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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, November 10. 1Dili.
DRV ALASKA.
As everyone knows at the elec- j
tion, Alaska went dry by an over- |
whelming majority. How many
know the inner history of that dry
movement, how it started in Nome j
and accumulated in strenth all over
the Territory so that the result
could no longer be in doubt?
It is not very long ago in Nome
that a person who opposed the li
quor interests could expect offici
ally to get it where tlie hen got the
axe. But that condition is entirely
changed.
it is worth considering. The dry
movement started among men who
oared nothing very much for the
principle of prohibition in itself, but ;
in order to rid the town of the sa- ]
loon evil.
in the winter of 1914. the Miners
Vnion was on strike for the eight
hour day. During that time a bunch
of scabs in one saloon beat up a
union man and to add Insult to in
jury the police arrested the union
man having been sent for by the
saloonist ' for that purpose. That
matter was duly reported and it was
there and then suggested that in re
taliation the best thing would be to
put the town on the dry list.
Some members of the Miners
that attached to the wqrk, pursued
that cause with perseverance and
intelligence so that its strength
grew amazingly.
There were a large number of pro
hibitionists in Nome, small relatively
to the rest of the population to be
sure, and these had never been able
to voice any agitation would excite
anything but derision. But with
uuionmen lined up on the proposi
tion it assumed another aspect and
the agitation took on a weight in
numbers and authority that led to
final victory. The drys lost out in
the first round, but it was a vic
tory concealing defeat, for the ulti
made defeat was assured for the sa
loons.
The most interesting phase of the
dry movement is the fact that it
was given life by Labor—Union
Labor. It was after it had been
given life by Labor that other fac
tors joined in and drove the cause
to success. Where before it had
been a moribund theory, with the
unionists working with a purpose
and for that end, it became en
dowed with all the vigor of life and
became a certainty. The dry ele
ment in this town however would
never have dared the derision and
attacks and denunciations of the
saloon element had it not
been for the fact that an
unwarranted and- unjustifiable
attack upon union miners hart !
led to the Miners Union taking the I
matter up, and extending a hacking
to those whose spirit was willing
but whose body was weak, made it
a feasible question.
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\ WHY IT IS CLOSE.
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Tire r» 08e vole >n the presidential
election is not berause of anything
wonderfully ^**ferent in Hughes and
Wilson. . '
Before Hughes was nominated
and when he wa* only a possibility,
and when Teddy hah an eye on the
nomination himself. Roosevelt is
said to have declared that a com
petent barber could remove the diff
erence between Hughes and Wilson
in ten minutes".
That being so, and the dear
peepul being called upon to make a
choice, is It any wonder the election
is so close?
In fact the public in this has had
a hard choice to make. When tne
two men are like as two peas, it re
quires considerable head scratching
and ballot scratching to make a de
cision. That is what seems to have
taken place. It was not a question
of deciding which was the better
man, but reaching a conclusion as
to which was which.
There is something consoling
about this condition for the aver
age man. seeing that it was hound
to go one way or another and as
the two are so much alike, it will
make very litle difference either
way. So if it wasn't Hobson's
choice, it apparently is a Barber’s
choice. And what is the difference
except to tiie office holder?
m: \TKN HACK.
As everyone knows the strikers
wore defeated in Bayonne and went
hack to work. They knew they
had lost and their leader Georg
Melelier had advised them to aban
don the unequal struggle.
Standard Oil, the police and gun
men were too much for them. The
police and gunmen served the com
pany exclusively. The strike, the
authorities regarded as a revolt
against their authority. They treated
the strikers as criminals and the
day that the strikers were defeated
they refused to let the Chairman of
the strike committee, see, meet or
attend a meeting of the men. They
told him to get out. The chief ol
police with a gang of armed gun
mon tnM him ♦ n oof mi ♦ thn t ho ho H
no business there. The strike leader
replied that “you have a gun but not
tho law. and I will leave."
More and more frequently do of
ficials high and low constitute them
selves the special guardians of the
special Interests. ,
More and more frequently is the
very suggestion of a strike regarded
as a civic outrage. And those who
are connected with it criminals to
be represside by all the forces at he
command of the state and the na
tion.
It is a reflestion of the economic
supremacy. Against the baron
was against the King, and against
the industrial overlords now is
against the state and nation.
