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WEDNESDAY. MAY 28th., 1919
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FREEDOM
In the forthcoming special delegate election the people of Alaska are
provided an excellent opportunity to commence the task of ridding the territory
of that, contumacious political organization known as the Democratic machine,
which is industriously seeking to Tuinmany-izo and prostitute the territory
in the interest of a conniving and self-seeking aggregat ion of political para
sites.
The task of breaking up and ridding the territory of the machine is
one that is inevitable if the right minded people of Alaska are to preserve their
self respect and uphold the good mime of the land in which they reside.
tinuc its present practical dominance of Alaska politics is to stamp our
selves as had citizens. To continue allowing the pernicious machine ag
gregation to pollute the territory and control both its political and judicial
machinery is to confess to the rankest corruption and degradation in the con
duct of our political affairs and invite the inference that we ourselves are in
harmony and sympathy therewith. In other words we will ho laying our
selves open to the charge that we are all corrupt and upholders of corruption.
I’.v continuing to harbor the machine gang and to permit it t xploit
the territory, in the interest of its followers and supporters, is to stamp Alaska
as a hotbed of unclean politics and ourselves as careless or degenerate citizens.
from the disgrace of fostering and abetting this contumacious bunch of pol
itical rascals, we must devote ourselves to the task of casting it off and reliev
ing the territory of the stench of its presence.
1 lack in Washington, they have already acquired the notion that. Ala
skans are a doubtful bunch of citizens. We have it on the best authority
that one of the leading executive officials of the Department of Justice an 1
the man who passes upon most of our federal appointments, recently remarked
in substance that the revelations of political ruffianism and moral corruption
revealed to him by the deliberately lying affidavits sent to his department by
Alaskan’s, in an effort t.> oust appointive officials In the interest <»r other
office seekers, had almost forced him to conclude that Alaska must be pop
ulated principally by a lot of horsethieves.
I'-von iiovt vnnr Kiggs in Ills message to the last legislature asserts,
(page S, par. 3) that the impression prevails Outside that Alaska is “a
country peopled with desperadoes, living in huts or dugouts.”
That such impression is unjustified does not relieve the fact that it
exists ami little reflection is required to bring the conviction that it will bo
still further enhanced by permitting the territory to continue under tin* dom
ination of the unscrupulous and corrupt branch of the Democratic party in
cluded in the machine gang. The evidences of political corruption, revealed
in the congressional investigation of the Delegate election of 19H5 almost
reached the proportions of a national scandal and east a shadow sinister over
the- territory that will require years to remove.
If the people of the territory wish to escape continued stigmatization
they must at least make an effort to cast <>ff the political corruptionists.
They will have to do so sooner or later, unless it unhappily be that
they are lost to all sense of shame and decency. And the sooner they com
mence. the sooner will they be relieved of a disgusting presence and again be
aide to live in a clean atmosphere of political freedom. 4
Repudiation of (Jrigsby, the machine candidate, at the forthcoming el
ection will be a step toward that end and a blow at the prestige of the machine
gang which may. if the c itizens exert their manhood and womanhood, lead to
its final dissolution. A vote against Grigsby is a blow for political freedom
and release from the political autocracy established by the machine in a
major portion of the territory while tlu* good people slept in the fancied sec
urity of innocence.
Already the machine gang controls the major portion of the political
offices i*r the territory and through their subservient occupants arc able to
practice every conceivable form of political corruption. The election of
Grigsby, one. of the machine leaders, to represent the territory In congress will
moan that the rule of the corruptionists will be made still more powerful and
the inevitable duty of casting them off one of still greater difficulties.
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE
Small pockets for valuables, intended to bo fastened to linings of shoes,
have been patented.
The government of Venezuela is planning to build a highway 683 miles
hmg across that country.
INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU EXPLAINS METHOD
OF CALCULATING' INCOME TAXES
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. March A (By Mail)- Instruction for retail merchants
on the filing of tax returns and the calculation of tax due, issued today by the
Internal Revenue Bureau, emphasise the importance of accurate book accounts,
particularly for small businesses, as the first requisite in making reports.
Periodical inventories also were advocated strongly.
The bureau suggested this formula for determining the net income of a
retail merchant:
“Add the cost of merchandise bought for sale during the year to the
inventories taken at the beginning of the year. From this sum deduct the in
ventories taken at the end of the year. The balance is the cost of the goods
sold. This cost, plus business, or “overhead" expenses, when deducted from
the gross receipts, gives the correct net income of the business. The invent
ory," the Revenue Bureau statement added, “is fully as important as the cash
account in determining the gain or loss in a retail business.
In making their inventories at the end of each taxable year, retailers
may list the values by either of two methods: (1) the cost of the goods,
|cr (■-’) the cost or market price, whichever is lower. The freight, express,
cartage and storage costs may he added to the cost of each lot of goods.
"Beside the net cost of goods sold, the retailer is allowed to deduct froo
his gross sales for the year the necessary expenses Incidental to the business
No personal, family or living expenses of any kind may be included in such
deductions. The ordinary retailer might have as expense clerk hire, rent of
business property, interest on his business indebtedness, and taxes on his bus
iness and business property. Also, there may he ordinary repairs, had debts
charged off the books during the year: other expenses, such as insurance
light, heat, telephone, feed for delivery horses, repairs and upkeep of delivery
wagons, supplies and upkeep for motor trucks, etc.
"I mler the item, ‘wear and tear*, a retailer may claim reasonable de
'predation on property used in the business. On fixtures the allowance is us
l,ally r» percent or 10 percent of the cost juice: on horses and wagons, 10 per
cent: on motor trucks, 20 percent. *
"The Individual retailer may Like a salary for his services, hut if h*
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