PROHIBITION
United States Marshal’s Office.
First Division, District of Alaska,
Sitka, Alaska, May 6, 1916,
Since license was domed to the
saloons, it is my candid opinion th i
Sitka lias greatly improved. Of course
there is no law to prevent the ship,
ping in of Intoxicating liquor, but
very little Is coming in. Drunken
ness is almost unknown here. It
certainly was a pleusure to see the
crews of the various ships of our
navy and coast ashore without re
strictions, and all sober. We have had
a large number of fishermen here this
spring, and I have seen but one man
show signs of intoxication. A num
ber of Russians who have lived here
all their lives have spent a great
part of their timo in Jail. Since the
saloons were closed, not one of th.m
has been arrested. They are changed
from drunken vagrants to hard
working, well-dressed and well-fed
men.
The merchants note that people m
that class are now able to pay their
bills and the women and children
are the ones who are most helped.
A strong pubdc sentiment has
made it easy to keep out “blind pigs."
Our nativi population, when at
home, are universally sober. When
they go to Juneau they certainly
lose their reputations. So without
going Into any great details I can
say that the abolition of the saloons
was the best thing that ever hap
pened to the people of Sitka.
There has b eul it l' . o.
as to {he effect of the change on
business. I cannot think it is ingot
co decide question on a basis -of do!
lars and cents; but even from that
point of view, I must sty
that prohibition is a success in Sitka.
I am told by the store-keepers gen
erally that their business has greatlj
improved.
Some say that fishermen stay
away from a dry town. Tills is a
gteat mistake. Fishermen are not
drunkards. They need courage as well
ns perfect to lollov/ tlimr
trade. I know'that the fact that tin
town has no saloons is an added at
traction to those in..; that iii y pre
fer coming to such towns other
thlngs being equal.
Fvery individual and every com
munity must settle this question ac
cording as tehj see it Th. l ac • . -
mains, sco far ; .-- is con
cerned, that every on si bett r off
The only losers are the saloon keep
ers and myself. I lose because as
deputy marshal I keep a practically
empty Jail.
Signed. JOHN GOODELL.
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EXAMPLE
A good example or the tendency
of plain facta long and continuously
presented to so Impress the phnd
and lmiuenco the entire system of
thought-relations of the mind, is
lUrnished in the most recent of a
series of articles that old man
Thompson, of the Fairbanks News
Miner is writing for the California
liquor interests in -\l . and pub
lished throughout the territory, na
paid advertising.
It is significant that In the mind
,i this old Alaskan who lias fol
lowed all phases of Alaskan develop
ment, the liquor traffic and lawless
h ssness ure so closely and indissolu
bly connected that he unconsciously
but definitely and unmistakably links
them together throughout an article
written in defense of that very traf
’ fie.
Note the following: ■
We can safely say and honestly
ussi rt that Skagway under 'dry" laws
was the “hottest” and most law
less small camp we ever saw. VVhli
i.y smugglers were on the const as
(hick ns mosquitoes, and there wen
i more open saloons in “dry" Skag
way than there ever have been since
licenses wer granted to sell liquor
in Alaska.
This, is u. fair example of how a
man writing against the knowledge
thut is in him is bound to get Ids
mental feet crossed and fall down.
He cites Skagway nineteen years
ago as a sample of a prohibition town
In which prohibition failed, and then
says it was the most lawless town
he ever saw. And" lawless” means [
without law. and therefore without
prohibition law. as well as any other,
lie says there were more saloons
there then than now, but does not
give population for either period.
And he gets worse as he gets warm
ed up. Says only sane control Is
present system ,ln In same breadth
that booze is now illicitly sold at
fvorj fishing and mining camp, to
natives, on the trail, and in* small
ci nips, n’l without license and In
defiance of the law.
He chastens us for going fiff
afield for examples of prohibition suc
cess, and then to cite its failure he
goes to the most lawless frontier town
he ever knew, and nineteen years ago!
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