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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1914.
ILLEGAL VOTING.
It is apparent from yesterday’s pro
ceedings in the district court that the
grand jury is making some inquiry
concerning alleged illegal voting in
the recent election. It is improper
for an outsider to urge upon the grand
jury any recommendation as to its
action in a matter brought before it
for investigation, but it is never im
proper for a newspaper or an indi
vidual to express publicly or privately
the hope that if any wilful violation
of law has taken place the grand
jury will give it such attention as it
deserves.
Beginning on election day and per
sistently ever since charges of illeg
al voting have been made, some of
them specific as to names and gen
eral facts. Other charges of unlaw
ful acts have been made, along with
a high tide of wilful and mostly stu
pid mendacity.
The Prospector does not want to
be in contempt of court for any ef
fort to influence judicial inquiry, but
believes it legitimate to observe that
public sentiment everywhere is
strongly in favor of publicity in all
matters of public interest, and if
there was anything unlawful or im
proper done on election day in the
Third division by any person, official
or unofficial, the public is entitled to
know the exact facts for future refer
ence, if for no other reason.
SUNDAY CLOSING.
The more one. thinks of that so
called Sunday c> sing law and the
more one thinks of how it is adminis
tered in this territory the more does
he feel like using strong language.
In Cordova, Valdez, Juneau and oth
er cities in Alaska the moving picture
shows keep open on Sundays just the
same as ever and Seward would prob
ably have the same privilege today
were it not for the unfortunate visi
tation of a district attorney who came
to this city as an Eastern mogul
might travel into the wilds of some
pagan country and inflict punishment
on his slavish subjects.
Alaska should assert its rights in
this and other matters if its rights
are not recognized by its would-be
mighty masters. Let us suppose that
any place of amusement or pastime
defied the authorities and remained
open in spite of the ukase of some
traveling job holders. Let us sup
pose that any of those people were
arrested for their defiance. What
would the result be? Does anyone
think for a moment that a jury of
Alaskans would bring in a verdict
of guilty?
The Gateway is not by any means
suggesting that anyone should break
just laws, but it will say that many
unjust and oppressive laws have been
removed from the statute books on
ly when the people arose and assert
ed their power as sovereign people.
There is nothing more galling to
any man of the least independence
or spirit than the knowledge that
his liberties can be curtailed by any
other man or body of men and par
ticularly by any man or body of men
who should be the people’s servants
and not their masters.
When any man or body of men ap
propriate to themselves the power of
interfering with the absolute freedom
of an American citizen he places
those citizens in the position of
slaves under the heel of an autocracy
worse and more galling than the slav
ery under a pagan monarchy because
the American citizen has been raised
in the atmosphere of freedom and has
been taught to claim freedom as his
own.
The matter of closing shows or any
thing else in Alaska might appear to
be trivial in itself but it is an en
croachment on our liberties which
we should be the last to tolerate.
It is a thought of really sickening
intensity that a petty official has the
power to tell us how we are to spend
Sundays or how we are not. If any
clergyman of any church dared to
tell us that we were to spend the
Sabbath In a manner dictated by him
we should mighty quickly tell him
to mind his own business, but when
a body of Pecksniffian laymen, or
one Pecksnifflan layman, tells us, in
a country which guarantees liberty of
conscience, that we cannot look at a
pictuft on Sundays or play a game
of pool if we damn well want to, it
makes a man think that we are gov
erned either by fools or political
knaves.
Just think of some wire-pulling pol
itician back in Washington introduc
ing a bill to close moving picture
shows in Alaska on Sundays!
Just think of that Pharasaical job
seeker holding the power of a czar
over a lot of people whose boots he
isn’t fit to shine!
Just think that because we haven’t
a vote in the real elections that we
must be treated like a lot of out
laws—siwashed like a lot of helpless
drunks!
How long are the people of the
territory going to stand for it? How
long will it be before the matter is
brought into the courts and a jury of
our citizens asked to give a verdict
as to whether they and their fellow
citizens are to be free and independ
ent or to be subject to the whims of
a lot of petty politicians and offi
cials who have been taken up so
much with their own crawling for
power that they have never given
themselves time to study what the
word liberty means?—Seward Gate
way.
Knocke and Zeebrugge, mentioned
in the dispatches on Wednesday as
having been shelled and the railroad
station and other buildings destroy
ed, are seaport towns in Belgium lo
cated on the North Sea. It is to
these towns that reports have it the
German admiralty has been sending
submarines in sections for assembling
on the coast to be used against the
British fleet. The British fleet shell
ed the ports for some hours and did
much damage.
(Continued trow page 1.)
army has penetrated 40 miles into
Poland. The Germans are operating
against the Russian Poland army
from three directions.
Belgian Operations At Standstill.
The German operations In Flanders
has been brought to a standstill and
the army is waiting for the result
of the military operations in the east.
The allies have taken the offensive
all along the 350 miles of battle front
in France and Belgium and hope to
divert the attention of the kaiser from
the Russians and will have all the
armies now surrounding Germany
and Austria on the offensive at one
time.
Aims To Wear Down Foe
PARIS, Nov. 20.—Persons attach
ed to the French war office estimate
that the Germans have in Belgium
and France and along the German
frontier to Switzerland about 1,750,
000 men. The French and English
have undoubtedly a numerical super
iority, with possibly 2,225,000 men on
or near the fighting lines. The rea
son the allies do not turn the Ger
mans out of France and Belgium is
partly because the power of the de
fense is greater, with modern weap
ons and intrenchments than the pow
er of offense. There is probably no
position on the line that either army
could not take if it was determined
to do so. It is simply a question of
concentrating sufficient forces on that
point and suffering the inevitable
losses.
