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The Alaska Citizen PIPLISHED WEEKLY BY J HARMON CASKEY Prop.! CITIZEN BLOCK. FAIRBANKS, r.nteied - Second C lass Matter. May 14. 1910. at the postoffice at Fair banks Alaska, under the Act of March 3 1S79 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE line Year 110.00 Six Months . 5 00 Three Months . 2 50 One Month.. ■ 1 00 Single Copies ... 25 Day nf Publication MONDAY Phone Phone —^^^^ A FRAGMENT OF COMPARATIVF ] HISTORY. — One hundred fifty-nine years ago Benjamin Franklin stood before the English I arliatnent to defend certain rights of the American t'olonies to maintain their rigtit to repudiate a measure of special taxation which they regarded as tyrannous and subversive of liberty. What a picture is presented to the imagination as the "Muse of History" unfolds her vision of that impressive s cue. Itr Franklin was at that time (1766) the leading rep resentative in Englaiq for the Co! onies. and had been summoned, in that capacity, before the House of Commons for examination as to the ability of the colonists to pay this special tax. also to enlighten Pat liamc nt as to why the Colonial peo ;■> so bitterly opposed the mea sure: and, most important of aP he was expected to frankly state what would be the result in the event that England should ins upon the payment of this tax by Force of arms. Edmund Burke, the leading English statesman of that time, said the scene in the House of Commons, "■'en Franklin was being interro g ted, reminded him very much of master being examined by a parcel of school boy3." Franklin was the best all round educated man of his day, possessing a keen analytical mind—the faculty of quick incisive thinking, coupled with a rare degree of common sense, and no doubt the Hon. Geo. Gren v'Be. pr-iouset of the Stamp Act and c the- support rs of that epoch making statute, were glad enough when their ordeal with the old philosopher was over. The drama', i- s ene is full of most charming inti rest to every student of his tory, but it is not our wish, or purpose, to dwell upon it now. It is merely mentioned to show what strange mutations time can, and does, work, in the destiny of N'a tion3. At that period we were a people in a measure poor and obscure; hardy and thrifty, it is true, but not of sufficient advancement to uti lize the boundless potential wealth of the uncharted wilderness that lay about us. Our poverty, how ever, was not the reason of our refusal to bear this tax, and Frank ■ in never did succeed in making it clear to English Prime Ministers what the real cause of rebellion was. They either would not,, or could not perceive that, as a liber ty-loving people, we must strenu ously dispute the right of the moth er country to impose an arbitrary tax of any character whatsoevei Our forefathers were brave and earnest in their opposition to th* establishment of a fatal precedent, and when they had made their protest stick, the curtain slowl; descended upon one important scene in the evolvement of a great Com mon wealth. Hut the curtain is up again, the scenes are shifting, the acts mov ing on; and as other and more modern players stride across the boards we of today are fascinated indeed by the wonderful and start ling changes in the play. Front a meagre aggregation of obscure Colo nies we have become a federation of rich and powerful states, co-or dinated. homogeneous, unionized so beautifully and harmoniously that internal disaster seems impossible. We are not. however, so invulner able to external disaster; and it is difficult to foresee just when some ill-advised * movement on the pait of the leaders of our nation mat precipitate such external strife as will Involve our people in irrepara ble loss. Thus far we have been fortunate to be guided by a statesman of such calmness and placidity, such self command and cool judgment as the Hon. Woodrow Wilson, but there are many sources of danger in our country today that have never de veloped before, and it would require rare wisdom to estimate their power to disturb the stability of the State As we all know, the representatives of a modern English Parliament have recently com» to our shores to solicit and negotiate for the loan of one billion dollars ($1,000,000.0001 a sum so inconceivable that no other nation at this time could en tertain even a thought of extending such an accommodation. They must have this stupendous loan to aid them in the most dreadful fatricidal conflict the world has ever known; to tide them over a crisis that may mean the utter extinction of a na tion; and this time there