The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-22
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Phone 262 Phone
IT LABOREO HARD

Last Monday evening tn" News. Miner Iabored and brought forth mou<e and ;he birth wa< permeatea with corruption and graft and the egotis, thae wrote 1t only added another link to the chain of moral degradation which has characterized his useless iite.
 The cause of his mbeciHc ti9ada and false ar4ument was our edi- torial published q week ago under the heading of The Almighty Dol lar deaiing with the editorials of the News.Mirer for several daya previous wherein i, attempted to show that rhe town of Fairbanks would go - the "demnition bow VOWS" f the people did not accept the teachings of the false prophet who was attempting to earn the money furnished by the Wholesale Liquor Dealers association for such purposes made and provided through rhe kindly agency Of Tom MeGowan.
 The Citizen did not come out for prohibition but rather pointed out the stumbling block which stood in its way u the matter of paxa- ton ta support the aity government and quoted rt.e sueCestions of some prominent people by which this diff euIty could tr overcome This line of argument did not suit the Nwa Miner and the egotIstica ass who brides himself apon Writing hot stuff squir d bst Of vitrio in the oil hole directly under the dol lar marx ot lis typewriter and pro recded to lay the flesh of The Citt. zen bare
 This perverter of truth and handy man for corporations and s!ush funds goes on record as saving ,na; any person or newspaper that would dare favor prohibition or any ether than the prevailing methods adopt cd in the present day affairs of the community l. menace to the city and should not receive patronage from the merchants or the people ot the community ill other words attempting or suggesting a boy"otf upon any newspaper that would dare take such a stand but he drirei ing idiot did not have the lore sight 10 ser that perhaps the ma iority Of the people of the communi- " might be 3f the same opinion as the ones he would use the boytot against and that perhaps the sug- gestiOn might act as a boomerGng.
 The News Miner says that by the suggested process The Citizen is neither harmed nor assessed for it is not of Ihe city. pays no taxes and produces nothing which is Of the slightest benefit 10 the world"
 That assertion is just a matter of opinion As against the iude- ment of tn" News Miner we will pit that of nne-tenths of the people of the community and are willing TO abide by their decision If the editor of tue News-MIrer was not a liar and corruptionist at heart, and wanted 10 be fair he would not make the assertion that The Citi, Zen was not taxed and paid no taxes A g'nnce at the records ol the city han will show that We have him begged right. and he has the same chance to look the rec ds over that anyone else has if he cared 10 do so.
 The News Miner says furtECr: ''The paper which never has d good word to say of man. woman
 T cause is herserk with nastiness and destruction and Fairbanks k its mark"
 The Citizen has ever given praise where it was due but it has not stood in" on the grafts for the money there was in it The Citl- zen has never made a malicious at tack upon an inoffensiye woman who was not here to defend herself, and then for fear of criminal prose cution eat crow the next day and declare that the only excuse for writing the article was that the writ er must haze been drunk This was the attitude of the News-M ner after the publication of a libclous and infamous attack upon Mrs. Lena Morrow Lewis-a woman who had lived in this community for some time and who quilted he Interior with the respect of every one This is constructive" jour nalism with a vengeance.
 The News Miner says that The Citizen has more saloon advertise ments than it has. and that the paper is popular in the saloons and the TOW" The writer might have gone further and stated that The Citizen is just as popular in other quarters ana has a large cirt ala-