A position is taken at a loss great
er than has been inflicted, and the
winners, upon advancing, find them
selves facing another position, which
also may be taken. If this opera
tion is repeated often enough, the
numerical superiority of the attack
will become an inferiority as the
weeks go on, and the war will be lost.
General Joffre and Field Marshal
French are careful of the lives of
their men. They seek to accomplish
large results by letting the permans
attack under unfavorable circumstan
ces, when they will do so. The allied
commanders appear to think the Ger
mans may be engaged to greater ad
vantage in France and in Belgium
than in Germany. Their effort is to
dispose of the allied troops upon this
or that part of the vast front so that
important fractions of the invaders
may be destroyed or captured.
For the allies to drive the Germans
before them (if that should be pos
sible) would be to drive them back
on their bases with armies intact.
The problem of beating the Germans
on this frontier would be more diffi
cult every mile they were driven
back. The conviction exists at the
headquarters in the field and the min
istry of war that the war Is to be a
long one; that the victory is to be
won solely by attrition, and that this
process of attrition can be applied as
well in northern France and in Bel
gium as on the Rhine. The care of
the military organization is therefore
not to be extravagant with the un
replacable human material.
France probably has 1,500,000
men, most of them under arms, who
have never been to the front. They
are the very young men and the re
serves of the older classes, who are
being trained to take their places on
■ •' battle lines. France, therefore,
-en lose 1,500,000 men and yet main
tain her fighting forces at the same
strength they are now. The same
thing is probably true of Germany,
and so military observers here look
upon the immense operations which
have taken place as only the begin
ning of a conflict which may not
reach its greatest violence until
spring.
A War Prophetess.
As Emperor Wilhelm obstinately
declined to be killed on Sept. 29, one
of the strong features of the prophet
ess of Paris failed to materialize, and
the balance is therefore necessarily
weakened. Last January the cele
brated Mme, de Thebes, of Paris,
made public predictions that a Euro
pean war would break out about mid
year, preceded by a sensational trial;
that the Pope would die shortly after
hostilities began, and that the Ger
mans would get near Paris without
penetrating into* the city. Later she
prophesied that the German emperor
would be killed on Sept. 29; that the
French would enter Germany on Oc
tober 29, and that the war would end
Nov. 7. It must be admitted that
some of the predictions have come
true, but the kaiser has thus far kept
out of range.—Ex,
A Convention.
Mrs. Pester—When Mr Goodtiling
went away 200 of his neighbors went
to the train with him to see him off.
Mr. Pester-1 didn't know he had
that many creditors.—Boston Globe.
Photo by American Press Association.
Russian Cossacks Are Formidable Foes
The Russian navy has never been considered a very Important factor in
the nation’s defense because so little of the country faces the sea. However,
Russia boasts of one of the best armies In the world. The Russian Ooaaachs
are known everywhere and are formidable fighters.
Get Busy!
There Is a Lot to Do Before the Deep Snow Comes
YOU NEED WINTER CLOTHES
We Have Them for Men, Women and Children.
Fur Caps,
Felt Shoes,
Overcoats,
Malone Pants
Fur Coats,
Wool Gloves,
Buckskin Lined
Corduroy Vests,
Roughneck Sweaters
Don't Wait Any Longer.
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Regular Communications lirsi Wednesday id
each month in MoKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
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Sweat Baths.
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 5, Montana, tf
Twenty-five live turkeys as prizes at
Big Place Cigar Stand. tf
Get a Skate On.
Go to the Valdez Rink; five-piece
orchestra every Sunday, Tuesday and
Friday. tf
Moose Dance.
The regular Saturday night dance
given by the Moose will be given at
Moose hall. Fine music and excel
lent lunch served at midnight.
Nubone Corsets.
Try Mrs. St. Marie’s for one of
those Nubone corsets. tf
Wood! Wood! Wood!
Sawed alder wood, $3.75 per rick;
two ricks, $7.50; 14 or 16-inch lengths,
delivered at your back door. See
Jesse Crawford. Phone 117. tf
One dollar clocks 50c at Plant &
Co.
In Bankruptcy.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the matter of E. W. Blackwood,
Bankrupt.—No. 12. In Bankruptcy.
Notice of first meeting of creditors.
To the creditors of E. W. Black
wood, of Ellamar, in the Territory and
Division aforesaid, a bankrupt:
Notice is hereby given that on the
7th day of November, A. D. 1914, the
said E. W. Blackwood was duly ad
judicated bankrupt: and that the first
meeting of his creditors will be held
at my office in Valdez, Alaska, on the
5th day of December, A. D. 1914, at
ten o’clock in the forenoon, at which
said time the said creditors may at
tend, prove their claims, appoint a
trustee, examine the bankrupt, and
transact such other business as may
properly come before said meeting.
' CHAS. G. GANTY,
Referee In Bankruptcy.
Valdez, Alaska, November 13, A. D.
1914.
Pub. Ndv. 13, 20.
Taxes Due.
Taxes for the Town of Valdez for
the year 1914 are now due and pay
able at my office, in the Valdez Elec
tric Company office, in the Copper
block. Taxes will be delinquent on
Monday, December 7, 1914, at 6 o’clock
p. m. and unless paid prior thereto,
a penalty of 10 per cent, will be add
ed to the amount and interest at the
rate of 12 per cent, per annum.
No interest will be allowed on town
warrants in payment of taxes after
November- 1, 1914.
Office hours: 10 a. m. to 12 m.
and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m., except Sun
days. Dated this 4th day of Novem
ber, 1914. <
E. O. AMES,
Town Treasurer.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
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