The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-21

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 Who first cries ''hold, enough"
 The truth of the matter is, Teddy, that the fight you are now making on the trusts should have been made ten or fifteen years ago but your predeces- sors did not have the bowels in their bodies to do it. Wall street is snare and it's operators are of no more bene- fit to the country than were the gamb- lers to Dawson in the early days. They are not producers, but live by speculating on tho product of others. They are teaches and parasites and the sooner they are down and out, the better it will be for us poor people who know not the game of bridge.
 Why, Teddy, should fortunes be made and lost on Wall street in Feb ruary on September wheat that is not even sprouted? Why should there be speculation in Whitehorse copper that still reposes in the bowels of the earth waiting for Bill Clark or Ole Dixon to reveal it to the sunlight of heaven? It may never be seen, and there you are.
 The Stroller, Teddy, has long been an admirer of the doctrines promul- gated by Jefferson, preached by Jack son and practiced by Tilden, the prin- ciples of democracy that advocates free whiskey and lots of it, but in the present controversy he is with you un- til the trusts stagger up to the ropes and say it is no use to continue "de go."
 The gamblers may do their best, Teddy, to produce a panic but they cannot do it so long as the. farmers all have money in the banks and are rid ing around the country in automobiles and rubber-tired buggies.
 Go after them, Teddy. We got along and put four-bits in the plate every Sunday when there was not a copper mine working in the entire country and we can do it again-two- bits, anyway.
 Besides the great manufacturing in- dustries do not need to buy copper on Wall street. When they need it they will go to the copper markets of the world and buy it. Put fence across both ends of Wall street and the world will still wag. Who ever produced anything on Wall street? Why it was never even plowed. Traverse Wall street from one end to the other and you won't find a single prospect hole.
 You, Teddy, and the Stroller may entertain differnt views about sleep ing in a single upper bunk with Book CT Washington, but we are unit in the matter of going after the trusts in a manner that will cause them to sit up and take notice.
 When the gamblers find they can't bluff you into laying down your hand they will quit betting blues and call you.
 The closing down of the Guggen- helm operations at Dawson has thrown 24O0 men out of employment. The furry in money circles is said not to be responsible for the close down which is attributed to the inability oi the company to secure material for carrying on the work of construction. -Whitehorse Star.
 This from the Whitehorse Star, relates to former residents of Ketchi- kan, who have many friends here MT. and Mrs. H. ". Vance and lit tie daughter came down from Conrad Saturday and remained in town until Wednesday. While here Mr. Vance visited .the various mines and was much pleased with the progress made since he was employed on the Copper King three years ago. He enjoys the reputation of being one of the best posted mining men in the Yukon, and is still foreman of the operations of the Conrad Consolidated company at Conrad" "
 The Whitehorse Star asserts that Juneau girls are so timid they jump at proposals.
 It really looks as if there might be large amount of method in the railroad madness up at Valdez. If so, it is the kind of madness that is like ly to count in the long run as it ap- pears to have done in the short time it has thus far been in the running. It is the kind of madness which builds towns and cities while less enterpris- ing communities are splitting on their hands and making a show of getting ready to do something. Of the new elec- tric railroad the Prospector of the oth inst. says: ''Already, though it may be hard to realize, miles of grading is finished and ready for the ties and rails, and certain it is that, by the time the Jeanie arrives. there will be twelve miles of the road graded. The tie cutters are working hard, and large number of them were piled up alongside of the grade, ready to be laid. Two more camps are to be made to-day, in all and seven big four