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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1015
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THE REFORMER.
Every once in so often the public
can expect a self-styled champion of
the "dear people” to step into the
breach. And in every case these
•self-made reformers are of the same
mental and physical calibre.
With a head full of distorted facts,
and a loud voice they seek by their
noise to make up for their lack of
logic.
In every case these ardent advo
cates of the masses are men whose
business and social career has been a
failure, and these failures are ad
ways the most voluble in telling other
people how their business should be
run.
They never acknowledge that an
other man’s superior ability might be
the cause of his rise to wealth; they
won’t even admit that their own ac
tions have been the cause of their
retrogression—no, it is all made off
the people—according to their argu
ments, and wrung from the mouths
of widows and orphans.
If you had a business to run who
would you hire to run it? The bla
tant demagog, who has made a fizzle
of a $300 business forty-eight times,
or the man whose pants were sand
papered six years ago and now has'
made enough to spend his winters in
California? Be honest now, and let
your convictions speak for you. The
fact that two men came here together
and one went ahead and the other
still wears the same sandpapered pair
of pants should be argument enough
for any sensible man, as to the suc
cess of the one and failure of the I
other.
There are as many openings in this
country today as in any country on
earth. Any man can come here and
make a good living and more, pro
vided he is willing to wear out his
hands instead of his pants, and whose
ambitions rise higher than sucking
the hind teat of a $25 a month corpo
ration job. A man with a constitu- ;
tion like a horse, who is willing to j
try to subsist on a $25 a month sal
ary is no true Alaskan. He may cry j
"corporation” and “robber” until he
is black in the face, but his own ac-;
tions belie his words.
Any man who can come to Alaska i
and win out deserves the admiration j
of all true Alaskans. They know and i
we know that opportunity still knocks j
at every man’s door; he is the arbiter I
of his own fortunes.
But there is a great difference in \
men'; One man, with a colossal in
tellect and ability to manage the af
fairs of a nation, is content to sell
himse^ for $25 per month to a cor- !
poration. and the other will go out
in the cold and hunt for an oppor
tunity to make good, suffering hard
ships uncomplainingly and, when
wealth comes his way, as it always
does, the bench-warming poor man’s
friend yells “luck” and "robber.”
Reader, you, who have lived in
Alaska, have you ever seen the man
who earnestly tried to get along, fail
to make good? Your pants may be
“sand-papered” and you may not
know where to get the next meal, but
haven’t you the most supreme confi
dence that some day something will
flop your way, and ypur trouble and
toil will be ende4? What we ad
mire more than any other trait in
the Alaskan is his supreme confi
dence in himself. Are you willing
to sell your virfle manhood for a
salary of $25 per month, paid In city
warrants?
There is no room for the agitator
in Alaska. He should be compelled
to work for his keep, the same as
any other man.
Use the brain God gave you and
you will observe that the man who
yells tpe loudest about corporations
is always the one most willing to
take any sum that is given him, so he
can get on the payroll.
Soon after tbe first installment of
taxes were paid in tbe Couucllmanic
paper made its appearance on our
streets. We are Willing to match dol
lars with any individual, but now
that the municipality has butted in,
we will have to tfirow up our hands.
We don’t approve of the Germanic
method of taking on too much at one
time.
We have never heard an answer
to our argument that if George
C. Treat’s property should be taxed
so high because it was bringing in a
good income, why should the Bun
nell property be taxed at all, as it is
bringing in nothing since the fire, and
yet it was left at the same figure as
when the buildings were on it?
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Up to date it will take about the
greater portion of the taxes just col
lected to pay the lawsuits the city
has engaged in trying to drive out
those opposed to the administration.
At the rate' th>^ opposition is devel
oping we would advise another two
mill levy to be used for improvements
and expenses. •
The Forty-Ninth Constellation is
the second paper in the Territory to
back up the district attorney in his
strenuous attempt to introduce the
Georgia "standard of morals to our
wild and uncurried citizens. There
must really be something to him
after all.
