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H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
~n>m>OVA ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1916.
OUR LONG NEGLECTED SHIPPING
Suppose our country had done what Germany did for
twentv—five years previous to the* coming on of the present war,
in the matter of our foreign trade, what would have been the
situation now?
Take, for example, the east coast of South America.
Suppose with the regularity of the stars our ships had
called at every principal port going and coming.
It would not have been long before our great merchants
and manufacturers would have had trading stations at I’ara,
Pernambuco, Bahai, Rio, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos
Ayres. They would have been obliged to exchange what they
had for rubber Jit Para, and Pernambuco, for sugar ;tt Bahai,
Rio and Santos, for hides and meats and grain Jit Rio, hut the
grain would have been disposed of in more tropical ports. All
the employees resident there would have acquired' the language
talked and written. They would have written home where ji
railroad was needed, or an electric power and lighting plant
or bridge, or the nucleus of a city, and l nited States compan
ies would' have been doing that work. Long ago the people
.there would have learned that if they wanted anything our
country was the best land in :ill the world to apply to.
As it has been they have sent us more than half ot Jill they
exported, but how?
An English or German ship has loaded in a home port and
found its way to one of the eastern ports of South America.
Arriving there the people wanted the cargo, and they have
had nothing to exchange for it save their own products.
“Very good.” avs the German or English ship master.
Thereupon In* mrrk up the goods to cover the freight front the
home port, and tak< s in exchange rubber, or coffee, or sugar or
whatever the people can give him. Then he sails for home.
Arriving there he adds the freight charges for his return voy
age. That makes two transatlantic freights that he holds
against the goods.
Then another English or British ship pulls into port with
a cargo of American flour or preserved meats or something else
and by ji little natural trading the cargo of flour is exchanged
for the cargo of sugar. In making the exchange the ship from
America add's the freight for carrying the cargo across the At
lantic. That makes three transatlantic freights, and when the
flour is unloaded and the cargo from South America is started
across the sea to New York ji fourth freight is added.
Of course, if the people south of tin* equator wanted any
thing costly, like fine cotton, or silk, or linen goods, or automo
biles, or pianos, or electric machinery, or any of a thousand
other things, it was perfectly natural for the foreigners who
belo the field to inform them that the climate of the United
States is so bad that their wood work will not bear the exac
tions of a tropical climate; that indeed, they are so inefficient
that their work is always inferior.
And our people and government have gone on in this way
for five and twenty years. A great party in Congress looking
wiser than a tree full of owls has praised their own sagicitv
and patriotism that they have been too wise and true to permit
any soulless American ship monopoly 4o get government help
to swell their enormous profits. And the majority of them ha\e
known no more of the measure they have been discussing than
does a camel driver on the Sahara know about running ji sub
marine. And through all these years some that pass as great
newspapers in New York city have never piesciibed a way b
run an American marine except there has been poison enough
in the plan to kill the enterprise.
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Now we Have no snips aim Americans me
cross the sea take their lives in their hands when they go
abroad in a foreign ship to make the voyage. And we have
no status among outside nations.
\Ve talk about the center of tin- commercial world gravi
tating to New York, and forget that we have no close commer
cial alliances the world around, and' more than half of Un
people do not know our flag when they see it.
And Congress is about to air what it does not comprehend
in relation to our shipping, no more than did the Indiana con
gressman in the long ago when he fought the magnetic tele
graph as but the incandescent dream of a lunatic, and when
a dispatch finally reached his Indiana home from Washington,
ho looked dubiously at it and finally said: “It may do for light
packages, but I still insist it will never he worth a damn for
heavy freight.”
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Out of the various twists of the argument in past months,
Mrs. Maude Wet more contrived a new one when sin- told the
National Security League that “no woman who brings up her
children on a poiicy that she did not raise her hoy to be a sol
dier, has a right to the protection of another woman’s son.'’
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In connection with the warnings now being given out by
military and naval men it, should be remembered that when the
European war broke out England bitterly regretted having
failed to heed the warnings of the late Lord Roberts to prepare.
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Office over Cordova Drug Store.
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DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
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Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
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Fast and commodtcus steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE,
Hails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
Tanuary 20.ALAMEDA.January 28
January 30_ NORTHWESTERN _ February 8
Regular freight service Tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos- jd
Ives, S. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. 8.
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 Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before j
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
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ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.January 18
ADMIRAL EVANS.January 28
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.
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Two trains every six days between Cordova and li
v\ Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making S
connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving P
S from Seattle. &
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£i Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, is
Mondays and Thursdays.
i;;': Leave Kennecott, Tuesdays and Fridays. i| .
jill Leave Kennecott for Chitina, Wednesday and Saturdays. £1
iji': Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays. ii;
The above schedule subject to change without notice. 1$
•X Dining Car in Connection With all Regular Pessenger Train* Be- ij:|
■t tween Cordova and Chitina.
|:j: Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town oflice, Alaska ji|:
Steamship Company building iji;
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