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The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
PRESIDENT COMEDIES hONORS

Referring TO the passage of the
reciprocity treaty. President Taft
made the following public statement:
1T would have failed of passage, but
the Democrats followed the dictates
of a higher policy and refused to
play politics
Such plain statement of a plain
truth by a Republican president is,
to say the least, refreshing and con
stitutes the most convincing proof
possible that the hope Of the frl-
ture is centered in the Democratic
party. Not that this reciprocity
measure represents the Democratic
idea of what trade treaty with Can
ada should be. for it does not but
that they handled the affair as they
did shows that the Democratic party
under its present great leaders is
prving deep. is working for results
without making buster. is doing
things for the good Of the masses
without making bid for lmelight
glory
1t was possible TO give the good
things 10 the people that We're pro-
vided in that bill by passing it
without amendment 1t was impOs-
sible to pass il at all with Dem
Ocralic amendments tackled on. hence
the wisdom of its immediate passage
without amendment The Republi-
can party. true to its special privi-
lege instinct hoped against hope that
the Democrats in congress might be
dragged into the old political net
and work the old game of politics
against a bill fathered by a Repub-
lican president.
The weak places in the reciprocity
bill will all promptly be remied after
the next presidential election, for
then the administration will be en-
tirely Democratic. and that internal
tariff bill which creates both mil
lionaires and paupers will be made
to look like the tabled thirty
cents" after which we will need no
commercial treaties with any coun-
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31

The claimants refused to be held
up; whether as a matter Of prinCi-
pie or for fear they would not get
the goods after paying twice for
them, The News does net know
They had complied with the law,
they had staked their claims and
paid their money BY any notion OF
justice. n y should have had final
judgment long ago; and by all the
evidence that is vet before the pub.
lie. that judgment should have been
in their favor
The United States cruiser Buffalo
has been lying for weeks in the
harbor at C.rdova. Alaska She has
stayed there. because she couldn't
get away. She was out OF coal
Within a few miles of her are mil
lions of tons of frst-Cla fuel
which. if the government had per
mitted, would by this time be regu
larry on ;he market. But the gov
eminent would net permit; and the
buffalo had TO wait for collier
10 come 500 miles from Puget
sound. bringing an inferior grade
of fuel AT tremendous pliCe.
Alaska will not seCede. because
she can't She can only practice her
vocabulary. and pray for the time
when ray of sense and a touch OF
justice will once more visit the in
terror department at Washington
But it is not pleasant to think
that community of Americans are
held to their allegiance by force;
and it is still less pleasant to real
ize that their anger is just. II
took the advisers of George Ill Il
dozen years to stir up the American
revolution. If Pinchot and Jimmy
Garfield could have taken the place
OF Greenville and Lord North. the
Declaration of Independence would
be dated a decade earlier.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
when IT WHISTLES, SLOW UP

LONDON. June 24.-High-powered
automobiles in England are required,
under recent municipal police Ordi-
nance. to carry an apparatus which
will give warning when the city speed
limit is exceeded or will autOmatical-
ly diminish the speed in such cases.
The apparatus for the first class.
which is much used. consists of an
air, compressing cylinder prolonged at
the bottom by a smaller cylinder
containing piston which has two
peripheral vents and is forced down
by a spring. The piston of the air
COMPRISING cylinder is connected
with the driving mechanism and its
velocity is proportional TO the speed
OF the vehicle. So long as this
speed is below the prescribed limit
the pressure of the air, which con
tinually escapes through one CT the
vents of the small piston. remains
too low to move this piston and
compress the spring. When the legal
speed limit is exceeded however
the pressure rises and the small
piston is forced back until the see
ond vent comes opposite whistling
vent in the wall Of the small cylind-
er. so that the whistle is sounded by
the escaping air.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
MUCKRAkERS.

