THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
Entered at the Postoffice at Cordova,
Alaska, as second-class matter.
H. Q. STEEL
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1919.
STEAMSHIPS NOT TO BLAME
FOR ALASKA MUDDLE.
Comment has been quite general
throughout Alaska over the article
appearing in the March number of
Railway & Marine' News, under the
caption “Post Office to Blame for Al
aska Muddle.” In further reference
to the unfortunate situation, it is
pointed out that many people have re
ceived the idea that the steamship
companies were responsible for forc
ing the United States mails to be car
ried by freight to Alaska, whereas the
facts are that the steamship compan
ies offered to carry the mails for ex
actly the same revenue per trip as
they had in the past. This, however,
the post office department refused to
pay, despite the greatly increased
cost of operation.
Every American citizen has a right
to conduct his business on a basis
that will bring him a reasonable re
turn on the money invested. If, as a
result of his own unwisdom, any man
should sell his goods or his services
at less than cost, he would be forced
out of business. •
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The American people in all fair
nes do not demand that any man sell
his goods or his services at less than
cost, but if he should sell at less than
cost, they would not pity him so much
as they would condemn him for his
foolishness.
Sevefal months ago the govern
ment asked the steamship companies
which serve Alaska to carry the mail
at less than cost. If the people of
Alaska will examine the situation
carefully they will realize that if the
steamship companies attempted to
carry the mails under the contract de
manded by the post office depart
ment, the companies would be in the
same position as a merchant who
drove himself into bankruptcy by
selling his goods at less than cost.
When the post office department
ssked for bids on the Alaska mail
contract, the steamship companies
rigu d as closely, as they could, and
the ubmitted bids in w'hich they of
fer to carry the mails for exactly
the s .me revenue per trip as they had
in the past.
Despite the tremendously increased
cost of operation which the steamship
companies nau 10 uear iue pusi uimco
department arbitrarily decided that
the companies were asking too much.
The result was that the post office
department resolved to discontinue
giving the people of Alaska mail serv
ice, deciding to send mail by" freight
instead.
As a result of this decision, the
people of Alaska have suffered the
greatest inconvenience and delay, but
they must place the blame where the
blame belongs. It is easily within
the power of the post office depart
ment to remedy the situation.
It stands to reason that the steam
ship companies will gladly carry the
mail if they can do so without suffer
ing a loss. No individual or company
is going to refuse any contract if it
offers a profit.
The government has received in
numerable protests from the people
and the commercial bodies of Alaska
against the handling of mail by
freight end express, as at present. To
offset these protests, the impression
has been given out that steamship
companies were arbitrary and exor
bitant in their bids. A good many
people in Alaska received the idea
that the steamship companies were
responsible for forcing the mall to be
carried by freight, whereas the facts
are that they offered to carry the mail
for exactly the same revenue per trip,
as they had In the past, dsplte the
increased cost of operating their
vessels.
The steamship companies never did
make any profit In.their mall con
tracts. The Admiral Line and the
Alaska Steamship company at a meet
ing in the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce recently, made it plain that
they were quite happy under present
conditions, without any mail contract,
as they are now enabled to cut out a
great many ports of call and devia
tions which cost lots of money. They
are saving in operating expenses
more than the whole of the compen
sation received for carrying the mails.
If they can carry the mails, how
ever, without suffering an actual loss,
they will do it in order to accomodate
the people of Alaska. In fairness to
the steamship companies, therefore,
the people must look to the post of
fice department for the necessary ac
tion to bring relief. The companies
are in no way responsible for, ^th©
situation.—Railway and Marine News.1
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FRUITS OF PROHIBITION.
It was estimated that the loss of
federal revenue caused by prohibition
would amount to Jl,000,000,000 or
more. Mere considerations of revenue
were not permitted to disturb the
program dictated by the Anti-Saloon
league. From the state and city of
New York, and from all towns where
the license system prevailed, a great,
easily collected revenue was likewise
taken away. The New York taxpayer
must not only bear his part in the
wantonly increased federal Jjurden,
but new fardels must be laid on his
breaking back. Bulldozed into approv
ing prohibition, which beat them at
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lie sentiment against which they have
seen too late, the republicans of the
legislature have devisd a plan to raise
revenue in place of that so carlessly
tossed away, to make the taxpayers
pay for the prohibition foisted on
them.
