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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1916.
CORPORATE ORGAN ATTACKS GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP.
Leslie's Weekly, generally recognized as the subservient
organ of the large interests that would dominate this country
it they were permitted to do so. screeches in holy horror at the
thought ol‘ government ownership of public utilities and cites
the ease of the government railway in Alaska as an example of
extortionate charges to patrons.
We quote the following editorial that recently appeared in
the columns of the corporation weekly, as follows:
Extortion! Talk about the government taking over
the railroads, the telegraph and telephone lines of the
United States is constantly being heard. The govern
ment has a railroad on the Isthmus of Panama with its
rates so high that if the railroads of the United States
were permitted to charge on the same basis, the whole
country would be up in anus against the extortion. The
government is building a railroad from Anchorage to
Fairbanks in Alaska. Part of the line already built has
a gasoline motor car. but the government’s charge for
passenger service is U2'j cents a mile and for freight 11 j
cents a pound for the .‘55 miles in operation. Eight-tenths
of a cent a pound will pay the freight from New York
city to Chicago, a distance of 9(50 miles. The govern
ment has a telegraph service of its own in Alaska with a
cable extending from Ketchikan to Seattle, a little over
(500 miles, and the rate U 1!> cents a word! How do the
people enjoy the thought of governmental control of our
public utilities ■
Had Leslie’s Weekly desired to be fair in commenting on
the charges on the Alaska government railway system, it
would have taken the trouble to compare the rates charged by
the government railway with the rates charged by privately
owned transportation lines in Alaska. Compare the rates on
the Copper River A Northwestern Railway system with the
rates maintaining on the government-owned system and the
result will prove that the government rates are much less. And
the government line is only in course of construction, hence
the actual operating rates, which will probably be much less,
have not been announced.
We very distinctly recall the day, when the Alaska North
ern railway was privately-owned, when I’O cents the mile was
the passenger rate, as again-t the twelve and one-half cents
the mile now maintaining on the Seward end of the government
railway line. As for the rates effective on the completed por
tion of the road leading out of Anchorage, we have heard no
complaints from any source whatever. They are considered
very reasonable, in the circumstances, with the line in course
of construction.
But these corporation organs are not looking for the facts,
as the case in point very clearly proves.
As to the cable and land line charges over the government
telegraph system, the rates are to be substantially reduced, ef
fective (k-tober 1. These rates have been too high, in our opin
ion, but the government was responsive to the demand for a
reduction, whereas a private owned system would probably
have responded to the demand for a reduction by increasing
them.
Government ownership of public utilities may not suit the
special pleaders of the corporate interests, but the people of
Alaska are pretty well satisfied with the experiment now in
progress.
DEMOCRACY OF THE DEAD.
(John .1. Ingalls’ Kulogy of Congressman Burnes of Missouri)
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal.
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the repub
lie ol the grave. At this fatal threshold the philosopher ceases
to he wise, and the song of the poet is silent. Dives relinquish
es his millions and Lazarus his rags. The poor man is as rich
as the richest, and the rich man is as poor as the pauper. The
creditor loses his usury, and the debtor is acquitted of his ob
ligation. There the proud man surrenders his dignities, the
politician his honors, the worldling his pleasures; the invalid
needs no physician, and the laborer rests from unrequited toil.
Here at last is nature’s final decree in equity. The wrongs
of time are redressed. Injustice is expiated, the irony of fate
is refuted; the unequal distribution of wealth, honor, capacity,
pleasure and opportunity, which makes life such a cruel and
inexplicable tragedy, ceases in the realm of death. The strong
est there has no supremacy, and the weakest needs no defense.
'! lie mightiest captain succumbs to that invincible adversary,
who disarms alike the victor and the vanquished.
“COURAGE OF EDITORS AND OTHERS.’’
If people really knew how often a newspaper editor is
approached by so-' body, pretending to have the courage of a
!>aniel and the we
ed to support this
or that, to roast t:
an item of news. ‘
in connection wit’
thing about it, bee
quit talking abou*
independence and
patriotic that the'
war are numerous,
business.—Junet u
*. of the world next to his heart, and ask
proposition or that, to attack this institution
bvidual or that, to print this or that as
" ler no circumstances print my name
it be known that I told you any
1 hurt my business,” they would
being afraid and marvel at the
liters. The people who are so
. .■..id all of their wives’ relatives to
. and most of them are not in the newspaper
Empire.
••The Store That Haw What You Want—When You Want It.”,
Loussac’s Daily Gossip
THURSDAY. AUGUST HI, 1916.
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