WHERE THE
BLAME LIES
But for the Improperly conducted
and inferior saloon, prohibition would
never have been born. Prohibition
is ihe ifficl of the misconduct of the
interior saloon, und the prohibitionists
are now named the Anti-Saloon Lea
gue. They have ceased fighting drink
as a concrete proposition, and are aim
ing at the cause of drunkenness—the
saloon. And it is entirely the crooked,
unintelligent and amateur players in
the saloon game who are to blame for
It all.
As a business, supplying the real or
fancied needs of mankind, giving man
kind what mankind considers tempor
ary or permanent relief of a physical
nature, the saloon is as legitimate as
mug store. 11 Ihe saloon is run as
the drug stores is, it is a question if
there is not more harm done from the
dispensation of drugs than from the
dispensation of the beverages which
the saloon sells. It is the abuse of the
provinces of the saloon which causes
the prohibition movement to grow, und
.. lucli is putting whole states and
counties in the dry column. Because
the saloon interests cannot or will not—
will not" is better, for they could if
they would—regulate or control for
the better the conduct of the saloon
and its relation to the welfare of man
.old, prohibition is growing and Mour
ning. The prohibitionist honestly
knows and realizes that prohibition
cannot and does not prohibit mankind
from drinking, Inti he docs know that
It does prohibit the saloon business
from menacing the country and he
strikes directly at the saloon, which
is killing the game through its inferior
players.
Every time a federal judge in Alas
ka "closes” a town or prosecutes a
liquor seller, it is the fault of the li
quor seller. No judge on the federal
bench in Alaska and no judge who
ever sat on our federal bench is "after”
the saloon. The rotten saloon makes
the department of justice take
action, und the result is the vindica
tion of Justice and law and order and
he punishment of the wrongdoing sa
loon man.
Every particle of disfavor which the
saloon enpoys anywhere is the fault
of the saloonkeepers who do not know
how a saloon should be conducted or
who will not conduct a saloon in the
right way. The saloonkeepers of Fair
banks are entirely to blame for any
sentiment there may be against the
saloon in this camp, for it lies in their
power to correct all evils of the saloon
business.
It lies in the power of the decen*
competent saloonmen of Fairbanks 14
restrict the number of saloons in Fair
miks and confine business to compe
tent hands. If they do not do this, it
is their own fault, and nobody else is
to blame. Saloonmen here know
every applicant for a saloon license,
and if the best element in the business
would organize and, when they see a
saloon application presented which
they know is not for the good of the
business to be granted, would appear
against the granting of such license,
such license then would not be grant
ed. And, when the saloonmen of Fair
banks start to “get busy” upon George
Butler's advice, they should realize
that the only way they can intelligent
ly and effectively get real busy for the
preservation of the game is to get busy
.1 regulating the saloon itself until
the drunkenness is taken out of drink
and the evil effects and evil teachings
of the inferior saloon are eliminated
• rom tho saloon business in Alaska.
In opposing prohibition in Alaska
we have no sympathy for the saloon
man, Whatever he may be up against
in tho fight Is the fault of the players
of his game. The saloonman is en
titled to no sympathy, for every in
telligent saloonman knows that the
drunk in drunkenness Is no good bus
llness for him, docs not get the money
in his business and brings him noth
ing but criticism and blame. Saloon
men on the outside (particularly in
California) are realizing conditions as
they are and are beginning to help
to protect themselves—by regulating
and correcting the saloons and their
conduct. The better class of saloon
keepers in California have organized
themselves Into the Buffet Owners As
sociation, and in the saloons of that
association, no man who is under the
iinfluencc of liquor can obtain a drink,
no matter how much money he may
have on him. In Sacramento they
organied tho "No-Thauk-You” Club,
and in a week it had 6,000 members.
Each wears a button inscribed “No
Thank You” and each member signs
an obligation to not buy drink for an
other or take a drink with another
man at that man’s expense. If one of
them wants a drink, he buys it but
asks nobody to drink with him—that
is temperance. With the new order of
.Lings in California they may keep
• hat state from going dry, but unless
lbs saloonkeepers work honestly and
ainestly to purify their own business
saltpeter won't save California from
the prohibition ranks.
In McCarthy and Chitina, Alaska,
the towns were "closed” by the fcd
i'ul court entirely because of the sa
>ons themselves—they were such im
possible saloons that the federal au
thorities were compelled to wipe them
out that those towns might live. Mc
Carthy has been reopened and a li
cense given a clean, intelligent man,
but Judge Brown in granting the li
nse told the man pluinly that wheth
er McCarthy remained wet or became
dry again rested entirely upon that
man, himself and his conduct of the
saloon of McCarthy. Down In the new
.'olovana camp the players are re
ported as killing the saloon game, and
.here Is a chance of the suloons there
being closed, but if they are it is en
tirely their own fault—they will have
forced by misconduct the federal
courts to take action in their case,
the saloonkeepers of Alaska wish
> assist in the fight against the Anti
Saloon League's campaign for prohibi
tion in Alaska, they can do so intelli
gentlwy only by reforming their busi
ness and eliminating the element
which is not fit to conduct a respect
able saloon. They can do this, and if
they do not they will be rearing the
serpent which will sting them or their
business to death. Or if they do not
do this ,and the fight goes against
them, the result will be their fault.
Money cannot carry a fight for tough
saloons and inexcusable drunkenness
in Alaska, for money cannot buy in
Alaska sufficient support of any kind
to carry any election. But for inferior
saloons there would be no thought of
prohibition in Alaska unless it was
imported from the outside, and even if
it was imported from the outside and
the saloons themselves had shown the
people that there is no .apparent need
for prohibition) as the saloon interests
should show the people) the imported
Idea would be laughed to scorn by Al
askans.
Play the game—or drop out.—
Fairbanks News-Miner May 1, l91«.—
Adv.
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Mined.
POLITICAL CARDS
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
Andy Anderson
Republican Candidate.
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
V. A. JUL1EN
"LECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
OR ROAD COMMISSIONER.
W. J. ROWE
Republican Candidate.
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
FOR SENATOR.
TOM McQANN
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
•OR SENATOR.
MARTIN MORAN
FLECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
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