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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established Aurust 19, 1904
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WHAT WILL HOOVER DO?
Now that the hysterics over the Wall Street debacle
has subsided, the humorists spent their talents in an
effort to translate the tragedy into comedy and the public
has paid a staggering pree for exepeiience, the entire
matter can be considered in a more dispassionate light.
rl he Wall Street crash was nothing more than the final
cleanup in a swindle the like of which nas nevei been
known. It bids fair to take ts place ahead of the South
Sea Island Bubble and kindred swindles m which the
general public suffered. The most ironical feature of
the situation appears to be that the generals of finance
and industrial enterprises wittingly and unwittingly
gave countenance if not actual aid to this disgrace in
American finance.
It remains to be seen if President Hoover will split
hairs in defining gambling devices and swindles; if he
will consider the little fellow's game and the little pro
moter’s enterprise a gamble and swindle and the multi
millionaire’s pea and shell game a legetirnate departure
in national life, or will he summon to his use the pow
ers reposing in his office and deal out punishment to the
home raiders.
It is a notable fact that mining has been selected as
the horrible example whenever someone wished to vivify
a swindle. The same newspapers who refuse to print a
line favorable to one of the fundamental activities 0/
our national life, have, for the past year or more carried
cleverly-written propoganda calculated to sustain the
confidence of the masses in the big gambling game of
Wall Street. Men high in national affars have iterated
and reititerated arguments calculated to prove that
American securities and industral stocks carried the val
ues the arch-gamblers were placing upon them. Acting
upon this advice the general public gravitated toward
tne market.
With respect to actual money lost, the big gamblers
can merely exchange paper representing billions, but not
the actual dollars. The general public parted with the
actual cash. What matter if a multimillionaire writes
off millions in paper profits. It is when the average man
who has withdrawn his savings and dumped them into
the coffers of the “brace game” comes to consider the
■effect it has upon his immediate physical, needs, those
of his creditors, and on down the entire line, that
the full nauseau of this high-life game presents itself.
During the entire history of the United States all
of the mining, oil and other alleged get-rich-quick en
terprises combined are but a mere bagatelle as compar
ed to this one big sweep; in the palmiest days of open
gambling on the frontier there is no record of such a
gigantic combination of crooked gambling. For the
most part the games were square although the percen
tages were in favor of the gambler.. It was only when
law supplanted the will of the frontier that, gambling
was transferred to a different element and given a bril
liant lable denoting respectability.
We are not fully up on Bibilical history, but there
is chronicled an episode of Christ having lashed the
money changers out of the Temple. Possibly if a mod
ern newspaper reporter had been present he might have
delved behind the obtrusive element of the episode and
told us that in those days they maintained a Wall Street
and that Christ took the only effective way. of saving
the masses from further exploitation.
For a similar action against the predatory male
factors of great wealth Theodore Roosevelt was cruci
fied on the cross of political mammon.
It remains to be seen if Mr. Hoover will brave a
similar eclipse by a house-cleaning, or will he allow the
stigma to remain attached to our political soul that w<
are a nation of crooks and that a man's limits are gaug
ed by the size of his bankroll.
We just happened to recall there’s a crime com
mittee at work were and began wondering how th<
boys are making it; if they have solved the “likker’
question, etc. We wonder!
VASCONCELOS BELIEVES EXE- j j
CUTION WAS PERSONAL ItE- :
VENGE OF GENERAL
NOGALES, Ariz., Dec., 20, (/P)— | i
General Carlos Bouquet, officially i
considered military head in the lat- i
est incipient revolution in Mexico, \
died Wednseday in Nogales. Sonora I
: before a federal firing squad,
i The Mexican consul here said ; I
General Juan Rico made the arrest. I i
conducted the trial and ordered the !!
execution confirmed. An announce- ;
j ment said that Bouquet, at the end, ;
repudiated assertion that Chief;;
Jose Va concelos was defeated at j
the recent Mexican presidential;;
i election.
Vasconcelos, at Tucson, termed !
the execution “Outright murder”
and said he believed it was a per
sonal revenge on the part of Gen
eral Rico, who fought against Bou- •
quet in previous revolutions
EH9ZELWON
The principal speaker at the
weekly luncheon of the Sewardj
Chamber of Commerce, Harry F.
; Morton, president elefct of the An
chorage chamber, delivered a “mes
sage of neighborly friendship”
from the railroad metropolis to the
Gateway city.
