HOT SPRINGS POST
Published Every Saturday at Hot Springs, Alaska,
Vo! 2 BY CEO. M. AREUCKLE No. 13
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WHEN PROFIT IS USURY
Alexander Graham Bell, the noted inventor, under
takes in a recent article to answer the question, “When
does profit become usury?” with the object of finding a true!
principle for the regulation of trusts. “We have arrived
at a critical point in our history,” begins Prof. Bell.
“Competition as an element in business is going out and
monopolies which are opposed to competition are coming in.
Individual producers no longer count.” He says that the
great problem of the age is what to do with the trusts
which extend their operations beyond the jurisdiction of
the state government. He judges from history.that the
trusts are a natural process of evolution and that “men can
not combat a law of nature.” He believes that any combi
nation that reduces the cost of production and distribution
is essentially beneficial, even though it does not lower
prices. It is only when prices are raised above the com- j
petitive level, he argues, that injury to the public begins, j
The hurtful thing is not the combination itself, but the j
power which it potentially possesses to raise prices to the
public, even though it does not do so. He says that there
should be some recognized relation between the cost of pro
duction and the amount of profit. Everything beyond an!
equitable return upon the capital invested should be re
garded as usury and forbidden by law. Summing up, Mr.
Bell says that destruction of the trusts is.out of the ques
tion, that government ownership is a doubtful remedy with
many objections, and that the immediate problem is to con
trol by suitable legislation the amount of profit they can
legally receive from the public.
That genius may not* be hampered by mere business,
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LETTER HEADS
ENVELOPES
BUSINESS CARDS
DODGERS
BLOTTERS
CONTRACTS
BILL HEADS
STATEMENTS
MAMMOTH POSTERS A SPECIALTY WITH US.
VISITING CARDS
HAND BILLS
PRICE LISTS
COUNTER SLIPS
And in fact Mnything: and Everything in
the Printed Line
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some Western capitalists have capitalized Luther Burbank,
and he dll conduct his experiments in plant life hereafter
free from all business cares. Mr. Burbank was so much
bothered by'visitors a year ago that signs had to be put up
all over his place warning visitors away. He found the de
mands of business in connection with his work even more
distracting, and the wonderful plants which he had devel
oped, which promised so much to humanity, did not reach
a full measure of usefulness as quickly as he expected.
Now he will have time to work on his plants exclusively,
and especially to continue the cultivation and development
of the thornless cactus. This is considered economically
the most important work Mr. Burbank has done. To grow
a cactus without thorns is to fill the desert with a tine food
for cattle. Mr. Burbank announced the development of
this cactus about eighteen months ago. Recently the re
sults of the first summer’s cultivation of the cactus were
made public. The report showed that the plant was suc
cessful. The fear that it would revert eo the old thorny
state was dispelled, and the plant as grown was found to
be a good fodder. _
The installation of wireless telegraphy in the office of
the Detroit Journal will put that newspaper in immediate
touch with the late shipping, much of which is already
equipped with wireless apparatus. News of a disaster may
thus be flashed in a few moments from the vessel in distress
to the reader in the street. A special wireless news service
is today a novelty, but it needs only a brief retrospect of
the progress made in the commercial development of the
invention to foresee a time near at hand when such facili
ties will be as much a commonplace of news-gathering as
are the present direct wires into editorial rooms.
President Gomez has asked the Cuban congress to ap
propriate 81,023,344 to equip at once an army of 10,000
soldiers to be organized under one head, an inspector gen-!
eral, who will be under the immediate orders ofthepresi-j
dent. He points out that the need did not exist whiio the j
American soldiers were in Cuba, but that it is very impera
tive now.
Dave Curry, the widely-known min
ing man, is now on Thanksgiving
creek.
A A A A A A . A_6_y
Services in
a Barroom
Macon, Mo., March 15.—For 20 min-!
utes this morning there were unique !
proceedings in the saloon of Addison P. 1
Strode, on Weed street. An evangel- !
ist, P. M. Fitzgerald stood on a box at ;
the end of the bar and addressed a
crowd of about 200 on the wages of sin,
the effects of dissipation, and the curse
of evil habits. He was there by invita
tion of the proprietor of the saloon.
There were men in the congregation
who had not seen the inside of a church
for years. A young man with a bucket
in his hand entered the back way, saw i
what was going on and fled. There |
were no sales during the services. The !
proprietor and his assistants stood with j
folded arms near the evangelist and i
joined heartily when the male choir i
started, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul.”
After the services Mr. Strode cordi
ally shook hands with the evangelist,
and thanked him for the sermon. He
said that he was brought up by good,
Christian parents, and that he had al
ways felt a kindly regard with the sort
of people they associated with. There
was no collection. There are some who
criticize the holding of religious ser
vices in a salooD, but the general senti
ment is with the evangelist.
H. Winde, of Sullivan, said the city
a visit last Sunday.
THE HUMAN FORM DIVINE
I sit before my window and I watch them walk the street.
A thousand human passions urging on their restless feet;
A grinning hoodlum passing here, a churchman over there,
A courtesan amid the crowd, with artificial hair;
A cripple with his tapping crutch, the beggar with his whine—
Come watch the passing pageant of the Human Form Divine.
From out a garish-lighted street an evil figure steals;
From farther down the street a burst of ribald laughter peals.
A woman staggers forth ! . . . Oh, Sainted Mother of our race !
Hast ever witnessed Hell portrayed upon a woman’s face,
Where never more the trusting look of Innocence will shine
To set the mark of pureness on the Human Form Divine ?
The pageant passes endlessly. Here miserably grins
One shaken and disfigured with the evil of his sins—
A horrid palsied travesty upon the creature God
First fashioned in a godly shape . . . They pass beneath the rod
Who drink the bitter waters from the world’s alluring well
And warm their talon hands befoue the leaping fires of Hell.
Ah, draw the curtain! Wantons, thieves and hypocrites of pride—
Behold them flaunt! and these are they for whom Christ Jesus died!
Yea some there be among the throng whose templed bodies still
Are built in His own image and are guided by His will;
But, ah! the myriad millions of the Human Form Divine
Upon whose twisted brows the King of Hell has written <AMine.”
—Lowell Otus Reese in Leslie’s Weekly.
Max Nevelle, layman on and part
)wner of the Dakota association, Sulli
van creek, was a visitor in the city
?arly this week.
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O. A. TRAEGER
HOT SPRINGS
Stanley House
HOT SPRINGS’ NEWEST HOTEL
:!rst-Class Restaurant Frank B. Stanley, Prop.
DR. C. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Crown, Bridge and Plate Work. Painless Extraction
SULLIVAN CITY
Office at Carter’s Drug Store
CHA8. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
Legal Papers Carefully Drawn.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD — Camp
Hot Springs No. 24 meets every Mon
day evening at 8 o’clock in hall over
Traeger’s store. Visiting brothers
always welcome.
B. A. Meyers, C. A. Davidson,
Recorder. Arctic Chief.
MAIL SCHEDULE
Arrives from Fairbanks Saturday p. m.
Arrives from Rampart, Sunday p. m.
Arrives ft'orn Tanana Sunday p. m.
Departs for Fairbanks
Departs for Rampart,
Departs for Tanana
Monday p. m.
Monday a. m.
Monday a. m.
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The
Sign
That gladdens
the eye of the
trail-weary pil
grim on his ar
rival in Fair
banks is that of
the
FRACTION
Sideboard—where only the best and
most recuperative Liquors are di
spensed by skilled mi^o^gists.
FA13Ba«HS, AM.
LOUIS SPITZ, PROP.