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The Prescott daily news., 1916-02-02
ECONOMIC PREPAREDNESS.
By H. E. Nick enZie
Editor News:

It has been long time since I "broke into print" and perhaps the seasons would still come and go, Mex ican bandits continue their inhuman slaughter and the candidates move on in the same time-worn ruts, were to refrain this time, but 1 believe that there should be a more frequent expression of men and women on sub jects of vital interest to the state and national welfare, and the press is proper forum for this expression.
 The subject of National prepared ness is now absorbing the attention of the people generally. The President of the United States is engaged in a campaign to educate the people to his idea of military and naval prepared ness, while other national leaders are doing all in their power to impress the people and the members of con gross with the futility of this idea. have 0othing to say here about mil ltary preparedness, except that l do not believe it wise to tax the govern ment at this time to maintain a great standing army and navy. There is no immediate danger that would warrant such an expenditure and no impending crisis in national affairs that would justify it, unless indeed It De the ever present crisis of politi- cal eNpedlency. do not mean how ever that We should pay no attention to military preparedness. It can be accomplished however without the maintenance of large standing armies which are themselves a menace to the institutions of the highest civiliza- uon' People and nations generally ao what they are prepared to do. War IS not an element of civilization and mas never been and will never be.
 To the careful student of econom- ics' however, the subject of prepared ness and the agitation of it, naturally suggests that the most important preparedness for the people to con Sluef Is economic preparedness. We are not equipped to save the millions so'hg to waste annually in our com mercial and agricultural operations. thousands of promising men and wo- men dle Of preventable disease. Mil i,o"S of dollars worth of food pro- uuctS are wasted in field and house. HOld and factory for the want of proper marketing systems and stor- age facilities. Almost billions are wasted annually straining and creep
 s ana tugging over muddy roads or "ot gong at all because of them.
 rrof. David Y. Thomas of the university of Arkansas makes bold 'o give expression to some radical Jp''liohs " In an article on Economic o"preparedness' in the February "u'hoer of the American Review "nich IS scarcely on the news stands ~ 'nlS Writing. He presents table
 eSumates of losses due to lack
 organlzation and efficiency gath
 eu at random. We confess that it N'''S to us a rather difficult matter arrive at anything like a correct l~ '''nate of these losses, neverthe- oss3 ,esS It Is interesting to note these estimates:
 Wastn r
 ""s'e From InefIiciency and Unpre- paredness.
 Losses due to-
The Prescott daily news., 1916-02-02

Entered as second class mail matter November 4th, 1905, at the postoffice at Prescott, Ark, under the act of Congress, March 8, 1879.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
SOME INVENTION, THIS.

Following is another comment on farmers making liquor at home, practice which enables many of them to laugh at the prohibition laws. The Minneapolis Tribune says:
 "The fact that Oregon has gone dry seems to have had a stimulating eff feet upon the inventive genius of her reople, if we are to credit the report in the reliable New York Times that a Clackamas farmer has discovered that it is possible to make practically pure alcohol by running apple cider through a cream separator Wouldn't if be a curious development if the cream separator of the Hood river ap- pie country should become a more serious menace to the internal revenue of the country than the mountn still of Kentucky?"
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
THEY SIGH FOR CIDER.

Since the states of Washington and Oregon went dry" according to the Roundup (MontanaD Record their citizens have developed a frightfrI thirst for hard cider. The Record says:
 Cider wanted, and wanted at once and badly is the cry that has come from Washington and Oregon 10 local railroads from their representatives in those two states. 4 whole CT load is needed at once and more later.
 Tt is claimed that since both states went dry the manufacture of hard cider consisting of the oldfa shioned cider that was placed on the Sunday tahle in the good old days bacf on the farm. with something that gives sen sation of a kick has gone ahead by leaps and bounds and practically every quart of cider in the two states has been bought Up for remo3eiina'
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
CONDITIONS HERE
 AND SEATTLE

territory.
 Does it require any argument t= make the situation plain to the prae tical men and women of Alaska? Doe it require any imagination to see thu c1!niyaI Cf lawlessacss that would fol low the adoption of a prohibition law here at this time? Does it need more than a bare statement of the facts te demonstrate that Alaska should pro ceed with her regulated liquor traffic until uel me as she has settled the fun5 el governmental problems that , If 7t her people?-Juneau Empire.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
WHY VOTE WET7

