THE MAN WHO WON’T VOTE
BECOMES A MAN “WITHOUT
A COUNTRY
The responsibility of the citizen
of a republic actively to participate
in government was upheld before
Missouri members of the Masonic
Grand Lodge recently, by retiring
Grand Master Mitchell at the one
hundred-and-fifth annual convoca
tion of the lodge held at St. Joseph,
Mo. “The conscience of the Ameri
can people must again be aroused
to the duties of citizenship,” he
told them. “This will insure the
perpetuity of our present form of
government, which has given to us
the greatest liberties of any people
on earth. The American citizen
who neglects to qualify himself to
cast an intelligent vote or who fails
to cast his ballot ceases to govern
himself and becomes a serf, a man
without a country.”
“LOCAL POLITICS
“The so-called ‘Comptroller Bill’
which has made many phases of
administrative work in the terri
tory subject to local politics, and
was opposed by conservative in
terests generally, was defeated
early in the session.”—Pacific Fish
erman.
The Cannery and Trap Men are
thanking Senator John W. Dunn
for the great service he rendered
them in defeating this measure.
This bill, you see, would have
made the Treasurer, Secretary and
Attorney General responsible to the
People of Alaska, which of course
would have been bad, says Senator
John W. Dunn.
Editor’s note: And after seeing
John W. Dunn perform, we are in
clined to believe him when he says
that the People of Alaska cannot
be trusted “on account of politi
cians like Sutherland, Wickersham
and Paul.” The TRUTH is that
John W. Dunn fooled the people
who elected him.)
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WE WONDER
We wonder if the conditions por
trayed by the following news item
taken from the Ketchikan Chronicle
of August 27th last will continue
this year:
Funeral services for Theodore
Tubban, who died yesterday at the
Ketchikan General Hospital, will
he held at 2 p. m. Sunday from the
chapel of Dyer and Marsha under
taking parlors. The deceased was
on his way north to work in one of
the canneries, but was taken off
the steamer at Ketchikan and found
to be in the last stages of tubercu
losis. He was accompanied by his
brother. He had been a student at
the university in Eugene,Ore.
RICHIE SAYS SEARCH OF
CORDOVA B(> AT FOR
LIQUOR UNWARRANTED
Raid was made last Fall by De
puty Marshal Close of Cordova on
the gasboat “Nancy Lee” and sev
eral bottles of liquor were seized.
The “cargo” belonged to Dr. W. W.
if
Council, Frank Cunningham and
George Steele,, “Respectable” citi
zens of Cordova. If these men had
been ordinary “working stiffs,”
what would have happened? But
they are influential citizens and
although they had the whiskey, the
same was not seized “constitution
ally.” It is this class of citizens who
cry loudest against “radicals” and
“bolsheviks.”
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