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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE J. F. A. STRONG. TELEPHONE 3-74 Application has boon made to the postottice department for the entry of this newspaper as second class mat ter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On: Year, by mall $10.00 Six Months, by mail 5.00 Per Month, delivered 1.00 JIJNKAU, ALASKA, NOV. 19. 1912. ROBBING THE FISHERMEN. According to Captain Paul Jensen, a veteran of the Juneau Ashing Aeet. Seattle wholesale Ash dealers are rob bing Alaska Ashermen of a part of the fruits of their arduous and often times perilous labors. This, says Captain Jensen, is done through the system of culling, and, he adds. "If it were not for this feature we could make money at four cents a pound, whereas we are now getting Ave cents, but lose one-third by theft." We assume that these statements are founded on fact, and there should be a way to prevent this system of larceny?for it amounts to nothing less from being perpetrated at the ex pense of the Alaska Ashermen. and for the sole beneAt of the Seattle wholesaler. We are frank to say that we do not know the means that should be employed to reach these people, but there ought to be a way for the Ashermen to take united ac tion against the common enemy. This practice of robbing the Ash ermen is not new. It has been fol lowed in every Ashing port in the world, we suppose. The wholesaler is apt in devising ways to cheat and defraud the toilers of the sea. The people of Ketchikan are look ing hopefully forward to the opening of the Grand Trunk PaciAc railroad, when a new transhipment point for their products will be available. Ju neau and this section should proAt by this new transcontinental road, in asmuch as shipments now made by way of Seattle can be routed by that line. In this way. if in no other, the Se attle wholesale Ash dealer will be made to sit up and take notice, when he Ands that the supply of Ash up on which he must largely depend has been cut off. RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS It is to the home that society must look for instruction and control of boys and girls, rather than to the police department. A new ordinance passed by the Tacoma city council provides that boys and girls under IS must be off the streets by S o'clock during the winter months unless they are accompanied by parents or have a written permit for the specific night on which they are out. Doubtless there will be many difficulties in en forcing it. and not a few parents will be offended if their children come in to contact with the ordinance, says an exchange. The good that may be accomplished will depend much upon the attitude of parents. If they undertake to see that the ordinance is obeyed and to cooperate with the police depart ment. there will be fewer young peo ple parading the streets at night. If they oppose the ordinance and as sume that their children are to be trusted, whatever may be said of other people's children, then the or dinance is not likely to last long. Indifference and irresponsibility of parents are the main causes of juve nile delinquency. The mother that permits her daughter to go downtown at night and parade the streets alone or with other girls of impressionable and foolish age caunot reasonably ex pect the police departments to af ford the protection it is her own duty to give. The same may be said of the father who lets his son run wild. Ordinances and public officials can do something toward public morality. If all homes were what they ought to De. there would be no need of cur few ordinances, and much less need of police departments. PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE. It is announced from Washington that the Philippine independence bill will be one of the first measures con sidered at the special session of Con gress, which will convene soon after the inauguration of President-elect Wilson. This bill was drafted last session by Chairman Jones, of the Insular Af fairs Committee, and it is stated that there is a strong probability that the bill will be passed. The Philippine Islands' plank in the Democratic na tional plat for n says: "We favoi an immediate declara tion of the nation's purpose to rec ognize the independence of the Phil ippine Islands as soon as a State government can bo established, such independence to be guaranteed by us until the neutralization of the Islands can be secured