Is an other cross-examination of a differ ent character, and directed from an other angle. This time it Is not the composed and fearless Dr. Frank lin before a Nation's Parliament - t but the representatives of that na tion before a 1'arliament of Bankers in Hr Franklin s native land Tiie-e distinguished solicitors have submitted to most persistent ami searching interrogation, amt have in ! faith produced the collate: 1 security required of them Did they obtain the loan" Yes. they lid: But the scenes are still shift ing with marvelous and ominous rapidity, so ominous, in fact, that ii iratively speaking, we lean foi ward in our seats to witness an un looked for. and startling denou • ment. Almost before tile ink i iry upon their bond, even befor . honorable gentlemen have tied the shores of tlieir own conn ry to announce the success of ilieir mission, ttie Prime Ministei d ttie British Empire comes befor lie House of Commons to frankly idmit how serious, perhaps dan n rolls tiie plight of that Empire - r un every point of view, and ti s\ for another vote of credit for quarter of a billion pounds ($1,250 '00.000). At the game time French financiers, careful students of the situation, predirt that Great Britain and France will. In the near futur" be compelled to request of Amen an bankers an additional loan oi it least two billion dollars ($2,000 '00.000). Now die outlook Is simply ap palling, not only for the nations •wolfed, but for all the world. Star ;ti■ mns computed In September the osi of the star to be $90,000,000 ■ r day. This is a daily expendi ng nearly three times as great as vis estimated in the first months f the tumult, so we see the wast go of this unspeakable conflict •oir.g on with frightful acceleration. To a citizen of the United States 1 • re seems to be three pertinent nest ions relative to the situation, to which a conclusive answer would be gratifying Indeed. If Amen can bankers are called upon to do so (and there seems to be no doubt they will be so called upon). (1) Are they able to extend this additional loan? (?) Will they extend it? (3) Or Is it their duty to refuse it? The last two questions are difti •’ult, indeed, to settle conclusively tnd the opinion of the American neople is perhaps fairly equally ai ided upon them. But the first mestion ran be solved with a mod rate degree of accuracy—Yes, they ire quite able to absorb this here tofore unheard of loan; they could even handle a loan of ten billion dollars and barely ripple the ocean of our resources. This conclusion is based upon the postulate, "thaT the wealth of our nation is the re flex. or sum of the wealth of the people, and a great part of such wealth is always at the disposal of hankers.” Let us offer gome figures In sup port of this statement that may be illuminating to readers of this report. According to the estimate >f Sir Geo. Paish. the wealth of C.reat Britain In 1914 was eighty five billion dollars ($85,000,000,000). At about the same time Dr. Karl Helfferich. the present head of the Imperial German Treasury, estimated *he total wealth of Germany at seventy-five billion dollars ($75. 000.000,000). Fifteen years ago (in 1900) tlu t'nited States Census Bureau placed the total wealth of the United States at eighty-five billion five hundred million dollars ($85,500. >00,000). In 1004 the same authori ty gave us one hundred seven bil lion one hundred million dollars ($107,100,000,000), but now appear figures of such magnitude as to b> actually staggering. From 1904 to 1912 the increase in our national wealth was about eighty-one b 11 lion dollars ($81,000,000,000). or, to be more explicit, the entire wealth of our country was one hundred eighty-seven billion seven hundred thirty-nine million dollars ($187,739. 000.000) in 1912. Here we have the amazing fact that the increase alone in our wealth in eight brief year3 was more than the entire wealth of the German Empire, and practically equal to the entire wealth of Great Britain. These figures seem in credible. it is true, but they ar“ taken from the highest authority obtainable in our country, and are as near correct as human wisdom and careful computation can make them. So it would seem conclusive that our banking institutions can. if need be, extend a credit to the allies, in money and merchandise to, let us say, even twenty billion dollars, without disturbing the equi librium of our National or business life. But should we do it? That’s the question. There are some who contend that T Prussian militarism should tri umph upon the European continent, it would mean that victorious Ger