Seriously. there isn't a chance of Prohibition" carrying in Alaska on November '. There never was a chance. When under the federal court ruling every vote NOT CAST is count, ed as against licensing liquor shops. municipalities wherein such elections are held GO WET. what chance CAN there be that when only the votes east are counted any such municipality will vote DRY? Not a reasonable chance on earth. The advocates of better schools and better munEeipali
 ties have no need to fear the result of the Prohibition vote on November ', for it will not be sufficient to carry the question in the territory - they have only to fear that the Prohibition vote will be of such importance that our amateur legislature will feel con strained to allow the purists to bring tho question up, year after year. and
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30

lowered, but DOUBLED IN VALUA- TION, and would pay $1,200 a year taxes, or $100 a month, with it's earn ing power decreased more than that
 amount over it's earning power of to- day. The two corners mentioned are considered to be the most valuable in Fairbanks, but under Prohibition no other business could afford to pay the rentals that the liquor stores oc-
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30

Alaska WAS STRICTLY PROHIRE
 TON until the close of 1898. Not dollar came to our schools or our mu- nicipalities from the sale of liquor. and as a result our schools were not worth mentioning and our municipalities the same - in spite of this there were AS MANY SALOONS THEN AND MORE LIQUOR DRANK IN ALASKA THAN THERE IS TO-DAY. The liquor traffic was more remunerative in that no taxation. attended the sale of Ii, quor - simply a greater risk which the get-rich-quick whiskey seller Is al ways ready to take Prohibition didn't prohibit in Alaska when ii was work ing here, and doesn't prohibit ANY WHERE - it simply destroys what is considered today legitimate reve- nue and which revenue goes to schools and municipalities. and gives nothing but an alleged protection against H. quor which is not one whit stronger than an individuals respect for the command, Thou shalt not drink"
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30

revenues will depreciate greatly, and we will feel it this year But in face of all this, we should take the sewer age matter in hand"
 TWO PER CENT RATE.
 Here one of the eouncilmen inter be awaited before this city can go ahead along old lines, let alone new lines.
 rupted by asking the finance commit tee how the municipality stands fin, ancially, and how the levy would be this year.
 Henry Ray, chairman of the fin ance committee, said that he could not say definitely, but it looked to him as though it might be necessary to press the limit" in other words to make the levy 2 per cent, all the law would allow.
 Further discussion brought out the fact that the schools are liable to want more money than was estimated iii the budget, which was SIS, zee. Al ready the statimate for street work has been exceeded considerably and there will be some work in the spring,
 So that, with all the license money. and the taxes raised to the limit of the law, the indications are that the town will have all it can do to pay it's bills for the current year.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30

Anti-prohibitionists say that the fail ure of former Representative Rich mond Pearson Hobson to secure the Democratic nomination for congress in Alabama, coupled with the defeat of William ]. Bryan for delegate at large to the national convention. and the downfall of his brother, Charles Bryan, who aspired to the Nebraska gubernatorial nomination, is proof that public sentiment has turned against the "drys." Hobson was the official mouthpiece of the Anu-Saloon League while in congress. It was he who in- troduced the national prohibition amendment into that body
 Throughout the entire United States the leading phase of the wet" and dry" question discussed by the edi- torial writers in newspapers is the tremendous defeat of the prohibition forces in Vermont.
 Numerous newspapers venture the opinion that the downfall of prohibi- tion in the Green Mountain state is a forerunner of the breaking of the dry" wave, and a positive indication that the sentiment of the American people is against national prohibition.
 Some writers declare that Vermont CTS cast their ballots after careful con sideration of the present status of the present nineteen dry" (2) states. It is stated that inasmuch as "bootfeg- gers, "moonshining" and the opera ton Of blind tigers" and blind pigs in prohibition territory enable citizens to beat the dry" law, there wasn't much use in putting a prohibition law that does not prohibit on the statute books.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
OFFICIAL NOTICE GIVEN.

