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Dear Jim, tiie wind is blowing, «
There are white caps on the bay, 1
And I’m sure the lights are going
To flicker out today.
An
I notice, when it’s freezing,
Or when the sky is dark,
Or when the air is breezing
We are mostly in the dark.
So take along your flashlight
When you go to town today;
You’ll need it coming home tonight
To lighten your gloomy way.
Bring home a box of candles,
A can of kerosene,
A gross or two of mantles
And a case of gasoline.
And how long must we be obliged
to depend on a lighting system in
vogue when Christ was on earth?
It is down to that pass where we
can't figure on current at all. We
are without light and power so
much of the time that we’ll either
have to put in light and power
plants of our own or go back to
gas lamps and gas engines. We
can’t go this way in candle glim,
and with motors without electricity.
What assurance have we that things
will be better? Presumably there
are still southeasters and 3torms
from other quarters ahead of us.
Must we be obliged to run for the
candle box and the match safe
whenever there is an air stirring?
What "kind of a school service i3 Pe
tersburg giving the young folk of
the town? Seems to us that the
school kids are on the streets a
good third of the time because there
are no lights nor heat. The break3
into the 3chool system alone con
demns the light and power plant.
Honestly, folk, we don’t want this
to continue. In fact we can’t af -
ford it. We are so deep now, in
electrical equipment, that it is dif
ficult to think of getting along witli
one and sooner or later it will have
out juice. The problem is a big
t© be tackled in abigway. What
is the City Council going to do
about it? It will have to do some
thing and it had better begin right
away. The sooner the quicker.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
An Associated Pre3s dispatch, un
der date of December 16th, reads
like this: Seattle, Dec. 16th.—A
plan submitted to the Alaska Com
mittee of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce by the Seattle Mining
Club, would allow desirable Eur
opeans admitance to Alaska above
the present quotas. These immi
grants would 3ettle on the agricul
tural areas. It would be required
that, they had two years’ operating
capital available to be allowed ad
mission to the United States. * * *
Now what sort of a scheme is
this? What has the Seattle Minine
Club to do with agricultural pur
suits, and why does it desire fresh
batches of Europeans to settle on
agricultural areas? We’re against
any 3uch proposition—flat. It does
not look good on the face of it
And how come that it originates,
apparently, in Seattle? We want
to know. There isn’t any need at
all to send to Europe for people to
populate Alaska. There are a big
nun ber in the States who are anx
ious to come and settle here just
as soon as there is an even break
between starvation and making a
living. Is there any use in the
coming of ’em now? We’ll sa.v
not. Tell us what is the call foi
outsiders to come into the territory
when those who are here are deni
ed the sale of pretty nearly every
thing they raise. The Seattle and
’Frisco commission houses have the
Alaska business In the palms of
heir hands. The outside meat con
:erns Tiave a throttle hold on the
jountry. Here’s what one meat
company says: We wouldn’t buy
Alaska meat it there was plenty ol'
t and it was cheap. It isn’t so
jood as the meat from the States,
roo much bone and hide. Beef
cattle don’t fill out in Alaska. It’3
oo hard to put fat on them and
when they are in as good condition
is may be expected here there is
loo much of the animal runs to
bone, thick hide, hair and other un
desirable things. The real meat
portion is skimpy, flat and most al
ways lacks tallow or animal fats.
Now, what ia a cattle raiser go
ing to do when the beef trust of the
States is against him? He may
dispose of a critter now and then
locally, but as a business proposi
tion there’s nothing to it. And in
the raising of any sort of table
stuff he has no more show than a
snowball in a tub of hot water.
We know. We have seen poor,
hard working people bring in gard
en truck, than which there is no
better raised anywhere in the world,
and either be turned down flat in
the marketing of^it, or offered a
price below what inferior goods
could be gotten for in the States.
Where is there any incentive to go
farming in that? The big excuse
of the average store is that there
is no dependence to be placed on
the Alaska vegetable grower. He
couldn’t keep our stock up. He’s
too erratic. The trouble is, in this
line, that the commission houses of
the States don’t want any buttinsky
business from local farmers in this
neck of the frontier. They have a
hard enough job skinning the farm
ed of the States. They don’t want
their worries increased by having
any farmers in Alaska to skin. And
the average mercantile affair stands
in with the commission houses.
This is partly by compulsion and
partly force of habit.
No, no, friends, we don’t want
any new Europeans beyond the
present immigration quotas here
But what we do want is a terri
torial system of marketing wherein
the Alaska farmer will have at
least a fighting chance. It is only
a short time back that the little
flour mill in Fairbanks was com
plaining about its flour sales. It
seems that the outside mills were
doing all they could to snow the
local mill under. They are doing
it yet and the worst part of this
pernicious undertaking is the fact
that the stores side in with out
side manufacturers and make more
effort to sell the flour , from the
States than from the local mill.
Where is the grain grower going to
come out in a scheme of this kind?
