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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1920
ALASKANS NOT LAWLESS
The flippant remark of ex-Senator
Albert J. Beveridge against Alaskans
as published in these columns a few
days since, wherein several years
ago, as chairman of the committee
pp territories he filed a report declar
ing they were lawless people and un
fit to elect their delegate to congress
lacks even the slightest scintilla or
basis of truth,
r On the contrary, of afl the high
intelligence possesed by any particu
lar division of the American people
the Alaskans have it over them. It is
true that outside newspapers are a
few days behind in reaching them,
but for that they are devoured the
more voraciously, every line read and
re-read. Nor can people who habi
tually pay from 10 to 25 cents a copy
for newspapers that others pay only
five cents for be called either unin
telligent, vicious or lawless. During
the Spanish war .which was just be
, fore the slur was uttered, the streets
of the northern mining camps would
be jammed with Americans listening
to one of their number reading a
whole newspaper, especially of war
news, and cheering loudly every time
a favorable mention of Uncle Sam’s
men was made therein. So many
times has it been shown that the
furthest frontiersmen were not only
the best and truest types of its citi
zenship, but the most intelligent as
well, that it would seem that men
having the nerve to ask for and hold
seats in the United States senate,
and who aspire to be president, should
find it out after awhile. In fact, it
does not seem possible for any such
person to be ignorant of the truth,
which makes it the -worse and con
victs the defamer of these worthy
frontier citizens of being not, merely
mistaken but viciously and wilfully
slanderous.
more uuui uemg or tue mgiiesi
intelligence, Alaskans are the most
law-abiding of all Americans. With
practicaly no peace officers you sel
dom hear of a crime there, but you
do frequently hear of acts of great
heroism, of patriotism as in their
quick response to the war call, and
of thrilling hardships endured in the
search of fortune which is for the
direct benefit of the whole country.
Moreover, they are the most gen
erous people on the face of this
planet. Alaska is the best country
for a man to be broke in that there
is in the whole big-hearted west. He
never misses a meal. It is an un
written law of free-masonry of the
north to feed every newcomer, and
if he has no money it is loaned free
ly, with no fear of its not being re
turned when it is convenient. Many
a fortune in the north has been trace
able to friendships begun by the find
er of a gold mine furnishing a tip
to some person who aelped him when
broke.
it is no disgrace tnere to De broke
and the ones who have been in such
condition never are ashamed to ask
for assistance from their brothers of
the open-hearted north.
Does such facts tends to corrobor
ate the slander of Mr. Beveridge
when he declared Alaskans were law
less and he asked congress to pass
a law for the president of the United
States to appoint their delegate to
congress?—Ely Nevada, Daily Times.
The president has received so few
kind words lately that you can’t blame
him for being enthusiastic about the
Virginia platform.
Even if President Wilson does fail
to get a third term he will have the
satisfaction of knowing when he re
tires to private life that his term of
office has seemed longer to the
American people than that of any of
his predecessors.
Our General Welfare and Happiness Are
Menaced by Epidemic of Divorce.
By CIRCUIT JUDGE DAVID M. BROTHERS, Chicago.
Russia is menaced by legions of martial bolsheviks. America is
menaced by legions of marital bolsheviks. With the possible exception
of the germ of bolshevism, there is no “bug” more menacing to our general
happiness and welfare today than the “divorcitis” germ. It is a disease
that may easily become epidemic. It has already become a cancer in our
national life.
Meeting this situation taxes the ingenuity and patience of those
having authority to untie marital knots, but who would far rather dis
cover just why the knots were slipping and apply some remedies.
Personal cleanliness and tidiness is one thing that must be given con
sideration. Untidiness in personal appearance is inexcusable.
You cannot afford to ignore the call of the shoebrush, the clothes
brush, the ^toothbrush, the hairbrush any more than you can ignore the
call of the stomach for food or the lungs for air.
Your mind stands in just the same need of an occasional houseclean
in". This is especially true when you begin to think of divorce. Take
yourself out into a patch of mental sunshine and give your brain a good
scrubbing.
If there are any divorce germs left—consult a lawyer! But only then !
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United States Senate Slave to Hoary
Tradition, Custom and Precedent.
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By SENATOR DAVIS ELKINS of West Virginia.
Mv experience and observations as a member Qf the United States
senate have convinced me that the rules of that body should be changed
to conform with our modern methods of doing business expeditiously. The
senate ig hampered in prompt and efficient action quickly responsive to the
wishes of the American people by antiquated methods. It is a slave to
hoary traditions, custom and precedent.
The senate wastes time, doesn’t function efficient^ is almost always
behind in registering public sentiment, and is unbusinesslike and entirely
out of step with modern methods, all because it has tied itself helplessly
with a set of rules which are out of date and because it blindly worships
outworn, inefficient and impractical customs, precedents and practices.
I think that the senate should come to and wake up, and get itself on
a modern business foundation. It needs to be made over so as to function
efficiently and promptly respond to the will of the people, whose servant
it is. The place to make that beginning is on its aged and moss-covered
rules.
A Chicago man got a terrific shock
the other day when he found that one
of his home made beer recipes had
worked.
The old-fashioned woman who used
to scream at the sight of a mouse has
a daughter who carries a live arma
dillo around with her as a traveling
companion.
Persia has asked the league of na
tions for protection against the Rus
sians and it is understood that the
league will send the Russians a firm
and vigorous note.
Doubtless Candidate McAdoo is
overjoyed by his father-in-law’s ulti
matum that the Democrats must de
clare for the league without dotting
an “i” or crossing a “t.”
With his fifth-time candidacy for
the Presidency Gene Debs is a couple
ahead of Bryan in the matter of nom
inations and neck and neck with
him in the matter of elections.
Sir Ernest Schakelton suggests
that we reduce the cost of living
by eating octopus. This ought to
be all right for the little boy who
always wants the drumstick of the
chicken.
Vice-President Marshall says the
people ought to keep the Democratic
party in power another four years so
it can reduce the governmental ex
penditures. It is probable that the
Democratic party could do it in anoth
er four years, because within that
time it would spend all the money
there is and cpuldn’t spend any more.
SHORT-ARMl
JOLTS
“Scout leadership is a national
duty.”—W. H. Taft.
Only a ukelele can whine and get
away with it—and you’re no ukelele.
Your game doesn’t pay as well as
the other fellow’s, but you have the
satisfaction of knowing that he knows
his game doesn’t pay as well as some
body else’s
A bald-headed man is in hard luck
when things go wrong—he can’t tear
his hair.
Unless he’s just naturally fat and
good-natured, the man who slaps you
on the back wants something.
Why worry about something you
can’t help? Even a dog knows he
must lead a dog’s life
Who remembers the old fashioned
housewife who made her own yeast
for her homemade bread.
Maybe if President Wilson has a
candidate for the presidency he thinks
that it would be better for the can
didate if the white house does not
give out his name.
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