by treaty with other powers." There are two paramount questions involved in the Democratic state ment. One is the ability of the Fili pinos to govern themselves; the other is our own capacity for governing them. There are nearly eight mil lions of people in the Philippine Isl ands. of mixed races, with points of view, traditions, habits and languages entirely different from our own. Undoubtedly we made a mistake when by conquest and the payment of $20,000,000 of American gold, we bought trouble for ourselves, to say nothing of the hundreds of millions we have expended in our attempts to govern this Malay people and give them something approaching a stable government. That the physical and moral condi tion of the Filipinos has been lra improved because of our occupation of the islands, is undoubtedly true. The country is being developed, but the cold fact remains that these Isl ands are not, or will they ever be, in our opiniou, of practical or strate gic value to this country. We have uo business in the Orient, and as soon as we can, with decency and honor, get out of the Philippines, we should do so. The Filipinos prob ably, are as capable of governing themselves as we are to govern them ?perhaps more so. If Alaska had been given a small tithe of the nursing, care and money that our government has given the Pihilippines, this territory would to day be in a much more advanced po sition than it is?materially and in other ways. "AMERICANS AS CHILDREN?" It is refreshing and oftentimes in structive to hear the opinions of our selves. as a nation, from the lips of foreigners. Sometimes these ex pressions may not be particularly pleasing to our national pride, or van ity or to ourselves as individuals. But when they come from an intelligent, as well as a candid observer, they have an educational value. We, of course, are a great people, but there are others, as well as ourselves. This is written apropos of a visit made to the United States recently by the Rev. Herbert Hensley, Canon of West minster Abbey. Premising his state ments by saying that "Americans can best be interpreted as children," Canon Hensley lays down the follow ing: "1 trace a good deal of likeness be tween Mr. Roosevelt and the late Mr. Gladstone. In each you can observe the extraordinary power of clothing with moral fevor the opinions they may have adopted only the day be | fore yesterday. "The demented violence of the fe male suffrage agitation may perhaps serve to show that women are not strong enough to stand the strain of political agitation. "True representation of the sex must be found in the married woman who is also a mother. "Enthusiasts for female suffrage are mainly those women?excellent, cultivated women in many instances ?who are at the head of high schools and social settlements, but who, ex cellent as they are, are in no wise really typical of their sex. "The question of the multlmilion aire, which is really at the bottom of the trust problem, is not limited to America. "It is the fact that they wield by title of their wealth an influence which no self-respecting community can tolerate in any individual that creates the problem and endows It with gravity." The votes of only two more states are needed for the ratification of the income tax. This is not a partisan political measure. It has been advo cated In the party platforms of both the Republican and Democratic par ties in a dozen states. It is believed that the measure may be ratified be fore the next session of Congress ends. WAR'S SILENCE AND MYSTERY. War is not what it used to be so far as pomp and glory are concerned, says an exchange. There are too many telegraph lines, too many tel ephones, too many wireless stations, too many malls. To escape the all seeing eye of publicity, war corres pondents are barred, and battles and sieges are meagrely recorded in of ficial reports. Heroes may develop by scores and thousands may die, but the impartial bulletin from headquar ters will say as little aB possible and will give no names. To keep the en emy in Ignorance it is necessary that friends at home should be uninformed. If ?he suffering, waste and fre quent uselessness of war do not soon cause its abandonment, perhaps the veil that is now drawn over it will accomplish that end. The bubble rep utation Is no longer to be found In the cannon's mouth, for the censor sees to It that tho details of victory and defeat alike are shrouded In silence and mystery. JUST "MR. WILSON." Woodrow Wilson looked over his mall recently and found that peoplo were addressing him in seven dif ferent wayB, says a Princeton dlB patch. First there was "President elect Wilson," theu "Gov. Wilson," also "Dr. Wilson and "Prof. Wilson" for his one-term university connec tion; then there were "His Excellen cy, President Wilson," and "H1b Ex cellency, Gov. Wilson." I>ast, but best of all to him, was plain "Mr. Woodrow Wilson." "I would rather be called 'Mr. Wil son' than anything else," he said to day; "'President-elect' Is too awk ward a mouthful. I wish my friends would use 'Mister' in addressing mo." In Princeton, however, some of his classmates call him "Woodrow" and so do the people In town, and the students of the University. In his household Mrs. Wilson calls him "Woodrow," Joseph R. Wilson calls him "Brother" and his daughters call him "Father." This completes the list of names by which Woodrow Wilson finds himself addressed every day. 1 ! I I I 1 1 I I I 1 I 1 1 I I I 1 1 I I I 1 I I"V | SIDELIGHTS j; M 1 11 I 11! 1 111 m m 1 1 H I if A learned professor of war Bays that the logic of the European situa tion seems to point to a Balkan Unit ed States. And then he speaks of the "New Constellation in the Balkan Sky." # ? ? Better know fewer things than to know so many that are not so. ? ? ? Right-minded men are more am bitious for opportunity than they are for honor or office. ? ? ? The people of the state of Wash ington voted on a score ore more of amendments to the constitution. The people may know In a month or two which carried and which went Into the scrap heap. ? ? ? The thought that if ho took the Ida ho senatorslilp at the hands of his successor did not set comfortably on the stomach of Governor Hawley. So he had the courage to wave aside the toga that a less scrupulous statesman would have folded about him. ? ? ? Suffering Seattle! It is threaten ed with another recall election. Soon it will change its ma>ors with every new moon. * ? * President Taft may have sung nis ?'swan aong" to the boys at tho Lotus club, New York, but he managed to get In a few hearty prose paragraphs about his political opponents. 9 9 9 American democracy in the din of snobs and snobbery too often forgets itself. ? ? ? If the Socialist vote has reached the million mark, as Socialist leaders claim,, the party muBt be regarded us having "arrived," and thenceforth must be reckoned as a factor in na tional campaigns. ? 9 9 The Colonel still InBiBts that his Bullmoosity is of tho blown-in-the-bot tle kind. ? ? ? Thirty thousand dead and 160,000 wounded in the Balkan war is strictly corroborative proof that war is still what General William Tecumseh Sherman said it was fifty years ago. ? ? ? The Roumanian troops are said to be menacing the Bulgarian forces in the rear. With the Bulgarian rec ord in view probably the Roumanian soldiery think that the safer plan. ? ? ? A Now York father objects to his children learning In the public schools of that city such strange phraseology as the following: "I ain't got none" "I seen it," "He done It," "I ain't saw it," "You leave him be." And ho won ders if the teachers attempt to cor rect these incorrect phrases. But, perhaps the children learn these cacophonous phrases at home. He may be like the father who wonder ed where his boys learned to sv, ear. INDICTMENT8 LAID UNDER RIGHT STATUTE In the case of the United States vs. the Pacific Coast Steamship Com pany, the Alaska Steamship Company, and a number of other transportation concerns, doing business in Alaska, and certain of their officials, the United States supreme courtt has af firmed the appeal taken by District Attorney RuBtgard from the ruling of Judge Lyons, of the district court for this Judicial division, that the indict ments were not made under the prop er statute. Each of the defendant companies and cortaln of their officers were In dicted on 8evoral counts, charging violation or the Sherman act, the in terostato commerce act and conspir acy. To these indictments the de fendants demurred through tholr at torneys Burton & Winn, Gunnison & Marsha'1 and L. P. Shuckleford and others, nnd Judge Lyons sustained the demurrer on the ground, as stat ed, that the indictments were not laid under the proper statute, as to certain countB against certain of the officials. From this ruling nn appenl was taken, and the supreme court has simply held that the district at torney did take the appeal under the proper statute, and the case now will he tried on its merits, and It will then be decided whether Judge Ly ons' ruling was proper or not. The Juneau Steamship Co. U. S. Mail Steamer GEORGIA Juneau-Sitka Route ? Leaves Juneau for Hoonnh. Gypsum, Tenakee, Killisnoo and Sitka? 