THE FREE PRESS
An impendent newspaper pub
lished ve kiy at Cushman and
Sixth Street, Fairbanks.
G. H. Herry Editor and Prop’r.
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' Siturd^y March 28.
Iu making our bov to the
people of Fairbanks and vicini
ty we will suy that it is our in
tendon to publish an indepen
dent newspaper in th\e fullest
sense of the word. The columns
of the paper will at all times be
open for the use of the public of
ell the different shades of opin
ion that may be found in any
community. The only^ proviso
we make as to any matter that,
may be submitted to up being
to the effect that we must desline
I 1 •
to publish any article that would
necssitate our taking up a resi
dence where we should be in
ciose proximity to Editor
Klopsch, if for no oth,er reason
than that given, such acondidon
there would be no escape from
the hop dreams and vapcrings
of a diseased mind. There would
be no chance to get away from
H as we have been ahle in past
tunes when he got real had.
While we are publishing this
pup^r it will be free in every
thing else as well as name. By
this we do not mean that
private quarrels of auy
kind can o« airea in this paper;
to the contrary, but we do nean
ll/.at we are not only willing but
glad to publish anything that is
of any interest to the public.
We have no ax of our own to
grind, and we shall certainly re
fuse the use of our columns, to
anyone else for ' hat purpose. It
is our intention, to , enlarge the
paper eoqdder^bly, very soon
after navigation opens and set
erahJeaturep will he a4ded to it
tbat‘we believe will make a hit
with alFcla^es. In tbq moan
time we will do the best we can
and we shall bt( pleased to give
anyone who , disagrees with any
thing that appears in our col
umns, the opportunity to reply
and if thby ar,e able, annihilate
with their polish# rash mortal
who promt; gated false ideas.
And winders w.^11 never cease
Daniel Guggenheim lias come
oui flat fo tel in favor of the
government ownership of rai’
roa YVh\-?~ He says it is be
c use he lias studied the success
fill opperation of the Parceli
Post. This Sort ef talk make
people vvrary. It is highly pro
bable that if Dan wan ed to sell
the government some of his
other junk instead of hie begin
iug of an A1 .skan Railroad, lie
would “l eiit-ve” in the govern
ment ownership of that particu
lar junk that be wants to sed.
i'o the uupredjudiced looker
on !t would seem at if Dan’s
conversion o the idea ofgovern
ment owne h p of railroad- is
entirely to sudden to be sincere
Senator Roden is back in Alas
■•a and evidently is lookine fora
chance to make a good and ea
sy living out of the long<Htfer
ing public. Have the “Guggs'
thrown liim down betatise he
could not deliver the goods.
Hank is in bad. He ca.i’t hand
any more ‘bull con’ to the elect
ors of Alaska, He cau’t get legal
business by the prestige of the
name of Wickershiun on hie
shingle in conjunction with hie
own. He can’t work for the Gng
genheitns, those gentlemen de
mand that they shall get return*
when they spend their coin, and
Hank has fallen down greivous
ly in his effort to doublecross the
people of Alaska. If we take in
to consideration Hfink’s medio
cre abilities it wopld seem that
he has done..faifJy, welj the pest
few rears- The only, tim,e$ he
has been compelled to don his
overalls has beta when he sat in
the Senate or attended a ban
quet. Hank went to Washington
to fight the railroad bill for the
Guggs at "bis own expense’’ and
hen to the Old Country also at
"his own expense.’’ The people
are wise to Hank, and tho best
thing be can do if to ,hike back
to Rampart, use his overalls for
the purpose they were intended,
and try to atone for hie offences
against Alasiia. by endeavoring
to add to the wealth of the couu
tr/.
Light By
Wireless
Ltfptjou, II) is. announcid that
Signor Mare ini nas succssded in
lighting an electric limp by electri
city through the ageuey of wireless
at a distance ol six milt*.
Kelly's Army
At Redding Colifori ia ti e police
hats attempted to solve the unc-m
ployed problem by peudi g forty
unemployed men out of torn un
der the escort of.r t«u p' J;c%men
with shot guns. At Keswick aooth
er delegatieh of poliee with shot
guns refused io let them enter.
Why do they'not kill them and
be done with it?
We feel that these brillie.pt offi
cials have not yet found tha «u
seer to the problem that is bother
ing more able men than they ap
pear to be.
Fun
A not over courteous man sneer '
ringly biktil a «uff. :ireit°,
‘‘wnat would you, vlo if j'ou.jvere
c zei flea.an."
“I don’t know’’ waa tl,e letily
“What wou[d jou do if you were
one.
The best way to get even is to
forget.
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Our Liberties
In Danger
Lena Me r row Lewis.
