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EDITORIAL PAGE |
WHKHE WOMAN'S CITIZENSHIP
IS TESTED
In the las: Boston city election
the number of women voters regis
tered and qualified to vote for
members of the school committee
was 9413; the numbei that actual
ly cafet ballots was 2949, or about
41 Tier cent, says the Christian
Science Monitor. In Chicago
at the recent city elec
tion the percentage or regis
tered women voting was about
86. These figures come very near
toucning the extremes. Of course,
the registration of womesn in Bos
ton at the last city election repre
sented only a fraction of those en
titled to the limited franchise. In
Chicago the proportion of women to
men voteiB was better. But it
may be accepted that throughout
the country, except in the suffrage
states, where interest among wo
men in public affairs is fresh aaid
active, there is neglet of such vot
ing irivileges as the law allows.
Vet this is not the main question
as we view it. Gradually, it is to
be honed, women's Interest in poli
tics will increase. It may be as
sumed that their intwest in a short
time in community affairs will be
equal to that of man. But this will
not suffice if the benefits promised
to result from equsl suffrage are
to be realized. Women's strong
est olaa for the baltot is founded on
the admitted fact that men have
not fulfilled their duties as citizens
We are told that if women are
granted equal political rights with
men the former will rise to the
moral obligation*-) that go with the
privilege; that they will not be
content simply with periodical en
thusiasm, with the perfunctory cast
ing of their vote, with delegating
to a machine, or to a machine in
strument, powers whleb they them
selves should exorefse.
It is regrettably tu-U we are in
the main without proof so far of
women's ability or of their deter
mination to better tilings i« this
particular. Allowing the dispro
portion Between tne women euuuvu
to vote, the women who registered,
and the women who actually vot
ed In Boston at the last city elec
tion to pass altogether, the fact
remains that nearly 4000 women did
g&- 'o the polls. These may, we
think", be put down as women hav
ing 'he welfare of the fcublic school
system, the public schools and the
public school children of Boston
largely at heart. Let the circum
stance that they took the trouble
to go to the polls b-j accepted as
prima facie evidence of this fact.
But this, it appears, is all they have
done. There is nothing else to
support the belief that their inter
est -n the pulic scnools is con
stant It is not in evidence that
any considerable part of the 4000
attenl meetings of the school com
mitter. It is not 'n evidence that
any considerable part cf the 4000
displays an interest in school com
mittee politics. We do not hear
that any considerable number of
the 4000 may be callcd upon when
necessary to stem or defeat the
machinations of those who would
use the school committee for un
worthy purposes. In short, It ap
pears to be the case that the wo
men voters in this t arrticular are
not to be relied oa to any greater
degree than the men voters.
Wnile a Boston condition is ta<c
en for a text, the matter is one of
general, and not of merely local
importances, and the lesson it
teaches may have the very widest
application. If the country is to
gain from equal suffrage, it must
be because women shall perform a
part in civic affairs that men have
failed to perform. Even a frac
tion of one per cent of the propor
tion of woman who vote iu Boston
attending school committee meetings
as observers, intelligently inform
ing themselves with regard to
school committee proceedings, active
in hiding school committees to
their responsibility, vigilant In ob
servation of the work of those to
whom they have committed public
education, reedy at all times to
give moral support to righteous ad
ministration of one of the most
sacred of trusts, would accomplish
great results.
Is It not time that women were
brought to an understanding of
the fact that voting is only a func
tion of citizenship, that devotion
I to the public welfare comes nearer
I to being the whole duty of the citi
I zen, and that there is no way in
which good citizenship may be bet
I ter conserved than in safeguarding
| the management of thp schools?
Japan Has No Animosity
Against United States
Government
By Dr. SHA1LER MATTHEWS,
Dean of University o/ Chicago
Divinity School
THAT the United States will
ever have any cause for war
with Japan, .-.t least in the
next hundred years, is to my mind
unbelievable, and I am sure it is to
every one who is familiar with the
situation in Japan at present.
The discontent and anti-Ameri
can movements reported so widely
in the papers of this country last
winter as coming from Japan were
greatly exaggerated.
Japan is anxious to maintain the
integrity of China and has develop
ed a certain Monroe doctrine to
ward Asia, which has caused un
favorable comment in the European
papers and has led to the statement
that she is again<t the open door
policy.
THIS 13 NOT TRUE. JAPAN IS
INTERESTED IN THE DEVELOP
MENT OF CHINA. BUT SHE DE
i SIRES THAT THAT NATION OP
j CONFUCIUS BE NOT A PREY TO
| OTHER POWERS.
