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July 23. 1912. at the postoffice of valdez,
Alaska, under act of March 3, 1879.
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MISPLACED SYMPATHY BROODS
ANARCHY
We do not agree with President
Wilson in his interference with the
citizens of Arizona in their efforts to
protect themselves against lawless
ness. We do agree with the President
that lawlessness should be met, when
ever possible, with the law, and that
citizens should not themselves com
mit acts that are not strictly within
the law'. But there are times when
lawful procedure cannot be relied up
on to prevent more serious crimes.
There are times when the courts are
powerless, as, for instance, in dealing
with the I. W. W. murderers who
committed an assault upon Everett
last year. Those offenders were ar
rested and forthwith threatened to
bankrupt the community which they
had assaulted if an attempt was made
to punish them for their crime. They
had a long trial that cost many, many
thousands of dollar*. And that trial
proved an utter farce. It proved a
farce notwithstanding the fact that
officers of the law were murdered by
members of the I. W. W. who were
made defendants in that case. All of
which shows that the I. W. W.t thru
their attorneys, have figured it out
that they can commit unlawful acts
with impunity and probably escape
any legally defined punishment what
| soever.
In the wheatfields of many parts
of the country, in some of the mining
districts of the country, and in in
dustrial centers elsewhere, those I.
W. W. are proceeding along the same
lines as they proceeded in the Ever
ett case. Yet the President of the Uni
ted States says he cannot permit citi
zens to take the law into their own
hands!
That is a fine sentiment, and it is
a correct one under most circum
stances, but when there is no law ap
plicable because of the lack of ade
quate machinery to enforce law, un
less citizens protect themselves
against organized anarchy, there
would be safety for no one.
This is not the first time that the
President has placed himself between
justice and crime. He tried to save
a cold-blooded Utah murderer after
the fairest of trials had found him
guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.
This man was the I. W. \V. patron
saint, Joe Hill. The President even
insulted the governor of that state be
cause the governor would not over
ride the law and give the convicted
murderer a sentence in prison. For
tunately Utah has a governor who not
only knew the full details of that
shocking and unprovoked crime, but
who had the courage to protect his
commonwealth despite the displeas
ure of the executive of the nation. We
call attention to this again because
it may have some bearing upon the
executive’s attitude with respect to
the I. W. W. at this time. The Presi
dent is being mislead by these scala
wags. His sympathy is being misplac
ed.
The Prospector does not counsel
the commission of any crime, but it
does say that if the I. W. W. should
attempt to destroy growing crops or
other property that cannot be replac
ed, the citizens should not only or
ganize to repress such lawlesness, but
they will be arrant cravens if they do
not do so.
The first virtue to be considered,
in such a circumstance, of course, is
to determine guilt without doubt.
SPECULATORS DEFEAT
PLAN OF CORRECTION
PARIS, Aug. 4.—A housewife in
Paris cannot buy a fifty pound sack
of coal at any price, but large con
sumers have been obtaining it in lots
of from two to ten tons at $75 a ton.
This situation was disclosed in the
debate in the chamber of deputies on
the economic situation. It is attribut
ed to facilities afforded for specula
tion by the licenses through which
the government hoped to regulate the
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traffic.
The license acquired at once a i
trading value that was put to profit ]
by people who had never had any
thing to do with the coal trade. Dress
makers, lawyers, society men, com
mission merchants of all kinds dealt
in these licenses, each one taking as
big a profit as he could get in pass
ing it to the next buyer.
Maurice Viollette, minister of pro-'
visions, eited a typical case. The i
price of coal originally bought at $.T6 i
a ton went to S76 a ton by passing
through the hands of six intermed-1
iaries. none of whom had anything to j
do with the coai business before this,
license was issued.
M. Brunet, deputy from Paris, cib
ed a consumer who was able to buy
ten tons of coal, a five year’s supply,
while tenants of the same building
could not obtain enough to cook a
meal and were obliged to use gas.
“These facts have so impressed
the public,” said M. Brunet, “that
people of very moderate ideas have
declared to the authorities that the
situation continuing would mean re
volution."
The minister of provisions has de
cided to issue no licenses to importers
who were not regular dealers before
the war and proposes a law punish
ing speculators in coal by fines and
Imprisonment.
Trading has gone on not only in I
importation licenses, but in options
for the purchase of ships. One con
cern pretending to have options on
sixty vessels was asked for a state
ment of its a flairs. Its real capital
was found to be $80. The minister
declared that this traffic had been
stopped.
The rate of coal importation which
had improved in January, February
and March has been affected by the
submarine campaign and gone down
to 300,000 tons a month below last
year’s figures. Extraordinary efforts
are being made to increase the pro
duction of French mines and thus re
assure the population as to the sit
uation this coming winter.
