The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-12
ONE MAYS MEAT lUOTHERS POISON

affair which occurred in the office of the Juneau Dispatch on Wednesday appears in the news columns of of last week came to hand today and it is notable that not a word either concerning it.
 Nothing has happened in Juneau within the year that partook more cf ,hc character of news and inI which there was more lively inter est-aud yet no mention is made of i,. Perhaps the parties to the matter were awakened by the incident to al realization of the spectacle they have been making before the whole world and realized the propriety that, as newspapers. they owed something to. the, good name of the town. The Alaska Transcript which has been tn object of assault at the hands of both papers as the organ of the. Western Federation of Labor con. tains the sane and dispassionate com. ment upon the affair which here follows: And in this connection 1t is due to be said that if it is true that the Western Federation or Miners is back of or controls the uttsrances Of the Transcript 1t is gasuy to the credit of that organiza, lion In the midst of a whirl Of vic. ions passion as expressed particularly i'm the columns of the Record and Of which the Transcript has frequently been the target. that newspaper has maintained an attitude of dignity and conservatism wholly creditable and for which-bespeaking the good re- pute Of the community itselt-the citizens of that town-The Alaskan speaking as an onlooker from dis. tauce-owe 1t a debt of gratitude.
 Mir Summers. who received rhe slight wound in the encounter and who escaped death by a mere hair is. according to popular repute, one of the owners of the Record responsible for it's utterances. Now "ir' as the Transcript says, mo more self.control had been shown by those whom the Record has attacked than was shown by Mir. Summers when given 8 dose of his own medi, cine. there might have been more than one tragedy long before this"
 The editorial in the Record which called out the expression in the Dis. patch to which he took exception, was of that outlaw" class-an at. tack upon a woman-such as, uttered by any newspaper south of Mason and Dixon's line would have result ed in general slaughter of every body responsible-and the bloody re- suit been commended by the whole community. The expression which Mir. Summers felt justified in resent ing by personal assault was not at all comparable to it as provocation.
 Under the heading "A Lesson to Juneau" the Transcript says:
 The shooting of C. M Summers, e rrettabIr as such affairs always are, may yet serve a useful purpose if it shall result in bringing home to the people of Juneau full realization of the sort of thing they have suffered to grow up among them.
 For more than a year past the Daily Record has been run as the personal organ of a little coterie of politicians and as an adjunct to a law office. It's sole object has been to further the political and business foortuues of its sponsors. In pursuit of this end the English language-at least as much of it as its editors command-has been exhausted in yi- tuperation and abuse of various and sundry persons who had incurred the enmity of any one or more of the four or five persons controlling the paper. If no more self-control had been shown by those whom the