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COKDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1915.
I RESOURCES OF ALASKA ARE CRYING
LOUDLY TO UNCLE SAM FOR PROTECTION
a ^ar cry from Mexico to Alaska, a far cry from the
Monroe doctrine to the Alaskan policy; yet there are people,
especially in the Pacific Northwest, we are informed by the
Christian Science Monitor, who find points at which they
parallel. The United States government, these people say,
will not, or cannot, do anything toward the pacificcation of
Mexico, and it positively refuses to allow a third party to
attempt it. The United States government, these people say,
also, will do nothing toward the development of Alaska, and it
will not permit capitalists to develop it. In a sense, these
people insist, Alaska is in the same position as Mexico. That is,
its progress is arrested. Nothing can be done in the territory
until the government at Washington does something, and, they
contend, the government at Washington does nothing. Before
we condemn these critics of tin1 administration, let us hear their
side of the case.
The federal government decided, about eight years ago,
that Alaska should not be exploited by private interests. This
decision disappointed a few; it pleased many. The great
majority became enthusiastic over the government’s announced
determination to open and to develop Alaska itself. Enterprises
inaugurated by private individuals and corporations were
either abandoned or suspended. The federal authority
resumed possession of valuable mineral lands. Congress, after
the lapse of years, voted to construct a government railway
system in the territory. Meanwhile people were coming out
of rather than going into Alaska. In the last two years#surveys
have been carried on by government railroad engineers. A
policy was formulated by the secretary of the interior. He
recommended t oCongress that two existing railroads in the
territory, the Alaska Northern and the Copper River & North
western, be purchased' by the government and, together, made
the nucleus of the projected government system of transporta
tion. An appropriation of $5,000,000 to cover the cost of
acquiring these lines was recommended by Secretary Franklin
K. Lane. It is openly charged in the Pacific Northwest that
the only reason for the refusal of Congress to take this step is
that the ownership of one of the lines is politically unpopular.
By reason of the government’s discouragement of private
enterprise in the territory both lines are now unprofitable to
their owners. They are needed by the government, but the
government will not buy them, it is alleged, because they are
owned by interests that some people influential in Congress
do not like. Instead of voting $5,000,000 toward Alaskan
development, the last session of Congress voted only $2,000,000.
The Monitor says it is not going to be induced to be
partisan in the Alaskan, any more than it can be induced' to be
partisan in the Mexican controversy, but it cannot conceal the
fact that a somewhat new train of thought has been opened to it
by the manner of the Pacific Northwest protest. Suppose, for
instance, Mexico at one end and Alaska at the other end of the
United States were freed from whatever it is that is shackling
them; suppose each was permitted, enabled, encouraged,
through vigorous constructive policies to work out its own
destiny; what a story of human achievement, moral as well as
material, the next generation in the United States would be
able to tell. The resources of Mexico and of Alaska are, as it
were, crying for liberation. Both are in need of direction;
neither of restriction.
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SMASHING AN IDOL BECAUSE IT
FAILED TO ACCOMPLISH THE IMPOSSIBLE
BRITISH attacks on Lord Kitchener from the very
quarters that most insistently demanded his being placed'
in charge of the War Office at the outbreak of hostilities
may seem surprising, but should not be so. He is simply
suffering the fate of all national idols who fail to accomplish
the impossible.
Kitchener first attracted attention as a hard working officer
with a capacity for organization which won him the Sidarship
in Egypt. During the Boer war he was chief of staff and,
although it has been the custom of late to credit him with
subjugating Oom Paul’s fighters, it was the genralship of the
late Lord Roberts that was chiefly responsible, a “man of
mystery” the Kitchener myth was widely exploited and gave
rise to enormously exaggerated ideas of his personality. He
came to be regarded as a sort of superman, and until recently
he enjoyed the powers almost of a dictatorship in Britain.
When he predicted in the depth of winter that the “war will
begin in May” John Bull and many others waited expectantly
for a decisive turn But May has come and the war, so far as
Kitchener is concerned, is no farther advanced. Doubt entered
the British mind, then suspicion that the feet of the idol might
after all be but clay. The row between Churchill and' Fisher
in the navy opened the floodgates of controversy and
Kitchener caesed to be above criticism. Now a coalition cabinet
is to replace the superman.
It is not charged that Kitchener is deficient in his special
field—organization, but the trouble has been that too much was
expected from him, more than any one man could accomplish.
That was not his fault, except so far as he may have accepted
the popular exaggeration of his powers. Doubtless much of the
criticism now being directed at him by the London press is
inspired by political purposes. Cabinet changes imply dissen
sions and resentments. Some of these may be at the bottom of
the attempts to hurl “K. of K. ” off his pedestal.
The suggestion that the President ask neutral nations to
join in a protest against Germany’s barbarous methods of war
fare, is worth serious consideration. It could not replace our
own separate action. The definite case before our own govern
ment will have to be dealt with by itself. But there might be
great ultimate good in such a union of the other nations. It
would look ahead to the final expression which the world will
yet have to make on all these questions of savagery in war; as
also to the strengthening of international law against it; the
establishment of international judicial tribunals; general
disarmament; and' possibly to the very terms of peace itself.—
New York Post.
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John Redmond, the Irish leader, has vivid recollections of
the fate of his predecessors who accepted offices under the
British Government. He also knows very well that thero are
rivals who would be only too glad to suggest that he had been
bribed.
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While the population of the United States has only trebled
since 1860, the national wealth has increased twelve fold. No
matter who has got it, that proportion is better than if it were
the other way about.
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A dispatch from Columbus says the Ohio Senate will prob
ably repeal the maximum freight rate law, which has obstructed
the readjustment of interstate rates in Central West territory
for thirty years.
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An indication that Canada as well as the United States has
started on the upward swing of the business pendulum is found
in the big increase of exports of domestic products.
The A. B. C. exchange of visits looking to closer political
relations of the three leading South American nations shows
that the war’s lessons are not being lost.
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Dr. Wiley’s dictum that woman’s best profession is
marriage, is not weakened by the occasional demonstration
that, like all other professions, it has its failures.
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Investigator Walsh and young John I), do not seem to find'
each other improve on longer acquaintance.
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. 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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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova. Valdez, Seward and
8HIP CREEK, via INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
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or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
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ADMIRAL EVANS, MAY 25
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, 8eward, Cook Inlet polnta and Kodiak
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