condition is there and not one can thruthfully
deny it, not even Rev. Van Marter, notwith
standing his famous telegram denying these
conditions.
This condition is true in every large town
in Alaska.
In addition to this liquor can be purchased
with the greatest ease by any person who wants
it in any town in Alaska. Then' are places in
Ketchikan and Wrangell and Juneau and Cor
dova and Valdez which are notorious for this
crime, and they have every appearance of being
protected by officers who are sworn to enforce
the law.
ALASKA JUNEAU MINE
A friend of ours informed the late prohibition
director for Alaska that he had discovered the
booze joint that was 'dispensing liquor to the
Alaska Juneau Mine and offered to make the
required affidavit. But did the late prohibition
director raid the place? No sir, the place is
there yet and operating. Tell the ministers of
Juneau who say that Sutherland is a liar and
rottenness does not exist to leave their warm
studies for two hours and use their eyes and
their ears and they will see things that are
rotten.
What is the matter? This is a fair question.
The matter is that officials are neither appoint
ed nor elected because they intend to ENFORCE
the law. They are appointed or elected because
their jobs are important to the political organiza
tion.
The law can be enforced.
If we were the governor of Alaska, we would
give no printing job to the Juneau Empire until
its editor and associate editor quits breaking
the prohibition laws. In this we would ask
the cooperation of the Secretary of Alaska’s
office, and the Treasurer.
We would say to the United States Marshal,
either enforce the law or get out, and they
wouljd get out too by the eternal God! We
would kick V. A. Paine out of his office as
United States Commissioner at Juneau and put
a man who honestly intended to do his duty.
Imagine his fining a Filipino $1 who plead guilty
of debauching an Indian girl for almost one
week with liquor.
If we were the United States District Attor
ney, we would have moved for the impeachment
of Tom Torrey, the mayor of Ketchikan who
stated before the most respectable ladies of
Ketchikan that “he had his liquor every day and
did not care who knew it, and further that he
intended to continue that practice.
The city police of Ketchikan woilld do theit
duty or they would have to go to work, and
they would not be hindered by a wet council
either.
The reason the law is not enforced is because
the enforcement of the laws of our country is
in the hands of the ENEMIES of the laws.
The time for good citizens to revolt against
these conditions is AT HAND. The work can
only be done with the BALLOT.
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SENATOR REED OF PENNSYLVANIA
is much disturbed because the people of Wash
ington, D. C. are paying $14 and more per ton
for coal, and insists that there is a way to get
coal to the consumers for $6.50 per ton which
he says is a reasonable price.
Now Mr. Reed, we would like to say to you
why don’t you feel sorry about resident Alaskans
who have to pay $18 and more per ton at all
times, not just the time when the miners of
Pennsylvania are on a strike, altho the coal
mines are within 400 miles of Ketchikan.
The lack of progress in Alaska is largely due
to the “absent treatment” given us by Congress.
WHAT AILS ALASKA
The government’s policy of charging Anchor
age merchants as much postage to send a parcel
to the nearest postoffice in Alaska as it does
a New York mail order house to send a similar
parcel to the most remote office in the Territory,
is only one angle of federal unfairness toward
Alaska.—Anchorage Times.
The above explains the disease known as
“What ails Alaska.”
WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION IN
SURANCE
The Industrial Commissioner of South Dakota
has just issued the eighth annual report of
operations under the compensation law of that
State for the year ending June 30, 1926.
Perhaps no State has such a restricted com
pensation administration as South Dakota. It
“maintains its department so far with the
commissioner and one stenographer with a small
sum for additional clerk hire at times of rush.”
As a result of this system the 4,535 accidents
reported during the year ending June 30, 1924,
have cost $4,642.29, “or just a shade over $1.20
for each claim.” It is recognized that earlier
settlements might in many cases be secured if
an assistant were provided to make investiga
tions and fielp in the administration of the act,
according to the Monthly Labor Review.