many. enriched by the spoil3 and indemnities of five defeated and subject nations, would disdain the wreath of victory offered by Eu rope. that her soul would be so ablaze with ambition for World Em pire, she would, at an early date, ’clihcrately provoke a conflict with the freedom-loving American pee pie. If this contention were dem onstrable, it would be imperative for the United States to freely offer all her resources to the allies at once, and have the matter settled now and forever. But such an out come of this continental turmoil does not seem so threatening as It did ten months ago. Germany and Austria, after fifteen months of war so costly that figures are ■) most helpless to convey its total must lx- perilously near io the rat ted edge of prostra; ion in men, money and tood. and in i ■■ >m ality that the peerlen oig.:i,..,'i i of the three central powers slioue triumph in the next eighteen m.rnih even complete victory would finu them suffering sum physi ■ ,U ,.n financial exhaust.on that a new conflict with a fresh and powerfu. antagonist would presage ii.itnin.il death, pure and simple From every point of v n-w t'u-r stems to be one plain dutv «iii.-<• t j confronting t e American pvypR Ve may fin-1 it difficult to refust further and larger loans to the al lies, but we should feel it our solemn duly to const r-e. a.< far a possible, every resource we pos sess w.th one great object in view: We should not lose sight of the work that is plainly cut out for us, md that only our nati n can pc form: we must stand ready to aid n tie rehabilitation of the people ■f the Kuropean Continent when thi mspeakahle i rime of the twentie'h •entury has reached its devilis'. limax. Russia and England will not. perhaps, be so sadly in need T a helping hand, because the; have not as yet given the full mea sure of their strength either ii nen or money; but France. Bo! glum. Germany. Austria. Serbia, all will bo in a pitiable condition in deed. Among their vital needs wi'l be food clothing, money, ctedit, ag ricultural stock, manufacturing and farming machinery of every con ceivable character; and while we as their merchant and hanker, their only source of supply, shall become still more wealthy and powerfu'. wo should at the same time be ex tremely reasonable as to profit, and generous as to credit. Bu* while this hellish drunkenness of blood goe3 on. is it wise for our country to furnish the means to prolong the horrible debauch? Would it not be wiser still to limit or close our source of supply? GEORGE W. PENNINGTON OBSERVING THE LAW. _ Alaskans, generally speaking, are the most law abiding of all people particularly when it comes to ob serving laws of long standing, but in marry instances they fail to com ply with the law in many respects chiefly through neglect or ignor ance. A great many of them have been in the territory so long and have had so little to do with law that when a measure is passed which they must observe and which relates to the line of business they are following, they neglect to comply with tis requirements and there fore throw themselves open to trou ble. The last Alaska legislature pass ed a bill entitled “An Act to Com pel Roadhouse and Boardinghouse Keepers Outside of Incorporated Cit ies in the Territory of Alaska to Keep a Register of the Names of All Travelers Patronizing Their Places of Business.” This act was pass ed for the purpose of keeping a line on all travelers in order that their whereabouts may be ascertain ed in case they are found missing or if somebody makes inquiry for them. Another purpose of the law was to prevent and detect crime, its passage being the outcome of the several murders along the Val dez trail a number of years ago. As a penalty for failing to keep a register and for failing to com pel all persons stopping at his place to register, the roadhouse keep er is liable to a fine of from $10 to $25 or imprisonment for 10 days, or both fine and imprisonment. The law also specifies that any person who refuses to register at road houses shall be refused accommo dations by the host It is reported that but few of the coast trail roadhouse keepers are complying with the law. One man coming in states that he was asked to register at only three road houses enroute to Fairbanks from the coast, and that he only saw one other register. The federal offi cials have also ascertained that the law' is not being observed on other trails going out of Fairbanks, and '-t is their intention to look into the matter. Since travel started over the trail for the Outside it has been ob served that a number of “John