The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-30
CoRDovA ALASKA MONDAY OCTOBER 1916

the pursists who wish to reform you without first having reformed them selves in any manner worth while Also this latitude granted the purists is expensive to municipality and terri tory alike - it costs money. and does not do any good.
 PROHIBITION OFFERS NO SOURCE OF REVENUE TO RE PLACE THE REVENUES IT WOULD DESTROY, but continues to ask you to destroy your legal and usual and natural revenues derived under the accepted system of United States gov. ernment, which has endured 14O years without an attempt from within (from ANY administration to change the system. Therefore. the way to kill this foolish movement is to VOTE IT DOWN; to vote wet so overwhelming- " that there will be no excuse for simple minded legislators to pay fur ther attention to the opportunities of women from Seattle or she-men from Alaska who wish to make their fellow men purer by taking away from them something which the she-men never had an inclination or desire to use. ALSO, it will be good business for each municipality to FAIL to cast a vote for member of the legislature who would be apt to he so influenced. When a man is so weak that he is afraid to say No" to some female lobbyist he is a dangerous man to send to Juneau, where female lobby tsts congroaate.
 DON'T TAX YOURSELVES.
 The only way you can replace the onc-third of your revenues that Pro hibjtion would destroy is by DIRECT TAXATION Your legal limit is ? per cent of valuaton and that valu- ation today is upon your property at about a third Of its highest value. You cant raise the rate of taxation, but you CAN RAISE THE VALUATION. and that would have to be done. The valuation of your property would have to be doubled, and the per cent limit of taxation assessed thereon. Your taxes personally would be doubled. Is there any reason why your property should be double taxed at this time po you wish to pay that price for the experiment of Prohibition" when you know that it would NOT BE an expert ment in Alaska. where it has been tried and where if failed so miser. ably? Rest assured. if you vote Pro hibition" on yourself. your TAXES WILL HAVE TO BE DOUBLED, for the majority of the Prohibitionists in Alaska, as in YOUR community. pay little or no taxes and own little of NO rn1I estate. You know that. and you will appreciate it if you consider who are the Prohibition workers in yoar town. then look at the tax roll where their name is probably not written. If you put in with them and allow them to do this. you will pay twice as much taxes as you pay today. but you cannot blame them for it, for it will be your own fault.
 WHERE ARE THE UNFlT2
 Take a mental census of Your Own Home Town. Who ARE the drunkards and how many of them are there? Are they numerous? Probably (cer- tainly) not Are there any who have children shoeiess and women aesti- tate as result of their drinking? Are there any who are hurting others by their drinking? The Prohibition" ar guments are not built for Alaska and don't apply here; besides. they are not half true anyway. They are pre- pared to catch and fool and scare wo- men and children and weak minded men. You can't protect the man who hasn't the moral courage to let drink alone, and you haven't the right to deny men wEo have moral courage the right to satisfy their appetites to prevent some weak minded man from exercising HIS appetite - you can not send all the honest men of the world to jail to protect the dishonest ones-the opposite is the logical way.
 NO WAY OUT.
 Argue as you will; beg the question and smother il in language and side issues and imaginary and theoretical platitudes, and you must come back to brass Jacks every time - vote for Prohibition and you cut out third of your civic revenues and double the taxation upon your own realty hold