The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-01
PPI1li1'T|ON 4 l M 'CARTRY |S
 DISCUSSED
Editor Cordova Times:

18th. under caption Separate Wheat From Chaff." Subscriber has done the two well meaning but misguided youths who have not been long in the country" too much honor in placing the credit for the movement with them or in fact, with any two. The req sons for the movement have been dis cussed openly, impersonally and with out malice. The necessity Is appar- ent every day, and however it may be no cowardice impugned to those favoring the move.
 We quite agree with the writer that 1t would be better for the victim were he cleaned" before rather than after or during the process of getting him into the condition necessary to make the cleaning easy, with the conse- quent result of having lost their money and having been dlsgraced by debauch.
 The Tobberies and violations ra. ferred to by Subscriber" are not con fined to any one saloon, nor is there anything to show that one saloon is any better or any worse than another, consequently it is all wheat or all "ehaff." Again he mentions the prop erly conducted saloon. to which we will reply as did McGraw of the New York Giants baseball team, when he was told by baseball scout that he had discovered another cry Cobb" There ain't no such animal" Again his assumption that violations of Il- cense requirements are easy of cor. rection, I do not think will be borne out by the Government officials here, whom we believe to be honest both in their desire and their efforts to bring such violators to justice.
 During the past year much more money than the government has re- eeived for the four saloon licenses has been expended in cases traceable directly or indirectly to the saloons. and with very few or any convictions. And after all this effort and expense it is possible for an intoxicated man or an habitual drunkard to buy whis- key in any saloon if he has the price. From five to seven resorts in the "red light" district are openly selling li- quor without a license, fact well known, which no one disputes. and a conviction seems impossible.
 "The Poor Mans Club" argument has been used ever since there has been an agitation against saloons, and not without some merit. We be, lieve that eighty per cent of the la. boring men in the territory contigu. oug to Mccarthy or Chitina are broke by reason of this same Poor Mans Club" which retards the development of the country's resources, as it is impossible for them to get the cloth ing and food necessary for prospect ing and development work.
 In Mccarthy are some twenty ehil dren of school age, unprovided witf a school, Ga matter of sincere regret, who daily see and hear things not cal culated to improve their ideas of mo rality and sobriety.
 We owe them some consideration certainly their parents do and wC cannot agree with Subscriber, tha voicing protest against condition that is certain to leave an indeliblt impression on their minds, and no tending to their future welfare, con stitutes an act of cowardice. w, agree that insufficient care is exer eised in signing saloon petitions. Tn, statutes of the territory carry no pro vision requiring saloons to close a midnight and remain closed until a. m, and if they did. and it was ob served, 1t would not bring the resul Subscriber thinks. that is. break ing protraeted debauch, but woul, make longer drunk a physical pos sibility by reason of the few hour respite. The trend of the times i toward prohibition, and the situation in a great many places makes tn, inevitable a condition to be desired
 ONE OF THE MOUTHS"
 Mccarthy, January 26. 1915.