The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924 .
Published Saturday at the Her
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Chas. F. Sandford
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Not An “Honest” Dollar
No more scathing and truth
ful denunciation of our present
economic and financial status
• has so far been uttered than
that given by Senator William
E. Borah, of Idaho, when he
declared in a recent address
that under present conditions
the United States dollar is not
an “honest dollar.”
“I contend,” he said, “that a
dollar which takes three times
as much wheat, four times as
much cotton, three times as
much pork to buy as it would
have taken three years ago, is
not an honest dollar. It is a
dishonest dollar. It cheats the
toiler between the time he eats
his breakfast and the time he
returns for supper.
“Nobody is proposing to
abandon the gold standard, but
much can be added to the use
•of gold with perfect safety.”
No student of present eco
nomic conditions but will agree
that Senator Borah’s summar
ization is just and that it dis
closes clearly the need for a
broadening of our currency
basis, such as could be easily
and safely provided by the
recognition of and use of silver
as a primary factor in our fi
nancial system.
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Debts and Armaments
It is not unexpected that
European nations should in
form the United States that
they cannot make the war debt
payments due this country, be
cause it has been clearly ap
parent for some time that they
either cannot or will not pay.
It seems equally certain that
the United States will not
agree to either postponment or'
cancellation of these debts, un
less some concessions are made,
either in the reduction of Eu
ropean armaments or in some
agreements which may have a
beneficial effect on our foreign
trade.
While the plea has long been
made that only by a cancell
ation of war debts and war
reparations can Europe be re
stored to economic stability,
this plea seems somewhat spec
ious in view of the persistence
of these debtor nations in
maintaining huge armies and
navies ,and their failure to
agree upon a reduction in these
expensive armed forces.
If the European nations will
not pay, there is nothing much
that Uncle Sam can do about
it. Certainly we are not going
to war for the sake of a few
billion of dollars. Unless the
nations will meet our demands
for armament reduction and
better trade arrangements, we
shall probably let the matter
rest a while longer.
Even holding this debt over
the heads of foreign govern
ments may have a potent influ
ence for world peace, because
a new war would have to be
financed somehow, and we
would hardly lend more mo 1
ey for a new war before the
former one had been paid for
by the nations responsible for
it.
Just for Fun
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Bankers may not be low
caste, but most of them are
“untouchables” nowadays.
It is strange that no candi
date promised to see that the
government pays our taxes.
The earth’s circumference is
said to be shrinking. Perhaps
in keeping with its inhabitants
who have been forced to tight
en their belts.
“Now, Johnny,” said the
teamher, “what did Caesar ex
claim when Brutus stabbed
him?”
Johnny thought a second be
fore he replied: “Ouch!”
A colored girl brought back
to the exchange clerk at a de
partment store a pair of silk
stockings.
“What is the matter with
them,” asked the clerk, “don’t
they come up to your expect
ations?”
“No sah,” she replied, “Ah
should say not. Dey dis barely
come above mah knees.”
INTERESTING NOTES
The discovery of silk is as
cribed to a Chinese queen who
lived 47 centuries ago.
Sir George Grierson, an ex
pert in the British civil service
in India, is master of 179 lang
uages and 554 dialects.
At a recent sale in Berlin, let
ters written by Mary, Queen of
Scots, brought $7 to $10 each.
Senator Marcy of New York,
in 1832, in the course of a
speech, coined the phrase, “To
the victor belong the spoils.”
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
November 15, 1922
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Dr. Lee Hodger, the dentist,
has moved into the building on
International avenue occupied
by Scott’s barber shop.
Fitzgerald Bros, this week
let a contract for 150 feet jf
underground work on the In
dependence group to Owney
McFadden and Allan Carolan,
who are busy getting in sup
plies to the 2700-ft. camp,
Mrs. D. C. Viele has sold her
local property, including the ;
“Junction” building, occupied !
by Dorey Transfer, Attorney J
Sundmacher’s office, both on :
Volunteer Drive, and two
buildings near the foot of Main
street. One of the latter has
since been purchased by Noel
Traversy, who will move it on
to his lot next to the Salmon1
River store. The properties
were sold to Joe Green.
G. A. Carlson, of the con
tracting firm of Siems & Carl
son, who have been building
railroads in the United States
and Canada for the past quar
ter of a century, arrived Sun
day and made a trip with Chas.
F. Caldwell up the Salmon val
ley as far as Thirteen-mile, to
look into the feasibility of
building a railroad in that sect
ion. It was through Mr. Cald
well’s influence that the rail
road builder came here. Mr.
Caldwell has had a permit for
two years or more for building
a railroad up the Salmon river.
Hyder's Highway Hop is be
ing promoted by the Commer
cial Association to help swell
the fund for building the new
planked roadway on First
street to connect with the gov
ernment dock approach. The
principal subject for discussion
at the monthly meeting of the
Association this week was this
proposed improvement. The
executive committee reported
that plans for the project are
all working out as formulated,
and that Erickson and McPhee.
who have the contract for set
ting and capping the piles,
would start work this week.
The firm of Seims and Carl
son, through G. A. Carlson,
have taken a contract to build
a railroad up the Salmon river
valley from the Hyder harbor
to the international boundary
line, a distance of about thir
teen miles, and Mr. Carlson is
authority for the statement
that actual work will start as
soon as humanly possible. The
road will be financed by Chas. i
F. Caldwell and associates,
who have organized the Port
land Canal Railroad and Ter
minal Company, with Mr. Cald
well as president.
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