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Nome, Alaska, November H, 101«.
A HHVKM'K QUESTION.
The Industrial Worker congratu
lates the workers for the Dry move
ment in Alaska that they have re
duced the saloon arguments to the
simple one of “You need the money’'
Apparently there is to he no denial
of the evils of the saloon: of the
degenerating and degrading effect
of the traffic, hut because this whol
ly evil business contributes its
share towards the maintenance or
the schools, the up-keep of the city
and the general expenses of the
town, the evil however dangerous or
intolerable must be maintained!
In the name of common sense is
that reasonable? If a man steals
the wad of another man, and makes
his excuse to the Judge that Ills
daughter is taking music lessons,
that his house is a mansion requires
many lights, that special fire protec
tion has to erected—would that be
any justification whatever for the
theft of the other man's wad? Yet
if the arguments against the liquor
traffic are admitted, and when you
get down to brass tacks they are be
yond denial, that is what is now put
forward without any tergiversation
in the Nugget editorially of last
Wednesday evening in defense of it
all!
The main trouble with this point
of view is that it Indows the saloon
with a faculty that it does not pos
sess. The saloon is not a productive
industry. It does not add one cent
to the values which it handles. The
money that comes from the saloon,
comes from the community where
the saloon exists. Head that again.
It comes from the community
where the saloon exists. It is mere
ly a roundabout way of knocking a
man down, taking his money and dl
vying up with the city or the gov
ernment a portion of the proceeds.
As a system of taxation it is a crude
farce. As a method of the city se
curing money to run its government
it is nothing short of the acme of in
efficiency.
If the saloons are abolished to
morrow, the source whence the sa
loons made their money would still
remain, and the source whence the
saloons in a roundabout way secured
the money for the city, would still
be here. The saloons are here be
cause this wealth production is
here, and they are parasites upon
that wealth production, legalizing
their parasitism by giving up a little
tax in the form of license.
If the argument is sound that the
saloon evil should be tolerated be
cause the city needs the money, then
the city should get in and license
gambling, prostitution, hop dens and
other vicious institutions to be se
cure in its revenue,
i Chapter seventy-six of the Laws
of Alaska, 1915, is the revenue ere- j
ating act. It licenses many things j
from attorneys to public messengers, i
It does not license the saloon.
The saloon is privileged. While a
bakery pays a federal tax and a ter
» ritorial tax in the form of a license,
the solons did not want to be hard
on the saloonists and let them off.
i We have a copy of the Juneau Dis
• patch of September 6, and that pa
per shows that by the time the le
gislature meets next March, there
will be over a million dollars in the
Treasury; not a bean of it from the
liquor traffic!
We say it advisedly that it was
high time that the entire school sy
stem of Alaska became standardized
and under a territorial supervision;
that it would be better if the muni
cipalities surrendered their mainte
nance of the schools to the Terri
tory, and with one million dollars in
/ the Treasury, it is quite obvious
that this can be done and done ef
. feetively.
The prohibition proposed for the
Territory would go into effect in
1918, and the government of the
Territory has until that time to
make the required school arrange
ments for the maintenance and sup
port all the public schools. This
would eliminate a municipal expense
to the exact amount now paid in by
the saloons of the town, and it
would allow ample funds for the
maintenance of the present extra
vagant, cumbersome, inefficient fis
cal policy of the Nome city council.
When however it is pleaded that
the saloons are necessary because
the city needs the money, it pre
sumes that the saloons are wealth
providers, which they are not. The
saloons, it is to be insisted upon live
off the productive capacity of that
community wherein they exist. Re
move the saloons which are only
taxable because of that which they
annex from the community, the
money formerly annexed by the sa
loon is still remaining with the com
munity and still taxable.
If not, why not?
The saloon business is a delibe
rate extravanganee. God and the
world know that. It conserves, pre
serves and saves nothing. On the
contrary it wastes everything. You
cannot have your cake and eat it,
said the Scotchman, and you can’t
have a ten dollar blow-out and a
twenty dollar jag and have the
twenty dollars at the same time. The
individual members of the commun
ity are impoverished to that ex
tent which they spend in saloons.
Remove this destructively consum
ing, wasting business in our midst,
and surely the wealth of the com
munity is increased, and to that
extent tlje Tommunity’s taxability is
increased.
If not, why not?
The territory taxes an attorney
ten dollars a year. If the attorney
blows it all in the saloon, his tax
paying powers will be reduced ac
. cordingly. So with the community
as a whole but when the saloon is
removed, the tax-paying capacity of
the remainder of the community is
increased by the extent, exactly, not
of the amount which the saloons
had paid, but by ten times more
than that, by the exact amount
which heretofore was wasted in the
saloons. That is to be demonstrated
with mathematical accuracy. It has
been demonstrated by positive expe
rience in every prohibition state
where precisely the same arguments
were used against prohibition before
it passed. It was found that the
tax paying ability of the states,
towns and cities increased in direct
proportion to the saving effected by
the removal of the saloon. Why
the immaculate effrontery, the con
summate gall of any person to argue
that the saloons, as saloons, paid
one cent towards the up-keep of
schools, city or anything else would
only make an impression upon the
man whose Drain is case hardened
against capacity to think. To read
about the revenue producing glory
of the saloons one would think that
money grew in beer barrels and
gold was precipitated in whiskey^
bottles; when the plain, downright,
undeniable, incontrovertible, unan
swerable. unquestionable fact is that
the saloons annex it from the com
munity, reduce the tax paying abil
ity of the whole by the amount an
nexed, and endeavor to make
amends for the general impoverish
ment of the town, by stating, “well
the town ts too poor to keep up the
schools, the saloons will.”
We say the business in this town
that cannot show bad debts because
someone or another spent the money
on rosined beer or squirrel wl'iskey
is the exepetion and not the rule.
That is why with these unpaid bills
hanging around the city hears so
many kicks about high assessment.
The saloon has reduced the money,
available for taxation, and. robbing
Peter, and taking ninety per cent
of it, returns a ten per cent to Paul
and persuades the Peters and the
Pauls that it is the savior of the
community. Was there ever such
mental bewilderment!
Republicans should remember
that the number of Delegates to go
to the next Territorial Convention is
based upon the vote cast for At
torney General.
Do you want Fifty or Ten?—Adv.
Political Cards.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Chas E. Sulzer
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Lena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR ATTORENY GENERAL
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
George B. Grigsby
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR SENATOR:
fiEBnF*?' fflSF’jgfys
Thos. M’Gann
For Re-Election.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR SENATOR:
CAPTAIN
John Sundback
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Victor A. Julien
Election, November 7, 1918.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Charles D. Jones
Independent Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
T. M. Reed
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Andy Anderson
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1919.
FOR SENATOR:
Martin Moran
Election, November 7, 1910.
CITY BATH HOUSE.
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M. O. SOEBERO.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
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Phil. Corrigan
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Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
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Mike Young
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
A. A. Allan
(SCOTTY)
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
James P. Daly
For Territorial Roads. No Poll TaJc
x Enforcement of Territorial Laws.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Nate H. Coombs
t For Re-Eliction.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSIONER
John A. Wilson
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSIOXER
W. J. Rowe
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1016.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSIOXER
Barney Gibney
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Jas. Wickersham
Election, November 7, 1916.
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