The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-28

oL ene pioiipielon movement In the house, we touched the source of off cial agitation for prohibition and the leakiest bucket in the brigade. He 1t was who on December 22, 1914, intro duced a resolution for an amendment States forever prohibiting the sale. manufacture for sale, importation for age purposes in the United States and all territory subject to the juris- sale thereof. Among the others op- posing the resolution (which failed largely) was Oscar Underwood, now senator from Alabama, Hobson's state. Hobson has a following in Alabama. and that state is in the dry" ranks. That result and the results therefrom bring us of the cities of Alaska nearer home" on the subject of prohibition. which we must vote on next Novem- Der. Take the result of prohibition in Birmingham, Ala.
 Alabama Is struggling with de- ficit of $3,OOO,OOO since prohibition went into effect, and the city of Birm- ingham has since then been compelled to dispense with it's health officer dis continue it's street cleaning and gar bage collecting, let out it's city phys- elan and market inspector extinguish half its street lights, cut the city school term from nine to seven months and reduce by 10 per cent the salaries of teachers where their salaries reach ed $75 a month. It has let out one third of it's police force and put the remaining two thirds on q 12-hour shift. It has closed several fire sta- tions, stopped every cent of it's ap- propriations to hospitals, children's homes and charities, and reduced by the maintenance of parks. In short, it has had to cut it's expenses $340, 900, to meet it's decreased revenues.
 What would apply to Birmingham, Ala, would apply in greater degree in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the support of public schools, improvements and fire fighting forces is to far greater degree here dependent upon the reve- nues from liquor licenses than in Birmingham. The gross revenues of Fairbanks are around $64,000. Some $21,000 of that comes from federal licenses. From taxation of property both real and personal of men who are engaged in the manufacture or sale of malt and spurious liquors and those citiens who are employed by such people, another $8,000 is derived Take $2900O from $64,OOO and what would be the result?
 Today the schools of Fairbanks are supported entirely by license money that is, the license money covers the cost of the schools and no more. The fire department and the schools re- total revenues of the city. Cut out half of our revenue, or nearly half and what will becomes of our schools or our fire department? All the schools and half of the fire deparement, or all the fire department and half of the schools or. three -fourths of both of them (enough to make neither of them efficiently will have to go. No use say ing what other ways can be found to make up the deficit-the people con slider themselves overtaxed now; be- sides, there is legal limit to taxa tion, and the limit would not come near making up the deficiency.
 Do you know that more than one third of the total revenues of the Uni ted States are derived from the liquor business? Do you know that the only remedy really suggested or considered for creating revenues to replace such a deficit if national prohibition ruled is to reduce the income tax exemp tions to $1,000 and double the tax? Would the rich stand for that? It would be all right with us, if they would pay it, but they won't.
 Hobson nor any other legislator can prohibit a man making liquor for his own use, nor can any law be passed to keep any man from drinking as he sees fit, so long as he is not an habit ual drunkard-the Constitution of the