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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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WAS WASHINGTON WRONG?
Despite the fact that there remains a vivid back
ground of precedent born of experience, succeeding gen
erations are productive of those who believe that these ex
periences, being of an earlier age, do not fit the everyday,
affairs of men, and wish to scrap them and substitute
therefor expediencies having nothing more than specula
tive inquisitiveness to recommend them.
This spirit is in evidence in the Territorial House,
where a few astute parlamentarians are endeavoring to
rush through a Comptroller bill, which, according to those
in a position to know, differs little from the one killed in
the Senate.
Ordinarily, and according to precedent in legislative
bodies, this rejection by the Senate of the bill originating
in that body would have been the end of the matter. Yet
the House, which is considered in political society as in
ferior to the Senate, insists upon forcing the upper body
to reconsider the Comptroller bill through instructions
from the House and not through a motion by a member
of the Senate who voted negative in its consideration.
This is the usual parliamentary procedure with re
spect to such matters—a member voting with the majori
ty mav move a reconsideration.
However, there appears to be those in the House who
believe they mav camouflage the bill and secure its ac
ceptance in the Senate.
This die-hard spirit of the House is claimed to be pro
ductive of knowledge that the voters wish such a bill
passed. Nothing short of a plebiscite of the people can
confirm this position. This has not been taken. It would
seem that if there was sincerity in the action of the House
members, this matter would have been attended to when
the votes were e^st for members of that bod^. Why did
the sponsors of the Comptroller bill wait until just before
the Legislature assembled to spring it?
The Comptroller bill aims at changing the Constitu
tion of Alaska, the Organic Act.
Forseeing just such a contingency, George Washing
ton, in his farewell addess to Congress propounded this
warning:
(The Constitution) ’till changed by an explicit
and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obliga
tory to you all. * * Let there be no change by
usurpation, for this in one instance may be the instru
ment of good, it is the enslaving weapon by which free
governments are destroyed.”
How well the master mind saw into the future and
was' possessed of uncanny powers of penetration into
the wiles of the demagogue.
The Comptroller bill accomplishes just what Wash
ington warned against—usurps power of the people with
out having been submitted to them for ratification. It
seeks to change the Organic Act when that power rests
solely with Congress.
Such matters belong, logically, to the duties of the
Delegate to Congress The originator of the Comptroller
bill knew this when he presented the Organic Act.
Why try to deceive the people by claiming virtues in
the act that do not exist? Why claim it is the mandate of
the people, when they have overlooked the opportunity
of securing expression of the popular will?
Whose counsel is best, that of him who was the archi
tect of America and her institutions, or that of those who
seek to usurp the powers of popular government by the
very acts Washington warned against?
If Wilkins and Eielson will just tell us how far the
Arctic circle has moved south since they started out ta
explore the blind spot we'll know whether to dig up the
mukluks and parkas or hunt for B. V. D.s.
Among the imports from theArctic which we are
willing to do without is the overplus of wind. Boreas
might give the Russians a little attention.
A fisherman is happiest when he finds the “line busy."!
n SENTENCE OE
DEATH IS PROTESTED
FIFTY SPEAKERS URGE NATION
AL STRIKE UNLESS SENTENCE |
IS REVOKED
NEW YORK, April 19. (/p)—Ten J
thousand persons in a rally protested 1
against the death sentence for Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Fif
ty speakers urged a national strike
unless the sentence of the two radicals
convicted of murder was revoked.
A mass meeting endorsed the strike
threat and voted a resolution demand
ing early aid for the doomed men.
ADMIRAL [VIS ARRIVES
IN PORT FROM SOUTH
The S. S. Admiral Evans, of the
P. S. S. Co., Capt. Giljy, in command,
arrived in port from the South at
11:30 o’clock this morning, The voy
age north was good no bad weather
being encountered anywhere. The
Evans is discharging over 300 tons
of general cargo of which 100 tons is
billed to the local plant of the Stand
ard Oil Company, over 100 tons for
rail points and about 75 tons for lo
cal business houses. The steamer
will depart for the Westward at
about midnight.
Incoming arrivals were as follows:
Albert Stohlton, Mr. and Mrs. Art
Sahuzuk, R. Loughlin, H. A. Parker,
M. Furger, H. W. Alberts, Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Masterson, Mrs. Sledge,
L. W. Johnston, C. D. Brown, Hans
Leechman, Louis C. Doren. P. Voso
gies, Phil Miller,. Herman Krieger.
Einer Lehtc, John Cavallo, A. D.
Campbell, John Sullivan, Lloyd Stout,
Victor Swanson, John Svedin, John
Anderson.
TWO MORE TANK CARS
Two tank cars are included in the
j tonnage aboard the S. S. Tanana, of
the A. S. S. Co., which was due to
arrive in port this afternoon at 4
o’clock. The tank cars, billed to the
Standard Oil Company, brings the
total number in. service to five. The
Tanana has an approximate 700 tons
of general cargo for discharge here. !
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Strictly fresh candies. Sehallerer’s
Alaska Shop.
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8 O'CLOCK — ONE; SHOW — 8 O'CLOCK
After a long absence we have that great star
Thomas Meighan
“THE MAN WHO FOUND HIMSELF”
The Story Written by
BOOTH TARKINGTON
Especially for Meighan
A famous author, writes a play for a famous actor,
and the combination will sure please you
We need say no more about that
There will be a beautiful Pathe Review
AND A FABLE REEL
On Our Shelves
NEW STOCK OF OLYMPIC ASTOR DINNER
WARE
This is a beautiful pattern of vejy moderately priced
dishes—32 and 42-piece sets; also open stock*
A NICE LINE OF TABLEWARE
We can now fill all yours orders for hardware
• ....Our grocery department was never as complete
as a present.
.Mefford’s and Long’s Alaska ranch eggs arrive
twice each week.
WE FEATURE THE FOLLOWING BRANDS:
Swift’s Premium Ham and Bacon—White Nugget
Eggs—Gold Nugget Butter—S. and W. Canned
Goods—Hills Bros.’ Coffee—Carnation Milk.
Seward Trading Co.
Inc.
For courteous service phone Main 135, day or night.
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SEWARD, ALASKA
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