Iditarod pioneer., 1910-11-20
WHERE SAM GOT OFF WRONG

Everyone who does much reading knows Sam Blythe, the who wies the political prod pole for the Satur day Evening Post. Sam handles sharp stencil, and he has political dope under his bonnet than any other journalist in Washington Whats he isn't afraid to turn it loose on the public and then.
 He knows those senators and cabinet ncumbrances we'll is with their virtues and their fobles that he could probably tell you right off the bat whether Tom Carter ham and eggs for breakfast drinks his grape fruit.
 You have probably his stuff under the capton 'Whos Who and Why,' where he sets out in his and entertaining manner Serious and Frivolous Facts About the Great and the Near Great"
 Now is probable that Sam is generally right in his deductions concerning the Great and the Near Great else he would not be writing about them long, But know of mistake he made and it landed solar plexus with much force that it hurt-Wherefore going to write about it.
 In of the numbers of the Post Sam writing about Robert Bruce Macon of Arkansas whom he called the watchdog of the expense accounts,the who always raises his voice in protest against the squanderng of government money for the building of palaces for bassadors abroad nor shall any commissioner sent there take any joy rides the Appan Way, get haircu shave shampOos shines at the of the proetariat.'
 In his peucid picking of the personality of the said Robert Bruce Sam probably voted whereof he wrote but further along he got his chips mixed and said something that will make every Alaskan sit up and take notice. To quote further:
 When the House was debating the Rivers and Hsbors bi which only helps the haors but usually harho lot of help for the gentlemen who need in their districts in the shape pork he always I1snswas heare enough to make some crack
 
 propiation harbors the South Now Hampe named names but he looked hard Robert Bruce Macon
 Presently Robert got in, through the honoed medium moving st;ike the last word which provided him with minute for explosion He said, taking Hanpies
 usou himself ta! he wanted understood he for river and harbo appropriations and public buildings and all such for they knows North South East and no West But and here the percussion aridwhen it WINE URKE AID MILITARY ROADS R ALASKA against drop ill his militant although somewhat spare body And by the token there few things included in tue bill for the Arkansas
 
 Now it be remembered that the Saturday Evening Post has circulation of million week. That means that it has five million readersa fine bunch of voters and taxpayers before whom spread that libel Alaska military roads. 'Wine-junkets and military roads in Alaska, ,woudnt that shiver your sealboard The idea of putting the most vital need of Alaska in the class with wnesoaked libuser the national treasury gresonal committee spree. Wouldn't it make you slam the stupid, unsuspectng Sam with stuffed stocking of unsterilzed stable scourings!
 Sam may know all about Robert Bruce, but it is hun dred to shot that he don't know whether the owl from Chandlar to Rampant Sundays not. Sam may know that every congressman in the United States works overtime to get fat slice of the River and Harbor appropriation to make deep waterway out of he don't know that the mser pttance allowed by for the building of post roads in Alaska has been used where every dollar would do the good and has been great and lasting benefit to the territory.
 This writer who hippany losses off the subject of Alaska military roads with wine junkets and things of does not know that of the officers of the department and few friends of Alaska have been fighting for years tooth and nail get little money for military roads, not much because the department needed military roads, but that the people of Alaska needed post roads and there absolutely other to get them
 We would like to see Sam eating those words, each done to brown turn, and would like to it right in the columns of the Post to the end that these five million people might learn that Sam Blythe don't know anything about Alaska or her roads.
 It is not unnatural that the people Outside should wink and laugh in their sleeves when Alaska military roads mentioned. What the department have for