WHAT HAPPENED
IN JUNEAU
Ninety days ago newspapermen,
mining men, saloon men and drinking
men of Juneau were almost a unit in
the belief that Juneau would vote
“dry” in June, and all Alaska follow
suit in November. There were thou
sands of dollars there to bet that way.
The prohibitionists had fairway in
the camp and the other side of the
question was not generally understood
and had been ignored by press and
public. The federal judge was going
the limit to put Juneau in the “dry”
ranks and nothing was loo unfair to
the liquor interests for him to put
them up against. Judge Jennings
called for a local option election, as
sessed the saloon men for all the ex
pense of enumeration and election and
appointed all the men the saloonnten
must pay for work in the election,
declaring that all who failed to vote
at that election would be counted as
having voted dry. The only conces
sion lie gave the saloon interests was
that while the election must be held
June 1, the result would not be de
clared until those colors who were
out of town could mail their votes.
The vote was counted and Juneau de
clared for a "wet” town by a deci
sive majority.
In the past the people of Juneau
have been afforded the opportunity
to study the failures of prohibition
and to realize what it would mean
to Juneau and Alaska. Juneau has
two good daily papers, and both of
them have conducted a campaign of
education against the fallacy of pro
hibition. When it became known to
the people that closing the saloons
meant closing the schools and the
fire department or throwing the bur
den of their support upon the already ,
burdened mining, business interests, I
the mining interests, the business in
terests and the newspaper interests
combined and fought prohibition, with
the result that out of over 2,000 votes
oust only 281 voted "dry.” Douglas
City "Stroller” White’s new home,
also voted "wet,” although the Citizen
would have the people believe that the
“Stroller" was fighting for a "dry"
town. Haines went "wet," but Skag
way went “dry"—the Skagway Al
askan, owned by Dr. Keller, the den
tist, is the only prohibition pa per in
Alaska aside from the Citizen.
The reason for the growth of the
prohibition movement where it has
grown is confined to the general lack
of understanding as to what prohibi
tion really means and to the help
that the incompetent and lawbreak
ing saloonmen give to the opposition
to them. The fact that prohibition
does not prohibit and tht prohibition
does not superinduce temperance is
the weakness of the prohibition cause.
Prohibition does not decrease the
number of liquor sellers—-lit takes the
sale of liquor from the control of
the government and government-li
censed saloons and places it in the
hands of unlicensed and uncontrolled
liquor sellers, with the result that the
number of places selling liquor in
crease while no revenue results to
tlie municipality or nation and a legi
timate business becomes an illegiti
mate business. When a sensible peo
ple understand this condition they do
not hanker .after prohibition. Alaska
is Understanding it more and more
every day, and after the results
achieved at Jutft'iin, Skagway, Haines,
Cordova, Valdez, McCarty and other
places where local option has been
forced to a vote, it is safe to assert
that the schools of Alaska and the
towns of Alaska need not greatly fear
the threat of prohibition in Novem
ber.
Still, eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty. Fairbanks News-Miner.—
Adv.
R. R. COMPANIES
DECLARE STRIKE
WILL BE SERIOUS
International News Service.
NEW YORK, August 5.—The rail
road managers, while admitting the
great seriousness of the present sit
uation and acknowledging that a
strike will precipitate condiltlons
which must he viewed with great ap
prehension, at the same time declare
that they are forced to fight the de
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SENATE REFUSES
ADOPTION OF STRIKE
MEDIATION RESOLUTION
International News Service.
WASHINGTON, August 4.—An ac
tion of significant importance with
relation to the expected strike of the
railroad workers was the tabling of
the senate resolution calling for med
iation of the differences between the
companies and their employes by the
interstate commerce commission. The
resolution was refused by the com
mittee after a long .discussion. The
action of the senate is looked upon
by the brotherhood men here with
indifference,
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ing unless the government steps in
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