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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13. 1918.
UN RECONSTRUCT! BLE
Another year's campaign is on in
Alaska, and they are all seemingly j
going it “hell-bent-for-election." To,
those who are taking their politics
seriously the year will be a worri-,
ment, and for those who have a dis-|
passionate interest in the troubles and
trials of the politicians the year’s
events will be funny. Today, at the
opening of the campaign, the exper
ienced can tell the result of the year's
politics between the neighbors of Alas
ka—by the Fourth of July they will
quit speaking to us, and by next t’hrisl- ,
mas they will be giving us red apples
to show that they harbor no grudge.
Aside from that, business will probably
be as usual. (
Looking back over the years of .
politics which have been in Alaska
(and, they are mercifully iew) the
history of Alaska party-politics has |
been such as to prove that the Alas-1 <
kan, captured by the North and its ]
Spirit long years ago, is practically ,
unreconstructible—he is an Alaskan
first, with all the independence and
'•orneriness” of the independent man,
;and ,a party-politician long after
wards. For the good of the game as ■
he knew it in the almost-forgotten ,
'davvs of the Outside, he will on “prin
pui 111 n iui uio uiu pi«i |
the opening of the campaign (“habit” ■
would probably be a better word to
use here than “principle") but with
Alaskan principles he will “ditch” his j
parent-party the minute its platform
or its actions fail to suit his hair
tv igger but matured judgment of men
and parties. Outside it is "measure,
not men;” inside it is “men, not meas
ures.” Familiar from their youth
with the fable of “Ali Baba and his
Forty Thieves,” the Alaskan feels in
clined to believe that the measure in
which politics are measured has gum
or glue in the bottom of the meas
ure, and much that goes into the
melting pot of politics (most of the'
“gold” in politics) sticks to the bot
tom of the measure and the proprie
tors thereof never see it again. Inci
dentally almost every Alaskan is an
inspector of weights and measures
during campaigns, and protects him
self by playing the man against the
game—while the man he is for may
be an unholy sight in the eyes of the
other men, he is HIS man, and that
is enough for him. The-man may not
run true to form, but the Alaskan
feels that he is taking less chances
when he pins his faith in one man
than he is when he pins it to a gang
of men known as a “party,” and he
takes a chance on “red or black”
father than on “double O,” taking
I
chance for chance than one chance in
36. If he wins, he says: "1 told you
so." If he loses he shrugs his should-1
ers and forgets it. Who shall say
this is not the better plan in politics?
Since Alaska was given the right
to tinker with lawmaking, pass phoney
8-hour laws and send a dummy con-j
gressman to Washington, party-poll-'
tics have been in the throes of birth \
every two years. Those who take them j
seriously are those who hold office or
expect to or want to. Just before
Wilson was elected first, the Demo
cratic partv in Alaska was a guess
and most Alaska newspapers were.
Democratic for protection against the
Republicans who had a way of making
the newspapers believe they had some-1
thing coming to them after the success j
of election and after election proving |
to the newspapers that it was a mis
take. J. F. A. Strong was one of
i
those newspaper protectionists, and
after the Wilson election he was given
the governorship because nobody else,
wanted it. He had been in the North'
so manv years that he had no more
I
politics than has an Alaskan jackrab-'
bit, so he kept Governor Clark's Re
publican private secretary as the ex-'
perienced authority behind the throne'
and has kept him ever since. Strong
was a Wickersham man at heart in ,
those days, just as were the major-^
ity of Alaskans, and he has never
changed secretaries or forgotten his
Wickersham proclivities, and when-:
Democrat followed Democrat in office j
in Alaska until Democratic officehold
2rs were as thick as hairs on a dog, ,
kvith Wickersham-Democratic office- i
iiolders second in numbers only, the'
Jemocratic party was born and Strong ; ]
las always been a thorn in its side and j
considered an object of suspicion. ■
iinnif hnim /l in tUn
jast to make this belief a certainty
n the minds of the regular Demo-1 ■
■rats, and today, with Strong backing ]
Vlaloney to disrupt the Democratic j ;
t'ote and elect Wic-k, the Democrats |
ire absolutely sure of Strong’s poli ]
ical depravity and the fight to remove ]
Strong is today stronger than the fight
o elect Maloney can ever be. In the j (
meantime party-building is hindered (
)y “strikes” and ‘lockouts” and ,
‘I. W. W.’s” in politics, and nobody <
mows what the result may be—aijd, !
