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STEWART « SELBY, I'roprletMs
VAI.DRC, ALASKA
Published Daily Except Sunday
Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter,
Inly 23, 1912, at the postofllce of Valdes,
Alaska, under act of March 3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, OUT., 26, 1»16
A TALK TO Ol K PATRONS,
The lot of the average newspaper
man is one of woe and tribulation
(hose days.
Money is dangling pleasantly be
fore his eyes from divers and sundry
directions.
People who never peruse the labels
on a can of salmon are falling over
themselves to advertise.
Visions of a well-filled coal bin and
warm clothes for the children con*
front him on every hand—when the
cankering worm of intolerance dis
pels all bright dreams at one fell
swoop.
One day a party of influential Re
publicans will notify him that if ha
expects to handle any filthy lucre
from the O. O. P. he must cut out,
delete or otherwise expunge all Dem
ocratic patronage.
Then his gloom is increased by a
party of progressive Democratic citi
zens informing him that Republican
advertisements appearing in his pa
per constitute a casus belli, and will
result in a compound fracture of all
future relations if persisted in.
The liquor men meet and decide
t hat it constitutes breach of trust and
a violation of the Sherman act if the
paper accepts any patronage from the
dry people.
The drys are as strongly averse to
the natural order of things, and issue
a protocol to the effect that a paper
hearing liquor advertisements must
be forever barred, ostracized and
inveighed against by all true imbibers
of grape juice, and forthwith notify
the paper that it must sever diplo
matic relations with the dispensers of
the cup that pays the taxes—
And there you are!
These people fail to realize that
the editor is playing no favors and
giving each side all the publicity the
coin of the realm will pay for.
It matters not that they would sell
to an opponent as quickly and as
cheerfully as Secretary Daniels would
indite a note to Germany.
They have issued an unalterable
edict from which they can neither be
reasoned nor argued—the paper must
q-u-i-t making money, be a monogam
st in the advertising line, or forever
ose their patronage.
This is all wrong Bill; dead wrong:
A paper nowadays-—that is, a first
claw money-making, pay-as-lt-goes
caper—can draw no lines without a
laid pro qno.
Its space is Its stock In trade to be
ilspensed to all who wish to use its
columns.
It sells to Democrat or Republican,
Wet or Dry. friend or foe, Jew or
Bentile, and draws no line at creed,
color or previous condition of servi
tude.
To circumscribe a newspaper by
the narrow bounds of partisanship
would be to cut the ground from un
der its feet.
It would soon sink into oblivion,
or bemired in a slough of debt would
be closed out by its creditors.
Valdez has one of the best news
papers in the Territory.
We know, we have made it so.
We have never refused advertising
space to any man who could pay for
it or manifested the slightest willing
ness to run his hand into his poke. -
Any man with the price can print
anything decent, political or other
wise in this paper, over his own sig
nature.
We nave piacen no resiricuuiih
but these upon our advertisers.
If we adopted uny other course we
must invariably fail; and we cannot
afford to fail; it costs too much.
Therefore, why get sore at your
competitor or the paper if we allow
him the same latitude you crave for
yourself?
Think this over; imbibe it a sen
tence at a time:—
This paper's advertising space is
for sale!
Not to you, or you, or the other
fellow; but to ALL.
If you choose to take space on
these conditions we will rejoice, and
place your name among the sanctified.
But give us a chance to sell our
wares!
We accord you the same privilege.
Our private opinion is a matter of
no moment to you.
We may believe in Mohamet
or the Oopernican theory. We may
even have a sneaking regard for Doc
Cook, or use patchouli in large
quantities.
But does this detract from the vir
tue of our wares or our efficient news
service?
We think not.
In fact a long and variegated news
paper career has rendered us cautious
about departing from the primrose
paths of rectitude and advocating a
one-man theory.
We are in the newspaper business
for a competence.
Our columns are open to YOU for
a consideration.
If you are fair and evenly balanced
in judgment you will admit that the
other fellow should have an equal
chance with yourself to buy adver
tising space.
Do the best you can to place your
side of the controversy before our
readers and leave the rest to God and
the Intelligence of the voters.
( FaM Advertisement.)
Democratic Candidate
For Delegate to Congress
CHAS. A SULZER
Vote for an adequate School System.
Vote for Good Roads and Trails.
