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njESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1915
TIGHTENING THE CINCH.
It is expected that the town coun
at its meeting this evening will
as a proposed amendment to Ordi
nce No. 81 of the town of Valdez/
ividing for the assessment and levy
taxes, by striking out Section 11,
itch provides for an appeal to the
itrict court from decisions of the
ard -of equalization on tax assess
mts. The proposed amendment
is introduced at the last meeting of
3 council and referred to the com
ttee on law and ordinance, and it
11 be no doubt reported back to
jht for the action of the council. i
If the ordinance is amended as
oposed it will place the assessment
property for taxation almost abso
tely in the hands of a majority of
e board of equalization, because un
r the decisions almost universally ’
ide a court of equity will not in- i
.-fere with an assessment of prop- [
ty and decisions made by the pro
r officers unless it is so glaringly
,equal or unjust as to be uncon
>nable. Without special provision
r appeal, therefore, four men con-,
ituting a majority of the town
uncil and board of equalization can
•ite the assessment roll almost with
it let or hindrance. They have this
iwer because they can take the flg-.
es of the assessor and raise or low- i
them In their discretion, it would ,
it make any difference whether the |
ur men were responsible or irre- j
onsible, financially or otherwise, if
,j»y happened to constitute a ma
rity of the town council.
The rule laid down generally by
e courts, we are told, is this, that
though the judge believes an as
. ssment is somewhat too high, it is
iproper for him to substitute his
irsonal judgment for that of the as
issor and board of equalization. If
le assessment is unconscionably
igh, then a court of equity will in
trfere as it will with any other un
■nscionable act.
The situation is this: If four men
instituting a majority of the town
luncil and board of equalization
loose to do it they can assess prop
*ty owned by people they do not
ke 20 per cent higher than similar
roperty owned by their friends and
lere would be no recourse, even in
court of equity unless the assess
lents were made on such a large
;ale that the inequity of it would be
laring and notorious.
It is true that even where an ap
eal from assessment is given by a
tatute or ordinance the courts would
e reluctant to interfere, as held by
TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT
THE EMPRESS
Owing to length only one show each evening at 8 o’clock sharp
SIX REEL PARAMOUNT FEATURE
:• .V . . I • I;.-. 'lii- Hr- '' "■
Martin Eden
Written by Jack London
Admission 25c. All Children 10c.
n...«L.Allf'wuub.T|inruliy Ck'«M>Fcihm Comedv
Judge Brown in recent cases ' but
where the right of appeal is given it
is much easier to get the matter be
fore the court, and the court would
feel justified in making reductions on
a lesser weight of evidence than if
the whole matter simply rested on
principles of equity.
However, the ordinance will un
doubtedly be amended as proposed,
and what are you going to do about
it?
INTERFERENCE WITH MAILS.
Once again has this country been
obliged to protest against England’s
seizure of our mails, opening them
and confiscating whatever articles her
war-lords choose to take for their
own uses. If we ever needed a navy
for any purpose it would be to com
pel other nations to let our ships
alone; to travel unmolested to any
port they may desire. Since the birth
of this nation, every petty monarch
of the old country has handled our
shipping in any manner he chose,
.knowing that we could not help our
selves. If this country cannot send
its mails to neutral nations without
interference from other countries it
is time she shut up shop and flew the
flag of some other nation for protec
tion on the high seas.
THE VAIjUE OF PROTECTION.
It is a significant fact that the
third German war loan, amountiiig to
$3,000,000,000, has all been sub
scribed by the German people, and
this brings the total loans, subscrip
ed in a similar way for war purposes
up to $6,250,000,000. This third
German loan is the greatest financial
operation in history.
The fact that it was all subscribed
within Germany is not only an evi
dence of the country-love of the Ger
man people, but there is in it a les
son for those statesmen and politi
cians in the United States who have
been and still are arrayed against the
policy of protection, and a lesson for
the political party which has sought
to bVeak down the protection system
and has by its legislation done so
much to distress the business of this
country, to the advantage of the in
dustries of other countries.
Germany has pursued a policy of
protection and of governmental as
sistance of industrial enterprises.
Under that policy her people have
built up their manufactures so thor
oughly that previous to the war they
had a trade over so much of the
world and of such proportions as to
threaten the commercial prestige of
England. More than that, Germany
undertook practically every possible
line of industry, with the result that
when the war came and shut her off
of the sea she was better able than
any other nation to rely upon her
own resources.
Now that the government needs the
money it gets it from the German
people, who have it because under
the protection system they have not
paid it tq other peoples for what they
could and do make themselves. Ger
many is a big manufacturing center.
