An Independent Ncwijw'.par. Published Weekly,
V'o . I. FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, --Saturday, March 28, I9I4. Nc, I.
Mexican War
Nearing End
According to late rtpprts t,l).e
Mexican rebei3 will soon be the.
Mexican Government agtd Huerta
will again be a rebel. President
Wilson will in allprobabjlity recog
nize tne labels immediately they
gain. possesAon of ikp Mexican cap
ital.
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Morgan
Withdraws
J. P. Mprg rfi has withdsawn
from the dfrectorates of a score of
railroads and other big co.-(potja
tions. Mr Morgan says that he is do
ing this because ot an ’apparent
change in public sentiment in this
matter.” Meaning that it is begin
ning to not look nice for one man,
to “hog it all ”
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Wilson’s Trust
Message
P-ieddent Wilson's famous irust
message is simply a plea for tLe
small business men. Congress can
no more abolisi} $t,e trust t,h.an she
Qaa turn a hen Into an egg,
Mushers
Detained
Ed. Williams, who came from ;
Tofly to attend the trial of the
Bank against Richards and Wil
liams will return home shortly.
Si Noble had to come ba:K from
Ester on account of the storm.
Dick Ric'naads who is here from
from the outside leaves for ths. low
er riyetiDiB day or two.
That Woman's
Meeting
Bv one ofThem
Lost, Strayed or stolen—the
makings of a large, young Civic
Club. Any person having au
ihentic information regarding
tdie above mentioned c'jiJb will
receive, as a reward, a grateful
smile if he or she will call and
leave said information with the
editor of the Free Press.
Has somebody been practicing
sabotage on the proposed Civic
Club? Has the woman’s move
ment in Fairbanks sjent nts
force? Was the intricate ballot
explained in vain? Was the ini
mitable rhetoric and faulty logie
of a member of the "Alaska Leg,
islation” expended in so perisha
ble cause? Alas, that it should
be so.
But perhaps there is a reason
for this untimely demise. Per
haps the Socialists too* too pro
minent a part: At least two. of
them were present; perhaps
some of the women fear that
iheir obviously dissimilar views
cannot be reconciled., even for
the sake of civic betterment; per
haps some of them are wot yet
sufficiently drilled in the use
of parliamentary law; as for the
rest—most likely their opinion
was aptly expressed by tbe sen
timent uttered before the ad
journment was cold,“I’d rahther
rag."
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Slmshana Falsehoods
s~y.
New York Promoter Are Busy Luring Men To
Alaska By False Stories Of Shushana Riches,
A Now York ' Company is en
deavoriug to tlui best of its abiii
ty to peisuade tile unwary to in
vest in a prope.ty tlyit they say
that they have 1 the Shushana
and which will held fabulous a
mounts in the m'ar future.
The circulars ,lnt they have
sent out ara tissue of lies. If
they uwn any grrund there, in
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(he light which experienced mi|
;
| ne»s have lotd us we can safUy
say (hat it is valueless for placer
mining purposes. These promo
ters ofl'ake wining property in
Alaska are tue worst enemies J
that Alaska has to contend with
and there should be some meth j
od of meting out to these people
the punishment they deserve.
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It is not only (lie fuet that
these leeches rob their dupes cf
thousands of dollars in sin all
sums, but there are other dut>03
who read theso gaudy cireulurs
and come here on a veritable
wild gooso chase. These either
stay and glut {.ho labor Market
or leave the country and knock
us wherever they go
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The Socij >J Will
Hold Massjronference
On Sunday March 29.
The Soeiali of the Tanana
Valley have pr " r—s
for a most interesting confer
ence t'i he held nt HarmonieHall
on Sunday, l e'ginning at 10a.m.
and continuing through the af
ternoon. The morning session
will Ls devoted tcv. a discussion
of the platform ai ^ the consti
tution. In the afte ^ on a mis
cellaneous program ]1 be ren
dered. Articles wil * read ex
plaining the Soeiali* party nie
thodsof work and !°?ichinery al
so on the work of n * woman’s
international Socialist bureau
wdl be read and following ouch
paper will be a short discussion.
Little Margaret \olkmau is ex
pected to recite.
A nu.Tiber of local members
will take part in the program
us well as soure from the sui —
rounding country. The meetings
are open to the general public,
imd those who want to know the
difference between the-Way the
Socclist patty is conducted and
that of the eld parties, will get
much valuable information by
attending the conference. In ad.
dition to the program, Lena
Morrow Lewis will give a short
talk.
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Guess Who I Am
You Dont Have To, I Shall Come
A crain Next Week ,t
if I had a million o’ money
carefully protected from ttfce in
como lax l>y a plutocratic su
preme court, I would prolia.^U'
not be here to enquire whether
you are slaves or sovereigns. And
if you could draw your check for
seven figures, with auv probabi
lity of getting it cashed, you
would not he here to answer.
You’d do just as Dives did, lean
back in your luxurious chair
and absorb yosr sangaree, white
Lazarus scratched his fleas on
your front steps and exploited
your garbage barrel for bones.
You’d turn up your patrician
nose at the lowly proletaire. and
if he did but hint that, having
created this world,s wealth, He
was entitled to something bet
ter than hand-outs, you’d have
an anti-communistic cat-fit and
denounce him as an insolent
hoodlnm who should be comfort
ably hanged. That’s human na
ture to a hair, and you are all
human, I suppose even if the pol
iticians do buy you with gas aud
sell you for gold.
I tell ycu frankly that I’m
complaining, not because of the
oilier fellow’s colossal fortune,
but because I can’t strike the plu
tocratio combination. I’m dread
fully anxious to accumulate a
modest fortune—ot about fifty
millions—that 1 may build a
comfortable orphan asylum for
that vast contingent of democra
tic politicians whom the next
election will deprive of their
‘•pap.”
I
I’in no philanthropist who i3
trying to reform the world fotf
fun of the thing —who is willing
to starve to death for an attrac
tive tombstone. I want to so
change industrial conditions
that I wont have to hustle so
hard and so long between meals;
and when they are bettered lot*
me they will be bettered for you,
and for every man who with piclc
or pen, brain or brawn, honest
ly earns his daily bread.
I want more holidays; raora
time to sltdowa and reflect that
its good to be alive, more time to
go fislmig-not for man, but for
sure-ehough suckers. Here in A.
mciica if the average mortal a3—
pircs-to fill a long felt want with,
firstclass fodder, lie’s got to
chase the almighty dollar on
weekd ays like a hungry coyota
camping on the trail of a corpu
lent Jack rabbit, and spend SuO,
day figuring hoW to cireuinvent
his fellow citizen, bife with tho
American people i» one contirx
uni hurry and rush from tha
cradle to the grave. We’re bora
in a hurry, live by elsstricity
and die with scientifiee expedi
tion. Half of us done take tiraa
to get acquainted with our own
families. We’ve even got to cour
ting by telephone and I expect
to see some enterprising firm
put up lovers’ ktsses in tablet
form, so that they can bo carried
■n the vest pocket and absorbed
while we figure onr per cent ala
i hi ten percent kid or make out
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