TIMELY SUGGESTION.
While other reverend up-lifters
are concerning themselves with the
poor and lowly as a side order to
their mile post mission to the road
to Heaven, it is mighty few have
thought of the field lying fallow
which might repay cultivation even
in tainted money rewards.
So therefore when Dr. M’Dowell,
a good presbyterian minister, pro
poses to save the rich men, who can
fail to note a rich strike?
The idea is a dandy. There ought
to be lots of money showing the men
of money the right way to get
through the eye of a needly, but
the Itev. M'Dowells will deliver the
goods.
NO PEACE.
The readers of the daily papers
may have entertained a most de
ceiving opinion for the past few days
that there has been no fighting in
Europe. That is merely because the i
general election has been fought in j
the States and the New York press 1
agencies as well as others have been
too busy getting out election pro
phecies. forecasts and political dope
of one sort or another to indulge in
any warring. The great experts
who have been providing battles
for the American digestion have
been on a hunger rest while the po
liticians who have been devising re
publican or democratic victories
usurped them in the pleasures ot [
imaginative vwork. £
Now however that the overworked {
political dopesters will soon be tak- j
ing a rest, the war men will again !
come to their own and bloody bat- j
ties and glorious German or Allied j
victories be the order of the day.
5 i
THE EXODUS.
Yesterday we published two
great passeenger lists, showing that
a very great number indeed are
leaving for the outside. Most of
those are persons who call them
selves Alaskans, and many aro
sourdoughs. They however do not
find Alaska quite attractive enough
in the winter to stay through, and
seek the sunnier and more effemin
ate outside.
Notwithstanding this, it is positive i
that should any person addressing
these attempt to pretend that there
was any place like Alaska, that per
son so claiming would have a ban
half hour.
The long suit of politician' and
office seeker has been the fact that
he is an Alaskan with his home in
the Northland. The glories and the
joys and the pleasures of life in Al
aska are extolled in verbal pigments
of great beauty. And everyone who
hears rises to the occasion with pro
longed and patriotic applause is
deafening.
In point of fact just as soon as a
man makes a stake in this section
of Alaska he manifests an eagerness
to jump out that is quite remarkable
and the man who but yesterday was
denouncing the chechacoes who
came and went with the wild geese
avails himself of the opportunity of
getting out just as soon as the Lord
and his financial means will allow
him. I
There is an immense amount of
bull peddled about Alaska. Life
iiere is not as enjoyable as life out
side is. In Alaska people are de
nied many things that is their privi
lege outside. and although many
have had the call of the wild, rela
tively few stayed with it if they
could possibly get out.
It is true that the man who has
to struggle to exist outside has no
sort of a picnic. And many find the
economic stress in this section less
severe than that of the Outside. A
good many therefore when this
grows too strong after they left Al
aska, get what they call the gold
fever and return to the north. But
they are merely doing the same
thing that the worker does who
quits one job when the labor gets
too strenuous to discover another
which promises to be lighter. Not
that they succeed, but hope springs
eternal in the human breast, especi
ally in Alaska.
Because so many enjoy this perpe
tual hoping, we find that year after
year, despite the small prospects,
so many return. They have no relish
for the severity of the struggle for
existence outside and are usually
glad to get back.
SULZER OU WICK.
While the election of delegate is
almost as uncertain as the Presi
dential election outside, it is very
interesting to observe that the smal
lest victory that Wickersliam has
ever been able to gain has been in
this election even if he does win.
And this is the only election when
the Seattle Post Intelligencer lined
up in his favor.
There have been many peculiar .
things in this election, but how the
Republican National Committee and
the Seattle Post Intelligencer sup
ported Wickersliam and why, are
matters that will have to be explain- j
lie “prevented them putting any
job over" while he was at Washing
ton. __
WILL INVESTIGATE
EVERETT BATTLE
EVERETT, Nov. 10.—Following
the demands of more responsible
citizens of this town who are high
ly incensed over the attack made
upon the arrivals on the Verona,
there is certain to be an investiga
tion which may result seriously foi
the sheriff.
There now seems no doubt that ■
even though this is a prohibition
state all the officials connected with ■:
the attack upon the returning in
dustrialists were as on the previous !
occasion under the influence of ij
booze. 4
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