The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-19

animals at home.
 MEMBERS of the fair sex are giving fairly good church fairs in Fairbanks these days.
 EVIDENTLY Mir. Wickersham is having harder time than he at first anticipated in mending his poli- tical fences in Valdez.
 FAIRBANKS is just like flypaper
 In only this one way
 That if you ever land in it
 You're almost sure to stay.
 ONLY two more weeks of the political season remain. That thought will bring a sense of relief to every body including the candidates
 A VOTE for the full Democratic ticket is vote for more local in fluence in Washington on behalf of Alaska. Voters should remember that when they cast their ballots.
 ANYHOW Mir. Wickersham cannot claim the credit for getting con gress to pass the Alaska coal leasing bill Thus he will be forced to con fess that there is someone else in Washington who can get needed Alaska legislation besides himself.
 THERE is activity in various quar- ters just now The birds are flying southward. in search of warmer climate. hunters are on the trail of a caribou run, and prospectors are heading for the Tolovana in search of the elusive paystreak.
 RUGGED men. such as the Alaska pioneers. whose life in the open gives them health and wholesomeness of mind. always insist on fair play. Such men will be back of MT. Roth and will discountenance those who are found responsible for the con temptible effort made to cheat him of his position as district attorney.
 PEOPLE of Fairbanks have req son to feel proud of their Commer- cial club which is ever working for the improvement of local conditions. The effort being made to get bet ter mail service for Fairbanks is but one of the many progressive ideas that have been advanced by that organization.
 THE SpaSm has some of the same tendencies that the Russians have displayed since the war started. Be cause the name St. Petersburg is suggestive of the German language, the Russians have changed the name of their capital city to "Petrograd." In line with a similar policy, the Spasm refers to the Ruby Record Citizen as the Ruby Record" for the supposed purpose of spiting The Alaska Citizen.
 WHETHER Mir Wickersham is re- elected or not. he will go back to Washington in December for final session of the SiXty-third congress. As a representative of the people of Alaska. he should be urged to en- deavor to get congress to grant the city of Fairbanks the right to issue municipal bonds, for until that right is granted the city's growth must be more or less delayed It is to be expected that Fairbanks will take on new life and new growth when the construction is started on the new railroad, and thus the bond mat ter should be hurried as much as possible.
 TT is not the intention of The Citizen to protect guilty man. and if the charges made against MT. Roth are true, this paper would not hesitate to condemn him. But The Citizen believes that Mir. Roth has a right to know who is making these underhand charges against him, that he may have the opportunity which every American citizen claims. to defend himself. The very fact that Mr Roth seeks publicity of the charges made against him, and the further fact that his opponents are working in the dark, are the strong est kind of evidence that MT. Roth is the victim of one of the most un derhand conspiracies ever concocted against an upright man.
 
 WHERE THE WEST BEGINS. Out where the handclasp's a little
 stronger.
 Out where a smile dwells a little
 longer
 That's where the West begins; Out where the sun is little
 brighter,
 Where the snows that fall are
 trifle winter,
 Where the bonds of home are wee
 bit tighter
 Tbot,c uboro tho Wast hopina