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UTILITIES PAY TOWN EXPENSES
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The hydro-electric has been paying the expenses of the town,
the tax revenues are mortgaged before they are collected. The
active income is derived from th e utilities. Sell the utilities and
all improvements on city properties must cease forthwith; taxes
must be raised along with assessments to bring a tax revenue up
to the expenditures. Tliis will make taxes heavy and irksome.
Property owners will refuse to bu ild up and improve and the new
citizen who wishes to settle here will look askance atthe very idea
of paying taxes out of proportion to sale values of properties
Sell the utilities and the only paying propositions that Peters
burg has will be sold. Kill the goose to get the golden egg might
be some one’s idea of the proper procedure. In the end the City
will be without either—if they sell.
HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT?
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Passing a store we saw a merclaant moving a table and want
ing such a piece of furniture we asked “What do you want for
that?” He countered “What’ll you Ijive me for it?”
We sized it up and in our own mind set a valuation but insist
ed as he was selling, he should set the price. So after a little hem
ming and hawing he asked, “Will you give me ten dollars for it?”
We replied, “No, but we’ll give you five.” He walked off in one di
rection and we in the other.
WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR PUBLIC UTILITIES
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“I don’t want to set a price for your public utilities. I would
rather you set your price and then may be we can get together
and work out a schedule whereby the city will benefit from the
sale of its utilities.”
We want to buy your public utilities but you set your own
price says Mr. Van Orsdell, representing the Foshay interests.
Not one man on the council can tell the worth of the public
utilities to us; whether they are making or losing money or
even approximate a fair valuation. The Foshay interests know
\vhat the plants cost and will cost to duplicate to a cats eyelash
and have figured depreciation, to boot. In spite of all of which
they can see enough for the future to know that under proper or
even fair management of the ut ilities will be a good investment.
If it is such a good investment for Foshay’s why should it be
a poor investment for the city?
RYAN COALITION NOT WANTED
George E. Ryan, veteran Democratic politician of King County,
Washington, recently made public a plan whereby he would at
tempt to marshal Democrats and disgruntled Republicans under
the standard of an “independent party.” A plan which has been
in practice in Alaska for a numb er of years past. This Troy-Ryan
Alaska-Washington scheme of making political chameleons of
electors does not meet with favor from right thinking citizns in
Alaska or Washington. Mr. Harry M. Westfall, president of the
King County Democratic Club at a recent meeting of that Club
said:
“It’s an old saying that when you get too old to fight you have
a desire to compromise. My good friend and fellow Democrat for
more than twenty years is beginning to show his age. Twenty-two
years ago George was the alert and active secretary of the county
Central Committee. Since then he has been honored with every I
non-salaried job within the gift of the party.
“He now outlines in The Times (Seattle) a plan for holding
a mass convention made of the fl ower of the Democracy and the
rag-tag and bob-tail of disgruntled Republicans, nonpartizans
and sharpshooters who belong nowhere. This great gathering of
the ‘best minds’ of ex and non officeholders will then proceed to
rjfc^ninate a ticket for county offices that will clean out what is
known as the ‘courthouse ring.’
“The recent election may have knocked George down and
Trussed him up quite a bit. I cannot believe that he is ready to
form an alliance with the down-and-outers of the Republican
Party for the sake of putting them on the payroll and destroying
what is left of the grand old Democratic Party I have the honor
to represent.
j “The way to increase votes in the Democratic Party is to
make effective appeals to the people through platforms and candi
dates. Keep the party clean of stragglers, camp followers and
nonpartisans.”
All of which we respectfully callto the attention of the alleged
Democratic Party in Alaska with its bunch of whippersnappers
and political whatnots who consistently play their politics for the
purpose of fattening their pocketbooks regardless of the welfare
of the Territory.
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Lawyers Oppose
Nullification
The executive committee of
the American Bar Association
has refused to work with other
organizations to prevent en
forcement of the Jones Five and
Ten law and other prohibition
laws. The request for collab
oration on the part of the Bar
Association came from five un
named organizations and was
for the purpose of attempting
to nullify dry statutes.
The Executive Committee of
the American Bar Association
declared that all statutes on the
books should be enforced and
that it is unbecoming for a
lawyer to advocate the nonen
forcement of any laws.
It does rather strike one that
while the courts are trying to
enforce the law that it is hard
ly in keeping that an officer of
the court shall advocate nullifi
cation of the laws sought to be
enforced.