Vote for a Primary Law.
Vote for Home Rule and Self Government.
Vote for the Protection of our Fisheries.
Vote for Honest and Earnest Representation
Vote against Misrepresentation.
VOTE FOR SULZER
Extend the same charity to us in
the matter of selling our wares as you
expect others to extend to you.
And watch the Prospector grow
and Valdez,grow with It!
We thank yon!
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WHY NOT BE SATISFIED?
„ EVERY few days some of our
readers take exceptions to some
thing appearing In our columns, and
after a hasty sourdough breakfast
rush off to their friends to solicit
funds to start a new paper. Gener
ally the effort dies a-borning because
the man with sense enough to accu
mulate the money to start a paper
has too much business sagacity to en
ter an over-crowded held. These ex
ponents of "Let George Do It” are
not discouraged, however. Like a
Jack-ln-the-Box they pop up on every
occasion with the argument that the
town needs another paper. We might
sensibly argue that the town also
needs more groceries, more saloons,
more laundries, more machine shops,
—and many other things—but we
do not. We throw a certain per cent
off for pure cussedness and a certain
per cent for Wicklcitls and let it go
at that. . It has not been many moons
since a certain sucker was caught to
the tune of several hundred dollars
by imagining the town needed another
paper. As there is a sqcker horn ev
ery minute it is nearly time for the
agitation to start again. The fact that
it takes long years of experience to
run a paper successfully does not en
ter these embryo newspaper advo
cates' heads. They start it (on their
friends' money) and after a few brief
months it withers and dies a natural
death. The fact that we are dissat
isfied with our grocer’s stock has nev
er caused us to entertain the thought
of starting a new grocery store; nor
does a poor drink of liquor cause any
thoughts of engaging in the saloon
business. We swallow what we like;
feed the rest to the dog, and let It go
at that. Why not do the same way
with a paper?
The newspaper field Is generally
both a thankless and an unprofitable
one. There Is no room for two papers
in the town. It is not large enough
to support one profitably. Two papers
causes an additional burden to a com
munity; causes an additional burden
to the merchant who must advertise
in ijpth if their business Is worth hav
ing; and two papers invariably add to
the strife in a community because the
small paper, forced to take the leav
ings of the larger, is constantly tak
ing the opposite side of an argument
and tearing down where the larger
paper is endeavoring to build up.
Every man at heart Imagines him
self to be a Greeley or a Webster.
The average human mind is five parts
ego and one part sense. This causes
inordinate vanity in self-achievement
and belittles the efforts of others. The
grocer imagines himself a statesman,
the statesman can conduct the gro
cers' business better than his own;
the butcher can give them all points;
and any one of them can run a paper
better than an editor.
EDITORIAL PAUCITY.
The time comes once in a while
when it is hard to think of something
to write about editorially. Just sit
down yourself. Dear Reader, and im
agine you have about fifteen minutes
in which to think up something to
write about and to have it ready for
the printer. What would you write
about.
Well, there are three great aids to
the newspaper drudge when he mo
mentarily runs outs of ideas. The
chief aid is to look around for some
official to roast. Another is to make
some suggestion and another is to
make more or less hurried comments
on the news of the day before. It
would be all right if one could write
any old thing, but you must always
keep in mind what you think the peo
ple who read the paper want you to
write of.
The first of the three aids is the
most useful in some respects. Pick
out some official who, you think.-has
lots of enemies and let loose on him.
Everyone will read it and every an
archist will applaud. Of course, you
should never attack an official that
gives you printing jobs or advertis
ing; that would be bad business.
. Pick on some abominable miscre
ant that refuses to come across with
the needful and never let up till he
doe8. Be careful, though, that you
never accuse him directly or any
crime. You must always keep your
eye on the fact that some rotten leg
islature passed a criminal libel law
that might put you behind the bars.
J'ust hint at his crookedness. Use a
lot of judgment. There is quite a lit
tle distance that you may travel and
still keep just outside the peniten
tiary gate.—Seward Gateway.