lome people don't care. i
We note that our townsman. Judge ^
iVickersham, is on the ticket as a Re
publican. Four years ago he was a ]
‘Wilson Democrat.” Two years ago! |
le was a Republican until the Republi- ]
:an platform was written, after which
le refused to ascribe to the platform ,
>r play with the Alaska Republicans ^
rherefore, or for some other reason, ,
be lost, and was retired to private ,
ife for two years. This year he is ,
out again as a Republican. Private .
ife may cause him to swallow the Re- j
publican platform as prescribed, al- •
though he may exercise an influence ■
in the preparation of the prescription, j
but whatever cause or “principle” he
may stick to or turn to in this cam
paign he will have to be reckoned with
on eleetion day. After a man has been ,
defeated once, his progress is less easy
than before—still, you always have to !
reckon with the people of Alaska, and ;
who shall tell what they may decide
to be the right course at any particular
campaign.
Whatever the result of this cam- j
paign it is safe to say that next win-1
ter when the campaign is ended it will
be neither abnormally warmer or cold
er than in the usual run of winters in
the North, and that the following sum
mer will show no marvelous climatic
changes which can be directly trace
able to the previous year's politics.
We take it as granted that money will
'_,e no “easier” here after election than
it was before, if so easy, and we do
not look for political results this year
to disprove the statement that virtue
is its own reward or to reduce the
wages of sin. Assuring the general
public that we will not run for office
this year, we wifi await the decision]
at the polls with as much stoicism as
we can. al the same tii»w reserving the
right to reject all political results as
may appeal to us.—Fairbanks News
Miner.
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POTATOES SAVE WHEAT ANO
FATS
Herbert Hoover is soon to start a
campaign for larger consumption of!
potatoes. There is an abundant sup
ply of them in the land, and unless
they are eaten to a larger extent than
in the past many wfll he left on hand
when tVie new crop comes on the mar
ket.
Potatoes are rich fn starch, and
they make a substitute for bread. The
desire of the food administration is
to induce the people to eat less bread l
and more potatoes. The wheat thus
<aved is needed in Europe;: the pota
toes cannot he shipped there.
Potatoes are now cheap, and fami
lies should buy them by the sack
before the price goes up. There is
prospective supply enough to enable
•ach family to have potatoes irr some
:rom at every meal.
There fs no way of cooking pota
oes that is better than baking them
>r steaming them with their jackets
>n. In this way all of the food quali
ies are retained, and what is of more
niportance, fats used in frying them
ire saved. And fats are as short as
s wheat.
The wise housewift who has not
lone so will lay in a sack of potatoes
it once.
She will enlist Mr. Murphy to aid
ler to fight the Hun.
rROTZK Y'S WORK FOR RUSSIA
When Leon Trotzky, who had been
i writer on a Russian revolutionary
lewspaper in New York, sailed to
lussia after the revolution on a
icket that his friends had bought him,
le announced that he would soon
iring peace to Russia.
Since the overthrow of Kerensky
his bespectacled visionary, who would
ry to breast any wave when he had
lever learned to swim in smooth
vater, has allowed the Germans to
vin a victory that would have been
m possible had Russia stayed in tlie
par.
Germany has succeeded in dividing
lussia and obtaining for her own par-T
loses the Russian provinces on the
laltic sea.
Trofzky, because his wits were out
pool-gathering, has allowed Germany
0 achieve all her aims as far as Rus
lia is concerned. If Germany can
naintain her Russian conquests after
he war is over Russia will not have
1 port on the Baltic and there will |
>e a Prussianized Poland set up as a
mffer state between Germany and
lussia. The Russians will have ceased
:o be an obstacle to the eastward ex
jansion of the Teutonic peoples.
Trotzky could have done no better
lad he been a German instead of a
Russian official. He could have done
no worse were he a candidate for the
premiership of Bedlam.
Before this we have pointed out
that the future of Russia is wrapped
up in the success of the alKanee:
against Germany.
If Germany gets a draw in this war
Russia is doomed to become a feeder
for German industry, with no commer
cial or industrial future of her own.
All of which shows that dreamers
are of no practical benefit unless they
are also doers.
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The Pass brothers of Seattle have
been found guilty of obstructing the*
operation of the draft law. Needless]
to say, they are in no way connected
with the They Shall Not Pass family.
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The food situation among the allies
is grave, yet in America there is food
enough and to spare.
I Is Everybody Awake?
’Most everyone must be by this time, for the needs of the
nation have been steadily placed before you. Everyone must
save for the additional burdens that will be placed upon us.
The Third Liberty Loan will soon be announced. War Stamps
are still on sale. War taxes will not be reduced for some time.
Your personal needs beyond these neecssities should prompt you
to carry a substantial bank account.' Start an account this week
with
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