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SCARCITY OF RICH MEN
Here is an awful side-light upon the
futility of human effort, the thriftless
ness of man and the havoc wrought
by the high cost of living: From
among any one hundred young chaps
you may pick out, only five, upon
death, will leave enough funds to pay
burial expenses!
The insurance actuaries have un
earthed this unpleasant fact. They
have furnished us with the best thrift
argument on the market.
No red-blooded American relishes
the idea of eventually being depend
ent upon charity. Yet the statistician
shows that most of us must finally
bow our heads and accept our bread
and coffee as a gift from someone —
son, neighbor or the board of county
commissioners.
The actuaries in their brutal en
deavor to drive home the moral of
thrift, have taken one hundred young
men of good physique and mentality
at the age of twenty-five years and
have traced them through to the
cemetery. The course of life is a
dreary affair in its final results, but
we hope that the futile hundred had
a good time as they went along, get
ting their money’s worth from day to
day.
Of the hundred, after twenty years,
only eighty-four are left. Of the
eighty-four men of forty-five years of
sixty-five have their noses to the
grindstone, still able to drag home a
pay envelope, but possessing not a
cent beyond the week to week earn
ings of their labor. Tte remaining
fifteen already have thrown up the
sponge and are dependent on their
children, relatives, neighbors or the
public.
Ten years later, at fttty-five, only
forty-six of the hundred are able to
work and to support themselves from
day to day, though having no accum
ulation. Thirty men are dependent
on relatives or charity. Only four
men are rich or in good circum
stances.
At sixty-five only six of the original
hundred are still able to pay their
way by labor. Four others are
wealthy. Fifty-four are dependent.
At seventy-five, sixty-three of the
hundred are dead, sixty of them leav
ing no estate whatever. Three of the
hundred are wealthy and thirty-four
of the thirty-seven still alive are de
pendent on younger members of their
own families or on charity.
When all have been gathered to
their fathers it is found that only five
of the whole lot were solvent enough
at the time of death to pay the
charges on the Pay-as-you-enter-into
the-kingdom-of-Heaven wagon.
BACK BREAKING BURDENS
Here is a way to get an apprecia
tion of the crushing burden Europe
must carry as a result of the war. The
answer Bhames those Americans who
have inclined to , complain and to
think that the war has caused hard
ship in this country. Read this ques
tion and then study the explanation:
How would you like to give 104 oul
of the 300 working days in your yeai
to free labor for the government?
That is what the French people wii:
have to do, even in 1920, in order tc
meet the running expenses of th«
government, plus the interest on th<
enormous war debt. This comput&tioi
assumes that the French receive nc
indemnity from Germany. If they d<
receive an indemnity, as will prob
ably be the case, the shoe will merelj
be shifted to the other foot and the
Germans will have to give the two o:
three days a week to the forced unre
muner&ted labor.
The folowing table shows the par
of the people’s income that each gov
ernment will hAve to take in 1920 ii
order to meet its augmented operat
ing expenses. By giving the year 1919
to readjustment we arrive at figures
more nearly representative of condi
tions as they will be for some years
to come. It is probable that in Europe
the 1920 taxes, as estimated, will ap
ply also to at least the several follow
ing years. In the table, the income
of the people is that for the year
1913, the last in which normal condi
tions obtained. The third column
shows the percentage of the people's
income that the government will have
to commandeer:
Nation People’s income Tax in 1920
U. S. ... $40,000,000,000 $2,100,000,000
3. B. 12,000,000,000 3,400,000,000
Prance .. 7,500,000,000 3,000,000,000
Russia .. 7,000,000,000 3,200,000,000
Italy _ 4,250,000,000 1,100,000,000
3ermany 11,000,000,000 3,400,000,000
Austria .. 5,000,000,000 2,400,000,000
Per cent of
Nation Income
United States . 5.2
3reat Britain .23.3
Prance .40.
Russia . 45.5
Italy .26.
lermany .30.9
Austria-Hungary .48.
This table makes no allowance for
any indemnities that may be paid,
rhese will decrease the tax burden
in some countries by increasing it in
others.
The table shows that from the 300
working days in the year, the gov
Brnment of Great Britain will have to
take the earnings of the people for
Bighty-four days, the German govern
ment (to meet its own obligations,
and not considering indemnites) will
have to commandeer ninety days
way, the French 104 days, or two out
of each week, and the Russian and
Austrio-Hungarian governments, un
less the war obligations are repudi
ated, will have to confiscate the pro
duct of half the working time of their
people.
Against this, the American require
ment will only be fifteen days! And
yet we complain.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Outside capital is becoming timid
about investing in Alaska until its
present wave of socialism passes by
and the people of the territory show
that capital is not invited to invest
in Alaska for the purpose of being
held up. The territory is new and
needs development. Too many sta
t.utes hamper this development. The
country needs roads and trails and tc
get these we must have population
To secure population we must offei
better conditions than prevail in the
states. Every prospective settler wil:
naturally wish to know what it will
cost him to come to Alaska and whai
it will cost him to live here, amd un
less he can be assured of fair treat
ment and good wages will seek othei
fields.—Valdez Miner.
