THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1919
INCONSISTENCY OF SENATORS
There is apparently a strong dis
position on the part of many members
of the United States senate to insist
upon the continuance of the tradi
tional policy of the United States
government in refraining from "en
tangling alliances” and from "inter
meddling” in the affairs of European
countries. When this attitude is as
sumed from patriotic motives alone
there is no fault to find with it, be
caue it is the privilege of any man to
entertain honest opinions on this sub
ject, as on any other. But this does
not, unhappily, appear to be the case.
The senate committee on foreign
relations has announced a certain pro
gram for this week, and among the
matters to be considered is the "Irish
Question.” The United States has no
Irish problem. The citizens of Irish !
birth and extraction have amalgamat
ed themselves with the institutions
and government of this country as
thoroughly as have those of any other
nationality, and their status is the
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The “Irish problem” that is to be
considered is one pertaining to the
relations existing between a portion
Of the people of Ireland and the gov
ernment of Great Britain and Ireland.
As stated rather peevishly but none
the less truly by Sir Edward Carson,
this “problem” is none of our affair.
The condition of any oppressed peo
ple always has been matter for deep
concern to the people of the United
States, with their innate love of free
intitutions of government and person
al liberty. But even the most ardent
advocate of Ireland’s cause must ad
mit that the present government of
that country is not only not oppres
sive, but that it is in many respects
more liberal than that of the adjacent
kingdoms of which it is an integral
part.
The “problem” of Great Britain in
Ireland is not a matter of good or bad
government, although it may have
grown out of such conditions in the
past. It is a matter of race antagon
ism. No matter how good and liberal
a government is provided for that
country, it will be unsatisfactory so
long as its mandates are issued from
Westminster instead of Dublin.
The attitude of the United States
senators who desire this country to
refrain from “intermeddling” in the
affairs of Europe, while at the same
time solemnly considering action rel
ative to the internal affair of the
British empire, is inconsistent, to say
the least.
MR. EDES’ RESIGNATION '
(Anchorage Times).
The news of the resignation of Wil
liam C. Edes as chairman of the
Alaskan engineering commission was
received by the people of Anchorage
with regret and a feeling of deep
personal loss. The fact that he will
remain with the commission as con
sulting engineer has, however, con
tributed largely toward reassuring
his many friends, who feared that
his services might be lost to Alaska.
Since his appointment as chairman
of the commission in 1913, Mr. Edes
has devoted his time and abilities
exclusively to the building of the
Alaska railroad. It was largely
through his untiring efforts and con
stant watchfulness that this project
has moved along so smoothly and ef
ficiently. With a large experience at
his command, gained from a lifetime
spent in the construction of rail
roads, he solved easily problems
which would have appeared insur
mountable to men with less experi
ence.
The administrative worries of the
work, however, proved too heavy for
the physical strength of Mr .Edes,
and in order to preserve his health
it became necessary for him to ten
der his resignation. The Times
joins with the people of Anchorage
in expressing the hope that relief
from the heavy burdens which he
has been carrying and a much-needed
rest soon will restore to him the
vigorous health sacrificed in his
work for Alaska.
SAYS WICK IS IN ERROR
(Fairbanks Citizen)
Mr. Wickersham asks that a large
number of soldier votes be thrown
out as having voted for Mr. Sulzer.
He takes no consideration of those
soldiers who may have voted for
him, proceeding, perhaps, on the
theory that if any soldier voted for
him he was entitled to vote. At
Louden, which he includes in the list
of precincts Avherein soldiers voted,
the returns show that Wickersham
received nine votes and his opponent
not one. Yet it is specifically men
tioned as being one of the places
giving a soldier vote to Mr. Sulzer.
At Eagle he says soldiers voted while
within a few days the writer has been
informed by one of the election of
ficials of the Eagle precinct, himself
a Wickersham supporter, that no sol
dier voted there in the 1918 election.
Richardson is also included, and the
operator at that place is not even an
American citizen and could not and
did not vote.
Among others included in the list
are places where men who voted are
married, have families and taxable
property, have been discharged and
re-enlisted in Alaska, others who
long ago passed their term of enlist
ment and are being held under the
emergency clause in the military ser
vice, and all of whom possess the
necessary voting qualifications. Mr.
Wickersham either has been poorly
informed or else bases his beliefs
upon his political prejudices.
There is little doubt that the Bol
sheviki and kindred cults are waging
an aggressive campaign in this coun
try at the present time. But it may
be that there is a disposition to give
the devil more than his due in attrib
uting every piece of mischief to that
element. It may be that the race
riots in Chicago and Washington were
due to Bolshevik propaganda. But
it is more than likely that it will be
found that racial discrimination was
at the bottom of the disorders.
And now they are claiming in Seat
tle that 10 cents is too much to pay
for a cup of coffee. Possibly the
very men who are shocked at this
extortion were in the habit, in “the
good old days,” of paying without
murmur 15 cents for a “schnit” of
beer or a pony of bourbon.
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ALASKA NOTE AND COMMENT
Not Rapid Transit
A passenger on the steamship Ala
meda took the editor of the Miner to
task for publishing the statement that
trains were again “running on the
government railway between Seward
and Anchorage.” He stated that no
one but a d- fool would accuse
anything of “running” when it took a
week to go a hundred and ten miles.—
Valdez Miner.
Doubts Noah’s Story
We have long been suspicious of
this flood story and now we have ver
ification of its unreliability. It has
rained nearly all summer in Valdez
and, the water has not yet reached
the tops of the sidewalks.—Valdez
Miner.
Harmony Club, Eagle hall, Labor
day.
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LOUIS LUCSEN KL07Z
Louis Lucien Klotz, French minis
ter of finance, has held the same port
folio in seven different French gov
ernments.
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Big Variety of Pastries and Cakes, Always Fresh
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