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GOOD HORSE SENSE
(Valdez Miner)
In an editorial directed at the Ter- j
ritorial Legislature, appearing in a
recent issue of the Cordova Times and
copied by other Alaskan newspapers j
the establishment of a budget system ,
of appropriations is urged. The point i
is a good one and should be followed.
This, however, is not what we are
aiming at: The editorial continues:
“There is no particular reason why
the Alaska legislature should not use
as much horse sense in managing the
Territorial business as its members
do in the conduct of their own affairs, j
Just how much horse sense do '
Alaskans display in the conduct of j
their own affairs. Possibly in the j
affairs which concern intimately their
own private affairs, they display good
judgment, but how about the affairs
which do not so intimately affect their
own personal gains and losses?
Last November there was an elec
tion at which were chosen a delegate
to congress and some territorial offi- i
cials, and about everybody who was ,
entitled to vote and a good many !
who were not, turned out to the polls. !
This, on the face of it might be called
good citizenship, at least on the part
of those entitled to vote, but was it?
The value of the officers elected, be
they ever so good was not of par
ticular value to any one community,
nor if not so good, could they dam
age the Territory as a whole to any
marked degree, but the voters turned
out just the same; the interest in
the election was strong.
Within the last two years four
towns have voted on the question of
bonding for school building purposes.
Here was a question of tremendous !
moment to every resident of those
towns. It affected them vitally, and
while we have not the figures at this
time, we feel safe in saying these
proposals were lost or carried by the
votes of less than half of the citizens
eligible to vote. Between the tw'o
elections, which should have called
out the larger vote if “horse sense”
is a factor.
As a matter of fact, in public af
fairs, “horse sense”, appears to have
ARE YOD o
GUILTY •
A FARMER carrying an ex
press package from a big
mail order house was accost
ed by a local dealer.
“Why didn’t you buy that
bill of goods from me? I
could have saved you the ex
press, and besides you would
have been patronizing a home
store, which helps pay the
taxes and builds up this lo
cality.”
The farmer looked at the
merchant and then said:
“Why don’t you advertise
your goods and prices in your
home paper? I read it and
didn’t know that you carried
the goods I have here. Pic
tures and prices of your
goods would keep me posted
on your stock.”
Moral—-Advertise
COPYRIGHT UNPtRWOOD * UNDERWOOD.
IRISH ENVOY MAY BE
RECALLED.
Dr. Timothy Smiddy, Minister from
the Irish Free State to the United
States, whose recall to Dublin is be
lieved likely as a result of his fail
ure to attend the George Washing
ton Sulgrave Institute dinner.
been absent for a number of years.
To tax and to spend is the sole aim,
and little regard is given to the value
received for the expenditures. In a
recent issue of the Dearborne Inde
pendent Henry Ford made the state
ment that the United States govern
ment got along for nearly 150 years
without an income tax and no\v it can
hardly get along with one.
Governor Donahey of Ohio, in an
article in the Country Gentleman re
cently said: “In government we have
forgotten economics. It is hard to
secure the enactment of any law’ that
has no jobs attached and has nothing
to recommend it but its merits. It is
well nigh impossible to secure enact
ment of one that does awray with a job
or takes away some of the gravy la
dled out to the boys.”
A concrete example of economy in
government as practiced at the pres
ent time is the passage of a bill in
creasing the pay of National represen
tatives from $7,500 to $10,000 a year.
The average representative in con
gress is not worth to the country his
present salary and in a great major
ity of cases could not earn half of it
in any other line of endeavor.
The reason for all this is that the
people stand for it and the situation
will not improve until they put their
foot down on the wanton waste of
public moneys, and put it down hard.
DISILLUSIONMENT
Emma Goldman, who was deported
to Russia in 1919, has grown tired
of her promised land, and longs to
return to America again. She sailed
for Russia with great expectations.
She was to behold the birth of com
munism, where the workingman ceas
ed labor and all were rich. There
was to be no hunger and cold, no po
litical factions or jealousies; no dis
cord, but a government for the peo
ple by the people with the people
controlling everything through pro
letariat appointed commissars. Two
years later a soured, disappointed
old woman left Russia convinced that
her ideals of a lifetime were dust
and ashes. She had seen a hardy
people cowed by brutality, murdered
by thousands, with rapine and blood
shed reviving the most brutal in
stincts of man. The Bolshevic haven
for the weary and oppressed had
turned out worse for the toiler than
capitalistic rule.
