THE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
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Kusko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
MCGRATH, ALASKA, MAY 4, 1921.
What’s the use of a law against
profiteering if it has no penalties?
This question is brought up by the
decision of the U. S. Supreme Court on
the Lever Act. The court holds that
the sections of that act which purport
to furnish punishments for profiteering
can not be enforced. They do not with
sufficient clearness specify the nature
of the offense.
The law says: “It is hereby made
unlawful for any person wilfully to
make any unjust or unreasonable rate
or charge in handling or dealing in or
with any necessaries.” The court says
this is not enough to set up an “ascer
tainable standard of guilt.” It does
not sufficiently inform persons accused
“of the nature and cause of the accusa
tion against them.” And the section
“forbids no specific or definite act.”
Chief Justice White read the opin
ion. He made comments, in which he
called the law “yague and indefinite.”
In consequence of the decision the
Government’s prosecutions of profiteer
ing will have to cease.
Italian newspapers are clamoring to
ha ve the United States c&noel Italy’s
debt to this country. Similar sugges
tions come from other debtor nations.
Meanwhile, in the United States
Congress, the expected receipts for in
terest on our foreign loans is spoken of
as “the core of the bonus.” For that
or other costly projects congressmen
seem eager to spend the easy money
that is supposed to be coming in. But
if the debtor nations haye their way—
or if they are now too poor to pay us—
ATTORNEYS
Albrecht & Taylor
Gso. W„ Albrecht, Iditarod, Alaska.
C’has. E. Taylor, Seattle, Wash.
Practice in all the Courts.
Seattle Law Office: L. C. Smith Bldg.
Elliott 1642.
FISHER
HOUSE
RUBY
When traveling through Ruby
stop at the
Fisher House Restaurant
Chas. Fisher & Family
there will not be any incoming interest.
As the boy said when asked for the
core of his apple, ^Tbere ain’t goin to
be no core.”
When the Liberty Loans were being
raised we were told that this incoming
interest would help pay the outgoing
interest. That seems to be forgotten
now.
Of course it does not really make any
difference whether we pay a bonus—or
any other great expense—out of incom
ing interest or raise the money by taxa
tion. If we spend the interest money
we merely have to raise that much
more to pay our own Liberty and Vic
tory bond interest.
But the existenoe of any sort Of spe
cial fund that is either in the treasury
or expected to come *in, is always a
temptation to extravagance. Politi
cians who want the spending of it elo
quently convince half the people that
to spend that particular money will not
really cost anything.—‘Ex.
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The United States 3upreme Court j
has upheld the much-criticised actioD j’
of Postmaster General Burleson in
withdrawing the 9econ 1-class privi-t
leges of the mails from publications
that he deemed seditious or disloyal
during the war.
Mr. Burleson has been roundly de
nounced as a "tyrant” because he took *
the ground that the United States was
under no obligations to transport and
distribute through the mails publica
tions whose avowed object was the
overthrow of the Government.
The case decided was that of Victor
Berger’s socialist paper, published in [
Milwaukee, but a rule is laid downj‘
which will govern many similar cases, f
A New York socialist daily had joined I
Willi mo ivj 11 wtiuntv iu 'uarryiD^
the case to the supreme court.
The court calls the Milwaukee
paper's case '‘futile litigation under
taken upon the theory that &< Govern
ment competent to wage war against
its foreign enemies was powerless
against its insidious foes^t^home.”
Mr. Justice Clarke, who read the de
cision, called attention to some of the
seditious articles in Berger’s paper.
Without going much into detail, he
said, it was declared in the quoted ar
ticles that the war was unjustifiable
and dishonorable on our part, a “capi
talistic” war which had been “forced
upon the people by a class to serve its
own ends.”
The two justices from Massachusetts,
Holmes and Araadeis, dissented .from
the decision of the majority.
One of the last acts of the Wilson ad
ministration was to inform the Chinese
Government that the doited States
does not concede the British claim to a
monopoly ©f “wireless” rights in parts
of ttoat country. China was given to
understand that Americans will build,
regardless of objections, a high-power
wireless plant at Shanghai. Permis
sion to puild it -had already been ob
tained. This is regarded as a test case,
and important, because it will deter
mine whether Great Britain > oan en
force similar claims elsewhere.
PROFESSIONAL
W. F. Green—
M. D., D- D. S.
OffieS: McGrath, Aaa.
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BB
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
Flat’s Quality Restaurant
The Best the Market Affords
Prompt Service
Henry Durant :: Prank Keenan
Hot Drinks Coffee c Sandwiches
Doughnuts Cake and Pie
'Serv&h setHour
McGrath Pool Room & Cigar Store
Mrs. E. P. Werner, Prop.
Who Said Freighting
That’s our#business and that’s^where we shine;
in other words where satisfactory service is al
ways given. Freighting between all points—
.McGrath, Tacotna, Ophir, Iditarod, Cripple,
• even as far as Rubv.
W. H.Jones
IFreighter
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskekwim.
Capt Wallace Langley, j Manager.
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