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SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 11, 1!>17 j
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THE PROHIBITION Ql/ESTION IN ALASKA i
(Juneau Empire)
Delegate Wickersham’s answer to the vote ol the
people of Alaska on the prohibition question should be an {
earnest effort to secure for the Alaska Legislature the
power to pass the necessary legislation to give expression
to the popular will. This could best be secured by the
passage of a full Territorial form of government meas
ure, so that school questions, municipal questions, fisher
ies questions, questions of taxation and all other matters
could be settled by the people. It would be far more satis
factory than the transference of self-government to the
fli p’itory piecemeal, it would make it so that the people
could regulate all the matters requiring regulation in
such a manner as to make legislation harmonious and co
operative. There are so many things involved in the set
tlement of any one of these questions, which organic act
limitations have kept out of the hands of the people ot *
Alaska, that power to act over all of them is needed in
order properly to act on any one of them.
For instance, questions ot* revenue and taxation and
governmental police powers and consequently, questions
of schools and roads and other matters, which are effect- [
ed by revenue and taxation problems, are involved in the
wet and dry question. All the activities and (unctions ot
government are so closely affiliated by a sort ot dove
tailing process that all are involved to a greater or less
extent in any one of them. Properly to regulate all these
matters and to make the regulations equitable would re- ]
quire all the powers of local self-government that people .
of the States exercise and that those of other Territories |
have exercised.
It would be a lot better for the people of Alaska to
prepare and enforce a prohibition law than to have the
Federal government do so. We are already crying aloud
against tov> much Federal government and not enough ,
Tmitorial government in Alaska, if the Federal gov
ernment should pass a prohibition law, and provide the
machinery to enforce it, it would mean another Federal
body interfering in local matters. It would make matters
worse rather than better.
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Ibis illustrates way lne umpire ueiieveu-mai me
prohibition question was thrust into local matters too
early. It illustrates why The Empire believed that the
people should have been granted the power to control
local matters before any more perplexing problems were :
enforced to the front. The Empire has always favored (
Territorial control of the liquor question as well as all j
other local questions. It has only desired that people pro
ceed about it in logical and orderly manner. It has urged j
that the power to act be secured before taking up the j
manner of action.
However, the fact that the people voted on the ques
tion of prohibition first has not changed the situation ex
cept to indicate the manner in which the people of the
Territory would likely exercise power to control the li
quor proposition if they had it. It is generally conceded
that the election was but a straw ballot indicative of the
conditions of public opinion. It is also generally conceded
that the Territorial Legislature has no power to give force
and effect to the expression of the popular will. It is ad
mitted that there is only one of two ways to proceed. The '
one way would be for Congress to pass a prohibition law
and provide for the manner of its enforcement, and the
other would l>e able to give the people of the Territory i
power to act. The Empire favors the latter course, and,
for the reasons stated, it believes that it should come in an >!
full Territorial form of government Hill so that all the
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legislation with reference to this subject, and the legisla- r,
tion that would be required because of the collateral ef- g
fects of such legislation on other matters, might be har- 2
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Service Best Liquors
Cigars
Pool and Billiards
Cafe and Lunch Counter in
Connection
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THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER
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Dentist
Phones:
Office: Madison 7(>
Res. Madison 58
Office over Bank of Seward
HOl'RS: 9 A. M. TO 3 P. M.
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OFFICE FOURTH AVENUE
Phones:
Office Adams 93
Residence Adams IS
Hours: 10 to 12 a.in. 2 to 4 p m.
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Houses for Rent Rents Collected j
Lots for Sale Large Listing
'hone Red 117 Seward, Alaska;
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Shower Baths
Ladies Shampooing
Hot and Cold Baths Always Ready
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ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and retail dealers in
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■ overs of Metal, llubber, Ma ni la Dope •
Sacks, Machinery, I’ipe, Hides,
Furs and Hot ties
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THE “KEY”
We have just received a stock of
Gauze and other Masques- -many
different caricatures.
Have a few choice boxes of’ Orange Blossom
candy left.
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ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBEN, Manager
-Dealers in
COAL, WOOD AND ICE
GENERAL TRANSFERRING Phones, Main 17 and 11
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E Sailings from Seattle to Seward
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E Steamers
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with tires since our arrival in Seward, we are still deter- 8
mined to stay with the city and give the people of Seward g
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WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, Etc. I
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ARE NOW IN OUR NEW HOME 8
In the Ashland Block, corner of Broadway and Railroad 8
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honest merchandise. We permit no misrepresentations. 8
And we stand back of every guarantee we make.
Get our prices. >'
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E. L. WHITT EMOIIK, Proprietor
Headquarters for Minins Men
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HAPIIMKSA Dec. 16 Al \AU.PA, Jan 12
Thereafter Maripo>n and Alan-da will alternate on
>ailings from Seattle ot the l>t. Mh. Idtli and iM’h of
' each month. The\ will touch at K* tch kan. 'I hat e. Juneau and Dr nee
William Sound port.*• Dorn *ails westward after arri\al of steamer
leaving Seat t le on the si h of tie non I h.
<--/ Bight r‘served to change 11»i-* schedule without notice“V*>
F. B. TKACY, General Agent A. II. McDoNALD. Age?l
Incorporated November 11)03 under the Lavs of the Territory of Alaska
|i S. M. (IK \FE, President and (lenrral Manager
Contractors and dealers in Electric Supplies and Apparatus
Ofliee; At the Station. TELEPHONE MAIN 12J
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Door:; &. Windows
Land's I lanyes
I XL Parlor Heaters
Gasoline Stove?
Cook Stove?
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Air Ti'/iit Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Pi Hu’s
Jump Coils
Batteries
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Ashesti i?
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Maithoiti Kooj’me
Tar Paper
Deafenine felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Ku.'ine * Ml
Marine Knirine OL
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Kioor < Mi
Linseed < >;'
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1 ’aims
Laequeret I *:?int
Aspiia r m I’adit
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpent iae
Japan
Denature! \,v- h<v
(’ual Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
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£ 2
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| Are made from SEWARD to many Eastern Cities |
To get benefit of reduction tickets must be purchased with
S Steamship Ticket
Full information and tickets from A. II. McDonald, Alaska
Steamship Co., Wayne Blue, Admiral Line
A. S. DAUTRICK, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent,
2 Room 18, Valentine Building, Juneau.
£ T. J. MOORE, City Passenger Agt., Second and Columbia, Seattle. 2
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