8:00 a. m., Nov. 5, 11, 17, 23, 29, Dec. 5, 11, 17. 23. 29. Jan. 4, 10, 16, 22, 28, Feb. 3, 9, 15. 21, 27, March 5. 11, 17, 23 and 29. Leaves Juneau for Funter and Chatham, 8:00 a. m.?Nov. 17, Dec. 11, Jan. 4, 28. Feb. 21, March 17. Leaves Juneau for Tyee, 8:00 a. m.?Nov. 23, Dec. 23, Jan. 22, Feb. 21. March 23. Juneau ? Skagway Route ? Leaves Juneau for Pearl Harbor, Eagle River, Yankee Cove, Sen tinel Light Stntlon. Junlin, El dred Rock Light Station, Com et, Haines, Skagway,, 8:00 a. m. ?Nov. 3, 9, 15, 21, 27. Dec. 3, 9. 15. 21. 27. Jan. 2, 8. 14, 20, 26, Feb. 1. 7, 13, 19, 25, March 3, 9. 15, 21. 27. Returning lenveB Skagway tho following day at 8:00 a. m. WILLIS E. NOWKLL, MANAGER FEMMER & RITTER. See this firm for all kinds of dray lng and hauling. Wo guarantee sat isfaction and reasonable prices. Coal delivered promptly. Fommer & Rlt ter's Express. Stand Burford's Cor ner. Phone 314. Residence phones 402 or 403. ??? Subscribe for The Dally Empire. R. P. NELSON Wholesale and Retail Dealer In All Kinds STATIONERY Typewriting Supplies, Blank ! Books, Office Supplies, Sporting Goods, Huyler's Candles, Gun- j ther's Candles, Toys, Notions, ! Books, Magazines, Waterman's Fountain Pens, Conklln Pens, Etc. : Cor. 2nd. and Seward Sts. Juneau, Alaska 3 JUNEAU FERRY & NAVIGA- ; TION COMPANY 1 TIME CARD Leaves Juneau for Douglas and Treadwell?*8:00 a. m., 9:00 a. m. ?*11:00 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 3:00 p. m., **4:30 p. m? 6:30 p. m, 8:00 p. m? 9:00 p. m., 11:00 p. in. Leaves Treadwell for Douglas and Juneau?8:25 a. m., 9:25 a. m., ??12:00 noon, 1:40 p. m., 3:25 p. m., ??4:55 p. m., 6:55 p. m? 8:25 p. in., 9:25 p. in., 11:25 p. m. Leaves Douglas for Juneau? 8:30 a. m., 9:30 a. m. **12:05 p. m., 1:45 p. m., 3:30 p. m., **4:45 p. m., 7:05 p. m., 8:30 p. m., 9:30 p. m., 11:00 p. m. ?On Sundays this trip Is omit- ! ted. ??This trip to Sheep Creek daily except 4:30 p. m. trip on Saturday, which Is omitted and trips leaving Juneau at 6:30 p. m. and 11:00 are made Instead, and Sheep Creek trips at 11:00 a. m., 6:30 p. in., and 11:00 p. m. HUMBOLDT STEAMSHIP CO. The Alnnku Flyer S. S. HUMBOLDT The AUnkn Flyer NORTHBOUND NOV. 27 SOUTHBOUND NOV. 28 t DOCKS AT JUNEAU CITY WHARF Seattle Olllco, 716 Second Ave. GEO. BURFORD, Agent ! I 1 1 1 I ! i II I--M- MM 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 I I 1 1 II I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 III III t : ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY jj : INSIDE ROUTE jj " nni PWTN NORTH NOV. 5, 17 J ; JL'VyJur nin SOUTH NOV. 6, 18 :: : ircrrDcnw NORTH NOV. 11 :: . JJ-iFFlliIxOWil SOUTH NOV. 12 Steamers Jefferson and Dolphin all the year round serving the " ; prosperous cities and settlements of the world famous Inside Pass- " I age Splendid service. Courteous treatment. ! ELMER E. SMITH, Douglas Agent WILLIS E. NOWELL, Agent. ~ '-I-H_;-H-H"M"M"1"I"I"1"1''I"I"IiiI"I"I"1',I"1"Ii l-H H 1IIM I |. l-H-l' I' H-H-l-H-I NORTHLAND STEAMSHIP COMPANY Operating S. S. ALKI and S. S. NORTHLAND S. S. ALKI, South, NOV. 23 First Class Fare to Seattle $19.00 Second Class Fare to Seattle $12.00 H. C. BRADFORD, Mgr., Pier 4, Seattle. SOWERBY & BELL, Juneau JOHN HENSEN t CO., Douglas CANADIAN PACIFIC RAIL WAY CO.-B.C.CoastService Sailing from Juneau for Port Simpson, Prince Rupert, Swaniton, Alert Bay, Vancouver Victoria nnd Seattle PRINCESS MAY NOVEMBER 21 Front anil Seward Sla. C. P. R. TICKET OFFICE J. T. SPICKETT. A?rt. THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE A paper for all the people, all the time. Independent in every way. It stands for everything that will tend to the opening up and development of Alaska?especially South eastern Alaska?along legitimate lines. The EMPIRES motto is Progress in all things. The world never stands still. Neither can mankind. They must move backward or forward. By subscribing for the EMPIRE you can keep in touch with the growth of Alaska. By advertising in its columns you can reach the people who read. Try it. The EMPIRE office is thoroughly equipped for doing up-to-date job printing in all its branches. Give us a trial. Office: Main Street, between Front and Second