Yukon Valley News
Issued every Wednesday.
S. E. HKETKR.Proprietor
Sam J. Callahan.Manager
Subscription.—One year, $7.50; six months,
$4.00; one month 75 cents.
\ overt is in (».—Transient advertisements, $1
per inch for hi st inset lion and 50 cents for each
subsequent insertion. Contract advertisements,
to run more than three months, per mouth:
One inch, $2.50; two incites, $4; four inches, $7:
six inches, $8.50; professional cards, eight lines
space, $2. Religious and funeral notices free.
Twelve solid lines small type make an inch.
Advertisements changed without charge.
EXCHANGES IN THE STA TES
Are requested to pay second class postage
from Nov. i to June r.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, I904.
The story of negroes being held
in bondage by State Senator Ft ye,
of Georgia, may or may not be
true. It is plausible and entirely
within the bounds of possibility.
Heredity and environment are the
two prime influences governing
the actions of men. With Senator
Foye there would he no inherited
abhorrence of slavery; and Ins en
vironment is favorable to the story’s
truth. In his vicinity the specta
cle of the State convicts, most of
whom aie negroes, being driven
abroad by armed men to work in
the turpentine woods, is for more
brutalizing than private slavery.
Escaped convicts are frequently
chased by hounds and occasionally
shot and killed in sight and hearing
of the populace. Boys under 18
are—or at least were—often em
ployed as guards.
“The cry of Canada for Cana
dians and the anti-American hue
and cry raised in the Yukon to
cover up official misdoings is be
ginning to show its efTect,'’ says
the Dawson News. “The 'reptile'
Americans are moving into their
own country again by the shipload.
Unless something can be done to
make these people feel more wel
come and to guarantee their rights,
there will 1-e eventually none left
in the Yukon but Britishers.’' The
foregoing is not quoted in order to
aid to the smart ot dissatisfied
Americans coming ln.ru the British
side of the boundary, hut the
question intrudes itself. How long
will it be before similar dissatisfac
tion ari.-es among the la-ge number
of Ameiican citizens who arc buy
ing farm- and settling in the north
west provinces ot Canada * It is
altogether unlike)v that they can
long remain contented there as
aliens. It is equally improbable
that many will swear allcgieme to
the British crown An American
citizen will scarcely take kindlv to
a ktug. especially when separated
trum biru tv the An eilean conti
nent and the Atlantic ocean ''Cod
>ave the King" would indeed be a
new song in hU mouth, ansi it will
tie mane a day before he learns t.
sing it
GAMBLING.
On the stage or in the printed
page one scarcely ever sees a pro
duction that even seems to aspire
to the truth about gambling. This
is remarkable and indeed unac
countable, unless, perhaps actors
and writers possessing the experi
ence necessary for a correct pre
sentation of the subject wish to
disguise the fact by feigned ignor
ance. Here is a sample, taken
from several magazine articles on
the subject. An English statisti
cian, of more or less renown (Mul
h.ill), has stated that—
The total money squandered on the turf
and at the card table in the past hundred
years is no less than $15,000,000,000.
He estimates the total in gold to equal
in weight 66,000 race horses. It would
require ten strong locomotives to pull it.
“A century’s betting money would form
a rectangular column 10 feet square and
more than twice as high as St. Paul’s
cathedral ” Invested, the sum would
have yielded $450,000,000 a year.
Unanalyzed, these stupendous
figures would have the effect—as
they v.c-re doubtless intended—of
deterring a certain kind of people
from lisking their money at gam
bling. The timid, conservative
young man entering on a career
which he desired to safeguard in
every manner possible, if he heeded
the figures at all, would he im
pressed alone by the great risk in ■
gambling. But the bold, self-con
fident youngster, ambitious of
money' getting and eager to try his
strength with the strongest—would
not l.e be justified, by the figures,
in concluding that where the un
successful lose such prodigious sums
the successful must necessarily se
cure great gains? Would not these
very figures furnish a strong in
centive for him to gamble?
But the figures are fallacious—
utterly foolish and without value
one way or the other. The cost of
gambling can not be estimated like
the ci st of food or clothing or
dtink. because the money involved
is not consumed, but merely chan
ges hands and remains the same
active factor, ready to undergo the
same process again and again in
definitely. In ci mparatively insig
nificant gambling a man might
both win and lose in ten hours—
countii g each time he had ’action"
on his iooiuv $10,000. and at the
ei d of that time fa* not, on an av
erage, exceeding $100 winner or
loser. W uld the statistician base
his figures on each turn of the
w heel, each deal of the cards * It
MH, at what stage oi the process
world he begin * The truth is, the
ntnn *t »n\ statistician can do to
ward estimating the la* at vam
bling is to compute the time wasted
and then eakn’ute the money value
cf the time. In the general ece.» •
my that place* gambit g on ■■»ictlv
the same looting a* arty other
[ amusement or non-productive oc
cupation.