He can’t survive, of course, and
outside interests don’t want him to
survive. And then they talk of tip
setting the immigration laws so that
more foreigners may settle in Al
aska. That this bunk comes from
Seattle is no surprise. The more
people there are in Alaska, no odds
how they live, the more Seattle
hopes to get. But she is stepping
out of her latitude When there is
any such proposal as a change in
immigration laws for Alaska’s bene
fit. We are able to ^ttend to that
part of it ourselves.
The Forestry Department hasn’t
liven any inducements to settlers,
rhere is little that has been done
by any department toward land
levelopement. Seemingly, the home
steader isn’t a desirable citizen. Ap
parently he isn’t wanted. And that
is connection with the actions of
merchants and the food commission
trust of the States there is not any
more chance for a farmer in Alaska
than there Is for a pie in a board-1
ing school.
EDITORIAL FINDINGS
The tax reduction bill provides
Cor a cut of $290,000,000. To the
very wealthy, who can afford to pay
an income tax, goes $232,000,000
of the reduction. In other words
the tax reduction bill 1b a pet
measure for rich people. But ev
en that didn”t suit Mr. Mellon. He
desired that the rich get 98 per
cent of all tax reductions.
The new five-year naval program
calls for the construction of nearly
a billiou dollars worth of fighting
ships. It isn’t so long back that
President Coolidge poo-poohed the
idea of new fighting vessels. He
had it iu his head a year ago that
our navy wag just about the “very
bestest ever,’’ now he 3wings sud
denly toward a staggering ship
building proposition. What’s the
matter? Was Coolidge decidely
wrong a year back, or is he wrong
now?
Raymond Lonergan is the corres
pondent for LABOR, published at
Washington, D. C. In the Decem
ber 24th issue he has an article un
der the head “Justice for the Fili
pinos.’’ We have pulled it to piec
es and give you a chunk here and
there out of it, as the article is too
long to run as it i3 published in
LABOR.
Lonergan says: “President Cool
idge has named H. L. Stimson, New
York corporation lawyer and Secre
tary of War under Taft,Governor
General of the Phillipines. Stim
son was sent to Nicaragua by the
administration some months ago
and fixed up a peace by the simple
process of buying off some of the
opposition to our prgram and turn
ing the n arines loose to shoot the
rest.’’
What will he do in the Philli
pines?”
“Politically, the islands are in
a dreadful mess, a3 the result ot
the blundering policy pursued by
the late General Wood. Wood was
picked by Harding. When he reach
ed Manila he immediately began
antagonizing the Filipinos by per
mitting it to become known that he
was opposed to independence, and
that he wanted the island govern
ment ‘to get out of business.’ ”
“There i3 a government owned
road on the island of Luzon. * * *
Under public ownership it has be
come the only successful railroad
in the Phillipines. An English syn
dicate had made a failure of it.
There is also a government owned
bank. Wood demanded that the
road be sold to J. G. White & Com
pany an American corporation with
extensive holdings in the islands.
. . “It should be set down, right
here, in blackface type that White
& Company is the Qtmcern which has
been exploiting Nicaragua and other
Central and South American coun
tries with the assistance of .oa»
State Department and the Marines.
Backing White are Brown Brothers
and Seligman, New Y»t>rk,” Bankers.
The Filipinos refused to sell
the road, which was controlled by
a board consisting of the govern- r
general, the president of the Filip
ino Senate atid the Speaker of the
House. This board had power to
vote the government’s stock. Find
ing himself out-voted 2 to 1, Wood
issued an executive order clothing
himself with sole and exclusive pow
er to vote the stock.”
“An appeal was taken to the Su
preme Court of the Phillipines. The
majority of the judges are Ameri
can, appointed by the President.
They sustained Wood.* * * • An
appeal was taken to the U. S. Su
preme Court, but the Supreme
Court of the Phillipines refused to
hold up the execution of its decree
until a decision could be 3ecured.”
“Wood, undoubtedly, intended to
consummate the deal before our
Supreme Court could act, but hin
final illness intervened. * * * * The
Supreme Court of the United States
will review the case. Wood, also
attacked the bank, issuing sensa
tional statements that it was bank
rupt. The Filipinos were loyal to it
and the Filipino Legislature voted
45,000,000 pesos into the bank to
safeguard Its credit.”
“During the six or seven years
that Wood was in the islands, he
was completely under the control of
three elements which have united
to make the Phillipines a happy c
hunting ground for American ex- 1
ploiters.” j
“First—The bankers who fatten $
off concessions of various kinds. J. (
G. White & Co., is one of their typi- (
cal representatives. Second—The i
Chamber of Commerce crowd, a '■
group of American business men 1
living in Manila. They control the 1
correspondents of the American 1
Newspapers and dictate practically :
every word that appears in print on (
this side. Third—The Cavalry Cab
inet, the Army and Navy officers
who got most of the lucrative jobs
under Wood always had the Gener
al’s ear.”