Last night the city council met in extra session to consider the matter of the approach to the bridge and the expense thereof. The councilmen talked among themselves, considered the condition of the city and neces. sary improvements, and a question as to the present financial condition of Fairbanks brought out the fact that the assessment of property this year must be the limit, or a 25 per cent increase in city taxes, to meet the expenses of the city with over 10000 included from taxation of the liquor interests - that if Prohibition carries this year it will be necessary for Fair banks to procure the impossible (au- thority from congress to increase) the tax rate to or 4 per cent in order to meet the expenses of the city as they are today, or raise the vaIua- tion to double its present amount and apply the per cent allowance to the inflated valuation.
 Wherever Prohibition has carried the fiscal year which ended the li- cense system in such camp the sa- looms and liquor houses have ceased to take out licenses and devoted the remaining months of the year to "get ting from under" just as they will here. For instance. the license of the Horseshoe and Fairbanks Buffet ex- ptre June 30th, next. If Prohibition passes and becomes a law, six months from that date those places will be closed forever by law - neither of them would think of paying a years license to do business for six months, and the government could not grant them a years license when it knew that 1t could not license them to run for more than six months. The re- suit would be that the city has got its last license money from the sa- looms of Fairbanks, and SPENT IT, TODAY, If Prohibition carries. With so much money invested, six months would be small enough time for those saloons to dispose of the big stocks and "get from under" as best they could. All the money ($20,00O) the city is to get from the liquor inter- ests in Fairbanks If Prohibition passes has been collected and spent - con sequently, the councilmen are not starting" any alarmist stuff when they today consider what Is going to happen to this city and approach fur ther expenditures in a cautious man ner.
 Without the license money the nat ura1 way to derive revenues and the only way we know of is the Kansas way - increase the valuation of pro- perty and apply the limit in taxation to the increased valuation. Then, for instance. the Fairbanks Corner, which now pays $500 annual city taxes. would be depreoiated in value. rents
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30

The voters of Alaska have no oC- casion to go out of their way to con slider the question of Prohibition as applied to Alaska Prohibition is mo- thing new in Alaska. Alaska was ALL Prohibition" until the closing days of 1898 Nobody could obtain a li- cense to sell liquor in Alaska, yet in 1898 more men were engaged in sell ing liquor in Alaska, there were more saloons and more liquor sold in Alas ka than at any time since, while law Iessness reigned supreme and "Soapy' Smith was Alaska's most noted citi- zen. No revenue accrued to munich palities or to the government from the sale Of liquor in Alaska in the Prohibition" days, and the school system of Alaska and the municipal improvements in the Alaska of then were mostly notable for their absence Then came the license system and government control of liquor selling, lawlessnesB disappeared, and our towns began to grow and improve and our school system came into being and has progressed to point where we can point to our school system with
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30

cupying these corners feel that they can pay.
 The council is right in sitting tight and worrying about where next years money is coming from. The result of the work of the Prohibitionists must be awaited before this city can go ahead along old lines, let alone new lines.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
TAX LEVY THIS YEAR
 MAY BE 2 PER GENT

y B sh Yea Make HeTaxIey Have A This Year Council November eeso ThanBu
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30

"Another serious thing. If Alaska goes dry, where going to get the money to the affairs of the city? The council must look to the future If this terri tory goes dry will depreciae greatly and will feel it this '-Mayor Myers at meeting of the city council held last night.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
DOWN THE COAST

Washington and Oregon hay tried prohibition all this year, and see the result. Whiskey flows like water in Seattle and lawlessness reigns su- preme there. The police catch lot of wrongdoers, but only a fraction of those engegad in breaking the laws. and the result is chaos. Property values have appreciated considerably. rents have been lowered and taxation has increased They have paid an awful price for the experiment. but it has been a success in no way - it would be even less a success in Alas ka, and vastly more costly and depIor- able
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
ITS NOT A REFORM.