Does” and “Richard Does” have taken passage on the stage, signing such names fearlessly to their ticK ets. A number of the citizens of Fairbanks have remarked on this fact, but no way is known by which a traveler may be compelled to reg ister under his true name. A BIG MAN. When Ollie James, the giant Democratic Senator, had finished the high school at Marion at the age of sixteen, he sought a position as page in the Kentucky Senate Cham ber. His immediate State Senator was approached and promised him a place through the good offices of his friend the Lieutenant Governor and nrc-siding officer of the Senate. When the Legislature assembled young James presented himself. Th“ Lieutenant Governor declared he had forgotten the matter entirely and had appointed ail the page3. "But.” he said, "I find, in looking them over, that they are a lot of spindle-legged weaklings, scarcely able to carry themselves. There I ought to be one page strong enough to lift heavy records and newspu per files ’’ "Come and look my candid-1 ■ over," said James' representative When the Lieutenant Governor had | a h>ok at the giant youngstei I side he gasped. "Show the Governor how strut you are. Ollie," 3aid the Senator Whereupon Ollie James picked tr the Lieutenant Governor in one an and his Senator in the other an ' trotted upstairs with them. "Heavens!" said the presiding ol cor "make a place for the boy Make two places for him!” As soon as Ollie James was in stalled he organized the p.igec . the Senate and House and establish ed them at once as a power in th' Legislature. This was the beginning of a career which lias already pro grossed to a leading place in the ''nited States Senate. GIVE US MORE SAFEGUARDS Thirty-five boats wrecked in ten years upon the Alaskan roast; mil lions of dollars in property do ;troyed: hundreds of lives lost; in. onvtnTnce and embarrassment to the merchant and the traveler— this is the great roster of our ma rine disasters. And in nine cases out of ten it could have been pre vented In a fog hom here, a light house there, a rock buoyed, or othei safeguards those who travel are entitled to, In no ease has It been proven that the officer of the ship was negligent of his duty, or taking foolhardy chances. In all cases it lias been demonstrated that our coastal line will never be salt for travel, summer or winter, until several million dollars are spent in surveying, buoys, lighthouses fog horn3 and marine bells. Forty per cent of our steamers have gone to the bottom: in the past muni: one-fourth of the liners plying b tween Anchorage and Seattle hav found a watery grave, and that the loss of life was not enormon :s to be credited to the seamanship of the officers and crows of thes vessels rather than to any app’i in ce:s granted them by a careless '~vemment. Isn't it about tine 'hat our people send In a remoa trance large enough to cause our National lawmakers to sit .in and take notice? With the millions and millions of dollars spent in nork barrel appropriations, doesn't it seem that the lives of our pen pie could be better protected? if two or three lives lost on a pas senger steamer in the war zom cause such a wave of sentiment, why does not the loss of hundreds of lives in ocean travel cause a greater upheaval of popular senti ment? Had a foreign nation sunk the Eastland the people of t h< United States would have enlisted to a man to revenge the wrong done. Is it any lesser wrong to consider the hundreds lost by an in different congress? We must have more coastal safeguards. The coun try is growing so rapidly it is fifty years ahead of our lawmakers.— Valdez Prospector. I _ THE honor among thieves is sel lo n evoked for the benefit of hon est men. ONE look at the Mexican trea sury should be enough to make any army evacuate the capital. * • m UNCLE SAM say3 that a dead bird with its feathers on is not "dressed." How about a live chick en with her war paint on? » * • WHEN a girl laughs at being kissed, it is a sign that the fellow is wasting time. Young girlert should get wi3e to thi3 fact. * m • SOMEBODY has got Los Angel es' goat. The schooner Mary Dodge (no relation to Bion) arrived there recently from the Guadaloupe Is lands with a cargo of 1.995 goats. They were shipped out to be pas tured with 1,587 other goat3 that airived on the same boat the trip before. * * * THE Ketchikan Progressive-Minei thinks there is only one man of ‘lie Republican faith in the territory that has the necessary qualifica tion for delegateship who could bring in and hold most of the fac tions together. The name of the one savior is Jorn Rustgard. former