The daily Alaskan., 1908-10-07

fourteen ounces TUT pound. show cd him how to adulterate de candy. put him up to fifty different dodges but 1t was no use. He went to Buff falo. and continued his honest and Eullelsss career. Dat was three years ago, and now death has hlm flu It's grasp, and we have got to send his family $50 from our treasury to keeF 'em onr de town.
 "My freus, don't want to stand up yere and tell you dat de squOr' and honest man of today has no mo show In de world dan a straw fin a hurry calne. but l want you to ngger some things out fur yourselves,
 When trust puts de price Of aIgs at 50 cents dozen. does 1t encourage pore men to steal or buy 'em?
 When he butcher puts de price of pound of bacon at one-fifth of your days wages. does he encourage you tc beat him if you kin?
 When all de trustees and deacons oi & church am blzness men engaged lI maxim ebery dollar dey kin, no mat ter how, has de minister any moral right to stand up and preach agir greed and ayar!ce?
 "When some of dose trustees and deaCons ar publicly charged wld graft in, have dey any right to CritlcIse de minister for runnln' away wid anod der mans wife?
 "When de landlord of your house has no care for your health, kin he expect dat you am gwine to sQuar up to de last dollar befo' you move out?
 De clothler advertises sixteen dol lar suits for $7.5O You go and buy and find dat you have got six dollar suit. Ar deir any redress except to beat somebody else?
 ''You pay your money fur a ton of coal and 1t Is short from a hundred 70 two hundred pounds. If you kin beat de baker out of dollar 1t will help you to git eben,
 How to Get Even.
 "Dar hasn't been a dollars wuth of repairs on Paradise hall fur de last fifteen years. aud yet we git notice from de landlord dat he am gwine to raise de rent 10 per cent. We may protest and argue. but 1t will do no good. De ouly way we kin git eben is to work counterfeit money off on him when we pay de rent
 My frens. I'm not standin' up yere as either an honest or dishonest man. I'm simply sayin' dat de man who tries to go 1t alone am gwine to git left. He's got to go wld de crowd. If dar's 6 dollar iu sight he's got to grab 1t fust and make his eXplana- tions afterward. It's greed and graft from one end of de land to de odder. and about de only puSsons to say any. thing agln 1t am de preachers who am glttin' no salaries and have muffin to lose
 Twenty thousand Americans am croBsIn' to Europe ebery year, and moi a single one of 'em dares to sit down fur half an hour wId a German, an Englishman or a Crenchman and de- fend our pollticg or our ways of doin' business. If he tried to he'd be over whelmed in five minutes.
 We have had and still have heap to say about Venezuela and Haiti, but from all kin see in de papers both of dose kentries kin gib us cards and spades on honesty and have lots left.
 While Is sorry to hear of de death of Brudder Johnson. 1 take 1t dat he am better off. In fact, must take 1t dat way. He had either to turn bur glar or highwayman to git his sheer of dis worlds goods. and be was shore to be caught in time and sent to prison under a law passed by men charged wld sellin' deir votes. Brudder John son had no show. 1t was wise thing fur his liver to enlarge and carry him or. No entrance fee am charged at de gates of heaven" NJ. QUAD.