J * QUALIFICATIONS *
j + There bein,; a difference of ♦
•> opinion in Skagway as toi who +
! * are to be enumerated as quail- +
j * fied voters at the election to +
j be held her-., on May 24th to +
* decide as to whether or not <•
I + retail liquor licenses shall be *
j + granted for the ensuing year, *
j + the Daily Alaskan represent iv- +
| + tive called on Commissioner ♦
I + Martin Conway this morning +
! + and naked for his intrpreta- +
| + tion of the law in relation *
{+ thereto and of the instructions
j + seDt to him by Judge R. W. +
j + Jennings of the district court, ♦
•> published in the columns of +
+ this paper tm Monday, May 3d- +
* The Commissioner stated that +
+ any CITIZEN of the United "fr
States, whose intention it is +
I * to become a resident of Skag- *
I * way, Is qualified to vote* re- +
* gsrdless of the length of time + J
+ he has resided here prior to + I
* the <*y of election, and that + i
* aliens, who had only taken out *
| * their first naturalization pa- ❖
* pers, are disqualified for eith- +
•J" er enumeration or voting. In *>
+ order to fortify himself thor- ❖
+ oughly Commissioner Conway +
+ sent the following telegram to +
+ Judge R. W, Jennings this *
* morning: *
+ Skagway, May 3, 1913 +
+ To Judge R. W. Jennings, +
* Juneau, Alaska, •>
* Can residents with only •>
* first naturalization papers
+ vote »t this election? *
* MARTIN CONWAY +
■5" Early this afternoon he re- "J
* ceived a reply from Judge ♦
+ Jennings, the answer being 4*
+ "Jio." ♦
GOOD NEWS
Many Alaskan Headers Have Heard
It an' Profited Thereby
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people are telling the good news
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worth reading:
F. H. Wieland, 1002 E. 41st St.,
Los Angelas, Cal., says: "For a
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Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
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get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
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For Sale
Lots I, 2, 3, and half of 4,
block 89, fronting Fifteenth
avenue, between State and
Broadway, containing 175
feet frontage and 100 feet
in depth, a fine piece of
ground for gardening, has
been used before, a bargain
for the sum of $200.00.
Phil Abrahams
Agent
CRAB MEAT COCK 1A1LS
at
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j
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We offer One Hundred Dollars
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by all Druggists. .
Take Hall s Family Pills for constipation.
EXPOSED!
*
After exposure, wHen you foeJ *
cold coming on, take "PUROLA'
Honey and Tar Cough Syrup. DO*t
wait until it ha# dereloped Into
oronchitla or pneumonia. Dom «ot
contain oplatee of any Wud. Keep
bottle In the house for emergen
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your money If >ot Mtafled. Price
25c and 50o 8pedfy -PUROLA''
Sold by Keller Broe Drug Co.
ONLY ONE "Bromo QnWiw," that la
f axatlve ftromo Quinine
Cures a Cold In One Day, Crfpln 2 Days
on box. 25c.
\ Special Sale
> Tomorrow1
>
) Our goods are
marked in our
window display
Tony Dortero
P. ft A. M.
White Paaa Lodgs
F. ft A. M. No. 11S
meet* 2d and 4th
Frl. Ht'ks. of each
month. Visaing brother* are wel
come Phil Abrahams, Secretary.
Elmer L. Whoeler, W. M.
n. P. O. ELKS
Bkagwftjr Lodge
Vo. 411. B. P. O.
E. a«eta erary
Thursday eren
lng at 8 oclod.
VlrtUn* bf«U«rs
cordially welcoma.
HOWARD ASHLEY, E. R.
F. J. VANDEWALL, 8«0i*Uuy.
Fraternal Order j
fcKacte—
' Bkarwaj Aori* ,
> No. 85, FriUr- I
aal Order of I
Eagles meets the tor. and third
Wednesday night of each month at
their hall on Fifth avenue. Visiting
brothers cordially invited to attend.
JhoB C. Wood, W. P., J. w. Prlt
chett. Secretary. -
ArcMo Brcdh«rhodfl.—
^ Camp Sfca^way No. 1
A. B. meet* every Tues
day erenlag at 8:00 p
m. ah?irp. Visiting b rotters cordial
ly welcome. A. J. Achesoa, Arctic
Chief, \v. R. Hlllery, Arctic Re
corder
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Office Hours: 9-11 a. m 1-1 p. m.
Alaskan Building - _ Broadway
3KAGWAY ALASKA
\ iS.I.IAM PAliUSTER, M. D. r
(Formerly of Seattle) .
Sn.-cinliM. in tb$ jremtment of
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nose upd- throat.
Office Goldstein Bulldlag, In
stead Alaska
W. B. STOUT.
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In Territory nf Alaska. I
Hal nee Alaska. 1
Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria |
Vancouver, Prince Rupert I
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangeli, and Ketchikan
Leave Skagouay
May 10,21
S. S. City of Seattle May 15, 26
And every eleven daji fol lowing. Modem WNBforttble ablpm,
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, FOR BAN FRANCISCO, LOS AVfiELHh, SAN DOOGO.
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