“Two cities located close together
as we are, have cause for competi
tion in many other things than
basketball honors that the Seward
and Anchorage high school teams
'are fighting for at present”, re
marked Mr. Morton, “and it is
pleasant to reflect upon the spirit j
of friendliness existing between
business leaders of the two towns.
I “One of the finest examples of
your good will towards us was dem
onstrated recently, and the people
of Anchorage appreciate it. I refer
to the visit made to our city a few
weeks ago by Mr. Jessen, editor of >
the Seward Daily Gateway, after j
which trip many highly compli- j
mentary things were said about our i
enterprises, in the columns of your
paper. So appreciatingly descriptive
were your editor’s statements, they
staunchest boosters in Anchorage
itself.”
Mr. Morton said he anticipated j
calling regular meetings of the An- •
chorage chamber twice a month, in j
the future, and if popular, would |
1 endeavor later to induce the or- j
; ganization to meet once a week as
the Seward chamber does.
LETTER REM THAT
E, P. 5RITTUCK RED
! TALK WITH RIOTER
WASHINGTON, Dec., 20, (JP)—A
letter from H. C. Lakin, president
of the Cuba Co., to Edwin P. Shat
tuck, employed by Lakin to advo
cate low sugar duty, was read be
: fore the senate lobby committee.
■ It said that Shattuck had an inter
» view with Shattuck, who testified
I yesterday and denied that he had
ever discussed the sugar tariff with
* President Hoover.
\ | The letter also said, “Just before
we last went to Cuba you had an
interview with President Hoover
and you understood him to approve
of the Cuban sugar tariff."
* The government pays a bounty oi
3 10 cents for each fish caught of an}
3 species which preys upon salmon in
. certain districts of Alaska.
For Ice skates see URBACH &
VALADE.
? ! Fresh Eastern and Olympic Oys
’ ters for your Christmas dinner
i BROWN & HOWKINS Corp.
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LIBERTY THEATER I
SATURDAY AT 8 O'CLOCK
THE FINE UP-TO-THE-MINUTE DRAMA
“Half A Bride”
A fast action tale of a spoiled girl—of a rich
family—and a regular he-man, captain of her
father’s yacht.
NOT A SLOW MOMENT IN IT
It starts with a “morning after” and is finished by a
rescue after a long sojourn on an uninhabited island
where the man and the girl experience many things.
SNAPPY ENTERTAINMENT
WITH IT WE WILL SHOW A GOOD 3-REEL COMEDY
SAILOR GEORGE’’
A Fable and a Reel of Jokes
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j TRY OUR DAIRY LUNCHES *
BREADS, PIES, CAKES AND OTHER PASTRIES
We put up a fine fresh lunch for you to take on the train
Open from 6.30 in the morning until midnight every day
Our specialty is good coffee and bak2d Virginia ham
SEWARD BAKERY
Carl G. Robinson, Proprietor
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THE HOUSE OF QUALITY
Fresh Beef, Pork, Mutton and Poultry
on every boat
We are pleased to have you inspect our
freezers any time.
Carstens Packing Co.
Phone Main 130
Gus Manthey, Mgr.
I _* Builders' Supplies
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FINED 50 “KOPECKS”
From the report of the battle
; which took place on Fourth Avenue
| yesterday afternoon between “Bill”
I Patterson and “Windy” Wagner,
the argument started over a fox
;skin. In any case it wound up by |
Patterson being knocked uncon-;
scious due, it is thought, from his *
head coming in contact with the
pavement. Wagner, an old timer j
from the Kenai country, spent the |
night as a guest of the city and j
this morning, when he appeared
before City Magistrate A. D. Balder- (
ston, he was fined $50 and costs. •
| A carload of scenery and “props” i
| for the Legion show at the Liberty j
j theatre tonight, arrived on the!
freight last night.
! TRY A FRESH RASPBERRY
t (grown in Hope) SUNDAE WITH
SEATTLE ICE CREAM. Schailer
(er’s Alaska Shop.
Watch the Dollar Table at Sc hal
ier’s Alaska Shop.
Skates on shoes URBACH & VA
LADE.
SPECIAL ON THE DOLLAR »
TABLE, AT SCHALLERER’S ALAS
KA SHOP.
FRESH CRABS
arrive on every boat.
Salt Black Cod on hind !
PHONE ADAMS 14 J
“We Deliver”
Order early »
John Paulsteiner, Prop. J
SEWARD FISH \
COMPANY l