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SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1920
THE CANNON THAT KEEPS ITS
AIM
At eighty-four years of age the for
mer speaker seeks another term in
the House of Representatives, and
no constituency in the Union is more
proud of its honorable member.
Thoughts of Morgan and Peters, of
Morrill and Benton, of Kelley and
Randall come to the many who reflect
with awe that “Uncle Joe” can re
member the close of Benton’s legisla
tive career and the beginning of that
of all the others. He is not old
enough to have approved or disap
proved the appointment of Chief Jus
tice Taney, but he was quite old
enough to read the Dred Scott deci
sion. Within his lefetime the coun
try has chosen two Whig presidents,
and he is nearly three score and ten
years after the Whigs went to pieces.
No one would contradict him if he
should say that the speculative ex
citements of our time fall short of
the gold fever of 1849. Submarine
and seaplane builders may hear from
his lips what an era was that of the
iron ship. Born a little after the
Black Hawk war, yet he well knew
the days of the war path in Wiscon
sin and Minnesota.
At frequent intervals the press
mentions the deaths of old men who
years ago were active in public af
fairs but who had drifted out of all
such activities, but were relics rather
than participants in public life. It
is not long since there departed a
man almost unknown, he had sur
vived nearly all his friends, he made
no effort to keep up with the current,
and few were aware that had they
been the private secretary of one of
our ante-bellum presidents. A some
what similar case was chronicled in
the Middle West, an elderly man fish
ed in a lake, spoke courteously when
Re spoke at all, but was virtually a
recluse—he had been the private sec
rtary of a statesman of national re
nown, but had dropped all interest in
the nation’s life as if he had been a
hermit. The observer of human na
ture meets at intervals with survi
vors who have practically nothing to
hind them to the world of today.
Such men are at times picturesque,
and may be instructive, but the in
struction they give is more like a book
than that of a man. History’s real
ptarm does not come to us until we
recognize that like the Deity it was,
and is, and is to come. The past is
o>f interest because it explains the
present, the present because it devel
ops the past, and both are fascinating
because on them depends the future.
But while a survivor may be whol
ly of the bygone days no thinking
man fails to recognize the magnetic
force of a connecting link. When Sir
Holland visited the Army of the Poto
mac he compared the medical ar
rangements with those he had seen
under the Duke of Wellington, and
told young writers of his calls on
patients who had known Dr. Johnson.
Holland’s book is one of the best
books of reminiscences in the lan
guage. As a treveler, a physician, a
student, an observer of human life,
he never allowed the fascinations of
the past to allure him from the world
that was coming on like a great riv
er. The same charm marks the
scientific career of Humboldt and the
political course of Gladstone, the
splendor of yesterday’s sunset never
caused them to forget today’s morn
ing and noon.
Mr. Cannon was born in the long
era of Democratic supremacy. He
knew the strength of the party which
bought the Louisana Territory, which
brought nine states into the Union,
plunged us into war with Mexico and
outlived its Federal and Whig rivals.
From Jefferson’s day to Buchanan’s
the Democratic party knew only two
defeats, for in 1824 all the four con
tectants claimed to be Democrats.
Then Mr. Cannon saw their great or
ganization divided against itself,—he
saw the cleavage of the civil war, the
succession of the Republican adminis
trations. Next came Cleveland’s suc
cess, his defeat, his second triumph
and then a Republican era. Now after
seven years of Democratic control he
sees his own party strong in Congress
and hopeful of a victory in November.
Reading can do much to give a man a
knowledge of facts and dates, but
only long life and strong memory can
teach him how great waves of politi
cal feeling rise and break. Few have
studied our history as Mr. Cannon has
studied it.
Mr. Cannon has not allowed himself
to forget the men or the measures of
his youth or his prime. He knows
that ail our tariff legislation, all our
banking bills, all our plans for in
ternal improvements are in a sense
the developments of former action.
No break, no interruption or continu
ity, has occurred; to him all these
events are parts of a whole, even as
the changes in the field and forest
illustrate the onward sweep of the
year. The marvelous strength of our
credit during the late war, the enor
mous sums so easily raised by bond
issues, remind him of the wild-cat cur
rency of the old state banks. He
saw those wretched issues fly about
at ten or thirty per cent discount; he
saw the country inaugurate a wiser
system, and he remembers what so
many of us have forgotten, that in
1892 the Democratic party favored a
revival of the discarded rags. All
this is part of his life
Within his experience lies a long
series of achievements. In his young
manhood the tariff of 1857 cut deeply
into our manufacturers, but the war
period brought us back to sounder
policies. The cries that we could
never make steel rail, that American
pottery was out of the question, that
our glass plants would be costly fail
ures, that the case for tin plate was
hopeless—how these predictions of
disaster have been answered by plans
of victory. It is within his memory
that James Buchanan signed the first
Morrill tariff, and now he hears
Woodrow Wilson declare that we
must protect our chemical industry.