district attorney of Juneau. We can find one or two Republicans in Fairbanks who will not agree with the Miner. ORDER EASTERN STAR. The regular communication of Midnight Sun Chapter No. 6, Order Easter Star will be held next Friday evening, November 12 at 8 o’clock, at Masonic Temple. In addition to regular business there will be initiation. All mem bers are requested to be present, and visiting members of the Order of the Eastern Star will be cor dially welcomed. Ily order of the W. M. GRACE M. ROLSTON, Secretary. CIVIC CLUB NOTICE. The regular monthly meeting of the Woman’s Civic club of Fair banks will be held at the federal building Monday evening, November 8. All members are requested to be present. MRS. L. R. GILLETTE, Secretary. hove la the "heart-line;” marriage is the "clothesline;” divorce is the "life-line.” IT IS RUMORED on the Streets That one of the object* ot Mar j il Erwin's trip to Washington is to "get the scalp” of another em p.-.nee ot the government athough i r. different depart men' T*at a meeting of the ■• mrter. of the district which is to b" held ir. the commissioner's court room [Tmsday evening, is for to - purpost of forming a teamsters’ union wit r.m.rd to fre'yht rat-; to the n.-w e hi p. Another rumor is to the effect that a no a’ trail to the I’oio 'lea country. way cf Tapt> erv- k, is to be discussed. That the trail is getting decid edly hotter in the shakedown mat ter which wa3 mentioned last week The rumor is assuming reality in grand shape, and If tlie same pro gress is made in the next couple weeks that have been made in the past one week. The Citizen will issue a speelal “crow" edition in the near future. Curling Season Will Open Soon All of the curlers of the city are now anxious for the cold weather to come. The reason Is obvious, for the palms of all of them are itching to feel the "neck” of a curling stone and to hear the swish cf broom on the Ice. Just wiien the season will open is not stated by the curlers. Tin first cold snap in October was in dicative of an early winter, and they therefore expected at that time to he enjoying their favorite sport long before the first of the present month but—it turned warm again and consequently the ice is not "made” yet. it is understood that the mem ber3hip of the club is now pra t cally completed, although one or two places for players yet remain open The club this year will number 4 men. A meeting of a number oi ■ members a few days ago re suited in the following being elected is svi..*- H. D. Menzie, R. J. Geis I<\ M. Dunham. Reed Jleilig Axel Carlstein, G. E. Beraud, Arthur Ilea cock. P. J. Ilickert. E. H. Boyer and Dr. W. G. Cassels. Done by Deputy. At a marriage service performed in a little country church when the minister said in solemn tones. "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wed ded husband, etc," instead of the woman answering for herself, a gruff man's voice answered, "I will!” The minister looked up, very much perplexed, and paused. He repeat ed the sentence, and again the same gruff voice answered, "1 will!” Again the minister looked up when a man seated at the end of the first row said. "She’s deef, parson, an’ I’m answerin’ for her.” The man was trying to sell his dog. "You see," lie said, "I bought 'he dog and trained him myself. I got him 30 he'd bark if a person stepped inside the gate, and 1 thought I was safe from burglars. Ph.-eii my wife wanted me to train him to carry bundles, and I did. If I put a package in his mouth the dog would keep it there until someone took it away. Well, one night I woke up and heard some ->ne in the next room. I got up and grabbed my pun. They were there -and" the dog!” “Didn't lie bark?” interrupted the man. “Never a bark; he was too busy.” “Busy? What doing?" “Carrying a lantern for the burp iars.”—Exchange. A trial took place recently in Texas before a negro jury. The twelve gentlemen of color were told by the judge to retire and "find a verdict.” They departed for the jury room Then began the opening and shut ting of drawers, the slamming of doors and other sounds of un usual commotion. Everyone won dered what the trouble was. At last the jury came back into the court and the foreman arose and said: “We hab looked everywhar—in the drawers, and behind the do’, an’ can’t find no verdic’. It wam’t in de room.” Cohen and Levi were playing poker. The tide of fortune ebbed and flowed until suddenly Cohen said: ”1 will bet it five dollars on th.s hand.” “I will see der five undt raise you five,” said Levi. "See you, undt raise you five more,” added Cohen. “This iss a good hand what i have it, undt I mu3t see der five undt raise you five,” drawled Levi “Well, 1 can't see you steal der pot. I have a pretty good hand myself. 