The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-15
Phone 262 Phone

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 THE open cellar doar ,s no resprc- tpt nf persons
 THE catlr-sHtp Burnside has been located d, last.
 WE are try.ng tHe experiment af ine scholar in politics" says Lesli".s II work, too.
 THERE is a possibility that what senator Root didn't do won him tine Noble peace prize.
 WALL Street says that the admint~- traitor k tmmoderate in it's reforms WANTED. lmmpdcratc men
 THE latest dauce which k similar to the tango Is called thc Mustard Fintter II must he hot one.
 THE pope and also the kaiser have put the ban on tle tango dances with in their Jurisdiction Who k next
 VALDEZ is not as near heaven as Fairbanks Coast papers chronicle the results of several rallies held ther" recently.
 THE recriminatious and re-rccrimia- ations revealed hy the Tammany prob es. canyine" one of the existence of perpetual motion.
 WE respectfully suggest to the State of Texas the building of a few arks for such emersencies as at present confront is people
 
 VERY Frequently the other fellow needs the conceit taken out of him, but the man Who does the extracting needs not add it To lis own supply.
 OF course New Works great corpora ,ions will try to evade the recently enacted "Seventh day of rest" law As has been observed before. the pri- vate owners of public utilities are out for profit
 POINDF,XTER advocates a govern ment steamship line for the west coast Government ownership is in the very air. Also PoindeXter is live one, and his interest in Alaska is the interest of a friend.
 THE cost of living has gone up about sixty per cent in the last fif- teen years. wages have averaged a raise of about thirty per cent in the same time. There seems to be dis crepancy somewhere, and even those who can't see it can feel it
 WHICH reminds us of the statement made by more than one of this citys merchants that prices here are just about the same as Seattle prices. with the freight added" The local market quotations of last week cause us to wonder who originated so puzzline a statement.
 THE beef trust refused to discuss the proposed plan of lowering the price of meat by the governments re-stock- ing some of the western ranges and having U. $. cavalrymen act as cow boys. But the beef trusts rebuff may not be sufficient to entirely dis courage the enterprise
 LILLIAN Russell, the noted actress and perveyor of beauty hints declares that she will not pay the government tax on her annual sl0O,000 income. as long as she has not the right to vote And to show that she means what she says she adds that she would go to jail rather than to pay up the tax.
 THE, revision of the tariff will probably not lower the cost of liv ing much, but it will raise it. and the passing of these laws, aside from their correctness of principle, will prove to the people that change does not spell disaster. Then they will not fear to enact legislation that will produce a cash benefit.
 IT may be that Gerry of Rhode fs- land and Davenport of Oklahoma do not know that the climate of Alaska is conductive to the accomplishing of great things as well as the dreaming of great dreams. It is quite likely, however. that they are trying to achieve notoriety without having to pay for the services of a cartoonist
 THE Mclean baby likes a COW bet ter than it does a mechanical toy and young Morgan does the unusual for millionaire by observing an old college custom. And lot of us get so interested in reading about it that we do not remember that we cannot af- ford even cows milk for our babies. much less send our sons to college.
 EVERYBODY is rejoiced to know that Stefansson has escaped death or serious disaster. It would probably astonsh the doughty young explorer as much as the general public, to know that missionaries and Hudsons Bay men at McPherson have known for twenty-five. perhaps forty years. of the existence of the blond Eskimos.
 MRS. Christopher. fire-inspector. went about instructing foreign work ing girls. by object lessens. in what to do in case of fire; she was drop ped" from the department. Max