Prohibition" is not a reform - Temperance is, but Prohibition is not, for Prohibition" is the EXTREME of Temperance, Just as chronic drunken
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
THEY PAID A THIRD.

THEY PAID A THIRD.
 A safe consideration of the revenues of ANY MUNICIPALITY IN ALASKA is that ONE-THIRD of the total reve- nues of a city are derived from liquor licenses. At LEAST one-third of the revenues Of ANY municipality in Alas ka go for school purposes or fire pro- lection - the proportion varies. but the THIRD estimate is a fair one, and you cut out a THIRD of the revenues of your municipality. WITHOUT RE DUCING THE VISIBLE SUPPLY OF LIQUOR IN THAT MUNICIPALITY Where men pay $1,000 a year to sell liquor, and are governed and restrict ed in their business by the federal and municipal authorities, CUT OUT THE LICENSE and twice as many men will be selling liquor in the same town, without restrictions or license, and lawlessness results and harm is done more than good. As it is today, UNDER LICENSE all the federal ma chinery can be used to police the Anchorage camp - with this protec- tion they catch and punish a fraction of the number of "bootleggers," but that's all. Under Prohibition" the bootlegger catchers will not be in creased, but the territory they must patrol will be increased an hundred fold, and their effectiveness reduced accordingly. So long as men want liquor it will be sold. NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH are the opportuni- ties for smuggling so great or the dan ger of detection so small or the pro fits so great or the field so wide as along the Alaska coast. "Prohibition" prohibits NOWHERE. never did, never will. and it COULD prohibit less in Alaska than in any of the states of the Union - could ONLY do that. Therefore, you have no reasonable req son to expect from Prohibition in Alaska anything but a reduction of the revenues of your municipalities and consequent ineffieieney in schools and fire protection. That is ALL Prohibition" can gain for you. You can put your schools and your fire department and your municipal i'm provement system out of business by voting for Prohibition" and reducing your revenues a third, but you CAN'T put the whiskey seller out of business in Alaska by Prohibition" you COULDN'T when ALASKA WAS PROHIBITION AND YOU NEVER CAN BY MAKING ALASKA PRO HIBITION." and you know it. if you stop to consider the question dispas- sionately.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
WHAT AFFECTS ONE
 AFFECTS ALL CITIES

ness is the extreme of the liquor traf- fife; common or low-down drunken ness logically stands in the same rela- tion to Temperance that Prohibition does You cannot reform man by law. any more than you can legislate man into success. EVERY reform must COME FROM WITHIN. from the man himself, and not through the power and efforts of strangers who do not know the man to be reformed, bear none of the expense or annoyance if the reform" doesn't take" and who try to reform their brother man with an axe. They may restrict his oppor- tunities to commit what they con ceive to be a sin. but they cannot pre- vent his shining whenever the oppor- tunity offers - wherever tho price is, the opportunity to sin will ba hang ing around. Every man has the right to eat drink or wear that which he wishes to, so long as he does not in terfere with the rights of another man, and it is human nature for man to seek to exercise that right at will
 Puritan legislation has been r5-caa since and before America was dis covered, and its primary results have been to depopuIate the territory where such legislation was working The men who form the greater part of the population of Alaska are the men who have left their Old Home Camps to come where greater freedom of thought and action is permitted men. Not that they wish to shock society. or be great and unrestricted criminals. but that they wish to he FREE men allowed to eat, drink and wear that which they wish to. ano worship God after their own fashion, rather than after some man-made law Of creed or fashion. When you begin to make laws which restrict the personal lib- critics of Alaskans, you start in to make Alaska an undesirable place of residence to those men. and they be gin to move out. Alaskans are law. abiding, and will keep any law that appeals to their beliefs in right and justice. But pass laws that appear to them to be wrong and unjust and en- tirely unnecessary, and they will not start a riot or rule of iawlessness- they will go elsewhere and help build up other communities, where personal freedom is less restricted
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30