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THE announcement that Delegate
Wlckersham has abandoned his pro
posed trip to the camps of the inte
jrlor is no occasion for surprise. The
I Delegate himself has recognized that
j he is defeated. His cool reception at
! the Copper River camps clinched his
convictions. The Delegate Is too canny
to throw good money after bad; he
sees the handwriting on the wall;
he has been weighed by the voters
and found wanting. Most of the
old-timers believe Wlckersham has
had the office long enough. He has
pulled down nearly $60,000 from the
Territory and kept it in a continual
bicker and uproar since his inaugura
tion into Alaska politics. The Dele
gate is done; his campaign is finished,
according to Cordova dispatches; and
In a few more weeks he will bid the
old Territory farewell and settle down
to a lucrative practice in his Tacoma
! home.
PRESIDENT HUGHES has declar
ed himself. He wants no hyphenated
assistance but Teddy’s. He *o*M
have preWtatedf the sinking ef the
Lusitania by notifying the oatlona
(meaning Germany, of oouraa) that
they would be held accountable for
all damage done to noU*-combafmtts
or their contents; he would place the
American Eagle on so high a plane
that It would take a flying machine to
get a glimpse ef It. Of covrse this la
pre-election talk. After election Mr.
Hughes would probably dodge and
wriggle, just aa Mr. Wtfaon is dodging
and wriggling, to keep this nation out
of a scrap. It has always proven
a greater strain for this country to
keep out of a fight than to finish It,
and If Hughes and the “Wild Man’’
can convince the people they would
have been any better off by engaging
in a war with Germany Ire mny se
cure their votes.
Have YOU made any arrangements
to provide revenue# for IMS city If
it gooa dry? Will ydu place the ad
dittos*! $4,COO upon the shoulder* rf
the already overburdened taxpayers?
Do yon believe it wise under eatatMg
conditions to disrupt the flasmetal ar
rangements of the city, without pro
viding some means wlroreby the deficit
may be raised?
WITH two thousand marines hi
Nicaragua to look after the election
of a president favorable to the United
Staten: with 76,OOP troops holding
down the deserts of Mexico; with
1500 marines shooting up SaA Do
mingo, it might be less expensive if
this country had not been kept out
of war.
THE HEARST news service has
been put out of business In England
because it refused to give pro-Eng
lish versions of the battles taking
place along the western front. This
was one agency that was not bought
by the Allies and they have had a rod
in pickle for it ever since.
THE connection that exists be
tween a dog and a tin can is often
similar to matrimony.
Chas. W. Eliot
Ex-President of Harvard
University on Prohibition
Ex-President Eliot, of Harvard,
sums up the whole ease against pro
hibition in its effects on the social
and political life. He says:
“The efforts to enforce prohibition
during forty years past have had
some un looked for effects on pub
lic respect for courts, judicial proce
dure, oaths and law, legislatures and
public servants. The public has seen
law defied, a whole generation of
habitual law-breakers schooled In eva
sion and shamelessness, courts inef
fective through fluctuations of policy,
delay, perjuries, negligence and other
miscarriages of justice; officers of the
law double-faced and mercenary, leg
islators timid and insincere.”
Such is the character and the rec
ord of prohibition.
LOCAL BHBTmffl
Hand laundry. Phone 81 McKtnle;
St. tf
Malted Milk-, hot and cold, phos
phates of all kinds, and hot drinks
at Hunt’s.
Don’t forget the Clearance Sale at
the Owl Drug Co.
Vox’s fresh Crab Cocktails at the
Love-Whitley Co. tf
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S & W canned fruits and vegetables
at Blum's.
Pure Fresh Drugs at tne Valdez
Drug Store. tf
See our windows for Bargains at
the Owl Drug Co.
For all kinds of cement work see
Blake. tf
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Anything In nugget and Ivory jew
elry at Valdez Drug Co.
An up-to-date line of cook, stoves
and rangeB at Mea/Vs. tf
Notice.
The Woman’s Auxiliary, Pioneers
of Alar.ka, will give a dance at Eagles
Hall, Thanksgiving night, November
30, 1916. tf
Malted Milk Chocolate at the Val
dez Candy Kitchen.
Steam Heated Rooms, 60c, 76c and
$1 per day at the Arizona. tf
The N. A S. leaven the Valdez dock
on rogular sailing days. See adv.
Location notices, both quartz and
placer, tor Bale at the Prospector of
fice.