There is more truth than poetry
Taft in his last special message TO
congress. that the muckrakers in all
Alaskan matters were doing more
harm than all things else put to-
sether in retarding needed legislation
for Alaska. Nothing can ever be
gained for a cause by calling names
or charging fraud or dishonest mo-
lives. That the president has been
actuated by motives of honesty in
all matters pertaining TO Alaska
must be admitted. OF course he is
woefully wrong in his ideas as to
how the local affairs of this territory
should be handled. He forgets that
the citizens of Alaska are as truly
American as are the citizens of the
most patriotic section of the Ameri.
can union, hence they will never be
satisfied with anything less than alb
solute and unqualified home rule He
does not seem to realize that the
people of Alaska would take it as an
insult to have forced upon them a
system OF local government that
would vest the law-making power
in the hands of either non-residents
or carpet-baggers. What we insist upon
is absolute home rule in the fullest
sense Of that word. and We will wait
and fight rather than accept a terri.
torial bill that will degrade us and
mark us as unfit TO attend to our
own business.
AS to the stand taken by the pres.
ident upon the disposition Of the
coal in Alaska, We should withhold
our condemnation until we have
thoroughly studied the situation and
the principle involved 1t must al
ways be borne in mind that coal is
not analogous to gold. for IS pei
cent of the cost of mining gold con
sists in finding it. while the fact is
that the great coal deposits consist
Of property about as real as the cap
itol at Washington. 1t must be fur
Their remembered that the government,
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31

owns this coal and as to all coal
lands upon which private rights have
not attached. the government should
deal in such a manner as to con
serve the rights of the people who
own it. In other words. the govern
ment should not give away valuable
property that belongs to the people.
OF course the people should be Civ
en- the opportunity TO use their own
is what is the right way to do it? 1t
would he a crime on the part OF the
government. now that it owns an
abundance of coal if il should ever
permit il 10 be monopOlized by the
q al baruns. and the consuming mass
es be compelled TO pay prices fixed
Ivy the trusts as they should see
fit II is the plain duty of the gov
eminent 10 see To il that the con
sumers of this coal which belongs TO
the people shall be protected in
getting coal at reasonable price.
1t is an outrage that the poor of
the Pacific coast cities are compelled
TO pay from sl4 to SIS per ton for
coal that should not cost them more
than s. if the hand of greed should
be compelled to withdraw The ques-
ton is worthy OF careful thought
and judgment should be suspended
until a proper method is arrived at
which will protect both the rights
of the people who own the coal and
the people who shall consume it.
AS to the Controller bay incident it
seems that the muckrakers have
made a mountain of molehill.
Let all bona fide railroad projects
have terminal facilities. We have
terminal facilities and to spare for
all And finally we would suggest
that il is to our interest to have cap
ital come to Alaska whether il be
Guggenheim. Morgan or any other.
Capitalists are all welcome here. and
every encouragement that we can
offer in the way of fair dealing
should be given with hearty good
will We need capital and must have
railroad to the interior which will
be kept out as long as we sanction
the muckraker
The muckraker-"Ro Rouse NIT i'm. ="
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
REAL STORY Of THE
Ri RECENT II FRISCO i| j' QUAKE

SAN FRANCISCO. July 1.-Two of
felt on the Pacific coast since the
disaster of April Is. 1906. shook San
Francisco and many other California
cities this afternoon shortly after
9 O'Clock. Reno, Nev.. was Jared.
In San Francisco two men died of
heart affection. superinduced by the
temblors; another was injured try
ing to flee to safety. and woman
was overcome by fright. In San Jose
two telephone girls We're pitched
headlong down stairs by the quake
and injured.
Cafes. hotels. office buildings. the.
aters and homes in this city We're
depopulated and the people thronged
the streets in fear. Plaster and brick
fell everywhere The phone service
was crippled and wild reports of
damage flooded the district
Clocks in the University of Cali
fornia observatory and the state CAPT
toll building stopped. The quake was
50 severe that the seismograph a.
Santa Clara college was broken. The
Berkeley. Stockton. Sacramento, San
ia Clara Santa Rosa. San Jose, Nor
gan Hill. Gilroy and other California
towns.
The shock of 1906 lasted A. sec
onds; that of today 40 seconds. The
former resulted in the death of ap-
proximately 800 persons and millions
Of dollars in property was destroyed
While the quake of five years ago
had no definite direction. moving
erratically, that of today moved from
southeast to northwest.
All of San Francisco tonight Is
talking of the big quake of 1906.
Frightened by the swaying of the
buildings in the down town district
today, crowds in cafes. stores. office
buildings and theaters fled to the
streets. while in the residence dis
trict. where flimsily built frame
houses predominant, the near-panic
was fully as great
The direction of the shocks was
scutheasterly -northwesterly. They
were of about five seconds duration
each. In the down town district
cracks appeared in the inner walls
of few buildings. and great guam
titles of plaster were loosened and
fell.
The dead:
HERBERT HADLEY. 80 Baird St;
shock induced heart failure; died in
the ambulance on the way to the
hospital.
EMIL ANDERSON. laborer; be-
ing treated for fractured skull at
emergency hospital; died from shock
caused by fright at quake.
The injured:
Robert Dawson. waiter, arm cash
ed when ran into plate glass window
as he tried to leave the cafe where
he was employed.
Mamie Clarity, hysterical from
fright. was restrained from jumping
from an upper window of printing
plant She was sent to hospital
for treatment before she could be
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
Phone 262 Phone
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
TAXES SHOULD BE PAID.