NEGROES NAMED
FOR ACADEMIES
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For the first time in many
years two negroes have been
nominated to take entrance ex- ■
aminations at the United States j
Naval and Military Academies
at Annapolis and West Point. ■
The candidates were named by i
Oscar De Priest, Republican,
Illinois, the only negro in Con
gress. Whitfield, one of the
candiates, is described as a
Phi Beta Kappa member an I
all candidates are University
of Chicage men.
BRISBANE SHOULD MEET ’EM
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Arthur B r i sb a n e, Hearst’s
high salaried philosopher does
not know the Dunns, Dimonds,
Murrays and Fosters of our
Alaska legislature but he surely
does know their kind. Our sy
cophantic salons who insist on
maintaining one to rule over
them who is in no way respons
ible to them for his action
should read this comment on
kings and subjects by Brisbane.
King George has returned to
his favorite residence, Windsor
Castle, with years of life prom
ised by doctors.
Loyal subjects turned out to
cheer their King.
Newspapers print his picture
headed, “Long to Reign Over
Us.’
The idea that men do not
want to be ruled is a mistake.
To be ruled is exactly what they
DO want, and to be freed from
responsibility of self-rule.
It is painful for a dog to
walk on its hind legs, painful
for human beings to rule them
selves and think for themselves.
WATCH FOR “RED MENACE’’
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Members of the Young Men’s
Republican Club of Seattle were
recently warned against the
“red menace” by Thomas N.
Swale, acording to whom the
U n it e d States government
should always be on the lookout
to check radical elements be
cuase some day “reds” may at
tempt to conquer all the na
tions.
The real menace is not “rad
icalism but insidious destruc
of the fundamental principles
upon which our government is
founded. The “red menace” is
always watched and feared but
Americans are lulled to sleep by
the “interests” which am in po
sition to undermine faith in our
republic. Abuse of power de
stroyed Rome and much power
of America is abused today and
is being more abused. Radicals
are born of such abusiveness—
look to the Pennsylvania coal
fields today; the textile mills in
the Carolinas where “power”
has schools in industries where
men learn to hate our institu
tions of justice and liberty.
..MENACING THE COLLEGE..
Alaskans should find a way to
prevent members of the terri
torial legislature from making a
political football of the Alaska
College appropriation. Trier
should be a fixed amount per
mently protected against man
ipulation i-:rt
funds for the support of the co1
lege come regularly from the
national treasury. The action
of the late Senate in holding up
the college appropriation until
the last hours of the session in
order to force action by the
house on pending legislation de
sired by the senate majority
suggests the lengths to which
bloc action can be carried and
should serve as a warning to
guard the college against such
tactics in the future, to the ex
tent, at least, of providing a
stated maintenance allowance
free from inuuence of other le
gislation.
The Times does not believe it
was the intention of the late
senate majority to permit the
session to adjourn without ap
proval of the college appropria
tion. It is more pleasant to
think the action was merely a
Dluff .to frighten the house
members into action and that
;he college bill would have been
lassed even if the house had
refused to come to the senate
;erms on other measures; but
;hat sort of maneuvering is
lot .good for the college or for
[
the territory and it should not
be tolerated by the voters. There
I may come a time when there
will be a senate or a ho'ise that
will not stop at bluffing.—An
chorage Daily Times.
NO FOOLING
The day will come when the
college politicians will so far
rorget themselves as to be sel
fish and brazen enough to ig
nore every right and wish of the
First and other Divisions. The
i Day may come when the Lj
men Division will not hold the
balance of power;; the day may
| come when there will be a coali
tion of forces and then the Col
lege politicians and federal bu
reaucrats will be compelled to
j accede to the wishes of the ma
il ority of the voters of the Terri -
j tory or it will be just too bad for
| the “Fairbanks College.” When
the tale tries to wag the dog it
;s time to cut the tail off.
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“THE LOW DOWN”
. .On the “high-up” was given
to his constituents bp .Repre
sentative McCain in speaking of
bis experimental fur farm bill at
the recent legislature. He makes
assertion that Charles Bunnell
! tried to to hog the appropria
I tion for the college and had the
support of Governor Parks for
the experimental farm at the
political college. Result: The
Third Division joined with the
First and killed the bill.
And a nice letter from Gov
ernor Parks to the Petersburg
Chamber of Commerce stated
Ghat he favored such an institu
tion in the First Division and
Petersburg the logical center.
\nd some still that the federal
governor is a friend of Peters
burg—or any other Alaska town
except Juneau.
“Tile Bible is the bunk” says
a skeptic. But for a bunk book
it is the best seller of them all.
Thirty million copies are circu
lated every year, according to
the New York Bible Society.
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