No man is fit to represent any peo
pie whom he has reason to believe dc
not want him for a representative
When Judge Wic.kersham refuses tc
submit his name to the people at the
election which will occur June 3 he
admits that he is fearful that he
would be defeated. By this act he dis
qualified himself by all standards bj
which real, red-blooded men are will
ing to be measured. He is deliber
ately trying to prevent the people
from choosing their own representa
tive. No brave man or one imbuec
with American principles would re
fuse to become a candidate before the
people under the circumstances whicl
obtain in Alaska at the present time
Wickersham has convicted himseli
and proved that he has no right t<
claim to represent Alaskans. He i
playing a very cowardly role.—Juneai
Empire.
RUTH GARRISON
IS REMOVED TO
INSANE WARI
SEATTLE, May 19 (by Associate
Press).—Ruth Garrison, the 18-yea
old girl recently found not guilty i
the murder of Mrs. Storrs on tt
ground of insanity, was taken to tt
insane ward of the Walla Walla per
tentiary today.
It is reported that alienists will e
amine her Boon to pass upon her sa
tty, and that an effort may be mat
to gain her freedom.
GERMAN CASUALTIES
NEARLY SEVEN MILLION
BERLIN, May 19 (by Associate
Press).—According to reports Just pu
lished, the German war losses up
' April last totaled 2,060,460 dea
1 4,207,028 wounded, and 616,922 prl
' oners.
SOLDIERS DO
NOT FALL FOR
WICK’S BLUFF
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the United States; any chancellor,
judge or justice of a court of record
of any state; any mayor of any town
or city; any notary public.
In practice such subpoenas are usu
ally issued by and the depositions
taken before notaries public.
Wick’s Equivocal Position
On or about May 9 Mr. Wickersham
applied to Isaac Hamburger, who is
a notary public, requesting him to is
sue subpoenas for a number of men
in the signal corps Of the United
States army at Valdez, and some oth
ers. Mr. Wickersham assured Mr.
Hamburger that a contest had been
duly and regularly instituted and that
all of the necessary steps had been
taken. Upon such assurance, and be
lieving that the entire proceeding was
legal and proper, Mr. Hamburger is
sued the subpoenas requiring the at
tendance of the witnesses named by
Mr. Wickersham. These witnesses all
appeared at the appointed time at 10
a. m. on May 14, 1919. The witnesses,
however, upon advice that no contest
was or could be really pending, and
that none of the steps required by
statute had been complied with, re
fused to be sworn or to testify, and
no proof was offered or attempted to
be offered that the requisite steps for
maintaining a contest had been taken
as required by law.
No Contest Pending
There can be no question that there
is no contest now pending for the of
fice of delegate from Alaska to the
house of representatives under the
election held November 5, 1918. The
contest proceeding is purely statutory.
In the absence of the provisions of
the statute above mentioned no con
test whatever could be had except un
der such rules and restrictions as con
gress might specially provide. Each
house of congress, by the constitu
tion, is made the sole judge of the
qualifications of its members, and the
house could seat one man and unseat
another for any reason, or no reason,
if it should see fit. But when it comes
to the matter of issuing subpoenas
to take depositions each and every
one of the steps prescribed by law
must have been substantially complied
with before jurisdiction is acqund,
or the witnesses are compelled 1[ lip
pear. In this case none of thosgGrc&pr
had been taken. No notice of contest
had been served upon Mr. Sulzer, and
no notice was given of the time and
place of taking the depositions, or
names of the witnesses to be exam
ined, nor could any such notice be
given. It probably will be argued that
since Mr. Sulzer was dead, and that
it was therefore impossible to give
notice, none was required; but such
is not the case. Mr. Sulzer’s death
rendered it impossible for anyone to
contest his seat until congress should
assemble and give permission there
for, and prescribe the procedure.
As soon as the subpoenas were is
sued to the signal corps men the Miner
wired to Juneau to find out if any con
test had really been started. D. B.
Chase, the secretary for George B.
Grigsby, made a full investigation and
found that no contest'had been made
or could be made under the circum
stances. The attempt, therefore, to
get depositions at Valdez was abso
lutely null and void, and the subpoenas
’ issued were without right, and no one
was under any obligation thereby to
* appear or testify.
1 The attempt of Mr. Wickersham to
force the soldiers to appear before a
judicial executive and tell how they
voted appears to have been a deliber
ate and conceived fraud, without legal
ity and shady in its methods, in that
Mr. Wickersham stated to the notary
that he already had filed his contest,
knowing as a lawyer that such contest
could not be filed until a successor to
. Mr. Sulzer had been elected, and know
I ing also that such subpoenas were
f illegal until the proper steps had been
taken toward filing the contest.
The soldiers and citizens of Valdez
d are naturally very indignant over the
r- attempt to defraud them of their privl
leges as American citizens in keepinj
the ballot secret, and public condem
nation o£ the methods employed t<
’bring these men before a notary is
universal.—Valdez Miner.
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