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"('OUMOVA, ALASKA. FRIDAV, NOVEMBER 2f>.
WILL THEY CALL A TRUCE?
A dispatch predicts that the war beyond the seas will
soon be over. It looks to one at this distance as though about
the most tremendous fighting of the war was imminent in
southeastern Europe.
However, the winter may cause the belligerents to agree
to a truce for a few months. Should this come then it seems
to us as though our country’ should urge the convening of
The Hague tribunal, to formulate a new international code to
include what in future should be a ground for war, and what
should be permitted or inhibited in the event of war.
That might settle some pending questions which, if left
directly to the belligerents, they would never be able to settle
until one or the other side should be utterly exhausted and
unable to fight longer.
But th(> prospect of even a truce seems most remote now.
The Teutons are making their drive down the Danube and
the allies are hurrying unknown forces forward to meet them,
and if possible turn them back. And when they meet the
echos of the Crusades and of I*‘panto will be lost under the
roar that will be awakened. It will be by sea and land, in the
clouds and in the ocean’s depths, and by the acts of those
contending forces it will look as though both Mercy and Jus
tie eliad fled back into their native seats and given over this
planet to anarchy and death.
PREPAREDNESS FOR PEACE.
The co-called “President’s Plan’’ for a better prepared
ness for the nation, contemplates only armed foes from with
out. That is all right, for a nation needs an efficient police
as much as does a city. But preparedness within a nation is
sometimes more necessary than to build defenses against pos
sible foes without.
The war in Europe will finally wear itself out, and then
-what? Every nation will be prostrate under an almost un
bearable weight of debt. Its only means of recuperating will
l e through trade. Some millions of workers, skilled and un
skilled, will be required to fill the places of those who have
died, but many will seek foreign lands. These will leave to
avoid the fearful taxation; some of brave and enterprising
spirit, who will have determined that with recuperation, un
der their forms of government another war will be precipi
tated, but the great majority will be the abjectly poor classes.
.Most of these will gravitate to our shores, and will enter
into direct competition with our own lowly workers.
Are the President and Congress devising any plans of
preparedness to meet these invaders or to meet the competi
tion in trade which those at home will spring upon us.
Are they great enough to fairly consider the defects of
the Underwood law and to revise it?
Have they advanced to a full appreciation of the absolute
need of an American merchant marine to carry away what we
have to sell and bring back what we buy!
This last, if established, would give quite three hundred
thousand men employment in building and sailing the ships
and in supplying the coal and iron ore needed, and in carrying
tin in to the'points of reduction. That would represent one
million five hundred thousand people. With ships running in
regular lines and with full assurance that they would continue
to run on those lines one effect would be to draw away vast
numbers of men who would be lured by the cheap lands of
Spanish America.
The next census will show that the population ot two or
three of our mid-continent northern states has not much in
creased since the preceding census. The same cheap land lure
drew tens of thousands of them across the line to Canada,
where sometimes stabled domestic animals freeze to death in
their stalls. _
With a permanent steamship line established between
New York and Para, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio, Santos and
Buenos Ayres, and some active land agents put in those field's,
it would be easy to draw thousands of men who want homes
that way. Another duty waits on Congress, which is to
throttle Pinchotism in the north and west and give the earnest
empire builders an even show to work.
Again, the Secretary of the Interior should get a move on
and see if the Alaska coal fields cannot be'opened for honest
toilers. „ T . , , ,
We reafl last week that a body of Irishmen had gone to
England to take passage to the United States; that the steam
ship company refused to receive the mon board, and the people
outside called them traitors for wanting to evade military
service. What has England done for Ireland to invoke the
love of Irishmen? . .
A government that does not take every possible obstacle
from the path of its people cannot win and lipid their love.
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United States Senator Bois Penrose, of Philadelphia, will
shortly formally announce his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for the presidency. He lias been a member o!
the Senate since 1897, and was recently re-elected to another
six-year term by a direct vote of the people of Ins state.
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The Cavell case helps England nurse her grudge.
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Jj CHITINA - - - ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hqtel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
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Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
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Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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GOLD-COPPER
FOR SALE
A high grade Gold property, ten
miles from Valdez with several
hundred sacks of high grade ora
on the dump. This property ad
joins a producing mine and sev
eral velng of high firade ore are
properties on Prince William
exposed on the surface of this
ground.
Also four groups of copper
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 la
an opportunity to make a fortune.
* For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska
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A S K A
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle. Ketch
ikan. Wrangell. June«-,u. Skagway, Cordova. Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle- Sails from Cordova
November 6 .... NORTHWESTERN .... November 23
November 17.ALAMEDA.November 26
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Ti-eadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. 8. Latouche, 15th; 3. S. ,
Cordova, 25th of each month. . ,
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steameft
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. _
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Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.* .
ALASKA PACIFIC 8. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, October 17
ADMIRAL EVENS, October 25
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 Notico.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents_
i Copper River &
1 Northwestern Ry.
ip Effective October 4th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and g:
pi Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making g
% connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving ;g
SS from Seattle. Si
Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, »
Mondays and Thursdays,
iji; Leave Kennecott, Tuesdays and Fridays.
| Leave Kennecott for Chitina, Wednesday and Saturdays. |
ip Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays.
The above schedule subject to change without notice. |
!p Dming Car In Connection With all Regular Pee.enger Train* Be- |
tween Cordova and Chitina.
SS Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. SS
Tickets on sale /it Depot or up-town office, Alaska ;g
pi Steamship Company building pi
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