ScmardIailn Gateway
Of SEWARD, ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
Published Daily Except Sunday by Gateway Publishing Co.
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CROSSING tiip: bridge, etc.
First Division newspapers are greatly worried
over the election of Win. Paul to the Territorial
legislature. All manners of dire prohpesies are be
ing made over the effect his election will have on
the coming legislature. We believe the electors ad
verse to Mr. Paul are unduly alarmed. So far as
Ave have heard, he is an attorney of much ability and
has worked his way up to a position where he com
mands considerable power and prestige. Mr. Paul
is too much interested in his constituency to advo
cate laws enacted calculated to harm Alaska, and
thereby himself, hut rather is favorable to the
working man and fishermen, and has already been
of considerable benefit to them. No ope man can
control the legislature, but rather may be the bal
ance wheel required to hold down radical legisla
tion for the classes. Alaskan workingmen need
legislators friendly to labor. Capital also , needs
protection, but capital can generally protect itself.
If Mr. Paul can be any worse than some of the leg
islators who have framed laws for the Territory, he
should be impeached at once.
NECESSARY LEGISLATION
Once again we call attention to the need of
laws bearing upon the status of newspapers in the
Territory. Without exception Alaska is the only
state or territory under the protection of the Ameri
can flag without laws defining what constitutes a
newspaper of genreal circulation. The merchants
have laws protecting their businesses from incroach
ment by itinerants; the professional men are well
protected in this respect, but the newspaper field is
open to whomsoever will enter it. There is no more
reason why a newspaper field should be invaded by
itinerant and irresponsible persons, than that the
mercantile and professional fields should be jeop
ardized. A law should be enacted that wherever a
paper of general circulation has been established
a year’s publication is required to give a new paper
a legal status. This is the law in the states and
it is a good law, protecting merchants and business
men from bearing the unnecessary burden of a spite
paper. It would also tend to greater investments
and better papers by those already in the field.
There can be no harm done by the enactment of such
law. Much good can come out of it. Year in and
year out the papers of the Territory work to elect
legislators who pass laws protecting everything from
a porcupine to a doctor, but nothing has ever been
done for the papers.
WILL REAP GREAT BENEFITS
The recent mill tests of the ore from the mines
of the Alaska Hills company at Nuka Bay, show
that the claims of great richness by its discoverers
are well-founded. Ore milling $50 to $80 to t^e
ton is rich enough to make its owners wealthy be
yond the dream of avarice. Considerable money
has already been spent on development work and the
company is prepared next year to start operations
in earnest, a large force of men being expected to
go to work in the spring.
That Seward will be the principal beneficiary
of this work is apparent from its close proximity to
the mine. And while Seward has been somewhat
lax in backing the proposition, it has not been from
the lack-of faith in the property but rather from
the tight money market and prevailing hard times.
The promoters of the proposition are all good
mining men, and have backed their judgment with
their money and time. A good mill has been erect
ed on the property and the tests show that there is
no chance to lose, but rather that the mine is so rich
as to be almost unbelievable.
Did anyone notice how quiet Magnus Johnson
remained during the campaign just ended?
Tractors in Europe are used fr- ^pulling trees.
AN EPHEMERAL. DREAM OF WEALTH
A £00(1 many years ago, while a resident of
South Florida, the editor of the Gateway held the
office of justice of the peace, coroner and town mar
shal, the combined offices producing just enough
(uiu bacuji iu keep flic flame ul .youth uuixtiiig
brightly. While sitting out on a log in the arfyo
lados one winter day with young Tom Edison, a son
of the electrical wizard, and Raphael Santini Alda
costa, a local product, we were told that in Alaska
liuggcst could be picked up by the sackfull, and gold
was a drug on the market. Mr. Edison further elab
orated his remarks by the statement that a year
in the Territory would give a man riches enough to
hire a nigger to crank a hand press for the next
’steen years, the employer having nothing to worry
his mind, other than where to take the next siesta,
and the virtues of the latest flea powder. Where
upon a large contingent of Florida Crackers em
barked upon a fishing smack, full of determination
and malaria, landing in Seattle May 23, 1898. Since
this time much water has run under the bridge.
This summer young Tom visited Alaska, but he had
greatly changed. In the old days he was full of
exuberence and rye ‘whiskey. He had lost both,
ancf like the editor of the Gateway, his rope was
dragging Age had softly touched his temples and
stolen his erstwhile heavy locks. It had tempered
his judgment and taken away the effervescence of
youth. We did not have the heart to tell him of
the mistake he had made in starting a colony of
Crackers to the Far North, nor that his stories of
riches were the phantoms of adolescence. Tom was
talking to a stranger and it took. Some day, may
be, we will wander back south of the Caloosahatchie
river, and chew sugar cane and pick mango threads
out of our few remaining teeth, but no surviving
Cracker will be told of the unlimited wealth here for
the taking. I ulgame Dios, Yo llay B-ananios.
OUR QUESTIONNAIRE
The Gateway recently sent out about 500 ques
tionnaires covering a multiplicity of questions re
garding subscribers’ views on advertising, how to
make the Gateway more interesting and what our
readers wished to see played up or featured. With
out exception the answers to the qusetion revealed
that Gateway readers wished merchants to adver
tise prices with their goods. Another feature ask
ed for by a majority of our readers was more marine
news and more telegraph.
The answers were a revelation to the Gateway
management in that they showed that the advertise
ments in the paper were read religiously, and that
the desire for leaders in the advertisements were uni
versal.
The plan adopted by the Gateway involved con
siderable work, but we believe it was well-worth the
trouble. No signatures were appended to the ques
tionnaires, and none were expected. In response
to the question, “Do you believe that advertising
pays?” the answer was in every instance but one
in the affirmative. The query, “Do you read the
advertisements in the Gateway?” showed that 99
per cent of the readers do so. To the query “Do
you wish to see the merchants advertise prices with
their goods, ” the answer was invariably in the af
firmative. g
While only a hundred or so of the sheets sent
out have been returned there is a probability that
practically all of them will be filled out, and in case
this is done, they will be open for perusal by the
merchants interested, who may thereby learn many
things about how to advertise.
The advertisement of P. C. McMullen and the
Seward Trading Company were quoted as the choice
of the readers, on account of prices being quoted.
Another questionnaire will be printed within
the next week or so, and prizes will be offered for the
best letter on local advertising and why the reader
considers it the best.
HE THAT HATH a trade hath an estate, and
he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and
honor; but then the trade must be worked at and
the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor
the office will enable us to pay our taxes.
YOU CAN’T segregate ignorance. You can’t
run a fence around it and shut it off from the rest
of the community, from the other parts of your
city or state. You must eradicate it or it will per
meate the whole of society.
Some inventor can make a barrel of money if
he can figure how to kill off static.
A flivver was sold by the New York police de
partment at an auction sale this week for ten cents.
The outlook is getting loomier every day. If they
ever el below ten cents the existing “parking prob
lem” will not be a problem but a catastrophe.
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SATURDAY NIGHT
DR. JEAN MARIE MUSY
ELECTED PRESIDENT SWISS
BERNE, Dec. 11.—The Federal as
sembly today elected Dr. Jean Marie
Musy president of Switzerland.
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POLISH CABINET APPROVES
PAYMENT OF J. S. DEBT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The Po
lish cabinet has approved the agree- 1
ment concluded here for the payment
of $178,000,000 Polish war debt to the
United States treasury.
Poland will be the first nation to
pay her debt in full to the United
States.
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