NORTHERN LIGHT
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1C. E. Van Ness Editor
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ELECTION AND EDTY
To: tv lour votes ueie cast in
mal tkleet. v!mv.U three fourths being
native votes.The 1 esnlts of the elec
tion are ; Wicke: sham 27,Me Gann 2.;.,
Daly 7S,Grigs! y 72,Wibon 7,7.
The issues as follows: Dry 40, Kight
hour law 77. No political meetings
were held prior to election, and the
scattered vote for other candidates
would indicate that every one voted,
as they chose. Why then did so many
votedi v/’ 'Pile Northern Light may
have had some influence, anal again
the spirit of prohibition being world
wide has and does prevail here, hut
chiefest of all the causes for the dry
votes were two men who have spent
part of the fall in the village.
Thev were not orators.They held no
street meetings,but both in early life
acquired the habit for shot g diii k.
both slaves to the tyrant,King Alco
hol,both knew too well of its settle
power,and being men k n e xv that
their safety lay in keeping away from
the stuff. We heard one say,in sub
stance,the following; “iieie > on ka\ e
a village of some 200 with no jail nor
saloon.had there been a saloon it is
likely that both my friend and my
self would have been in jail before
this. ”
Another time we heard this, “when
I landed in .Seattle, and started to
the hotel if there had been a saloon
handy no telling where I would have
turned up. That's the reason I am
going to vote dry ”
That is the kind of talk heard at
the store and. among the natives that
hid nio.e to do with casting a dry
v»te th in all the orators of the City.
If the wets want to keep Alaska wet
they had better muzzle the fellows
that are in the grasp of the monster,
and at the same time a: e doing their
best to get flee from its slimy coils.
They see that the shortest cut ai.u
best plan is to vote i>ky.
t) . the wet side we he ml a pleader
s iv,in sabstam e, "Am I my biotin
er s keeper, i.s it rij^lit tm me to make
a l..w that denies inv brother personal
privileges, o> tones ii| 0:1 him that
which he does not want.’’ In the first
pi ice this ltible text is misapplied
tor it w is tire guilty ex
cubing wail of a li a and a murderer.
In the nc 'o id. place <va at e oar broth
e. s keeper.One of theg.eit count
a als i>,"i.ove thy 1.eight or"
Is he ia the coils ot the monster and
hopelessly living to litre himseh? !s
he so i/emnnbed that volitioualA l.e
cannot tear Ioo>e.Tl e:i it is your !»:.s
i .ess and mi .e to cast the vote that
will free him. Not a vote tit it permits
the thing to throttle the victim arid
when thru with him teach out for
your hoy. The great Apostle slid
‘ ue ir ye one another’s borders."
I loth men abided to were right heic*
in the \ i.lage, both were bearing n
burden too heavy to bear. You and
l had the power to lift it from them.
Yea the power to remove it from
them. And according to the whole
tenor ef the Ilible you and I should
do so.