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LAW RIDDEN AMERICA
finder the heading “Volstead Act Iniquities in Alaska,”
^ the Juneau Empire waxes wroth. A well-known bus
iness man and respected American citizen of that town
was stopped by prohibition agents recently while driving
from his home to his place of business and his car search
ed, presumably for contraband liquor. No liquor was
found, but the search was thorough and took some time
while the business man was perforce to suffer the indig
nity in outraged silence. Incidentally the “searchee’’ has
a wife and children and a host of friends in Juneau, and
many are the protestations of indignation at this high
handed procedure on the part of the so-called law-enforce
ment officers.
The Empire is fair to state that the United States
Supreme Court had handed down a five to four decision
permitting search of automobiles without a warrant, but
if we recall this matter raised such a storm of protest
against invasion of personal rights, that General An
drews, then chief of the prohibition enforcement division,
issued a general order to all “Prohis” from the bottom up
to lay off the picayunish stuff and leave the harassed
American citizen alone in the enjoyment of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. That was followed for a
while, but it seems they are drifting back to the old
strong-armed methods here in Alaska, maybe because
they are so far from Washington or because the chief of
this division is willing to let them use their own sweet
way.
Ye gods, what a ghastly joke it all is! America estab
lished on the foundation rock of liberty, the most outrag
eously law-ridden nation on earth and the most intoler
ant ! Governed by a huge army of men at great expense,
many of them former law-breakers, with their palms ex
tended behind them, and who take the most vicious kind
of revenge if they “dont get theirs.” All of this vast or
ganization working over a substratum of a lot of “rats”
or stool-pigeons, known as “under-cover” men, the most
dispicable company of near-criminals ever employed to
do the dirty work of any government. The socalled secret
police of Paris and Russia, apparently would not stoop
to some ox the rotten practices of the proud U. S. Gov
ernment’s unprincipled bunch of “under-cover” men.
And what are they trying to enforce? A law, that
vote after vote has shown is not desired and is openly
spurned by a majority of the people. We all know the law
was slipped over on us when we were not looking, in the
hysteria of the early war days, and now they are trying
to shove it down our throats, while respect for all laws
rapidly deteriorates; while the whole police system of
government is being rapidly corrupted and prostituted
and the ordinary citizen subjected to the humiliation of
the most flagrant violation of personal rights in the his
tory of the world. In addition to that we get rotten booze
at exhorbitant prices; bootleggers get rich and spineless
congressmen who drink plenty wet and talk dry, cower
behind an attempted showing of virtue, fearful less an
honest expression of opinion would oust them out of of
fice.
If they can stop your automobile without warrant
why can’t they stop you on the sidewalk and go thru your
pockets? Why can’t they invade your home while you
are away and scare your wife into hysterics? And this
they have done in many places in the States. Is there any
limit to what they can’t do, if this thing is to continue to
be a part of American life ? “Under cover” men indeed!
A fine breed, and rightfully named, who should stay un
der cover and never dare to show their faces in the light
of day. Is it poossible that such a festering sore as this
should be allowed to exist in this land of the free and
home of the brave.
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There is room for thousands of men in the West who
are able to raise money for mining development. The
West needs them. Promoters are necessary for the ad
vancement, prosperity and growth of the Western coun
try.
CHAMBER AWAITING
j mo FROM ORISON
After having forwarded a message
of greeting to Otto Ohlson, new gen
eral manager of the Alaska Railroad,
with an invitation for a banquet here,
the Seward Chamber of Commerce
is now awaiting word from the rail
road official who they tried to reach
on the S. S. Aleutian at Cordova yes
terday. The following is the message
j sent:
| Mr. Otto Ohlson
Care of Purser S. S. Aleutian
Cordova, Alaska
The business men of Seward ex
tend heartiest greetings and welcome
I to the Ocean Terminus of the Alaska
< Railrooad and Gateway City to the In.
Iterior; and to the chief executive of
it he governin'': ;i’s greatest enterprise
i in Alaska our sincere felicitations.
May we anticipate the pleasure of
j having you with us at a luncheon or
I dinner Saturday August eighteenth?
Seward Chamber of Commerce,
Leon Urbach, President
A LAUGH PROGRAM
Douglas MacLean c nr a tea the j
laughs in the seven.reel comedy at j
the Liberty theatre tonight. It’s a
play of marine life full of the most
comical situations both aboard ship
and ashore. There is also a Jimmie
Adams comedy, and a Pathe N‘3ws.
A show just for entertainment.
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Hand-colored Alaska pic
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8 O’CLOCK
ONE SHOW
8 O’CLOCK
THE MAN WITH THE MILLION DOLLAR SMILE
in the side.shaking comedy
is a great comedy of the U. S. Marine ser
staged aboard the battle fleet and ashore
If you want to laugh away your cares see tlhis program
And to add tjo the fun we will give you a two.reei comedy of
JIMMIE ADAMS
ALSO AN INTERESTING PATHE NEWS
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