We humbly offer the suggestion
that the city “attorney” be allowed
to prosecute those eases b* fore the
city magistrate. We’ll bet one mil
lion to one that the city’s “legal”
representative would secure the first
conviction in his judicial career.
For a man who has consistently
fought Valdez by trying to establish
a rival town with “paved streets and
a cement dock,” just outside the tax
district, it looks to us like the sena
tor is not entitled to much consid
eration from the hands of our people.
We had no idea we had ever sin
gled the mayor out for attack until
our attention was called to it by the
Councilmanic paper. AVe were only
helping hint explain his position, as i
he had no official organ at the time, j
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TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT
AT THE
EMPRESS
Owing to length only one show—at 8 sharp
JESSE L. LASKY presents
“The Squaw Man”
Six act drama with 264 interesting scenes featuring
DUSTIN FARNUM
LAST TIME TO-NIGHT
Admission 25c. _ All Children 10c. I
Manr. Pickford in “Teas of The Storm Country,” next_ week. J
And after all a rose by any other
name would smell as sweet.
It looks to us like the "Forty
Ninth Start” and the Fiftieth finish.
And now let the “Get-Apart” Club
do its darndest; who wants harmony
anyhow?
What constellation in the zodiac
shall we call it: Gemini, the Twins;
or Capricorn, the Goat?
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We do wish someone would give us
a ticket back to the States until Jus
tice removes her goggles.
Now that moonsnine is barred
we can only hope that tfcey will let
the sunshine next summer.
“And now that our plans have mis
carried in regard to the Dock com
pany, #e’ll taHe a whirl at the Tilli
kum Club.”
What a pity Geq. Sherman march
ed through only the northern part of
Georgia on hie memorable parade to
the sea.
Other Alaskan cities are threaten
ing to quarantine Valdez until her
epidemic of troublitis is less aggra
vated.
Serves ’em right; they’ve no busi-l
qess to belong to a respectable or-!
ganization where the Trinity is
barred.
And we’re still wondering after aj
perusal of our tax receipt, if all tax-|
payers did look alike to “Honest j
John” Heckey. !
The Constellation has its wires
crossed about Wick; We understood
Wick was going to run as a Republi
can—this time
Never mind, we can depend upon
the city magistrate to tell ’em of the
iniquities of the Tillikum Club. He
tried to break in once.
And Seward is “honing” for a dis
trict attorney’s office at that place!
We don’t wish Seward any bad luck,
but she’d be welcome to ours.
And when we hear the Zodiac talk
ing about that $36,000,000 our dele
gate secured for Alaska, we wonder
which guard will take him outside.
Well, Capricornus, that is just
what we were kicking about—“No
property was assessed outside the
city limits save that of the Valdez
Dock company."
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By the time the little "twinklers”
get through rough-housing this old
town it will take more than a cur
rycomb to smooth the hair the rtght
way again.
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And what makes it so embarrass- j
Ing is that every man against whom I
information is filed is a warm, per- j
sonal “friend” of the original trinity !
of trouble-makers. 1
After reading the dispassionate, j
temperate utterances of the city’s j
magistrate, how would you like to i
be on trial before him, expecting a j
square deal as the poor man’s friend? j
We welcome Assessor Heckey to!
the field of journalism. If he is as j
good an editor as he is an assessor i
some of us will get his paper for i
nothing while the rest of us will pay j
double.
At one time the editor of the stel
lar constellation of the forty-ninth
magnitude thought enough those
“thirty whisky peddlers” to try to be
one of them—why the sudden change
of heart?
Which?
Twinkle, twinkle, little Star,
How we wonder who you're for— j
Democrat is anti-Wick,
You’ll have to make your mind up i
quick.
We have taken in sixteen new sub
scribers the past week from the
States and four in Valdez. This is not
a demonstration that a prophet is
without honor in his own country, but
shows that our efforts to great the
attention of the world to our great
mineral wealth is being appreciated.