She manufactures her own war mu
nitions,^ auto trucks, hospital sup
plies; in short, all that is needed for
war purposes, and the money for it is
expended among the German people,
while the allies, and particularly free
trade England, is sending millions of
dollars here for munitions and other
supplies.
Nothing has done so much to make
Germany self-reliant as her econom
ic policy. Nothing has done so much
to build up her Industries in almost
infinite variety as the protection sys
tem she has followed. Poverty is al
most unknown in Germany. Want is
never felt. Dirty streets and slovenly
buildings are never seen. The wealth
of the natiod has been built solely
upon a protective tariff. It seems to
us that the fact that the German peo
ple in this crisis can loan their gov
ernment $6,250,000,000 for war pur
poses, while allied nations are seek
ing money elsewhere than at home,
affords a striking argument in favor
of protection,—Philadelphia Tele
graph. '
A NON-PARTISAN TARIFF.
The United States faces a deficit of
eighty million dollars. That is to say,
the country has run eighty million
dollars behind its expenditures, and
has this amount to make up, before it
can wipe the slate clean for this ad
ministration! To raise this deficit
is an impossibility under the present
system of income. We have a war
tax although we have no war; we
have a tax laid upon everything we
eat and drink, although other nations
by their hostile acts toward each oth
er are forcing us to pay it. To raise
the necessary funds for the coming
year it is proposed' to still further
increase the taxes. A tax will be laid
on gasoline, which is the same as tax
ing our industries; a tax will be put
on incomes of $2,000, and perhaps
lower; a tax will be put upon all
notes and instruments, and even
checks are included in the list of tax
ation, although a strong fight is be
ing made upon this by many con
gressmen. This could all be elimi
nated by placing an export tax upon
war materials, causing foreign na
tions to help lift the burden they are
imposing upon us, and by placing a
protective tariff upon our industries.
We do not favor this tariff as a dem
ocrat or republican measure, but as
a measure free from politics. It is
the bulwark of American indepen
dence; the strength of a nation. It
relieves the poor man from the neces
sity of carrying the burden imposed
unnecessarily; it pays industries a
premium, and guarantees that they
will be protected from foreign inva
sion. By incessantly tinkering with
the tariff both parties have kept the
business of the country on so unsta
ble a basis that a crisis has only been
averted by placing petty taxes upon
small articles used by the working
man as well as the rich man. The
income tax is another radica'l feature
which threatens to place a double
burden upon our nation. When, ulti
mately, the tax is placed on incomes
of from $250 to $500 it will cause a
hardship upon those whom it taxes.
A man with a million dollars can
spare five per cent of it for taxes and
still have enough left for T-bone
steaks; the poor man who is forced
to part with $5.00 or $10.00 of his
meagre earnings will have to deny
himself.
By placing a protective tariff upon
all articles imported into this coun
try,' we will cut the Gordian knot of
hard times. A non-partisan tariff,
made up by tariff experts from both
parties, and allowed to ride ten years
by mutual agreement of all parties,
would raise this country to a pinna
cle of wealth undreamed of. The
scream of the saw would be again
heard in our Pacific coast mills, and
eastern factories would again hum
with industry.
The tariff has hitherto been made
a party issue, but indications are that
in the near future democrats as. well
as republicans will agree upon some
measure which will allow the tariff to
stand unmolested by either party.
Seward has wired Col. Richardson
for an appropriation of $2500 to
be used on the trail between that city
and Anchorage, her commercial bod
ies declaring that the present trail
is unsafe for life and limb. We can
assure the Railroad City that if it de
pends upon the Colonel they will gel
their money, and get it quickly.
Who can deny that with Colonel
Roosevelt in the White House we
would be fighting with the Allies?
We would have invaded Mexico by
this time and lapped over into Can
ada. Wilson’s policy has been harsh
ly criticised by the money-lords of the
munition factories, hut to our rnii.d,
it is far preferebio to a war of con
quest.
The Valdez Public Schools will
close Thursday for the mid-winter
Holidays, school resuming January 3,
1916. The holiday will be greeted
with Joy by pupils and teachers alike,
as the past few months have been
filled with hard work for all. Valdez
has a most excellent public school
system and her scholars are up to
the standard of the larger schools in
the states. A most excellent staff of
teachers is employed, and the rela
tions between pupil and teacher are
most cordial.
WANTED—A woman for general
housework for all or part of the day.
j£>. Hum Sc (Eu., 3lur.
“Everything But The Turkey.”
