The Seward gateway., 1916-06-15

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 tions and business interests as well as their civic interests, are against prohibition. Yet, they ARE "dry" in Washington, because the people did not appreciate the danger and fight for their own best interests. They are sorry now, and the newspapers and the ministers of the local churches are fighting the conditions which exists because they would not fight tho danger when it threatened Those same business men in February by committee, waited upon George But Ter and asked him if he would not take charge of the work of replacing Washington in the wet" ranks, and he told them that he could not be in- duced to do so, easily. Rev. Mat thews, Seattles most popular mini ster, from the pulpit scores prohibi- tion as it is working in Seattle, and as a workable civic propisition. Car dinal Gibbons and many other noted divines also openly oppose prohibition upon any and every occasion. The business men of Seattle found out that just what was told them would hap pen, did happen, with the coming of prohibition. They found out that the reduced revenues must be made up, and by themselves, and they are not doing it. The city is heavily mort gagged and is jumping sideways for money to keep going on. Reduced revenues mean reduced paying pow CT, in every town and always. It could not be otherwise. Also, apathy and the neglect to do protective work in time spells ruin or less in any camp.
 We note that our two newspaper contemporaries are not pleased with our opposition to prohibition. We are not surprised at that They haven't much to think with, so do little thinking; also, it is their chronic disposition to knock any movement, good or bad, which another newspap- CT takes up and advocates. As newspaper proposition this fact af- fleets us not in the least. If their esti- mate of this newspaper could affect ! its conduct, there would be no hope of the News-Miner ever becoming a newspaper. But, as a civic proposi- tion, affecting the welfare of this cfy and threatening to reduce the city's revenues by one-third or more meaning that much less civic efficiency and beauty and strength-we feel constrained to warn the business men of Fairbanks, whose patronage makes those newspapers possible, that money spent to strengthen a newspaper which will by act or thought seek to deprive Fairbanks of one-third or more of it's revenue is poor business policy There's no use in saying that their opposition cannot harm-it has been proven that any crazy idea may obtain a following.
 Where is the $2O,OOO to $3O,OOO an- nual income from licenses coming from for Fairbanks if Alaska Is made "dry?" It is a business proposition, simply, and it is time for the business men to demand that those who are for prohibition "show them" clearly how this shortage is to be made up, before the business men can put in with the prohiBitionists or encourage in any way any newspaper in the community which is working to re- duce the necessary revenues by that amount. It is not a matter of senti- mcnt; it is a matter of business. And, the business man who depreciates the possibility of such reduction in rev. enues is not a really-good business man-he only thinks he is. - Fair banks News Miner, May 9, 1916.
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