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CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8,
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TRIBUTE TO A MAN WHOSE
RECORD IS AN ENVIABLE ONE
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IN COMLIANCK with the request of “A Head >r” we will at
tempt, in an our humble way, to pay a flitting tribute to the
memory of the late John Muir, after whom Muir’s glacier
in lev Straits, was named.
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To those who only knew John Muir by the records lie en
graved on the rocks, the lofty heights, the trees, the valleys,—
everywhere in the wild, he takes on thoughka colossal intellec
tual stature. -
He loved' to get in the wake of glacier and Veil of all the
changes it had made in its long journey, and how nature had
covered its trail with verdure and flowers.
He roamed weaponless through the wildest and most in
accessible retreats of the mountains, but no wild beast ever dis
turbed him. His theory Was that the fiercest of them were
friendly when they found a man who wished them no harm and
was not afraid', and they were in accord with him.
Had he been chained to civilization one of two things would
have happened. He would either have beaten his life out in
longing Tor the unattainable, or would have broken out into
song htat would' have been higher and clearer and sweeter than
was ever seen before. His pen pictures of nature are all prose
poems.
His simple narratives are framed in words that are an en
chantment to read.
It is said he was a finished scholar, but the truth is they
did him little good after he had learned to read and write. It
was from his post-graduate course in the hills that lie drew his
wisdom, or rather we should say, that placed his mind in full
accord with all that was grand and high in nature and gave him
the inspiration to tell what In* saw in diction beyond the com
pass of any school to teach.
It was from such a soul as his that the savag’s idea of a
haven that wuold be a never-ending hunting ground was
evolved.
It is queer that John Muir should havwdied from pneu
monia. The idea of such a man dying in comfortable home is
uncanny.
His death is a great loss. California should give burial in
Yosemite valley, near a great rock and near a waterfall near
which the birds make their nests and besides which the flowers
bloom, for if spirits come back to visit the world at times, as
some believe, there is where his spirit will come and it is not
hard to believe that if one goes there and listens intently they
will hear on the breeze something like the rustle of brooding
wings.
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OPPORTUNITY OF UNITED STATES
TO INCREASE ITS COMMERCE
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ONE would think that our groat manufacturers and mer
chants who trade with foreign countries would see
what is presented to them in Spanish-Aiuerioa. Brazil
and Argentina are empires of themselves, Germany’s trade with
them during the past twenty years has made her rich and' they
have but just awakened into lusty life. But their languages
are different from ours; their business methods are different.
To obtain their full trade* and confidence, Americans must os*
tablish business houses there, learn their languages and ways;
study carefully what kind of goods and wares they want, in
what form tiny want them and wlmt they have to give in ex
• change.
Then the government should make* possible the sending of
ships thro in regular linos so that they may be* expected' on
certain days, and this not for a few months, but for a term of
years. The same is true of Chile and all other South Ameri
can states only in less degree.
This carried on a few years would familiarize Ameri
cans with the resources of those countries and cause them to
see where small investments would expand into great enter
prises, and thus open new fields for young and capable Ameri
cans, and would likewise divert the hosts .nf southern Europe
who are streaming westward' from their native coutntries into
regions where the soil is cheap and the language and' religion
accord with their own.
Our country needs this diversion of trade for there are but
two ways through which a land can obtain tin* money necessary
to be prosperous. On is through mining the precious metals,
the other through trade, and were the war in Europe to stop to
morrow, we should have no such market there for many years.
There will follow both a stricter economy and a failure to
purchase on account of the poverty that will follow the tremen
dous devastation.
When the war is over there will be a cessation of building
war ships. Public improvements will in great part cease, sim
pler and less expensive food will be eaten, years of closest
economy will be absolutely necesary.
In the new land's of the world our country should at once
be laying the foundations for a vastly increased' trade.
One would think that our president and congress would
see this and put things in the way to accomplish it. One would
think our great manufacturers and merchants woidd see it and
set the wheels in motion to sieze effectively the opportunity
now presented.
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Ex-President Taft is against national prohibition, giving
as one reason the enormous political machine that might be
built up in an attempt to enforce it. That is a phase of the
question that few have thought of.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
DR W. H. CHASE
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Office over Cordova Drug Store, i
Call* may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
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General Civil Practice
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CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
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