The council should be given the
unqualified support Of the citizens
II the town in its efforts TO collect
all of the taxes. Every person
should be sufficiently loyal TO come
To the front and pay his taxes The
man who does not pay his taxes is
a drone and is burden upon those
who do and should be made to feel
that he is getting something for
nothing OF course he receives all
of the benefits of town government.
His property is protected from fire
just the same as his neighbor who
pays and he gets the benefit of po-
lice protection. street Improvements
etc. etc. He should have pride
enough to want TO pay his share of
taxed too high. he should have gone
before the council while it was sit
ting as a board of equalization and
have presented his side OF the case
and We feel that we are justified in
saving without qualification that the
gentlemen who are serving the city
as cpuncilmen would have adjusted
his assessments fairly and impartial
ly II ne had any complaint that
was clearly the only honorable way
for him 10 have the matter rene
died Now that the time for equal
to refuse to pay his taxes on &C
count of unfair assessment. is sim
ply a declaration that he will not
pay his just share towards the run
ming OF the city affairs. and is proof
conclusive that he lacks in public
spirit and public pride. That he is
willing to receive benefits at the
expense OF others; in other words
that he is a drone.
We hope that the council will pro
coed against every person WHO refus-
es to pay his taxes even though it
costs more than the taxes to collect
them: for they will thus establish
u precedent that will be valuable
in the future. and it will be an as
surance to those who pay, that they
are not made the fall guys. If all
of the taxes are paid promptly with
out the expense OF collection by
suit. the town will soon be out of
debt, and the taxes will be reduced
in the future. We feel certain that
We are expressing the sentiment of
81 per cent of the citizens when
we say that proceedings should be
instituted against every person who
refuses TO pay his taxes and thus
place all on an equal footing.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31

in the matter:
II is quite clear that the legis-
lature created by that bill could MT
repeal or amend any law that has
effect in Alaska unless congress
should either first repeal the law
or by act. permit the legislature to
amend or repeal il In either case
before the legislature could act. con-
gress would first have to pass q
bill which would give it authority
to do so We do not now understand
the reason for the provisions of this
section of the bill. as it would GER
tainly delay the legislature in ex.
ercising the right to make laws
regulating local matters
AS TO the limitations on the legis
lature. contained in Section II. We
agree with "A Democrat" 1t seems
to us that all Of the limitations con
tanned in Section II pertain eXClu-
sively to our own local affairs and
business and that being So the PEG
pie here should not be restricted by
any kind of limitations. 1t is in
effect a confession that We are not
to be trusted in our own important
affairs The people might want high
er license for sale OF liquor or they
might want lower license, or they
might want right to vote on the
question of wet or dry. These are
our own local affairs and they should
be left to us.
Ii is absolutely necessary that any
progressive city that has a future.
Sh fnr M nntS
and it is right that it should, for
the citizens of the future will get
the benefits and they should pay
some of the cost; beside if the
right to go into debt were denied. it
would prevent all public improve
ments Of any importance as it is
quite evident that an improvement of
any consequence could not be paid
for in cash by the people i'll one
year.
There are other matters concerning
that bill that do not at present
look right to us, but We are not yet
sufficiently posted to give an UNI
qualified opinion on them. We shall
endeavor to do so in the future.
In the meantime we would sug-
sest that the people make a study
of that bill and find out the objec-
tiOnable things that it contains and
lay the matter before our delegate
when he returns. which will be soon
now. If the people will get together
and agree on any changes they
want made in the bill. We have no
doubt but that Mr. Wickersham will
yield to the desires of the people
or course We will insist on real
home rule, and will not consent to a
legislature without authority to leg
islate.- Editor.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31

