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OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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TEMPERANCE, NOT PROHIBITION
It requires no careful rehearsal, no studied inter
mingling of pathos, bathos and blue fire to demolish the
prohibition fallacy. Prohibition cannot withstand the
light of logic, the lessons of experience, nor the crucible of
the commonest kind of common sense.
Liberty is ever won by volunteers; the shackles of
political and religious slavery are forged by the hands of
hirelings.
Whenever a man opposes the plans of the prohis’ he
is denounced as an enemy of morality or a slave of the
wets. The alleged reformers are such for revenue only.
It is noticeable that those who oppose prohibition are,
as a rule, the solid substantial citizen, the heavy tax payer,
upon whom the State 01* Territory chiefly depends for
support.
On the other hand, the majority of those who cham
pion prohibition, especially from the rostrum, are usually
living in some way upon the industry of others.
The statistics compiled by the drys are fearfully and
wonderfully made.
The Gateway editor does not oppose prohibition be
cause of an appetite for liquor, but because he is against
a race of bondmen, and for the perpetuation of those prin
ciples that ennoble a people and make manly men—men
who rely on themselves for social salvation rather than
upon a changing public policy.
The thesis of the prohis’ is simply this: “Some men
drink to excess; therefore no one should be permitted to
drink at all.”
So for many, many years .now, instead of good liq
uor, we have coffin paint and 40-rod bug-juice to drink.
Certainly liquor has done a lot of evil but never such evil
as has cast its grim shadow over these “Ginited” States
since the prohibition laws went into effect.
The Bible bids the people to be temperate in all things.
Let the prohis’, bible students, ponder well the preceding
sentence.
Year-round operation of a cannery at Cordova, pack
ing clams, crabs, salmon and shipping fresh fish, is the
sort of local industry which will build Alaska towns.
Forty-five million people have gone in the hole in
New York City in eight months. Ticket No. 45,000,000
for the Holland Tunnel has just been issued.
It appears these U. S. Ambassador posts are not such
easy berths after all, judging from the way they are being
knocked down and dragged out in Japan and Abyssinia.
Of all the wretchedness in this world, the most diffi
cult to discover and the bitterest to endure is that of the
respectable middle-class, the better class of citizens, for
when they fall into poverty they make it a point of honor
to conceal it.
Judging from the way the country has gone to the
bow-wows since the prohibition curse fell over the nation,
people have been drunker than ever.
What frequently passes for religious fervor is but a
disturbance of the mental equipoise, or derangement of
the nervous system brought about by preaching partisan
politics and religious “revivals.”
A lot of respect foreign countries have for American
officials and citizens—nit! Moral: Stay in the U. S. A.
and do your traveling.
Admitting that there may be nothing in a name, we
pass on Pathfinder’s tip that George Nutt is in charge of
the state school for feeble-minded at Faribault, Minn.
They call Juneau the seat of the Territorial govern
ment, meaning probably, the proper place to register your
kicks.
CONGRESS MBS OUT
! LEGISUTiVE GRIST AT
PROLONGED SESSIONS
, WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, —The
| House continued its efforts to build
I up the American merchant marine
; by acting on legislation introduc
j ed by Representative O'Connor of
| the U. S. Shipping Board commit
i tee.
The agriculture committee in- j
l troduced a measure to regulate
short selling of farm products.
The judiciary committee, hold
ing hearings on the Andrew Mel
lon impeachment charges, have re
quested Mr. Mellon to furnish the
committee a list of all his stock
holdings in conrjection with the
charges.
In the Senate a judiciary com
mittee began an inquiry into the
fitness of Federal Judge James
Wilkerson, of the Chicago federal
court, to preside as Supreme Judge
of the Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals. Judge Wilkerson was re
cently appointed to this latter po
sition because of his work in con
nection with the prosecution o f
Capone gangsters.
TO BE EXPECTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19, — j
Final action of Patman’s resolu-1
tion seeking Mellon’s impeach-1
ment postponed indefinitely by the j
House judiciary committee. This j
action was explained that it did j
not mean the case was dropped but j
awaits future consideration.
HUNDREDS CHINESE KRE
KILLED NEW OFFENSIVE |
BK JAPANESE ARMY
MUKDEN, Jan. 19, —Official re- j
ports reaching here say that the i
Japanese army has killed hundreds
of Chinese bandits in retaliation
for recent Chinese victories over
Japaneses forces last week.
General Honjo, in charge of the
Japanese military operations in
the Manchurian chase, made the
statement that a terrific drive is
made necessary to drive the ban
dits out. f
A new group of Chinese war lords
| has arrived here and are looking
!to the establishment of a Man
churian state free from China.
! SMALL BOAT UPSET i
OFF ill COAST .11
10 IN DROWN
__ i
I I
j MIAMI, Jan. 18. (JP)—'The hero
|ism of a woman m a boat mishap
(off the Florida coast near Miami
was revealed here when Mrs. O. C.
Carrie was landed here,
i She was one of the occupants in j
I a small boat which was enroute j
| here when the vessel capsized some j
! distance off shore. The two men j
who were also aboard were unable j
to swim and Mrs. Carrie succeed- ;
ed in securing hold of one of the
men who was clinging to the up
| turned water craft and set out for
the shore which was several miles
away. However, on her long swim j
j she lost her hold and the man she j
was towing became a victim of the
| ocean.
i Mrs. Carrie succeeded in reach
! ing the beach and when she was
found she w’as in a very exhaust
ed condition.
Ray Russell, young man employ
ed at the Babcock and Downey
mine at Nuka Bay, is a returning
passenger on the MS Rolph leaving
Seward tomorrow for the camp.
Capt. Pete Sather, of the MS j
Rolph 111, announces thafhe will!
leave tomorrow morning for Nuka j
Bay. He is remaining in port t o j
aw'ait the arrival of mail on the SS j
Victoria.
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WILL ROGERS
Supported by a Fine Cast in the
Great Super Comedy
‘A Connecticut Yankee’
(IN 11 REELS)
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MARK TWAIN
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HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM JANUARY 30—FEBRUARY 1
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E. M. RALLSTON.
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CLARENCE VAN DUSEN
DICK DONNELLY.
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.E. L. SWEEK
LEONARD HOPKINS
.QUENTIN SMITH
... JOHN NELSON, JR:
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... MRS. F. E. LESLIE
EDITH KAEMMER
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.ANNIE HORTON
.DORIS SULLIVAN
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