The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-01

bodied fighting man and was getting results. Lincoln also kept tavern, where he sold rum and kindred drinks. There are in existence today bills rem dered Abraham Lincoln from the fam fly druggist in which every other charge is for liquor He believed in personal rights and liberty, exercised that right and maintained it for others until his death.
 The fight for personal rights and liberty granted to us in the Const- tuition is always alive in the United States. There is always someone who has nothing else to do hut try to cur tit: the rights of their fellow man, and there is fight on always. Eternal vigilance is always the price of lib- erty This year Alaska, for the first time in a generation is up against the question of the restriction of the per- sonal rights of Alaskans. Alaska nor Alaskans have raised the question, but the checchacos have done it and have islature in forcing the question to an :ssue m November as to whether tho Alaskan has the right to sell or buy w.nc. tter or whisky. Unless the Al ask expresses his opinion in the m ,;tor at the polls, this right will be denied him. Men and women from the states" are thoroughout Alaska trying to leave behind them when they return to cheechacodom a condi- ton which endured in Alaska twenty years ago in the days of ."Soapy" smith, and which all Alaskans know and understand to the point that they have reason to avoid it. They desire to take from government control the liquor selling of the territory, deprive the schools and the municipalities of the revenue therefrom and place the will pay no tax or assessment for the privilege of selling inferior liquor at exorbitant prices. The result will mean nothing to the cheechacos-they will return from whence they came and chortle with glee over the chaos they have been able to superinduce in Alas ka and from which they have nothing to fear or suffer will return and re- ceive their 30 pieces of silver and pat themselves the back for having been able 10 get the weakminded among us to help them set our coun- try back a generation. If we allow them to do this, it is our fault.
 There is no better time than now in which to consider whether we will allow the cheechacos to ball up" our territory. As everybody knows, it is the overhead" expense which AL askan is struggling hardest under. they are struggling to pay for some- thing better than the outside offers. No other town of the same size on earth has such an expensive and such competent municipal school as has Fairbanks, with so many teachers and so much expense. It is beyond any other town. Bring Alaska down to brass tacks;" bring Alaska down to a count-penny system, where it never wished to be, and the overhead" will topple down upon the slender under structure and create a wreck which it will take years to clear away. Take the revenue from the governmental censed and government recognized and government controlled saloon away from Alaska and the overhead" of efficient education will topple over and go to smash, for they have noth- ing in lieu of that money to offer for school purposes. They have never even made an intelligent start to tell us where our school money is to bel obtained if that which we have now is taken away from the municipalities of Alaska. and they can't Still, to work wormy theory upon us, they wish to put us up against 1t; up against a condition which means more harm to our children than to the older ones. They can't prevent the adult Alaskan from buying such liquor as he wants, but they can deprive the children of school privileges which are bought and paid for by the revenue derived from the legitimate sale of liquor; and, that is what they are try ing to do-to destroy, and run away, and leaves it to us to reconstruct upon some indefinite plan they leave behind them.
 A question of personal rights and personal liberties-that is all it is, under the skin. The question of inde- pendenee and the right of man to do as other Americans are permitted to