Yukon feels the destructive influence
of the hammer Its blows are more
fatal than the virus Of smallpox. The
knockcr destroys confidence and
bre eds discomfort and strife He
leaves uncertainty and darkness
where there should be sunshine.
faith and progress
This country is not alone in having
to deal with the microbe of destruc-
ton Ii il were it would be a good
land To flee. But the small. weazen-
minded man who sees everything as
evil exists in many places. In most
instances he should be suppressed.
In Yukon in particular should he be
SAT upon. This land depends chiefly
on prospecting and mining develop
ment In no industries are needed
dence would prove fatal in such en-
terprises in the worlds most richly
Niih'"Vu al HpiitSs
In every new land. the man of
the right sort believes in the doctrine
of boost and be cheerful. 1t is the
part of every true citizen OF a COM
munity like this 10 show the man
with the crouch that he is in the
hopeless minority. that new chances
develop daily. that the world is a
good place in which to live. that the
North is region with which to
stay.
The knocker is being condemned
the length and breadth OF civilization.
Seattle held on the first day OF July
the novel ceremony of burning the
hammer. The exercise is allegCrical.
The object of burning the hammer is
proper. Every community might do
likewise. Last winter Juneau signed
popular circular to refrain from
knocking for sixty days. 1t was Il
glorious constitution for small com
munity. ldltarod papers now come
out preaching the gospel of suppress
Ing the knocker.
Let Dawson and Yukon catch the
spirit of the day Burn the hammer,
bury the knCcker and eXalt and re
joice with the optimist. Keep busy
and boost. remembering that they
who live by the hammer shall perish
by the hammer. and they who dwell
in the sunshine shall gather the har-
veSt.-DawSOn News
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
henever the snow is off.

whenever the snow is off
Is ii any wonder that people
81 hampered are fast losing all
patience with the government which
stops their work? Is 1t strange
that they are losing their love for
a flag which TO them is nothing
but an emblem OF tyrannical inter
ference?
What makes the situation all the
more uncomfortable is that in many
cases. the Alaskans have complied
with the law for taking up and
working of the coal claims: and
are still debarred from doing so.
J. A. Eddy cited the dates in the
famous Cunningham claims; bur il
will do no harm To cite them again
The Cunningham claims We're filed
on in 1904. The full payment of
more than s50.0oo for these claims
was made to the government in
19ht-in Feb uary. il we remember
rightly and the claimants received
the certificate of entry. That was
more than four years ago. For all
those -four years, the government
has kept both the money and the
claims: has refused to let the claim
ants mine the coal. and refused to
give back the money; has monkey
ed along with one investigation"
after another. while Alaskan develop
ment freezes in the prehistoric way
Take note. please, that even the
Immaculate apostle cf Withdrawing
everything, the sanity Jimmy Car
field himself was willing to pass
the Cunningham claims if the claim
ants would pay something more than
the law declared they must pay.
They had committed no crime which
would not. in the opinion of this
righteous little man. be atoned for
by comparatively small cash offer
ing to the gods of conservation"
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
S1ORk BREAKS BOY FAMINE

HARRISON, n. Y, June "a. - A
general air of happiness is apparent
in this town as the result of the
birth of three boy babies during the
last "a hours In the last two years
only three boys have been born,
while more than so girls have been
brought by the stork.
The village had been getting ner-
vous over the great outnumbering
of the strong sex in the birth rate,
but with three boys almost in a
bunch there is less apprehension.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
TWAS WOMAN DONE THE ACT