Argue as yon will; beg the question and smother il in language and side issues and imaginary and theoretical platitudes, and you must come back to brass taeks every time - vote for Prohibition and you cut out third of your civic revenues and double the taxation upon your own realty hold ings. Is a vote for a theory. and a wormy theory at that, worth the price? You will be COMPELLED to pay the price if you vote that way. Are you willing to pay such a price for something not worth while. and in which if successful that which you vote for will be a menace and dis. tinct and never,ending annoyance and crime to your community?
 If you wish to close your schools and wipe out your fire protection vote dry - unless you pay double the taxes you pay now. that will be the result of Prohibition in your town.
 If you believe the town can keep up the schools and other municipal expenses without the $700o paid by the saloons, vote dry. If you believe that the s7,0oo now paid by the sa- looms will be irremediably lost to the city without hope of replacement by local taxation then vote wet It is not question Of anything but fin- aHees, this campaign.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-18
OVERSTOCKED.

To the pubrfS.
 We have Just finished stock taking, and find that ~e are heavily overstocked so are making enormous reductions in Hardware-as much as oJ per cent in certain lines. Notwithstanding immense advances outside, especially in Hard ware and Metal Goods, we are still sell ing on the basis of goods purchased the past two or three years.
 We will sell for cash only at these prices, and for a limite time, until we bring our stock down to the require ments of the camp.
 If you have an order to be filed let us figure on it; we can save you money. We have proved 1t to others. we can prove it to you.
 DARLING AND DEAN COMPANY.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-18
WHY HE WILL
 NOT FIGHT

ONDON.-Edmund Emson, aged 23, conscientious objector to army ser vice at Jordans, BuckinghamShire, William Penn's burial place, told the local tribunal: 'I am quite prepared to be shot rather than undertake any form of military service. If England were occupied by savages 1 would lay my head down on a block and say: Here is my head cut it off" Exemp- tion refused.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-18

The first herring of the season were brought in from Port Conclusion re- gently by the Alaska Pacific Herring Company's tender Tordenskjold. There were 2S0 barrels in the lot. John A. Einno, the company's northern manager, who made the trip in on the tender, says the herring run so far is satisfactory and prospects for the season are fair. The fish now being packed are large and of good quality. There are several other herring outfits reported to be in the vicinity of Port Concluson-petersburg Report.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-18
SOMETHING NEW.

Just arrived on the last boat over 800 of this seasons latest styles and patterns, the most beautiful line of woolens ever arrived in Nome. We invite you to sec these samples wheth- CT you buy or not. If you wish to take advantage of this offer order be- fore the 30th of August, in order to have order arrive on last boat.
 We also make alterations, and we do cleaning, pressing and repairing. We appreciate your patronage. Yours to please.
 NOME TAILORING CO.,, Next door to Segerstorm x Hagen,
 Jewellers.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-18

Many parties coming up from the states, bound for the interior by way of Valdez and Fairbanks, are buying Ford machines in Seattle, paying $70 freight on them, and going in over the government trail with the machines. As Fords sell for about $700 in Fair banks it is a good investment, as the parties get their trip free, the differ ence between a machine in Seattle and one in Fairbanks being about $200 And the trail is in fine condition this time of the year.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-18

former editor of the Douglas Island News who was stricken recently, is critically ill in one of the Seattle hos pitals, according to a letter received from her daughter.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-18

Government Tie Inspector Young loaded his pipe recently with a 22- calibre cartridge along with the tobac- CO., with disastrous results to the pipe but fortunately without damage to himself
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-18

The steamer Nasutlin brought to Dawson $50 tons of silver ore, the first shipment of the 1700 tons now at Mayo. The ore will be sent on to on the first lower Yukon river boat.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-18

w. G. Stevent, who has a farm about four miles above Matanuska Junction, on the government railroad, is experimenting with the raising of watermelons and cantaloupes.