The Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL, C. H, WILCOX, C, H. ,SCHEFFLER, Publishers
H, G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 1915.
FACT VERSUS SENTIMENT IN REGARD
TO CONDITION OF NATIVES IN ALASKA
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WITH all the twaddle that has been ^iven publicity
about the poor, down-trodden Indiana, it is gratifying
to soe occasional rebuke to the unthinking sentimen
talists who would hold the whites up to acorn for the supposed
inhumanity to an inferior race. In spite of all that has been
said, the lot of the native Alaskan has been greatly improved
by the association with the white race. If the Indian 1ms not
advanced as far in the ways of civilization as could be desired,
it is, of course, to be regretted. But yet, even portions of tin*
white race are backward in this respect. And there are mil
lions of white people who are worse off so far as supplying of
their material wants are concerned than is the average native.
Without committing ourselves to the ultra-liberal religious
views contained' in the suggestion that the religion which the
Alaska Indians have been “almost forced to accept” is “al
most as good as their old kind,” we reproduce from the Doug
las Island News the following timely and sensible editorial:
“It is almost pathetic to see ragged American flags floating from tall
poles on many of the Indian’s graves. I say pathetic, for to me it seems
wonderful that in the face of the injustice done the Indians through the
white man, that they are willing to forget and adopt the white man's ways—
even to the floating of his flag over the graves of their loved ones."—Nancy
Buskett in the Westerner.
With only a glimpse of Alaska, Miss Busket makes the mistake of be
lieving that the coming of the white men has brought hardship and degra
dation to the Indians of Alaska. Not so. The condition of the natives
is better than it ever was before. The white man’s ways are good ways in
the main. He believes in soap and towels and socks and trousers—houjtes
to live in—but when the Indian attempts to unite the savage customs of his
race with the customs of the white man’s civilization he fails, and in that
failure pays the same penalty that the white man must if he reverse the
order. The white man's food is better than any the native ever enjoyed,
hut if it be gorged the human stomach will rebel. Most white men know this
hut the native must learn. The white man is spending more money In
Alaska for the education and elevation of the native than it Is spending onthe
whites. The strict laws that are passed to govern the white man are al
most always waived aside in the case of the Indian—except where it effects
the safety of life. The Indian is given reserves where the white man may
not come, but there are no reserves from which the Indian may be legally
excluded. Of course, Alaska Indians are almost forced to accept a new re
ligion, but perhaps it is almost as good as their old kind.
Dick Smith, a partiarch of the tribe that inhabits Douglas Island says:
“Twenty-five or thirty years ago this place no good; walk through slumps,
carry lantern, cut wood, cold, cold; now fine streets, electric lights, burn
coal, keep warm. Over in old country English, French, German, Russian, all
fight, shoot, shdot. No good people. Here white man all right *hls coun
try."
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The Seward Gateway, wliile jubilant over the fact that the
westward town has wron out as the terminal of the government
railroad, also expressed’ the belief that brighter and better days
are in store for other places on Prince William Sound. It says:
The Cordova and Valdez papers reflect the feeling of the
people of those cities that Seward has won out. They are nat
urally disappointed and no one can blame them, but it is hoped
that the period of development which is about to open will em
brace them also in its pleasant arms.
In the moment of victory Seward has not forgotten it sister
cities on the coast or any other part of the great territory of
which it is a part. It wishes the best for all Alaska. It wishes
the best for every place in Alaska and it particularly wishes that
the period of deferred’ hope for Cordova and Valdez will be
brief. We want to see Valdez and Cordova developed. While
we want Seward to be THE city naturally, we want to see Cor
dova and Valdez prosper. There is a great day ahead’ for all
of us and may the sun of that day while shinning directly above
Resurrection bay, cast its rays all over.
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When you and I wore knee breeches, held up by one strap
over the shoulder from right to left, and our little sun-browned
leks straddled the old mare as she walked up and down the
cornfield, our eyes shielded by an old straw hat with torn brim,
don’t you remmber how we whistled or sang the time away,
rudely interrupted by an impatient “gee” or “haw” to tell us
that we had strayed from the furrow? And now that we have
grown to man’s estate, let us sing or whistle just the same. A
cloud of adversity will often disappear before the sunlight of
a merry heart.
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The man who took his money from the bank and hid it
beneath the carpet of his room, only to let a thief take it, is en
titled to sympathy, but not to admiration. He refused to take
the lesson which thousands of men and women before him had
learned. Thieves always looked under hrugs and doormats.
They know the weaknesses of human nature and' the customs
of women and men of ostrich minds. The ostrich thinks it is
perfectly safe if it gets its head into the sand.
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Dawson is clamoring for a curfew ordinance. Different
here where the “kids” are so well trained they seek their
homes at the first hint of dusk, a la chickens. Dawson con
tracted the all-night habit long ago and when Swift Water Bill
was setting the pace for her and it is hard to break away from
long-established custom. We have it straight, however, that
what Dawson needs more than curfew, is a 9 o’clock bell in tin*
morning.—Whitehorse Star.
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The Turks seem to be enjoving themselves immensely.
The cutting of a Christian’s throat embraces all the necessary
attributes of perfect jollity.
The Dispatch says that Juneau is the father of the mining in
dustry in Alaska, which may be very well. But we can truly
say that Douglas Island is the mother lode of the whole propo
sition, for the great placer discoveries in the Yukon country,
from Jack Wade creek to Nome, were made by men w ho earned
their grubstake in the mines at Treadwell.—Douglas Nows.
The lawyer for Donn Roberts, the crooked Terre Haute
politician, asked the .jury, in his speech before it, to observe the
golden rule, which Dr. Dawin once said was the “foundation
of morality.’’ Perhaps Roberts wants to amend it to read:
“Do unto others as you would be Donned by.’’
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Kinney has a corner on CofTee.
What we mean Is COFFEE, not the
wlshywlshy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards will convince
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Call* may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA. ALASKA
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EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1915. II
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