UTlgs A.

States Patent Tor the PEUTUs AS
SoCIATION PLACER mining cIsim
situate on the left limit Of Dry Greek.
between the heads OF PeIuk Creek and
Franklin GuIch, about 21s miles N. E.
of the Town Of Nome, in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District.
Alaska, Second Division, being Min
eral Survey No. 1915; said claim being
more particularly described in the
field notes and plat of the official sur
vey thereof now on file in said Land
once, at Nome, Alaska, as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. /, identical
with Cor. No. 8, Sur. No. 1909, Mead
ow Association Placer, fir post 4 ms.
So, 1T. above ground, in earth.
mound, scribed M.-3-12O9 and LIZZIE
+. whence U. S. L. M. No. 10 bears
n. ~ deg. "a min. E. 4822.4 IT:
thence S. 20 deg. 43 min. w. War.
liz deg. O3 min. E.) 1473.60 It. to Cor.
No. 2, a fir post IT. long, 4 ms. So.
In earth mound scribed 2-1215 p:
thence N. SO deg. O5 min. w war
IL deg. 10 min. Ed 1880 It. to
Cor. No. 3, identical with Cor. No. 2.
Sur. No. 1909, Osiris Placed; thence
N. IL deg. 81 min. E. (var. IS deg.
OS min. E.)1226.70 fl. to Cor. No. 4.
Identical with Cor No. /, Sur. No.
1909, Osiris Placer; thence S. "a deg.
16 min. E. (var. Is deg. 0S min. E.)
1890 #. to Cor No. / and place OF
beginning; containing an area of 80
253 acres. Total area applied for be-
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by Survey No. 1909,
Meadow Association Placer to the ex-
tent of 0.5S9 acres, and by Survey No.
1903, Myrtle Claim Placer to the ex-
tent of 0.263 acres, all as shown by
the official plat and field notes of sur
vey thereof, but that said areas so in
conflict with the Plutus Association
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent for same is not
hereby Or hereunder applied for.
That said claim is situated on I'M
surveyed ground on the left limit of
Dry Creek, between tho heads of
Peluk Creek and Franklin Gulch,
about 2h miles N E., of the Town
of Nome. U. S. l.. NJ No. 10, to which
this claim is tied, is fir post, painted
white, ms. So. 5 IT. above ground,
scribed U. S. L. NJ. No. 10. in earth
mound, situated on the right limit of
Otter Creek, about so IT, from the
railroad and 2 u miles North of Ber-
ing Sea- in Latitude ga deg. 32 min.
North, Longitude 1855 deg. II min. w.
That the original notice of location
of said claim is recorded in Volume
100, page of the records of the
Cape Nome Recording District
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North, Survey No. 1909, Myrtle Claim
Placer and Meadow Association
Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co,
Claimant; on the East 40 Acre Tract
Association, unsurveyed on the
South claims unsurveyed and claim
ant unknown; on the West, Sur No.
1909, Osiris Placer. Eskimo Gold
Dredging Co., claimant.
THOS McGANN
Register.