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“Figure it tor yourself whether
the attorney for the council has cost
the city anything or not ♦ * *” Yes,
we’ve figured, and that is why we
protest. The “attorney” has cost the
town several good fat attorney’s fees
for doing the business he is hired to
do. If the cases were as dead open
and shut as they are claimed to be,
a kid in the eighth-grade could win
them, without sending out of the city
and paring expert prices for experts
to advise our “expert” in the rudi
ments of his profession. And while
you are cussing those people who live
out of the city and draw their suste
nance from it, remember that the
“attorney” does not reside in the city,
and legally might as well be in Cor
dova as here. It’s a poor argument,
you know, which does not work both
SPECIALISTS
HE man who wants the best legal advice
goes to the best lawyer he can find—a
specialist in the particular kind of advice
needed. The man who wants the best in cloth
ing goes to a clothing specialist—a firm that
has made it their business to sell mens clothing
of a superior quality. The keynote of our
leadership as clothiers is the High Quality and
Matchless Character of our goods.
Hart Scaffner & Marx suits
From $25.00 up.
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Style-Plus clothes
$17.00 the world over. ^
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
IiOCAIj brevities.
Christmas and New Year Cards, 2
For 5 cents at Emporium. *
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man's, the tailot. Telephone 198. tf
Fsr good nome-cooKed meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
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Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
Shipment of fresh halibut just re
ceived at Frye-Bruhn’s. tf
Kodak Supplie« at .he Valdez
Drug Comnany. tf
Suits pressed for 61.01; at Silver
man’s. th< ♦ailor. Telephone 198. tf
Snow Slide at Shagway.
By taking a snort walk from the
center of town, a good general idea
of what a snow slide really Is can
be obtained. At a point a short dis
tance above the White Pass railway
shops, where the steam shovel has
been taking out shale rock for fill
ing purposes, and high up on the
mountain side, the snow became dis
lodged last Saturday and gaining im
petus and weight came crashing
down intd the river. By those who
were fortunate enough to see the big
slide, tt is described as a grand sight,
and from the amount of snow and
rock that is piled up at the foot of
the hill it is evident that a good sub
ject for a moving picture was lost
when no one was present to secure
a film. No damage was done other
than perhaps that done to the track
by having tons of rock piled upon
top of it.—Skagway Alaskan.
If Teddy wilt only accept the Cana
dian government’s offer to lead the
new army -against Germany, the Uni
ted States will have more cause than
ever to be grateful to Canada.
West Virginia broke all previous
records for coal production last year
with an output of 71,707,623 short
tons.
SPECIAL TONIGHT
AT THE LIBERTY.
Program
1. The Great Christian.
2—3. For the Love of Men—
some feature in two reels.
4. The Light of Lass.
5. The Speeders.
A total of five reels of solid amuse
ment. Don’t forget the Liberty The
atre.
London has a school In which
bachelors are taught to make beds,
cook, sew and look after their home
needs generally.
Each pew In a church In a Ger
man city is heated by an Individual
electric unit, which can be Regulated
to suit the comfort of an occupant
of the pew.
Holland annually produces about
20,000,000 pounds of flax fiber and
600.000 bushels of seed.
DR. H. C0CKER1LLE
Graduate National University, j
Washington, 0, C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phonb is 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.j
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska i
DONOHOE & DlMGND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office OppoNlte Court Houmc
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Ottlrea In Whaling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free and Accepted Mamma,
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
Red Cross Hospital
Keystone end Hobart Sts.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
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Private Rooms for Patients.
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* Phone 144 MRS. C. H WILCOX. Matron I
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back" a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good many
of today's successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the In*
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
ass Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wei 1b, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Land lock Bay.
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply oa doa*.
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Warm, Light Rooma—The Hoaae of Cam foe
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratea Bp the Meo^h
PHONE 133 MRS SYRI<(C. fa*
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER, President.
Granite Mine
CBAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Veldes, Alesha.
Dougherty & Fergusoi
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
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Fresh vegetables, fruits, and I
nuts. •
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Cnmpany .
Office op Alaska Avenue, wm
Ceorge C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 6Q
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY *and FEED STABLE.
srrpBAQB;
Teaming of All Binds
Positively No Coal Delivered Ue
kse Paid for. in. Advance