THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
H. G. STEEL. C. H. WILCOX. C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publisher*
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY .DECEMBER 8, 1914.
OUR forces have been called away from Vera Cruz and
the only change in Mexico from the situation present
ed when they were sent there is a change of bandits
in control there.
It may be said of Mexico as was said of another tropical
region: “Long is the way and dark that out of hell leads up
to light.”
Mexico achieved independence from Spain nearly a century
but she has not yet achieved freedom from the darkness
that tills the henrts of her own people. They chatter like
parrots of their liberties and do not know that they are still
slaves to ignorance, to their own dark passions, their unholy
desires and to their vitiated ideas of what constitutes true lib
erty. The only hope whitn the country presents of improve
ment is the exhausted which must be upon it.
Nearly all the horses available have been stolen and worn
out, nearly all the available food has been stolen and consumed,
and nearly all the shoes worn out.
The worst of them must begin to covet a long rest.
How much they have gained through nearly four years
of raids and murders, it is difficult for an outsider to calculate,
except that a good many murderers or would-be murderers
have been killed.
But nil Americans will hope that nothing that may be done
there will involve our country further.
There is war enough beyond the sea, and by what is going
on there we can none of us be sure that civilization is any
guarantee against murder and pillage.
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UP TO PRESIDENT WILSON
TO CALL A TRUCE
IIE dispatches inform ns that it is is yet too soon in Presi
dent Wilson’s estimation to seek to make peace between
the warring powers beyond the Atlantic. That may be
true, but it is not too soon to try.
Brave men by thousands are dying in the trenches and
hospitals; thousands and tens of thousands of non-combatants
are suffering for food and clothing and hearts by millions are
breaking.
If the Hague tribunal is a factor in civilization why should
it not ji?sert itself now and sternly call, in the name of civilza
tion, a truce to the causeless murders that are being daily com
mitted in the name of war?
What holy cause is urging this war on?
What vital principle is to he settled by it?
Take away the lust of conquest, the land lust and the hoped
for commercial gains and what would be left behind this up
heaval?
The people of Europe were friendly with each other five
months ago. Had the question of peace or war been submitted
to them then the vote would have been one hundred to ten in
favor of peace- Why, then, should the 10 per cent call out the
90 per cent to be scrificed and the hopes of millions wrecked?
What will become of the 10 per cent when the 90 per cent
come to themselves and survey the fearful wreck?
When two men who have been friends fall out and come to
blows friends interpose and stop them. Why should it not be
so with nations? It may be said there is no power to stop these
combatants.
There is no physical power, but there is a moral power
which none of them can quite ignore; why not exercise that
power?
The first essay might fail, but why not keep that tribunal
in session and have it renew its demand again and again until
it will be heard?
The demand should not be to those who are directing the
war alone. It should bo to the people to assert themselves
and in turn demand peace.
The war is a blot unpon civilazation. Tt is as if the world
had been turned back 8,00 years; as though no cross had over
been reared on Calvary; as though no respiration of ’he per
fecting press had ever been heard; as though woman was yet a
slave; as though the softening influences of civilzation had all
been lost and the lights of all science save ’he art >f war had
been put out.
It is said the grass never grew again where the hoofbeats
of Attiln’s horse had struck the enarth There seems to be
many Atillas now.
ft is said that Nero fiddled while Rome was buring. Is it
not time that the strings of the modern fiddles should be
broken?
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Secretary Bryan is always “much pleased” when peace is
reported in Mexico. It would be a shame to spoil such frequent
joy by a real visitation of tranquility.
Sowardites going outside on the Alameda, express confi
dence that something is going to happen in the railroad line
next spring in their section.
An official report says the health of the American army is
extremely good. Compared with the health of some either
armies, it is even better that that
YOU may sneeze at some of the requirements of the new
war tax, but the Treasury Department has added a tax of .08 of
a cent per pound on snuff.
The Cordova Chamber of Commerce' sent one of the most
creditable mineral exhibits, of any town in the territory, to the
Panama Pacific Exposition at Shn Francisco.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
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DR. W. W. COUNCIL I
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office hours: 10 to 12 a. m., Katalla
Company Hospital; 2 to 4 and
7 to 8 p. m. at office In the
Windsor Hotel
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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
D E N T I 8 T
Office in Adams Building
ROBERT E. CAPERS
Attorney at-Law
GENERAL CIVIL PRACTICE
Suit 3, Adams Block Cordova, Alaska
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counccllor at I aw
Room I
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
V. A. SCHMITZ
PRACTICAL OPTICIAN
Office at
CORN FIR DRUG STORE
If your shoes need Repairing,
bring then to
RUDOLF
The Shoemaker
He does first-class work. Satis
faction guaranteed. Prices Rea
sonable.
Opposite Daily Times
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NOW ON DISPLAY.
We are ready for the Holiday Season with
an unusually large line of Christmas Gifts.
Here you will find the useful combined with
| the ornamental, and such variety that it will
be easy to decide the perplexing question.
1ST SHALL I GIVE THEM FOH CHHISTMAS j
The line consists of Handsome Toilet Sets,
Hand Painted China, Cut Glass, Smoking Sets,
Percolators, Shaving Sets, Manicure Sets, Carv
ing Sets, Jewel Boxes, and many other appro
• priate gifts that go to make „ (
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EASY
Make your selections now and we will re | ,
serve them for you until Christmas.
WILL THERE BE A VICTROLA IN YOUR
HOME THIS CHRISTMAS?
Northern Drug Co.
THE CORNER DRUG STORE
Paclfic-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND- ALASKA ROUTE
Steamer ADMIRAL EVANS sails from Seattle on
DECEMBER 5 T H
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
ALASKA TRANSFKH CO., Locnl Agents
AT A C W A STEAMSHIP
iv O IV t\ COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova. Valdez and Seward, via
INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle- Sail, from Cordova
Locember 1. ALAMEDA .December 8
December 9 . MARIPOSA. December 17
Regular freight servict for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. S. 8. Seward, Sth- 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 Bidg. Baggage
or freight will not br received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY,v T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
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I Copper River &
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Chitina for Kcnnecott— • >
Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. ;;
Kennecott for Chitina— ;;
V, ednesdays, Saturdays and Mondays. ;,
Chitina for Cordova— ;;
Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays ::
I lie nhove schedule subject to change without notice. |;
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 p. M. ;;
l l iebi ts on sale at Depot or up town office, Alaska ■>
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► * Superintendent Cordova Agent
Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
Office: FIRST STREET.
Our Solicitor will Cal! on you-Get on the Lis