A GOOD
EXAMPLE
We have been wondering how much
the Average Alaskan prohibitionist
knows of the early history of Alas
ka, when Alaska was "dry” under na
tional laws. It certainly would add
a human-interest touch to their ef
forts to show how Alaska Is to be
benefited by going dry if they would
tell us of Skagway, Juneuu, Dyea and
other Alaska “dry" towns In the days'
.In which they were “dryest”—In tin
days of the late "Soapy” Smith. It
Is not probable that wo shall ever
forget how “dry" Skagway was In
’98, on our first visit there, when we
reached Skagway by mushing all tin
small streams and lakes and climb
ing the Chilkoot—reached it from the
Inside, Instead of from the outside,
(Thats’ the way temperance and ab
stinence must come to us—from
within; not from without: in our
selves, and not front others). Although
we had lived and "done our duty" In
the toughest, wildest, wettest towns
In the United States long years be
fore that date, and although we hod
not taken a drink In ten full years
before we hit Skagway (nor then, not
for years afterwards) we can safely
say and honestly assert that Sltag
under "dry” laws was the "hottest"
and most lawless small camp we evei
saw. Whisky smugglers were on • bn
coast as thick as mosquitoes, and
there were more open saloons in "dry'
Skagway than there ever have been
since licenses were granted to sell
liquor in Alaska. Then, as always
in "dry" camps, no $1,000 were nail
ed for license to open a place and "all
liquor. Then, as now, where dry
camps are,there are more places sell
ing liquor than there are when It costs
money to conduct such a place. T' e
only difference is that you get a
poorer quality of “booze" and pay a
higher price for It.
It would Interest us greatly to have
the prohibitionist talkers teach us by
local and foreign example, rather that
l»y precept. They try to teach v
by alleged example, but the far
away camp they pick for their illus
tratlons always hap a story to tell In
ieLutta) that the prohibitionists nev-'t
tells. It would especially interest ns
to have them show us how Alaska
will be better off. with a thousand
pieces selling liquor without pay'ng
licenses for school money and other
puiposes, than with Its present num
ber government licensed and gov
ernment controlled. They will try
to tell us that If prohibition Is put
upn Alaska there will be no liquor
, r.old here, but they can’t make that
*a!k stick with Alaskans, save pos
sibly, the women and children, for we
know better. We know that when
Aisska was "dry” whisky was sold
freely and openly everywhere. We
know that even under government
license and government control, whl ;h
is the only sane control of the liquor
question, liquor is sold at every fish
ing and mining camp, to the Indians,
to the travelers over our military
wagon road and to all comers; that
it Is Impossible to visit a town of a
dozen houses In Alaska where there
are no saloons and no licenses hut
that one can buy liquor there—what
is there In the magic word of "pro
hibition” that Is going to change
things? The people woh don’t drink
and who dont’ want to drink rib up
the women voters and the mental
Incompetents and pass a law which
deprives able citizens, the backbone
of the country, of their ’ personal
rights guaranteed to them by the
constitution of the United States, but
they do not and never can make the
peopel who have had their personal
rights taken away from them like the
law which did It or respect such law.
Let the prohibitionists tell us of
the old days, when Alaska was In the
prohibition ranks, with the entire
federal service of the United States
supposed to be engaged in the at
tempt to keep liquor from being sold
in Alaska. There never has been
so much liquor sold In Alasku «lnce.
It really would make a good story.
—Fairbanks Dally New Miner July
1, 1916.Advt.
NO 1l*,E.
All having accounts against the
Cabaret will render same at once t<
A Cole, Miners and Merchants Bank
NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF NOME.
I have secured the Tailor Shop o’
John Feyrer. Ladles and Gents suit:
mads to order. A large stock of
Fabrics and Fashions to select fiom
Suits cleaned, pressed and altered.
All Work Guaranteed
to fit and nut with your approval.
M. PASCOFF.
Cor. Labe’s way and Front atrset.
POOR
SEATTLE
You remember that it would never
do for Seattle to go dry because the
returning Alaskans would go to
Frisco to spend their money, and so
would the fishermen and the lumber
Jacks and the loggers, and business
would go everlastingly on the hog. Oet
this:
H. S. Geaunce, Seattle’s representa
tive in the International Association
of Credit Men, said that collections
ire good all over this state. He attri
butes this condition to the enactment
jf the prohibition law.
"Credit men generally now favor
prohibition from an economic stand
point,” he said, "for the reason that
under this law, people pay their bills
more promptly and buy more goods
and a better quality of goods."
And then this .from J. V. A. Sm'th,
cashier, of the Northwest Trust and
Safe Deposit Co., Seattlg:
"After four months of prohibition
from our experience and Impressions,
•t is our firm conviction that It Is a
great step forward in the business
public and private life of the com
munity.
i ur ousu • ss has increased fifteen
par cent siliae January 1, but this
was to be expected, judging from the
experience of other cities under pro
hibltlon.”
Yes, and here’s another one Just as
nad:
Fewer Losses This Year.
"Business Is very much better than
las', year," declared Nathan Eckstein,
manager of Schwabacker Bros &
Co., Inc., wholesale grocers. "The.
most noticeable thing is that losser
are very few this year. There art
fewer bad and doubtful accounts.”
It seems to be a pet delusion of the
wets that the workingman will noi •
voluntarily spend any money exc^p'
under the Influence of booze and this
will be disproved here as It has bean
elsewhere.
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SOME NERVE.
The newspaper dispatches from
Washington tell of happenings on
April 15, the fifteenth anniversary of
the death of Abraham Lincoln. ,
People sent flowers to be placed
in the death room, the government
offices were closed, business houses
shut up. The United States supreme
court held no session.
The saloon on the corner was ad
vertising the fact that It was there
that John Wilkes Booth took his last
drink before committing the murder.
What do you think of that?
In order to screw up courage to
commit the most dastardly act since
the crucifixion, Booth mado the rounds
of Washington snake holes, setting
fire to his brain!
And this Washington saloonkeep
er advertised that he provided the last
dose of poison.
Several people connected with this
infamy wore hanged for a lesser
share In the crime than that.—Nation
al Dally. Advt
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