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('(>H1)( )\’A, ALASKA, FRIDAY, .JULY 2.J, UHii.
AS TO MERCHANT MARINE
The Chambers of Commerce of the United States have
voted on the proposition of the president, backed by the
endorsement of Secretary McAdoo and' Redfield to purchase
ships for the nucleus of a merchant marine and operate them
on government account.
The vote must be a little discouraging to the president and
the secretaries. It foots up 82 for and 638 against the proposi
tion. All the east, the middle west and west opposed the plan.
The only support came from southern and far western cities
and those in the far west were influenced by the thought that
anything for a starter would be better than nothing at all. The
Vote on the other proposition, to buy the ships and lease them
to private companies was more strongly condemned, the vote
being 54 for and 711 against.
The business organizations voted in favor of subventions
from the government to establish regular mail and freight
lines under the American flag to commercially important ports,
718 to 48. The proposal for subsidies sufficient to offset tin*
increased cost of operation of ships under American navigation
laws, in foreign commerce, also carried but not by so large a
vote, being 558 to 186. It is evident that some of the organiza
tions would prefer modifying our navigation laws.
The committee recommendations for a federal shipping
board, for government subscription to a marine development
company, for reducing the minimum speed' for first-class mail
steamers, for federal licenses and for abolition of rebates and
provision for supervision of rates by the proposed Federal
Shipping Board, all carried, by varying votes, the second
receiving the highest adverse vote, there being 422 for and 314
against.
One would think that it was about time for a little common
sense to be used on this subject of a merchant marine. Assum
ing that the most virulent enemy of American shipping has been
convinced, during the past eleven months, that a great com
mercial nation is not great so long as it depends upon outside
nations for the transportation of its oversea commerce, the
next question is what to do!
The first fact that presents itself is that if a nation or a
private company owns and runs ships, those ships must be kept
in repair. That makes home shipyards necessary.
The next fact is that if ships are to be obtained they must
be either built or bought. If they are bought from abroad the
money pai dfor them goes out of the country forever. If they
are built at home every dollar of their cost remains at home and
is kept in the general money circulation of the country and
coal mines, reduction wrorks railroad companies and ship
builders are all helped, and such ships add when in foreign
ports to the nation’s prestige that builds them.
Next, merchants and manufacturers will unite in the state
ment that they will never go to the trouble of establishing trade
relations in foreign countries unless assured in advance that
their country’s ships will touch at such centers regularly for
a number of years while they are building up a trade.
Finally, it is a plain case that ships paying higher wages
than the ships o fany other country cannot successfully com
pete unaided with foreign ships that receive regular subsidies
or bounties.
The above makes the situation clear, and the question is:
Have the authorities the ability and patriotism and business
acumen to bring out of it something that will begin to restore
our flag to the sea!
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editorial comment
Type is being melted by Austria to make bullets. Still they
say the pen is mightier than the sword.
NARROW POLICY OF FIRST DIVISION
The suit brought by the representatives of the First divi
sion to restrain the territory from using the forest funds equally
tor all parts of Alaska was frightfully ill advised and as matters
look now the First division stands to gain nothing by it which
ever way the cat jumps. Because the funds coming from the
♦forest reserves in the First division were greater than those
from the other divisions the First division came to the conclu
sion that the other divisions did not have equal rights to them.
If the same argument held good in other respects the other
three divisions might object to having the capital in Juneau.
The forest funds are really federal money, or, at least, were
federal money until the federal government decided to let the
territory have it. If the funds coming through the federal
government from forests should be spent where they are col
lected, the money received by the federal government from
customs, railroads, etc., ought to be sj>ent where they are col
lected, unless the forest funds are governed by special regula
tions or rules, which is hardly likely.
Let us suppose that there has been made a special regula
tion by which forest funds are to be turned over to the territory
lor use in roads or something else, and let us suppose that the
federal government decides later to turn over the profits of the
government railroad for the use of the territory. What would
the First division think if the Third and Fourth divisions
claimed all these profits for their own benefit! Or, let us sup
pose that the money acquired from the leasing of the Matan
uska coal lands were used for the development of Alaska. Ts
Juneau going to establish a precedent by which the people of
the coming Matanuska city may secure all those funds of the
future?
Aside from all this: The First division by its suit is mani
festing a narrowness of spirit which is un-Alaskan. It has the
greatest gold mines and the greatest fisheries of Alaska at
present. It has payrolls far exceeding the payrolls of other
districts and it has a splendidly prosperous future assured'. Will
a few thousand dollars, if they can be obtained repay it for
declaring war on the other parts of the territory?—Seward
Gateway.
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ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
July 12.NORTHWESTERN.July 21
July 18.MARIPOSA.July 28
Regular freight service ror Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, 8. 8. Seward. 8. 8. Seward, 5th; S. 8. I.atouche, 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamer*
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. .
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT, ^
General Agent Ticket Agent
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and 8URQE0N
Office over Cordova Drug Store
Calls 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
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ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
GEO. F. WHITE
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore‘Testing
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Established 1911. Formerly 12 yeari
with Tacoma Smelter
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
Adami Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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STRAIGHT WHISKEYS
IMPORTED WINE8
KEY WE8T CIGARS
BONDED GOOD8
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Igold-copperI
FOR SALE
A high grade Gold property, ten
miles from Valdez with several
hundred sacks of high grade ore
on the dump. This property ad
joins a producing mine and sev
eral velng of high flrade ore are
exposed on the surface of this
ground.
Also four groups of copper
properties on Prince William
Sound, adjoining navigable water.
All of these properties could be
made producers with a small
amount of money and for a party
who can open same up or can se
cure the capital to do so, this Is
an opportunity to make a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska
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Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON, JULY 15
ADMIRAL EVANS, JULY 27
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, 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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Copper River &
Northwestern Ry.
Effective June 12th, 1915. ; i
Two trains every six days between Cordova and I!
Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making 11
connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamer.; avri ing '
from Seattle. I;
Trains between Chitina and Shushanna J unction, <'
and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and :
Cordova. I!
All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street ;;
Depot. i
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pesscnger Trains Be- ' 1
tween Cordova and Chitina.
The above schedule subject to change without notice. 1
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ;;
Ticket,8 on sale at Depot or up town office, Alaska "
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Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
Superintendent Cordova Agent
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