THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATE8T NEWSPAPER
H. G. 8T0EL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. 8CHEFFLER, Publisher*
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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NEIGHBOR TO WESTWARD SAYS
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GUGGENHEIMS ARE BOON TO COUNTRY
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T THK annual high .jinks of the Gridiron club some days
go in Washington, 1>. C., one of the skits suggested a little
—• sarcasm in dealing with the reception which capital gets
in Alaska. From memory this skit can be described as an in
sinuation that capitalists are not wanted in this territory. The
Gridiron club is, everyone knows, made up of the newspaper
men of the capital and the suggestion by them that capital is
not wanted in this country leads to the belief that such an opin
ion really exists at the seat of the federal government.
It is hard to understand how such erroneous ideas could get
abroad, but it is probably due to the fact that some sorts of
Alaskans take diabolical pleasure in baiting the Guggen
heims. The delegate from the territory himself may have lent
some help to generating this peculiar conception of us folks.
He certainly has lost no opportunity to hold the Gugg bugbaboo
before the eyes of congress and the administration until he has
almost made the Guggs famous.
Look here, Gridiron club, ‘tis joking you were. “If there
be on this earthly sphere—A boon, an offering we hold dear” as
the poet said—‘tis CAPITAL.
But the Guggenheims have been quite a help to some mem
bers of the community in more senses than one. If we had no
Guggs someone else would' have to be discovered on whom to
pour the vials of our righteous wrath. About the only means
left to some of us to prove our illimitable love for humanity is
to jump on the Guggs every time we got a chance.
But then let us tell those people back in Washington that if
they have any doubt of our welcome for capital let them try it.
We want capital more than anything else and this is not meant
for the Gridiron club either, for the chances are that if you stood
everyone of those newspapermen on their heads you coudn’t find
six bits in the saw dust next morning.—Seward Gateway.
PRECEDENTS AND SWITCHING SIDES
RE RULES ON CONTRABAND OF WAlf
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IN RELATION to the United States’ protest against Great
Britain’s practice and rules on contraband of wa”, Presi
dent Wilson is correct in saying “that so far as theory is
concerned there really is no debate on the point raised because
England herself in previous wars has taken exactly the Ameri
can position.”
Certainly documentary proof of this point is conclusive.
And President Wilson could go father in “so far as theory is
concerend.” He easily could show that England'at The Hague
in 1907 went much farther in the direction this country now
favors than the United States at that time was willing to follow.
And the Prsident’s statement that England herself hereto
fore “has taken the American position” could be made to work
both ways. For the United State's had the other side of the
argument as recently as 1907.
In fact, so conservative an authority as William I. Hull do*
dares that Great Britain’s proposal to The Hague 1907 confer
ence in the direction now advocated by President Wilson was
the “most radical” on the point ever’made to a parliament of
nations. England’s suggetion went the limit. Her Hague
delegation said the British government was “ready to abandon
the principle of contraband in case of war between the powers
who shall sign convention to this effect,” and that “ the right
of visit shall bo exercised only for the purpose of proving tin;
neutral character of the merchant ship.”
Lord Reay of the British delegation eloquently supported
this proposal to do away entirely with seizures for contraband
on neutral ships, appealing for its adoption to abolish “ a fre
quent cause of international differences” and to “contribute to
the work of peace and justice which is the object of our efforts.”
But—such are the vissitudes of politics, international as
well as municipal—the United States joined with Germany,
France, Russian and Montenegro in voting against this “mosl
radical” proposal, leading to its ultimate defeat.
All of which we submit as showing just this—and nothing
more: Precedents among nations count for even less than the
the constitution between friends.
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They are going to establish at one end of the Panama canal
a Bible station, and every sailor who enters the waterway will
be given a Bible. Wlmt’s the matter with a contribution box
at the other end f
If the women folks of McCarthy have their way there will
be no more liquor licenses grunted' to interior applicants. And
they say all the trouble grew out of the fight made by
those now engaged in that business at McCarthy against a new
applicant being given permission by the court to “sit in” the
game.
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Seward continues ©ptoraistic in its belief that it will be
the terminal of the new government railroad. This is as it
should be. Cordova is also confident that when the govern
ment selects a tonnage route that the road will be extended from
Chitina to the Tanana valley, with a branch line to Bering
river coal fields.
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At last President Wilson and the Alaska Engineering Com
mission have had a conference in reference to the government
trunk line to be built in this territory and it should now be only
a question of a short time when the report will be submitted,
routes selected' and the preliminary arrangements made to begin
the actual construction work.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. C. L. HALE
O E N Y I S T
Office in Adams Building
ROBERT E. CAPERS
Attorney at Law
General Civil Practice
Suite 3, Adams Block
CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at I jw
Room 1
Adams, Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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ikan, Wrangell, Jur.eau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward, via
INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails from galls from Cordova—
January 1. ALAMEDA .January 9
January 8..MARIPOSA.January 16
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas. Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and Latouche. Explos
Ives. S. 8. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S.
Cordova. 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
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General Agent Tlcket ’Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND- ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON, January 11, Through to Kodiak
ADMIRAL EVANS, January 25, To Seward only
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalia, Cordova. Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice
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Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. ' •
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Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays ;
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