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THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920
THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE
ARE NOT FOOLS
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The great majority of the people of
Alaska are here to improve their con
ditions through the development of
the resources of the territory. They
are not politicians, and did not come
here seeking office. Their interest in
government is the largest interest of
those who want to have on guard
thoroughly honest men, and men like
themselves, who are interested in the
progressive development of the terri
tory, men who are not interested in
politics from the viewpoint of office
holding or as a “game.” They are
people who can not be fooled by flub
dub or the word-play balderdash of
discarded politicians and misfits who
seek to worm their way onto public
payrolls by misrepresenting people
and issues. The people are not fools
and they can not be as easily fooled
as some people think. They know
the genuine article from the sham.
That is why people who have lived
long in Alaska, who are interested in
the territory and its growth, the de
velopment of her institutions and the
prosperity of her people, irrespective
ol their political affiliations, desire to
see the Republicans of the territory;
choose John C. McBride for national
committeeman. Mr. McBride is not
a politician. He has given very little
attention to personal politics. He is
a busy man who has lived here for
twenty-one years, and who has been
connected most of that time with one
institution—and he has piloted it to a
foremost place among the business
houses of the territory. His interest
is to see Alaska grow and prosper
and her living conditions improve. He
is the sort of man that all parties
should push to the front, because he
is representative of the best there is
in Alaska.—Ex.
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LOYALTY TO COUNTRY OR PRES-;
IDENT—WHICH?
Ik asking for the resignation of Sec
retary of State Robert Lansing the
President has deprived himself of one
©f the few men who has held a cab
inet, office under the present Admin
istration who has been fitted by abil
ity and training to occupy a cabnet
post. In fact, only two other mem
bers of President Wilson’s cabinet in
either term have been men of suffi
cient calbre to occupy a cabinet pos
ition, and they did not long remain
in his cabinet. Mr. Lansng has had
long training in the Department of
State, entering it in 1890 and serv
Bgn in some capacity ever since. No
one has questioned his ability nor his
fitness for the position which he has
held as Secretary of State. The only
fault whch has been found with him
has been his remaining in the cabinet
»© long and carrying out the plans of
Mr. Wilson, plans of which he per
sonally disapproved and which were
against the best interests of the
country.
It apDears that the friction began
during the session of the peace con
ference in France. The acts of Mr.
Wilson were so unwise, so contrary
t© all precedent, so greatly in oppos
ition to the Constitution of the
Fnited States, that it has been a mar
vel that Secretary Lansing could re
main in the cabinet or continue to
act as peace commissioner. He ex
plans his continuation in offce by
sayng that he was acuated by a de
sire not to embarrass the President.
That brings us to the question in
dicated in the headline of this
article: "Loyalty to the Country or
President—Which?” If Mr. Wilson
was trying to foist upon this country
a League of Nations on terms con
trary to the Constitution (and Mr.
Lansing seems to have thought them
unconstitutional, as have other emi
nent international lawyers) was ii
the duty of Mr. Lansing to remain
loyal to the Constitution or to the
President? Was it his duty to em
barras his government or his chief in
office?
We find no authority for the idea
that loyalty to the President is of
first importance. On the contrary
every federal officeholder takes an'
oath to support the Constitution of
the United States, not to support the
Presiden, and when the President acts
in what such officer deems an un
constitutional manner, it is his duty
to resign his office and oppose the
President.
Mr. Wlson has weakened his cab
inet, has deprived his Administration
of its ablest adviser, has strengthened
the hands of the opponents of the
League of Nations and lost himself
the support of some of his staunch
est friends. Disapproval of his action
appears to be practically universal.
It is notice to the world that Mr.
Wilson is unfitted for the position he
occupies as chief magistrate of a
great nation. However, that has been
known to many all along. A man
who holds to the heresy of Free
Trade, who says, in the face of the
deepest insult and injury, that his
country is “too proud to fight,” who
leaves his constitutional post to go
abroad to take part on foreign soil
in deliberations which should be con
ducted by his representatives as tit
ular head of the government, who
tular head of the government, who
inverses all his former opposition to
“entangling alliances” and triese to
impose upon this country a super
government, who tries to deprive a
co-ordinate branch of the government
of its constitutional prerogatives and
who goes counter to the constitution
which he has sworn to support, is not
the proper man to be or remain a;
the head of the government, Having
tried to usurp the powers of the
United States Senate, he is in a
mighty poor position to accuse the
secretary of state with attempted
usurpation because he asked cabinet
office*? to confer with him in mat
ters of importance affecting the
government while the President was
physically and mentally incompetent
to act.
It is time for a national house-clean
ing, time to put none but nationalists,
as contra-distinguished from interna
tionalists, on guard, time to elect a
Protectionist Administration in place
of one devoted to free-trade, tme to
have real Americans administer the
government for Americans. The peo
ple are alive to these needs and th
fourth of March, 1921, will see the
installation of an Administration
which shall be for ‘“America first.”—
New York Economist.
ALASKA SPRUCE IS
BEING SHIPPED FOR
USE IN THE STATES
For the first time probably in the
history of the Northwest Alaska is
entering the fields as an active com-1
| petitor of Washington lumber mills
| in turning out lumber for cdmmeh
cial uses in the States. Roy Ruther
ford. owner of a saw mill at Juneau,
reported that he had just closed a
deal for 3,000,000 feet pf Alaska
spruce and he is to start shipping to
the south at once.
Forests of the States are becoming
so depleted and milling is being car
ried on under such difficult condi
tions that the price has gone sky
ward to a point where Alaska lum
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her may now compete, he believes,
and he will go after the business.
Mr. Rutherford for many years
was engaged in the lumber business
in interior Alaska and still owns
mill and yards there. A year ago
he entered business on the coast and
is preparing to reach out for some
of the Outside business for the
North.
Scarborough pictures that please at
prices that art right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Read the Daily Times for the latest
and most reliable world news.
Best coffee in town served at the
City Bakery.
NOTICE
The registration book of the town
of Cordova will be open at my office,
in the Ostrander building, Second
street, Cordova, every day from 9 a. m.
The registration book will be closed
at 4 o’clock p. m. Saturday, March
27, 1920. K. G. ROBINSON,
Registrar.
Job printing at Daily Times office
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Currier Building,
C Street. P, O. Box 986.
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New and Second-Hand
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Next door to Alaska S. S. Office
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