The
Washington
News - Letter
(Centinued From Page Two)
William Allen Butler, for so long
a leader of the New York Bar.
“In the course of the evening
Mr.* Charles Glover, President of
the Riggs National Bank, told me
this bit of history. That when he
was a boy, in the bank one day
Mr. Cochran came to him and
handed him two warrants upon
the United States Treasury, one
for $1,400,000 and the other for
$5,800,000. He said, “Put those in
the safe.” Mr. Glover did so, and
they remained there for a week,
when they were sent to New
York. Mr. Glover said, “These
warrants were the payment of
Russia for the Territory of Al
aska.” .
“Why were there two war
rants? I never knew until some
years later, when I learned the
story from Senator Dawes, who
said that prior to the war, there
had been some negotiations be
tween the United States and
Russia for the purchase of Al
aska, and the price of $1,400,000
was agreed upon. In fact this was
the amount that Russia asked for
this great territory, which was
regarded as nothing more than a
barren field of ice.
“Duing the war the matter lay
dormant. We had more terri
tory than we could take care of.
When England, however, began
to manifest her friendly disposi
tion toward the Confederacy, and
we learned from Europe that
England and France were carry
ing on negotiations for the recog
nition of the Southern States, and
possibly of some manifestation
by their fleets against the block
ade which we had instituted (and
which they claimed was not ef
fective and merely a paper block
ade), we looked about for a
friend, and Russia was the only
European country upon whose
I frendship we could rely. There
upon Secretary Seward secured
from Russia a demonstration, in
American ports, of Russian friend
ship. Her ships of war sailed to
both of our coasts, the Atlantic
and Pacific, with the understand
ing that the expense of this dem
onstration should be met by the
United States, out of the contin
gent fund. It was to be a secret
matter.
"The war came to a close, and
immediately thereafter Lincoln
was assassinated and the admin
istration changed. It was no long
er possible to pay for this dem
onstration, secretly, under the
excuse for war, but a way was
found for paying Russia through
the purchase of Alaska, the war
rant for $1,400,000 was the war
rant for the purchase of Alaska,
the warrant for $5,800,000 was
for Russia’s expense in her nav
al demonstration in our behalf,
but history only knows the fact
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that the United States paid $7,
200,00 for this territoory, which!
is now demonstrated to be one of
the richest portions of the earth
in mineral deposits.”
The check used for this dual
purpose, which, on enactment of
the bill introduced by Delegate I
Dimond has been transferred to
the Governor of Alaska to be
placed in the Territorial Library
and Museum at Juneau, should
have increased interest to those
who view it there in the know
ledge that in addition to pur
chasing the Territory it also set
tled a moral obligation of the
Government arising out of the
Civil War.
It seems that a good inventor
j is one who develops something
| which isn’t patent to the rest of
the world.
Millions of music-lovers attend
j ed open-air concerts last summer
others thronged to the seashore
! where the belles were sweetly
j peeling.
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The $100 monthly alimony
granted a Detroit’s artist's wife
might be properly described as
a drawing account.
Tax returns in one Kansas
county showed only one rug and
two shotguns owned by inhabit
ants.
TOUGH KITTT. It’s -Climax,” lion cub of “Jock" and
“Juno,” big specimens in the London soo. The bone seems a bit Urge
for such a little eat, bat food of any site looks good to a jungle kitty.
ALL ALASKA SHOULD BE
PROUD OF THIS YEAR’S
SALMON PACK
Haw People of Territory Have Helped Alaska’s
Leading Industry to Overcome Outside
Competition and Bring More
Benefits Home to Us All
Thank you, people of Alaska...
for helping this year to pro
duce a Salmon Pack especially
fine in quality!
Throughout the Territory, none
but the freshest salmon were
canned. The fish passed quickly
from the water to the cans. Every
care was given to the in-between
steps. Now —at the end of the
1937 season — we may all take
pride in knowing that Alaska’s
Canned Salmon meets the high
est standards of purity, flavor and
nutritive value!
This year particularly, quality is
more than a matter of pride. It is
a vital need.
Operating costs have climbed
— with fewer packed cases to
bear the increase in costs. We
face vigorous competition from
cheaper fish packed elsewhere.
So if the Industry is to continue
as Alaska’s greatest economic
resource, American housewives
must be made to want to pay
more for Alaska salmon.
How can this be done? Ready
at hand is a proven tool—national
advertising.
In the past year and a half,
such advertising has greatly
stepped up Canned Salmon con
sumption, boosted sales through
out the United States. Plans are
already laid to make next year’s
national advertising more power
ful, more effective than ever!
Thus will the Canned Salmon
Industry continue to keep and
enlarge its share in American
markets ... to bring better times
to us all.
Without the fine product we
have this year such aims would
be beyond reach. For the quality
of the 1937 pack the Industry gives
warm thanks to all its thousands of
Alaskan friends.
Our greatest food
from the sea
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