Miners' Association Member
Gives Facts of Late Meeting!
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Editor Alaska Forum:
In last Wednesday’s issue of the
"Yukon Valiev News, appeared a scur- '
l ilous article headed: ‘ ‘A Stormy Meet
ing. ’ ’ In this article the writer endea
vored to create the impression that the
late annual meeting of the Miners’ Pro
tective Association was most disorder
1 iat personal encounters were in or
der, and that “headbreakings” were
narrowly averted. In plain language;
the members of the Miners’ Association
are a lot of rowdies.
Now, Mr. Editor, with your permis
sion, as a member of the Association
present at the meeting in question, I
will state the action of the Association
on the only matter which caused any
discussion—and that far from strife or
fisticuffs. One of our members desired
that the Association should enter the
political arena and petition the authori
ties at Washington for the immediate
removal of certain officials. It was al
most unanimously decided that the As
sociation should keep clear of all politi
cal entanglement.
'’’He sense of the meeting—as individ
1 -was that the matters complained
Ol regarding the official corruptionists
of this division, are in process of satis
factory settlement; that the changes
desired are coming—and soon, and that
it would be an unwise precedent to es
tablish. The Miners’ Association is not
a political organization. It holds no
star chamber proceedings, and takes no
action in any other than in the name of
the Association. It is not the whole
of the people; only.a portion—the min
ers. It would be well if another certain
ocal organization thought likewise.
The cardinal principle of the Associa
tion is the bettering the condition of
the miners of this district. To bring
about concerted action aud to develop a
spirit of cooperation, mutually helpful,
th«> Miners’ Association was organized.
C actual miners are eligible, and the
miner today who is not on its roll is an
exception, and not the rule. No fees
are demanded, dues levied, nor fines
enforced. The Association has endea
vored to - heal the rapidly widening
breach between the miners on the creek
and the town. If it has been unsuc
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cessful the fault does not rest with the
former.
The same spirit which dictated the
stab in the News, has also dictated the
chain of circumstances that has driven
the majority of the miners to abandon
their town residence. Personally I can
say, with all deference, that us miners
can exist if every mercantile establish
ment in Rampart closed their doors.
Can the merchants say the same of the
miner? Speaking plainly Mr. Editor,
the best the miner gets here, is the
worst of it. Should an example be re
quired-pick a miner; pass the town
pimps by. If poor grub is on hand—
sell it to the miner. Want more pro
fits? cut down the price of his dust.
And now your business men complain
because the miners stay on the creeks
and save their money. It appears that
your local business organization has
work far more profitable than secretly
appointing “representatives” for the
whole people of this district.
Gum-boot Miner.
JAMES B. WINGATE
Notary Public & Conveyancer
Forum Office
Rampart
Masonic Association of Rampart
Meets on the last Saturday evening of each
month. All Masons invited to attend.
J. H. Hudgin, M. D. Pres. J. B. Wingate, Sec.
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