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Igunt 2Pth, 1023, at the postofFice at
.'^Fnkotna, Alaska, under the Act of
¥ar«k 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, March 7, 1931.
IDOESN5T LIKE NYE COMMITTEE
Tinder the heading “Hands Oy
^Massachusetts,” the Boston Trans
<cript says:
■“We fhink we voice the sentiments
■of ne. rly all of the people of Massa
chusetts when we say that we want
.none of Senator Nye’s senatorial in
vestigating committee. What we do
■ ant, for a time at least, is the right
0 conduct our own business in the
vay that it pleases us to conduct it
ml without interference from self
const'itutel censors in the United
States senate or elsewhere. This state
elected Marcus A. Coolidge as its
• i ator. It expects Mr. Coolidge to
its senator just as it would have
pec ted Mr. Butler to be its senator
1 the result on November 4 had been
.otherwise. It objects to dictation
fro imoutside sources and it is not in
.the least interested in the activities
.of any body which, for political or
.other reasons, is determined that only
men acceptable to it shall sit in the
.seats of the upper house of Congress.
■“By the constitution, the senate is
.given .the right to be the judge of the
.qualifications of its members. That
.right it should possess in order to
jprotect itself in cases of vile derelic
tions of duty. But it is stretching the
wight far beyond the breaking point
to give the Nye committee, or any
.other committee, the privilege of say
ing to a state that its citi ens arw
not competent to make their own
.choice., * * When a citizen of
Massachusetts votes for a certain
.candidate for the United States sen
ate, he intends that his vote shall be
.counted. He is tired of the prospect
ithat it can be nullified to suit the
■whims of any outsider or outsiders
\who are straining every point to keep
T
out of the senate all men not of-theii
| political stripe. The federalization oi
the country has gone on apace, but
the states still have some rights and
they mean to maintain theh.”
SPOKANE MAN CHANGES
HIS PROHIBITION VIEWS
SPOKANE.—“I went into office ten
years ago as a rabid dry. I’m coming
out a genuine and campaigning wet.”
Bill Harker speaking For ten.years
until this month he was head of Spo
kane county’s dry squad— and Spo
kane is a dry county, relatively
speaking.
Iiarker arrested more than 4,000
prohibition lawbreakers during his
term. A political overturn last No
vember lost hint his o.ib.
“Of course,” the ax-dry chief said,
“ can’t clap hands very gleeful.y over
losing a good job, but I know that
never again will I enforce the prohi
bition law.
“For ten years,” Harker continued,
”I’ve been fretting and stewing at
the hardest and most futile and most
absurd job in the world, that of try
ing to keep people from drinking al
cohol.
“But .1 couldn’t stop them, and nei
ther can anyone else. V. hat’s :more,
I’ve been treated to a distressing
spectacle of seeing children in my
town, barely in their teens, guzzling
gin and whiskey, a thing that was
never heard of a dozen years ago
when saloons were running full blast.
“Because they are told not to, peo
ple are drinking today that never
thought of it before prohibition. Sa
loons were undoubtedly a nuisance,
and I shouldn’t care to see them come
back, but at their worst they affected
only adults.
“Today a large part of the ,J>oot
eggers’ trade is with minor boys and
girls. Prohibition has not dried up
liquor—it has simply diverted the
corner saloon, where children never
saw it, to the homes where the
youngsters watch it made and drink
it as well.”
Marker does not favor complete re
peal of the eighteenth amendment,
nor does he wish to see merely light
wines and beer admitted back to
grace. He desires simply and genu
inely to see all forms of liquor
brought back and sold under strict
government .control.
“No, sir,” Mr. Harker loncluded,
“I was for prohibition, but I'm not
any more. J' :■ seen how the law
works and that s been enough to
make me preach modification for the
rest of my days.
“And it would be a sobering and
an enlightening experience for any
radical prohibitionist, if he were
given th eopportunity, just for a little
while, of working on a prohibition
enforcement squad.”
I
In Honor ot St. Patrick
MASQUE BALL
At Pioneer Hall,
Takotna,
Saturday Night
March 14th
Best of Music Good Time Assured
Get Your Masks Ready. Be On Tims
Everybody W eleome
C3T ornORTUNITY
TO MAKE MILLIONS
Hi j*e hare been :i number af a< -
funwl® of the sale of ike Mother Lvle
copper mne at Kumecoott, fruii
whi'l ihe V nggeuh 1ms have take*
ii—lioi'..; of ter buildv.g a railroad
co-ting 120,000,000 to brine the ore
tr. ii.1 wu.er at Corric-va.
One of the unpuni shed stories 5*
that uf an offer made to M. D. Ickts
of let hlkan to sell the mine for $190
by Chief Niekoli in the year 1838.
MV. Ickic, who has mining interests
in and around Ketchikan and near
Hyder, was with a party of 23 men
who went to Valdez that year, think
ing that would prove the shortest
land route to reach the Klondike gold
delds.
Thy freighted in their supplies
during the winter over the Valdez
glacier, as Thompson Pass was not
used until later, and got as far as the
Nebesna river before the spring
breakup caught them. It was not
until the following winter that they
went to Dawson.
During the trip they met Chief
Niekoli. He described the mountain
of copper no wknown as the Kcnne
cott mine and offered his Indians title
to the place for $100 with which to
buy “white man’s food.”
The same year Colonel Millard and
George Hazelet and other oldtimers
were busy making trails and pros- ,
pecting and it was a little later that
the diggings on S.ate creek were dis
covered.
Speaking of the hardships of those
ear.y days and the unknown, dangers
ahead, Mr. lekis said one could hard
ly realize the great changes which
have taken place since then. -
Specious Justification. f
Ring Lardner was talking about a
show girl who had married an aged
millionaire.
“Some of her friends,” he said, 5
‘crit.cised her for this marriage.
They thought it was too mercenary.
Crabbed age and youth, yon know.
But the girl always had some spe
cious kind of justification ready.
“To one of her critics, for instance,
her answer was: !
“ ‘Say, now, look here. If somebody
offered you a check for a million dol
lars, would you bother to examine the
! date ? ’ ”
Judge (after charging jury)—Is
there any question that anyone would
.ike to ask before considering the
evidence ?
Juror—A couple of us would like
to know if the defendant boiled the
malt one or two hours, and bow does...
he keep the yeast out?
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