M^nv people have an idea, that
liberty something t^iat can be
fought for. andi ore*" secured .t
can besnfclvput away on the
shelf and kept as some, preserve
or jelly. The average parson who
thinks this does not as a rule
have anv concept of what liberty
is. He does not hatr»*ny- idea
of the real price that a natjpn or
people p»ys for liberty. What is
even more and they have no eus
picion of the case with w.hjop it
slips out of thoir grasp.
We used to write in our. copy
books at school “E'.ern’l vigi
lance is the nriee of Liberiy.’*
To the ohild mind t - was hut a
jumble of words am. to the ave
rage grown up man and woman
it is still a meaningless expres
sion.
We are taught, in the public
sehoole that lih*rtv..i» the corner
•tone of the, Republie. Here is
safe'y and seeprity. Toihiseoun
try the persecuted and tyrant
ruled of evdry.eountry may come
and find a.hom "The Statue of
the Goddess of 1 ’ty in New
York Harbor shet its beams of
light far out ou t > incoming
ships and to the foi I'gner flee
ing from a cruel Crai1 or a tyrant
King it is a token ef liberty and
I
freedom. In countrier'»ike Ru?
flia tlia m • n ft*1 tPild ]>fO
ts‘ts arainst injtislioe ir tyrany
getsthe hRstile or the prison or
orSiheria if ever tiiW hand of
the Czar is !aid upon him.There
fore to him, America is the land
of 'iberty and freedom, the coun |
try where his foni/est drsams of
truth and justice may. be rea
lited.
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And whi'e th breigner looks
with longing s> »to this land of
freedom and ur own native
born citizens lany of them
shent loud’v for our glorious li
berty, lot acti beholdt we find
these same liberties heing taken
• way. Exrerience has taught
some of u» that liberty is not an
ahatraet thing that remains for
ever intact once it ii secured. T
would tcIf* a hmg colnmn to enu
merate the rights and liberties
that have been tak^n from tbf
people. Some of th*m craftilv
mid subt'y and others boldly and
brut* ly. But it has remained
for the present Democratic Con
gress to passa bill that will ?o
far to destroy our long boasted
claim to be called .he land of re
fuge for theoppreseed and perse
cuted ‘ and the home ef liberty.
The Burnett-Dillingh m hill
provide* that any foreigner- who
has take* active part in «ny rad:
cal or progressive movement for
the overthrow of op ressiou in
hie own country shall be denied
entrance aud admission tocitisen
ship in !his country.
For five years they will be at
the mercy of the po’itical secret
service abroad and the spy sys
tem ofthe Ci isens’ Al'iance ttn<:
Manufacturing Association a'
home.
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We ire getting ready to clasp
han.Is with the bloody Czar. T.i
qner-tion the right of foreigners
I to es a ht-h p. itioal freedom i
and democracy in their own j
countries and *o refu-e citizen-!
ship beoau e of the method.
th< y have been forced to adopt i
has never been done before.
| It take* no prophetie vision b>
S'*e the outcome of such t net
sure at this. Its ultimate mean,
the destruction of the rights and
prtvelege of our own people.
No greater truth wag ev>-r ul
tp~jed than that “E eMial -igi -
lance is the price of liberty.’*
Harness Convicts
To Plow
Scottish conrfcts at the peniten
tiary at Perth are harne.sed to a
plow instead of horses. Tha farm
attached to the pris .n can be set n
frctn the road, ai d it is *a:d that
the convicts reemt the public gaz
ing at them w|ji e they ars eomp«l
led to do sueh work. A correspond
ent who interviewed an official at
the large prison at Glasgow wi3 i
foraoed howeve', that ti.e prisoners
are I. nd qf.the opportunity of open
air work and »o fourteen or fifteen
’onvicts are attached to each plow;
there is no char-e of overwork.
They are f«eo at work by the puh
lie at die Glasgow tenter, said the!
official, .nd rather like seeing the ;
people than otherwi e. No one is a;
lowed otske.n p shots of thr pri
•oners at work.
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Woman Rights
In Turkey
The women of Turkey have ju>t
received perniis ion to attend class
es et the University of Constantino
pie and mil have lectures on a va
riety of subjects including women
rights. The world does move.
Refuses To Pay.
| Dr. Anns H. Shaw, PreeidfLt i f
the National Woman Suffrage As
sociation hae refused to pay her in
enrnt tax. She says women may
make their passive protest and de
cline to aid the government it. levy
ii g taxes upon tnem by refusing to
render an account of their prepe
tv. In this manner we shi w our
loyalty to tho-e who Strug, led to
mare this a free republic and who
laid dom their live* in defence ol
the equal rights of all free citizens
to a voice in their own government
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