BALTIMORE, June 2G.-Atlas, who
held up the world. was woman
and not a man, according to the
Rev. DR.. Eugene Noble. president
OF Grouche college, in an address
to the graduating class of that
school.
This idea was given me by a
sculptor" DR.. Noble explained. Il
happened into his studio and saw a
nearly life-size figure of woman
carved in marble. Her attitude was
of one supporting a great burden
and against her shoulders was a
great white globe. i always had
been taught to believe said. that
Atlas was a man.
That is where you are wrong,
replied the sculptor. Atlas is a
woman. All the weight of the world
know is borne by woman. and it
rests en- her heart and on her
head"
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
AWAY WITH THE HAMMER

The man with the hoe has been
painted an object Of pity. Now comes
the modern crusade CHASING the man
with the hammer an object of alb
hOrrence. They are well pictured.
One symbolizes slavish ignorance.
the other pessimism and destruction
Yukon knows little. if anything,
of the man with the hoe. but is in
tested with number of the genus
koners are loyal, are men who look
toward the sunlight and not to the
dark. are optimists.
Every man having an interest in
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
WEBSTER LIKES LONG CREEK

A. b. Webster. who has been oper-
ating on Ester creek for the past
two or three years. and who left
for the Ruby strike about two
months ago. returned on Monday and
reports that he is very favorably
impressed with the possibilities of
that camp. He has secured an OPP
ton on something like 30 claims
and has good lays let in several in
stances. He expects to clean up his
business in this camp by early fall
and will spend the winter locating
the paystreak on Long creek and
tributaries
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31

AT the next regular meeting OF
the Fairbanks Commercial club some
action should be taken to form itself
into boosters club as we'll. Any
man who will not lend his support
to an effort to better the conditions
of the city in which he lives. and
will even go out CT his way to class
it as graft. is not entitled to the
support of the people of the camp,
and they should promptly let him
feel their displeasure in his decrease
in business.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
ITS DRUNKEN. PREMISES

An order was signed Friday by
Judge Cushman granting a writ OF
error in the case of United States VS..
c. A. Munroe. and the case will now
be carried to the supreme court OF
the United States.
This is the case which has been
tried several times at Tanana and
finally determined in the higher court
here by the acquittal of the defend
ant. The appeal is at the instance of
the district attorneys office.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
Correspondence

Under this head The Alaska Citi-
zen will be pleased to publish COM
munications on subjects of general in
terest. All letters should bear the
name and address of the writer, not
necessarily for publication, but for
reference and as a guarantee OF
good faith. If publication Of name
is not desired, pen-name should be
attached
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
STEAMER TETliN OFF
FOR HEAlY RIVER

Steamer Tetlin got away for the
upper Tanana Thursday evening
with w. H. Newton. the trader. and
family on board. The Tetlin was
under charter to Mr.. Newton for
the trip for the purpose of transport
ing goods sufficient to carry on hit
winter business.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
Fairbanks. July %. 1911.

al Udlh5. July 80. 1'il.
Editor Citizen
read over the home rule bill
that You published two weeks ago
and think that some explanation
ought to be given about it.
BY Section all of the laws that
now apply 70 Alaska are continued
in force till amended or repealed
by congress. Does that mean that
the legislature of Alaska could not
legislate as 10 any of the present
laws until congress first repealed
them?
BY Section -. a great many things
are taken away from the legislature,
such as dealing with the liquor
question, gambling question, the Civ
ing of franchises, creating bonded
Indebtedness and number Of other
things it can't do.
| don't quite understand what
these things mean. 1t seems to me
that the legislature has very little
power under that bill. think that
town should have the right to
vote bonds for public Improvements.
and to put in its own water and
light works and telephone if the
people want to do that sort Of
thing, and if l understand that bill
the people could never get that
right, nor could the legislature make
lien law that the people might
happen to want unless congress
should first repeal the lien laws
that now exist II l read that bill
light | think it is not a home rule
bill. If l am wrong will you straight
en- me out. We ought to know the
truth about that bill, and if it is
not what We want we should ask
our delegate to change it SO that
it would give us the power to fix
our own laws. Hoping that am
not asking too much from Demo-
cratic paper, l am yours truly,
A DEMOCRAT
The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31
NEWSPAPER MEANNESS.

Il never was SO provoked i'll my
life"
What is the matter. my love-?
The paper this morning has an
article concerning my new necklace.
and gives the value of it at the fig
ure named to the customs in
spector when we reached New York.
feel like dying of modification.