AMERICAN censorship is peculiar.
It supresses the names of the men
who command the degiments recently
landed in France but everybody will
notice the fact that the arrival of Ma
jor Theodore Roosevelt, jr„ and Capt.
Archibald Roosevelt was promptly
communicated to the press of the
United States. Is this a compliment
or is it something else?
IT WAS the hrave ship Orleans
which first for the American flag de
fied the kaiser’s pre-emption claim to
the Atlantic. If the Germans has fin
ally “got” her, it is only after her
valiant course has brought into the
field a saving number of imitators.
THOSE trustful souls who refuse
to take the spy question seriously
probably still regard the kaiser as a
well-meaning pacifist.
o---o
JUSTICE.
BESIDE tlie nation’s flag un
furled
The stern and Btarry goddess
stands,
And lifts above a breathless world
The balance in her hands.
Drawn from all empires round her
beat
Blood red, earth's pulsing ar
teries.
As round these wide shores circling
meet
The waters of all seas.
She turns to the cerulean skies.
Her starlit vision and serene.
With eyes blindfolded to greed and
lies,
And all things low and mean.
Unbending to the weak or strong.
Unheeding pleas or partiee' plight.
She weighs the right against the
wrong.
And holds her sword to emits.
O starry Justice, undismayed.
Keep steadfast guard above our
land,
Whose deeds are In the balance
weighed
Before thy sworded hand!
—M. E. Buehler.
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New Ides In Battleships.
A captain in the United States navy
has made a proposal for the building
of a 600 foot battleship wbicb would
be aemisubmersible.
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Good Goods
THE OPTIMIST.
rpHERE was once a man who smiled
Because the day was bright.
Because he slept at night.
Because God gave him sight
To gaze upon his child,
Because his little one
Could leap and laugh and run.
Because the distant sun
Smiled on the earth, he smiled.
HE tolled and still was glad
Because the air was tree.
Because he loved and she
That claimed his love and he
Shared all the joys they had.
Because the grasses grew.
Because the sweet winds blew.
Because that he could hew
And hammer, he was glad.
BECAI'SE he lived he smiled
And did not look ahead
With bitterness or dread,
But nightly sought hiB bed
Am calmly as a child,
And people called him "mad”
For being always glad
With such things as he had
And shook their heads and smiled.
-S. E. Kiser.
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Rates 75c and Up
Special Rates by the Week or Month
Baths in Connection
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING. Prsp.
When In Seward Stop at the
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GEORGE SEXTON, Ppop.
SiRICTLV FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward. Alaska
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Complete line of Bulk Chocolates.
Candy Kitchen. tf
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free aad Accepted Iuibi
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD. Secretary.
WE PAY
Cast Iron $25 per ton.
Wrought Iron $18 per ton. —
Copper $26 per ton.
Brass $18 per ton.
T>ead 8He per pound.
Rubber 7Hc per pound.
Qt. Beer Bottles 27He per doz.
Pint Beer Bottles 17Vi per dez.
Rags $2.50 per 100 pounds.
Paper $1.00 per 100 pounds.
Manila Rope 4Vic per pound.
F. O. B. SEATTLE.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
1643 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
| LAUNCH
! PATHFINDER
$ CAPT. BYRON SMITH
+ -
$ Bailing weekly out of Valdez
+ will deliver passengers, mail, ex
J press and fast freight at any
Z point on Prince William Sound,
f RATES REASONABLE
I Periodical service by agree
Z ment to outlying camps a spe
ll clalty.
| CAPT. BYRON SMITH
I VALDEZ, ALASKA
' VALDEZ BAY
At any Time Day or Night
J. D. Jefferson
VALDEZ, ALASKA
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
AUTOS FOR HIRE
DAY OR NIGHT
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
PROFESSIONAL CARRS.
DR. S. WICKJES MERRITT
Offices in Fish Building, adjoining
Tillikum Club.
Phone ’15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, C. S. Army
A. A Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Gralialt National University,
WaaklafloB, D. C.
DENTIST
In Valdez Since 1808
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIAMOND
iTTOBUBYS-AT-li^
OBIce Opposite Court Bonne
Phone M VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS <s B PITCH IB
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-A T-LAW
OfltH la wkilltf Building
Phase 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted Leases Ground
VALDEZHOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SUVUMAM, R a. N. D. Pro.
Jos. A. Silverman Pfc. G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office fce«r»--l te 4 p. ■ —7 te 8 p. ■.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. It
Boyle Block Valdes
Candy Kitchen
L W. HUNT—la Owl Drag Star*.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT-COLD
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and
Phone 166.
Valdez Miners Union Ho. 188
■ Western Federation of Miners j
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VoMes Alssks
GEORGE M. B*RRY \