How about that photo you promised
to send home? Qo to Jenner. th'
Photographer, and have it taken to
day. It only takes a few minutes, tf
New Heaters from 912.60 up,
Wood Stoves, Pipe, Cooking Utensils
and Wash Boards at Rudolph's. tf
A new line of women’s sweaters,
cap and cap sets at E. Winters'.
Best Sourdough hotcakes and best
coffee at the Arcade. tt
For steam heated rooms come. to.
the Golden North. tf
YOUR CANDIDATES
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On the “Satisfaction Platform”
should be the Nationally Famous
Style Plus Suits
Mallory Hats
Nettlnton Shoes
Hart Schaffner & Marx fine clothing
For Sale Only At
S. Blum & Co.
Good Goods
HCBRICANK KKAKKD
ALONG GULF COAST
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 26.
Hurricane warnings to shipping in
terests in the Gulf of Mexico were
sent out today by the weather bureau.
The storm which is believed to be
the one which swept over the Danish
West Indies early In the week, was
today reported moving toward the
Yucatan channel. In the path of the
shipping.
ltONsian Ship Torpedoed.
CHRISTIANA, Norway. Get. 25.—
The Russian steamer Bistrita has
been torpedied. She was a 3688 ton
steel steamer, and Railed from Arch
angel Sept. 14 for a destination not
given.
Furnished rooms at Mrs Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. •
Banquet Steel Manges, plain and
polished tops, at Mead’s. tf
A new line of heaters priced right,
at Mead’s. tf
Just received, a new line of Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co
GUARD
THE
HOME
DOLLAR
Remember every time you
take or send a dollar out of
town if remove# that dollar
from circulation her#.
When you spend your
money with die local mer
chant it atay# Imre.
HOME TRADING IS THE
LIFE OF THE TOWN.
Guard the Home Dollar
BY TRADING
WITH THE
HOME MERCHANT
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. W1CKES MERRITT
OMem over Vnlile* l>ruK Co.
I’hoae 'IS McKinley Mreel
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. I’ahllc Health Serv.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National t'alrernltr
Washington, D, C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTOKNKYS-AT-LAW
Offlee Opposite Court Hoaae
■ 'hone St VAI.DRZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONO /5 IC HITCH iB
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY8-AT-I.AW
Oflrn In Wbnllng Building
Phone 101 VAI.DE/.. A I.ASK *
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
Valdes, Alaska
LAUNCH N & S
LMvn every Wedneaday at B a.
m. from Valdea Dock for JSella
mar, l.andlock. aad Fldalffo.
Leaven every Satarday at l> a. m.
from Valdea Dock fur Cedar Bay,
Welle (lay. Port Welle aad Gran
ite Mtae.
PORTAGK BAY AND OTHER
POINTS BY CONTRACT
W. J. CALLAGHAN
OWNER AND MASTER.
Candy Kitchen i
L W. HUNT—la Owl Drag Star*. j
I FOUNTAIN DRINKS !
HOT ~ COLD j
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 1<W
Free rad Accepted Macrae
Regular communications nr St nrea
uesday in seen month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
P. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD. Secretary.
L O. O. F. No. 6
Meets every Monday evening in Mc
Kinley Hall at 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting members cordially Invited to
attend these meetings.
C. O. RriJOT.PH, N. fl.
r. a. Qvvts, sec.
Wbea b Seward Step at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON,PROP
• IRICTLY FIRST CLARa
Fourth Are, Seward, Alaska
A Big Shipment.
Just received, a fresh liue of Haas
Candies, the kind you like, at Levy &
Ross.' tf
The Best Place, m Veldes to
Stop at'1s the
Arctic Hotel
W«ra, Light Rmo*.-Tk HmmW <W«rt
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM SgtcUl Rate. By Ik MmIS
PHONE 133 MRS. STRMG, Pr*»
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdes
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Buflding
Telephone No. 60
Genet al Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE.
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Early or tali
Phone 48
Baggage Transferred
at a reasonable rate
Sonnie’s Express
Office at
SONNIE S NEW
& SECOND HAND STORE
Men’s Furnishings
LOUTS CAFE
Eroytkiag Fnt chn
Open Day and Night
ANDY MAROVICH, Prop.
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Vaidiz Mlrnrs lloiM No. 18B
; W«t«rn F«d«rttion of MllMV
f ROBERT SHAEm^ftMElgfr
CHAS. McCALLUM^W.^.
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