1 will call you—vot haff you?” said Cohen. "Queens,” said Cohen. “How many?” asked Levi. “Vun,” said Cohen. “ Dot's good,” said Levi, quietly The last word, her toothbrush and the right to change her mind arc about all the exclusively personal things a married woman claims Ir this life. Toniglit at Thorne’s WORLD FILM CORPORATION PRESENTS A SHUBERT FEATURE A Remarkable Story of Life, Love and Liberty; a Mixture of Occidental and Oriental. BY OWEN DANIS, WITH BARBARA TENNANT IN THE LEADING ROLE Admission 50c 0NISAT 120-MILE GALE Newspapers arriving from the Outside give in detail the propor tions of tlie big storm which swept the Southern stales during the nt i of August, and centered its ith principally upon the city of Galveston. So far as records show, it was decidedly the most violent that ha - ever struck the coast of the Gull of Mexico, and many of its salient features are remarkable among the storms of the world, even from records made at Galveston, vvlii, the weather bureau estimates w-;. about fifty miles from the center of tlie disturbance at its height. Gal veston was in the zone of the bur ricane for 153 hours. A storm wind -—thirty-two miles an hour or more -blew for sixty hours and thirty-five minutes. A hurricane wind of sixty miles or more blew for nineteen hours and ten minutes, and a wind of seventy miles an hour or mo 1 raged for nine hours and e'ghtei minutes- The maximum veh>-ii> reached was 120 miles an hour. The lowest barometer reading was 28.'Id inches; rainfall, 15.41 inches and a maximum tide of 11.965 feet above mean low tide. It is confident'., believed, especially by those people in the gulf coast country affected by the storm, that nature cannot de vise a more violent display of her powers in the way of atmospheric disturbances than were shown din ing the hurricane. With the causeway went tlie city's water supply also, for the submerg ed main across the bay was snapped off by the violence of the current sweeping from the hay to the gulf. Without water except for drink ing purposes for several days, and without the normal supply I ’ several weeks, Galveston again de monstrated the advantage of every body pulling- one way at the same time, to clean up the city, enforce sanitary measures and thereby pre vent an epidemic of disease. There was no epidemic and the hospitals had no more to do following the storm than prior to its coming. Little time was lost by the com mercial and industrial enterprises of the city. Within less than a week after the wind ceased blowing smoke was pouring from the factory chimneys, power houses, mills an! what not, in the usual fashion, and downtown the city had resumed the bu3y hum of the second port of the United States What Impressed Bobby. "The theory of governing children by appealing to their reason isn't all it is made out to he,” said a public, school teacher recently. "I teach a primary class, and it’s j my opinion that a youngster actual ly needs a good spanking once in a while for his health. Here is an instance: “One of my boys had skipped his classes, deceived hi3 mother, been found out, and caused much unhappiness all around. I took him aside and we had a heart-to-heart talk. Hobby sat still looking at me intently, deeply interested. J thought that my little sermon was making a grent impression and peno trat ing his head. He seemed posi tively fascinated by my lino of ar gument. Hut you never can tell. Just as I had reached the climax in my appeal to his better self, a li lit of discovery broke over Hob by’s face. '■ Say. teacher,’ ho said eagerly, ‘it’s your lower jaw that moves, ain’t it?’” Everybody's. The old fashioned man who used to paddle his own canoe now has a son who owns a motor boat named “Ishkabibble." Let Squires do your WOOD SAWING Prices Reasonable Orders taken at the IMPERIAL CIGAR Store FRESH FRUIT ORANGES, PEARS GRAPES, LEMONS DELICIOUS APPLES Selected Stock GABE VENDETTI €I)r Btjou Front St. near Pioneer Hotel. llakelite, Wellington and Wash ington Pipes. Calabash and Corn Cobs. Pipes from 2 for 25 cents to $K.OO. PYRENE FIRE EXTINGUISHER Is the only one that will put out every kind of a fire in its incipient state PYRENE is the only ex tinguisher that triumphs over fires resulting from the ignition of benzine*, gasoline or acetylene gas. Will not freeze at 50 below. | PRICE $10.00 Just the thing for cabins. REFILLING LIQUID ALWAY6 IN IN STOCK. 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