It took Emma Goldman many
months to divorce her ideals from
the symbol of anarchy. She was born
and reared with a hatred of govern
ment and prevailing conditions and
believed hereself the Lord’s anoint
ed to preach the gospel of brotherly
love exemplified with the torch and
sword. She had persuaded herself
that the only road to happiness was
through communism. She found in
stead a volutary serfdon that appall
ed her. A people ridden by grafters
with no conscience and no love for
country.
The United States is full of these
idealists who want a change but do
not know what they want. They
fail to realize that they themselves
have built up the conditions under
which they live, that aeons have
passed bringing order out of chaos
by the adoption of set rules of so
ciety. The laws of church and state
were made by the people to govern
themselves and suppress the strong
from preying on the weak. Justice
may be blind but she has mighty
good hearing, and truth will prevail.
SMALL PAPERS HIT ONCE MORE.
The recently enacted postal pay rate
bill has again hit the small papers
hard. In many sections of the states
the city papers are steadily crowding
the country dailies and weeklies out
of the field, and the part about the
situation that hurts is that it is be
ing done with the connivance of the
government. For many years country
papers have enjoyed the privilege of
mailing their papers county-free, or
in other words paying no postage on
papers going to subscribers in the
county in which they are published.
Then the rate was fixed at one cent
a pound. Later an additional post
age charge was made for advertising
exceeding a certain amount. Then fol
lowed additional postage, and so on
ad infinitum.
The large city dailies deliver their
papers.by carrier or by express, many
of them maintaining their own cars
and messengers. They are in a posi
tion to dictate tqj congress as to rates
for themselves, and discrimination is
made against the smaller papers in
every instance.
For many 5'ears the government
has entered into competition with the
country printer by supplying stamped
and self addressed envelopes for a
sum very slightly in excess of the
postage. This has taken thousands of
dollars away from the small shop, and
has cost the government a pretty pen
ny, which comes back at the papers
in the shape of additional postage to
assimilate the losses sustained by such
unwise business methods. When the
postoft'ice department loses money the
people are saving money, as the ex
cess comes out of their pockets. If the
postoffice department makes money
the people must pay it.
FINLAND HAS DIFFICULTY
IN ENFORCING PROHIBITION
_
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 2.—
Finland, like' the United States, has
its prohibition difficulties and as a
POSSIBLE WAR BETWEEN
GREECE AND TURKEY
Former Minister of War of Greece,
General Pangalos, who in a stirring
speech in the House of Deputies
says: “The only way to teach reason
to Turkey is by armed force.” Greece
and Turkey have broken off relations,
due to the Angora government ex
pelling the Ecumenical Patriarchate,
who for seven centuries has repre
sented the Greek Orthodox Church,
at Constantinople.
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Reel and a Pathe News
censequence a meeting of represen
tatives of the larger towns was held
here recently to discuss means of
averting some of the evil conse
quences of the prohibition law.
The principal speaker summed up
the situation by saying that “in Fin
land everybody drinks except the
president,” whereas a few years ago
Finland was one of the most sober
country in the world.
It was also declared that the wrell
organized smuggling traffic brought
unlimited quantities of liquor to the
most remote parts of the country,
leading to increased drunkenness
among both men and women. Even
women and children, it was asserted
were taking to habitual drinking, and
the moral standard was rapidly de
dining, resulting in increased crim
inality. It was decided to invite the
authorities to take more stringent
measures to enforce the law.
In Helsingfors some restaurants
and clubs have been closed for of
fenses against the prohibition law.
Income tax statistics for last year
show that only 55 per cent of the eor
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porations reporting made mone>
enough to bring them in the taxpay
ing class. If the figures submitted be
true, it would appear that holding
stock in a corporation is not so uni
formly profitable as is commonly sup
posed.
Some energetic campaigners are
now proposing a move to eradicate
“religious illiteracy.” If the propo
nents of the new idea have a guaran
teed brand of religious knowledge to
offer, it ought to make a strong ap
peal. But it has always been difficult
for the layman to draw the line be
tween true religion and theological re
ligion.
Australia does not intend to be the
dumping ground for undesirable im
migrants and under a new law each
foreigner admitted must have in cash
not less than $190, besides good health
and able to stand the educational test.
As the world becomes more thiekl>
populated immigration will present a
serious problem to all nations.
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