> (Efyrtatmaa Mtm
Corn on Cob
Stuffed Olives
Roquefort Cheese
Plum Pudding
Glace Fruit
Cranberries
Mixed Nuts
Chestnuts
Asparagus
Tiny, Green Beans
Grape Jelly
Stuffed Figs
Sardine Paste
Xmas Peas
Tomatoes
Stuffed MangoeB
Cucumbers
Lettuce
Turkish Figs
Euchred Figs
Mince Meat
Oranges
Grapes
Tiny Wax Beans
Cauliflower
Stuffed Dates
Hoyt’s Fruit Cake
Ripe Olives
Cucumber and Egg Canape
Mushroom Soup
Olives Salted Nuts Celery
Turkey—Giblet Dressing
Plain Gravy Pimiento Potatoes
French Peas and Carrots
Spiced Apple Sauce
Cherry and Hazelnut Salad
Peach Ice Cream Hoyt’s Fruit Cake
Cresca Stuffed Dates and Figs
Black Coffee
Cheese Bent’s Water Wafers
Grape Juice
Sweet Cider
Stuffed Mangoes
Fruit Pudding
Italian Olive Oil
Potted Chicken
Dainty Cakes
Crystallized Ginger
Bent’s Water Wafers
Cluster Raisins
Cherries in Maraschino
Calarab Figs
Table Vinegars
Camembert Cheese
Major Gray’s Chutney
Tiny Peas
French Peas
Domino Sugar
Pate Foi Gras
Japanese Crab Meat
Blue Point O’ysters
French Sardines
Hill’s Coffee
Canned Shrimps
Campbell’s Soups
Heinz’s Soups
Melba Peaches
Asparagus Tips
-V 4
RECIPE*
PIMENTO POTATOES: Season three cups
of hot riced potatoes with three table
spoons butter, one-half cup of cream and
salt to taste; beat vigorously five min
utes; add one and one-half Del Monte
Pimentos (cut in very small pieces) and
beat until well blended: re-heat and pile
on a hot serving dish.
RECIPE. m
CAULIFLOWER AND SHRIMPS WITH-*
RICE: Boil a whole cauliflower; also
boil separately, one-half cup of rice.
. Make a ricli poulette sauce, add to it two
cups of strained tomatoes. Add shrimps,
Barataria Brand, and cook five minutes.
Place cooked cauliflower in center of
platter and pour sauce over it. Place
border of cooked rice around edge of
platter.
S. Blum & Co., Inc.
Everything but the Turkey.
AT THE LIBERTY
THEATRE TONIGHT.
\ change of program tonight as
follows:
1. The Face at the Window.
2-3. The Love of His Kind.
4. His Pal’s Bequest.
5. A Swell Comedy.
Five reels of amusement. Save
your turkey coupons; drawing Dec.
23; visit the Liberty Theatre.
Holiday goods, wearing apparel,
household utensils and articles of ev
eryday needs coming on every boat,
and sold at a bargain. There wilbgjB
no half or one-third off after the HOT
days at the Emporium. The goods
are now marked at bottom prices;
you will find many articles on our
five-cent counter you have been cus
tomarily paying 16 and 25 cents for.
Tickets for the Moose Christmas
dinner may be obtained by members
for themselves and friends at the of
fice of D. F. Millard, Copper Block.
No reservations will be made after
Wednesday, Dec. 22. k23
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Fresh Olympia Oysters, fresh hull
ed shrimp, fresh whipped cream and
other table delicacies for the Christ
mas table at Love-Whitley’s. kl26
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University,
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdes.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In "Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdei, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 84 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS ®. B. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW
Offices lu Whaling Building
Arcade Cafe
OPEN UNTIL 9 P. M.
We Serve Corona Coffee
Strictly Fresh Eggs.
Jack Callin ■» ■ Proprietor
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
* V Free and Accepted Masons.
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
ED. WOOD. Secretary.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON.PROP
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
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Valdez Miners Union No. 1881
Western Federation of Miners
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.,
Valdez. Alaska.
Red Cross Hospital
K«yiton«!and Hobart Sts.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Rooms for Patients.
Phone 144 MRS. C. H WILCOX. Matron
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
ArcticHotel
%,,
Warn, Light R«oa«-The Hoaee of Coafort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratee Bj the Moath
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRINC, Prop.
Copper River
Draying Co
: i <" ■
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
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McKinley Street, Valdes
w wnop Pmorietor_
__ Chas. Perry
"“■'SEwfor
Jk Complete Services
IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
1155fiooms with hrfh-503amplefeoms
“Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM '
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
* dez Dock Company's Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m„ from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates. Apply on Boat.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts. 11
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Cnmpany j
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
Ceorge C. Treat Building
. Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
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LIVERY and FEED STABLE;
Stobage,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered U»
less Paid for in Advance