Now, what’ll this man Stimson
do?
j The system is a bit different in
j the Phillipines than here in Alas
! ka, but it seems that Big Business
' has gotten its licks in here quite
I as effectively and fully as disas
trously. We believe that under
Bureau management the money
■ changers have played a more ruin
! ous game here than they have un
1 der Wood in the south sea islands.
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POSTOFFICE DEFICIT
Squaring the books for the fiscal
| year the Post office Department finds
there is a deficit of nearly $29,000,
000. There are those who, dead
set against anything the govern
ment does, will grab on to this com
ing out behind as a proof that the
government management of any
thing is inefficient, ‘ tardy and woe
fully costly. Very well, let’s look
a little into this deficiency matter.
We’ll take 1926 because we have
the cost of operation for that year.
The total deficit for 192 6 was about
$38,000,000. The government lost
in the handling of second class mail
alone $83,000,000. The govern
ment spent $117,000,000 transport
ing, sorting, distributing and de
livering the newspapers that you
get and are supposed ^o read. It
got but $34,000,000 for the job.
The actual profits in the Postoffice
Department were $73,000,000 but
magazines and newspapers turned
a profit into a loss. Really, the
government Subsidizes newspapers,
magazines and other publications.
It enables you to get news and
views cheaply even though it cost
Uncles Samuel more than $80,000,
000 annually. The government will
transport and deliver, for instance,
600 copies of THE ALASKAN to all
points of the U. S. and territories
each week for 50 cents. Let us
see the private institution that \
would even attempt anything like
that.
FUR PRICES
Fur Prices by New York letter,
orrected a3 of December 20tb.
ligliest prices are quoted, only
luskrat, Cauada and Northwest,
2.; Mink, Northern and Pacfiic
loast, $10; Otter, N, W. and Pa
ific Coast, $20; Beaver, Canada
,nd N. W., $27; Silver Fox, N. W,
1300: Blues, Northern Section, $100
jarge Black Bear, N. W., $13; Lynx
md Wild Cat, Northern, $17; Wolf,
>1. W. Timber, $19; Marten, N. W.,
>35; Wolverine, N. W., $16; Weas
d, White, N. W., $3.,; Brown, N.
N. $2.
BIG BUSINESS IN SENATE
Big buisness appears to be ably
'epresented in the Senate of the U.
->. Seventeen United States Senat
ors are millionaires. Phipps of Col
orado is rated the loftiest in mil
lions, while Couzens is close astern
::lose astern.
HERE IS A GOOD GOOD POSITION
' FOR A REAL WORKER
We are offering Permanent Posi
tions to a few reliable men and wo
men, in which an excellent income
from side-earnings .even to PART
TIME workers acn be made. Durtng
our 35 years in business we have ap
pointed over 518,000 agents who
supply our household necessity to
our customers in every country in
the world. Many of our agents
have been with us over thirty years
and have achieved Financial Inde
pendence. Increasing local de
mands and repeat orders, make it
necessary to appoint more local re
presentatives in many localities in
the United States. No special ex
perience or capital required. A
straight forward, dignified business
Why not represent the largest ana
best known house of its kind in the
world. Send us your address and
the Manager of our Appointment
Bureau will send you FULL PAR
TICULARS. When we appoint an
agent we furnish free sample3 for
Trial Tests in the homes of your
locality, etc.
Address ALPHEUS BANCROFT
WASHINGTON, D. C., (Attention
Clerk No. 1), 1438 U (You)
Street, N. W.
AT WORTH’S
All Alaska Edition of the Cordova
Times is on 3ale at Worth’s. A fine
souvenir to send home.
DRS. C. M. & R. L. CARLSON i
Optometriste and Opticians ;
218 -19 Commercial Building
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“PARALYZE MEANS “UNNERVE"
One dictionary definition of the
word ‘paralyze" is—“to unnerve."
This, though meant in another way,
gives recognition to the basic truth
in physical paralysis. Consider that
the limb is sound; bone and flesh,
muscles, nerves and blood-vessels
are intact, yet it will not function.
Why? Because there is a gap in
nerve communication. The com
mands of the brain do not reach
the muscles of the limb. There is
pressure upon a nerve that may fre
quently be removed by Chiroprac
tic adjustments.
NERVE COMMUNICATION
RESTORED
“Three years ago I suffered a
paralytic stroke. The best medical
aid was summoned, but for nearly
three months I had to be lifted in
and out of bed; I was unable to
move my limbs. Then I began tak
ing adjustments and soon noticed
improvement. After fifty-nine ad
justments I was able to be about
and could do light work. Today 1
am well and very thankful to Chiro*
practic."
Clinton W. Hine, Chiropractic
Research Bureau, Statement
No. 2270—W.
LEON ENSCH, D. C.
Palmer Graduate 1914
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Inducement to Merchants to Adver
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Always on Hand Fresh
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about noon.
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