Kvery man is entitled lo be pros
perous and happy, and any action upon
the part of any man or body of men
which will tend to reduce his chance ot
prosperity and happiness should at
tought by Uiut man.
There is a saying that to appreciate
home you must leave' it. During the
lust winter we have had many oppor
tunities to appreciate this truth, but
no more love of any pride of home
can be felt by a Fairbanksan than by
the local man who visits, as we did,
practically every town and hamlet on
the Alaska coast. The fact comes
home to him that, of all Alaska cities
or towns, Fairbanks is the premier
home-city of them all; the finest place
in Alaska ot live in and the most at
tractive and best-kept city in Alaska.
The desire to keep it so is the result of
such discovery.
At the same time, we realize that
as conditions are today it is a job re
quiring the efforts of every citizen of
Fairbanks to keep this town up to its
present standard. It was laid out
anil built in the days when personal
freedom was tinctured with license
iln Fairbanks, when gambling was in
ilowor. With the departure of gamb
ling. hastened in greatf part by the
gamblers themselves, our floating pop
ulation disappeared, leaving behind
them a larger city of homes and stores
than the natural size of the camp de
manded. We have been trying to live
up to the requirements of a larger
camp, but some of our stores and
residences refuse to he tilled. Any
thing which tends to further empty
buisness and residence property is a
menace which threatens the prosperi
ty and happiness of every man in
Fairbanks. From our standpoint, we
are lighting to perpetuate this little
paper in Fairbanks, and through it
make a living for our family. We have
not the least desire to ever leave Fair
banks again in this life, at least, to
the extent of going outside the terri
tory. As the city ’goes down," if it
goes down, our chances ofa livelihood
in the newspaper business here will
be diminished, Just as will every other
business mans’ chances. That is why
we are lighting lo maintain personal
rights and personal liberty here, for a
larger Fairbanks or for a Fairbanks of
the present size and importance, for
ever.
IWUUvC mt; icti-niu; v* V‘*c.
Fairbanks by from $20,000 to $30,000
per year, as prohibition would do, and
what would happen to Fairbanks'.’
Nothing desirable. The city’s power
to pay its way and maintain its rank
t and importance would be diminished
just that much. That amount equals
and exceeds the total cost of our school
system, or the total cost of our lire
department. Such a reduction would
mean that one or both would have to
go, or that both would be rendered in
efficient. , Vou must seriously consider
this point, for it is vital. When some
theorist who is lighting' to reduce the
revenues of this city through prohibi
tion tells you that the revenues will
be gained from some other source, ask
him for particulars. He will not be
able to reply satisfactorily. The ne
cessity and desirability of efficient
schools is apparent; so much so that
we will not dwell upon the subject.
The necessity and importance of a fire
department no less efficient than that
of today is not so well understood, and
we will tell you of that:
Today, and since the city began, the
basis of efficiency of our fire depart
ment is and has been the power plant
of the Northern Commercial Company.
That has been of sufficient strength to
insure plenty water in case of Arc, and
has been the basts of safety here as
regards the possible destruction of
property by Are. Every day that passes
makes the Are risk greater and the
basis of safety less. Why? Because
of the efforts of our citizens to install
individual heating and lighting plants
for economy’s sake; because of the
reduction of the revenues of the
source at power-supply; because of the
danger from amateur heating and
lightng plants; because when the time
comes that it will not pay the North
ern Commercial company to maintain
its power plant that company will quit
maintaining It, and in that day will
disappear our water certainty with all
the safety its presence insures. There
is no sentiment in this matter; no sen
timent upon the part of the business
men who are exercising their rights
in furnishing their own heat and light
and power; no sentiment on the part
of the N. C. company; it is simply a
condition that is as natural as that a
reduction of revenues will reduce the
cltys’ power and Importance and ef
ficiency and safety.
If there was any necessity or ama
, Jorlty desire upon the part of the peo
ple that the government licensed and
government controlled saloon disap
pear from Fairbanks, prohibition for
Fairbanks would be a natural thing,
but there Isn’t. The pity of it all is
I
that the movement for the fallacy of
prohibition is from without, instead of
from within, it is the organiaztion of
the outside, the fanatics of the states,
who are trying to pul this crime upon
us. It is the women of Seattle, who
are on their way here to stump the
territory in the interests of their
"cause;" the salaried staff of the
Anti-Salon League; the theorists and
moralists of the outside who wish to
meddle with our personal liberty and
our prosperity and happiness. In no
other thing, save an appeal to the igno
rance and the pussions fo our people,
would interference on their part be
tolerated for a second by Alaskans.
They come on us from our blind side
—our honest intention to do the right
and prohibit the wrong, and depend
for their success upon untrue statistics
and faulty arguments, and sentiment,
which have on reason or sense. The
Idea that we are capable of thinking
anil acting for ourselves does not ap
pear to those outsiders; unless we
show them in November that we are
competent to manage our own affairs
they will have no cause to underrate
their unnatural importance and un
natural presumption, but we will have
long years in which to repent in pov
erty and sadness. Fairbanks Daily
News-Miner.—Adv.
Devoted to the exploitation of the
mining industry and securing adequate
roads and trails throughout Seward
peninsula. The Pictorial edition of the
Nugget Alining and Dregding Journal
(now in course of preparation.) Send
one to the representative of your home
state. Fifty cents per copy, five dol
lars per dozen. .Mailed to any address
for five cents additional.
\VK can DO XT.
For tlrsl elass work and prompt deliv
ery phone Alain 151 and the People's
Laundry will send and gei your laundry.
V\. J. WILLIAMSON. Prop.
ELECTION CARDS PRINTED
AT NUGGET OFFICE.
POLITICAL CARDS
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
Andy Anderson
Republican Candidate.
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
V. A. JULIEN
-.LECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
-'OR ROAD COMMISSIONER.
1
W. J. ROWE
Republican Candidate.
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
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“OR SENATOR.
TOM McQANN
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
OR SENATOR.
MARTIN MORAN
.ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
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