The Alaska citizen., 1916-03-06

public interest and importance. Goldstream, March ' 1916. Dear Mir. Editor
 Have you ever noticed how thing go. as it were by waves. ! OL
 people down there in town stirle
 up things, perhaps it was nessary. like Dick says, For the purified
 tion of the body polite. If can
 Cer grows in the human body, al,
 though painful. 1t is operated upon
 to save the patients life. if there
 are evil influences at large. cor
 rupting the tody polite, howeye. unpleasant, it must be eradicated
 in order that the good name of tn" community is conserved and it's moral growth assured"
 And. MT Editor, have you eycl
 noticed that there are two differen.
 and distinct public opinions? On,
 is the public opinion, the other tn,
 cigar store public opinion. Sine
 things have been stirred up in town | the public opinion is expressed iu
 a general way by Dick in the abov,
 statement Pete just got home from
 own last night and he is chock
 a block full of the cigar store pu. ] lc opinion, expressed in the words
 of an Hon. Gentleman (whose nam
 escapes me just now ); If you thin l that men and things will give you
 trouble, burn them up; destroy them" | The whole community is divided on
 the lines of these two public opin- | ions and it is getting hot. The
 wave of trouble has even struc&
 our once peaceful camp and turnc
 us into two wrangling factions. | In a general way. Mir Editor l there is no disagreement between
 us, only in particulars. We ar l law abiding citizens, we believe | that crime and lawbreaking must
 be punished; we further believe | that all crimes should be punished whether it be the crime of huntino native birds out of season. rObbin, sluiceboXes, obstruCting of public highways. or when a roughncCk ha the audacity of wanting to put his mules in the same stable where or even when jnoffensive women are foully murdered. We further believe that there must be some | one in some of the departments around the court house who has
 the power and whose duty it is to ferret out all crimes and arrest and Mike contend that it cant be the marshals office, because they point to the Chatanika murder cas- | nd say: Do you fellows think for moment that Marshal Erwi-
 and his deputies would stay in town nd let the murderer be scott free to be still a menace to the peopl, | 0f this country, if 1t was his duty to hunt down murderers? No Sir The marshal cant do anything, u0 less someone makes an affidavit
 then the marshal goes after the nurderers-you bet" Well, MT. Ed l tor, the Chatanika precedent is i
 md I We cant swallow it, we be
 'ieve you are right in saying that it is the marshals business to hunt down crime and criminals, Chata
 nika precedent notwithstanding. On the other hand, Pete and Mix 1rgue that it is the deputy mar
 to be arrested hunters who go after birds and other game out of sea son. Precedent, again, in some re | spects IS in their favor, but Dlcl and l cant see it that way, if tt is the deputy marshal's businese to look after native wild game ] wardens?
 In other words, MT. Editor, our | camp is also divided on the lin" ! of the two different public opini-
 ons, Our partners have imbued th5 idea that if anyone gets into the | way. or incurs the displeasure ct the marshal or his deputies, he oc they must be gotten out of the Way -"burn them up destroy them no matter whether any public good thereby is secured or not. While we believe that public servant jhould serve the public with single less of purpose, namely, public ,ood.
 As was saying before, MT. Edi tor. Pete got back from town last night. He scarcely got into the cabin before he commenced to sing
 that old camp meeting hymn While the lamp holds out to burn the Iilest sinner might return" What's the matter with you, are
 you drunk?" Mike asked him. "No No, siree. I am not full,
 but and The Citizen got his goat"
 Whose goat? What in the blazes