What better cannon have we in the
Republican battery! True, indeed, has
been the Cannon’s aim.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Some day in the near future we
want all the mothers in town to con
gregate on the dock with their baby
buggies and have a photograph made
for this paper. We can show the out
side world that the old stork is a
busy bird in Valdez.—Miner.
Several people were heard asking
what the fare is to California after
an article appeared in a paper recent
ly telling of the big haul of cham
pagne that was made down there.
Lots of old-timers yearn to hear the
pop of the champagne cork again.—
Douglas News.
Probably for the first time in the
history of Ketchikan, the profiteers
at heart are with us- While there
was much agitation in the states,
there was little cause for complaint
in Ketchikan as it was possible to
make purchases here for the same or
less money than was charged in Seat
tle, although there were additional
freight charges to be had. But the
profiteers, and almost all of them
oldtime residents in the North are
now active.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
Alaska is gradually shaking off
the hold of the “Fifth Division,” as
Seattle is called by the old sour
doughs. For years Seattle has been
headquarters for most of the political
slates foist upon the Territory, and
in the matter of congressional com
missions has put in three words for
herself and a nod for Alaska. Unfor
tunately most of these committees
have been blind. What the Territory
needs is people; not tourists or resi
dents who come here in the summer
and go Outside in the winter. We
need many of all-the-year-round-resi
dents. who are willing to cast their
fortunes with those making their
homes here.—Valdez Miner.
Dr. Hornaday suggests, if the peo
ple of Alaska want to exterminate the
brown bears, that each person go out
and kill three brown bears, and no
more, each year until there are no
more in the territory. That may
sound reasonable to those of the East
from whom Alaska is far off. But
suppose, the sanctimonious benefi
ciary of Mrs. Russell Sage’s endow
ment would suggest to the East that,
instead of asking congress and State
Legislatures for aid in fighting the
Canada thistle, each farmer and each
farmette go out into the highways and
byways and fence corners and wood
pastures and each destroy three
thistles, and no more, each year un
til there were no more Canada thist
les in existence?—Juneau Empire.
The crying need now Is a satisfac
tory substitute for strikes.
Even when there is no place else to
go, prices seldom seem to go down.
While other production lags, the
trouble factories are running overtime.
An English doctor says garlic vvii
make you live longer. Yes, and
lonelier.
What passes for social unrest is
about 98 per cent old-fashioned hatred
of work.
“Hands off Russia” Is said to be our
policy, also we do not want to get our
foot in it.
With gun toting forbidden and booze
prohibited what use is there for men's
hip pockets?
j Jazz music is said to be dying. Judg
ing by the noise it is suffering terribly
in the process.
Still, it is a sweetly solemn thought
that one can. if one must, get along
without sugar.
Shouldn't there be an amendment to
the Constitution making crap shooting
a federal offense?
It doesn’t cost much for a fellow to
have his friends urge him to be a
candidate for office.
Nature is establishing the biggest
ice trust of all.
The Irish situation is reported tense.
They mean intense.
It. costs too much to send undesir
ables back to let many of them get
in.
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I No longer can one gain distinction
by ostentatiously mounting the water
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Another vice now attributed to al
cohol is the irresistible impulse to
profiteer.
The Krupps making farm machinery
is heating swords into plc> ^shares with
a vengeance.
Some of the paper money in circula
tion in Europe threatens to look li.kf
scraps of paper.
Barring further “unrest,” the next
war will he a concerted attack on the
high cost of living.
The sugar market has resolved it
s>-*if into a state of mostly demand
and very little supply.
The lonely looking man is the one
who has not been mentioned as a
presidential possibility.
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At any rate, with the cafeteria we
have the privilege of knowing that our
own thumb is in the soup. -
In attempting to overthrow the gov
ernment. the reds did not expect the
government to throw back.
The egg has reached the dollar mark,
and the hitherto lowly and humble hen
is now' worth a gold eagle.
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Just Arrived—A shipment of the
250-3000 Savage Bolt-Action Model
1920 sporting rifle. Come in and give
it the once over. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
Scarborough pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
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Gold Seal Art Rugs? Northwestern
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