Another error is the often-heard
declaration that gambling is dis- j
honest. Always preserving the
broad distinction between gambling
and swindling, gambling transac- j
tions rank among the most honest!
of man’s dealings with his fellow
man. When meti gamble their ob
ligations to each other are better ;
understood and more seldom vio
lated than in most of the ordinary j
affairs of life.
Also, like other competitive
amusements and pursuits, gam
bling develops certain faculties of
the mind. Gamblers are not only;
generally good judges of human!
nature, but think coherently and!
reason logically on matters coming \
before them.
And yet gambling is monumen- i
tally and eternally wrong ! Con-;
sidered as business or pastime, the;
man who engages in it c*u not
succeed except by the failure of
someone else. His access is an-1
other’s downfall; his pleasure is
another’s pain. There is a great
moral law as unalterable as the
will of God that a man must do !
good unto others in order to do good I
unto himself. In business the man
who can advance the welfare of j
many will achieve both riches and
contentment. The only real joy in j
the world is in giving joy.
There are many good and hon
orable men who gamble. But all
of them would be better and more !
honorable if they did not. Some !
ol them love and are loved by their
wives and children, and find hap-!
piness in ca 'ing for thtir families;
but there is not one but who would
multiply his own and his family’s
happiness by gambling no more.
Grover Cleveland teems to l>e com
ing into public notice again. His name
gets into the papers quite often: before
the meeting of the St. Louis convention
some of them hinted that he would like
the nomination. Now Democratic lead
ers of Chicago have invited him to take
the stump in Illinois for Parker. If Mr.
Cleveland accepts the country will be
treated to some campaign utterances of
a high order, for he t» really one of the
brainiest men of the times. But unless
the people have experienced an unac
countable change of heart the well
rounded sentences of the ex-presiden‘.
will not meet with a hearty popular re
sponse. At one t<me Cleveland was
almost great. But hi** hold on the people
slipped snd people everywhere asked
themselves what the' had ever •wen in
the maa to merit confidence. An inci
dent occurred at lHiwton four years ago.
There was some itjtpmimdu festivities by
Americans and the relative merits of sev
eral presidents were discussed. * Well/*
said sttf, "we can thank God that thee
were alt Americans ami alt gentlemen **
"That ta true with one possible excep
tion/* sa d mo ll r Nsine the escep
Hon " "I doubt if 4.-over Cleveland
could property be called a gentleman
"Ah. well, it is not good to go too much
into ‘letail Let ns all drink to th«»*e
honorable later*** g« atlemen wh»* have
filled the exalted aomtioa d president s(
the t'nitnd fitatea.
LOUIS K. PRATT,
Attorney at Law,
Fairbanks, Alaska
J. LINDLKI ORKKN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms i and 2, Courthouse
The Boston Store
Our Mr. P. KAFFENBURGH is
now in the States selecting the
season’s stock.
It will be complete, as it has
always been.
I. KAFFENBURGH & CO.
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To oncl From All
tlie CreeUs.
Good Teams. Good Service
In the Probate Court for Rampart Precinct,
Third Division, District of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of James M. An
drews, deceased.
|VJ OTICE is hereby given that I. George A
* ' Carl, was on tlie 26th day of August, 1904,
appointed Administrator of the estate of James
M Andrews, deceased, and all creditors of said
estate arc hereby notified to file their claims
with me, properly sworn to. at my place of
business a*. Tatiana, Alaska, within six months
after the first publication of this notice.
First publication August 31st, 1904
GKO A. CARL.
Administrator.
Dorr and O'Brien, editors of the
Minila Freedom, were convicted of
criminal libel. Their demand for a jury
trial w-rs overruled, and thev appealed to
the supreme court, which has decided
against them. Justice Day delivered the
opinion, in which the chief justice and
Justices Brewer, Pickham and Holmes
concurred. No statute expressly grant
ing the right of jury trial in the Philip
pines, is such trial a necessary incident
of judicial procedure there f If it were,
said Justice Day, or congress were ob
liged to establish it immediately by
affirmative legislation in outlying terri
tories of the I'nitrd Slates, "it would
follow, no matter what the needs or ca
pacities of the people,” that trial by jury
must at once established, although it
might work injustice or cause disturb
ance. justice Harlan, d ssenting. says
that *'»t is now adjudged" that the con
stitutional } envisions* to Iris) by jury
"is not fundamental in respect of ten
millions of human being* over whom the
t tilted States may exercise flee )wrtsdlc
t ion '1 The suggestion that a Kiloptno
mas. if he is convicted of murder he
hanged without trial h* sure, “is utterly
revolting" to justice Marian's mind tie
hruta that the opinion of the majority of
the court "pin, s hasoc with the ski
fashioned eleaa of the fathers •*. Users
hadv'x Mag asms (b« Vrgost