The Nome nugget., 1925-02-28

IL used be Grand Old World of Ideals, did ours. and for many years it the marvel of other worlds and from all countries (even Poand) seeking personal freedom. Here they found it. They found much of it that they be- gan abuse it spots. and then people, zealots and sobssters turned around stopped the clock and the other way. People who sorry for i, now put the Eighteenth Amendment in the Consti- tuition. thereby throwing monkeywrench into the of Justice. Those who would do a thing like that need special dispensaton to keep them standing their feet, and they are evidently getting it-through politics. We need to have JUSTICE. in Capital Letters in the North and when Federal ofhciadom Crooked" Justice. that Federal chairs and moved away from here But, it seems to be that the Old Order Changeth
 For small salaries and easy jobs. it is always easy get men but they generally not the kind of who should be trusted with the arminstra- tion of Justice. When commit crime to prove crimes against other men. there is wonderment and protest-"how do they get that way" Always in : pioneer country there pioneers who DEMAND that the game be played according the rules, and whn Justice refuses to work in the good oldfashon- ed way, a Frontier wonders and protests. A Pro- hhition Enforcer. whom it is claimed is travelling under assumed name, assisted by our United States Marshals office, attempted illegal entry and seizure. such could stand up in our Federal Courts In the process thereof he al legged to have knocked the s0-year-old househodef down. Eventually issued for him, on an assault charge. and he was bound to the d,,a course of law If he was not guilty he did need fear jury trial. Suddenly the news that the Distric, Attorneys office had DISMISSED the case against him, without hearing and without trial.
 Peape here only marveled-they HOLL- BRED In a onenewspaper town the people com plain to their newspaper. For that went to the Department of Justice for explanation through Congressman. Yesterday received the an- by wire, follows:
 WASHINGTON D. C.. Jan s-w. F. Thompson. Farbanks-The bindover of the United States Flannigan brought the attention of the prohibition department and complete report from their Alaska agents Deputy Marshals?) sent to Washington. On the sterngth of this report Prohibition Commissioner Haynes asked the De- partment of Justice to PROTECT the interests of the Prohibition Department in the A complete statement of the made to the Department of Justice by the United States Attorney at Fair banks, which reviewed in the Department of Justice and the Fairbanks United States Attorney advised that citations of similar and decs ions in of appeal would indicate that the gov ernment had case. and advised the United States Attorney to USE HIS OWN JUDGMENT.
 DAN SUTHERLAND,
 Delegate from Alaska
 It used be that law law. justice was jus tce, and law enforcers hewed the line, let the chips fall where they might Now. it appears the opinion of the young man in authority is preferred against the combined judgment of 24 Grand Jury men and the women of and experience in this District. The District Attorney used the judgment which kept the from coming to trial-whether it HIS judgment FLANNIGAN'S is matte, of interest-Fairbanks News-Miner.