The bills prepared by a special
committee of both branches of the
legislature and introduced into the
senate and assembly propose an in
come tax of 2 per cent on individual
incomes of more than $1,000 for single
and more than $2,000 for married per
sons: a tax of one-half of 1 per cent
on tangible personal property over
$3,000; the increase from 3 to 4% per
cent of the tax on mercantile and
manufacturing corporations. Income
from corporation dividends is to be
taxed. The state income tax collector
follows the federal. The patient is to
be bled twice. On top of 2 and 12 per
cent and surtaxes, a state tax of 2 per
cent is to be piled. Citizens of other
states doing business or practicing
their profession in this state will be
subjected to its income tax. Future is
sues of state and municipal bonds,
now exempt, are to be taxed. The pro
ceeds of the personal income tax are
to be shared equally by the state and
the localities where it is collected.
Senator Davenport, one of the
architects of these extraordinary
bills, describes them as "intended to
relieve the burdens now imposed in
most of the cities of the state and to
replete their sunken local, revenues,
which will suffer severely as result
of prohibition.” It is edifying to see
the men who helped make big holes
in state and locjil treasuries now try
ing to fill the hol^s up. It is edifying
to find them proposing to relieve the
suffering which they were accom
plices in bringing about by making
the taxpayers, the unconsulted people,
suffer more. And it is edifying to
learn that the $3,000 exemption from
the tax on tangible personal property
was made with the view "to overcome
objections raised by the spokesmen
for the farmers upstate.” It is not
worth while to criticise bills whose
unwisdom is palpable, which are not
expected to pass; which, probably are
not mean to pass. On the day before
they were introduced the superintend
nt of 111 Anti-Saloon lague put forth a
long letter, homily and proclamation,
in which he virtually threw up the
sponge for the league’s prohibition
enforcement bill, and warned the re
publican party that it might lose the
assembly. The republicans at Albany
must rgret but cannot alter the polit
ical and financial results, the divi
dends of disaster, which their trans
actions with the master of legisla
tures have- cost them.—New Yorkj
Times.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE—Clam diggers outfit,
complete, including power boat. G.
E. Krauter, Alaskan Hotel. 14-5
FOR SALE—Four fish or clam boats
with engines, complete; cheap. Cor
dova Machine Works, Phone 182.
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WANTED—Two girls to work at the
Pinnacle Rock clam plant. Leave
here Monday. See George Dooley.
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WANTED—Woman for general house
work, Apply to Mrs. Geo. Dooley,
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FOR RENT — Furnished cabin.
Phone 182, Cordova Machine Works.
FOR SALE—Two 20-foot and 29-foot
boats, equipped with three, five and
six horse-power engines. WILL
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FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley. 31-tf
NOTICE OF MONITION AND AT
TACHMENT AND TIME AND
PLACE OF TRIAL
No. C-151
In the District Court of the United
States, Territory of Alaska. In Ad
miralty. Nels Andersen, Libellant,
vs. the Ship Myrtle H.
Public notice is hereby given that
on the 7th day of March, 1919, a moni
tion and attachment issued out of the
clerk’s office of the district court of
the United States, Third Division, ter
ritory of Alaska, in a cause civil and
martime wherein Nels Andersen is
libellant against the ship Myrtle H.,
ner nonis, lacKie, apparel ana iurm
ture, for the sum of $1,731.90 claimed
by the said libellant Nels Andersen
under an express contract for labor
and services performed by him for re
pairs, care and towage of said ship.
And by order of said court the trial
upon said libel will be held at the court
room of said court at Valdez, Alaska,
at the hour of 10 o’clock in the fore
noon on the 30th day of April, 1919, or
if that date be not a day of jurisdic
tion of said court, then upon the first
day of jurisdiction of said court there
after.
And all persons interested in the
said ship Myrtle H., her boats, tackle,
apparel and furniture, are required
upon the said date of trial to interpose
their claims, if any they have, other
wise the same wilil be pronounced
against for the said debt and costs as
prayed for in the libel. And pursuant
to said order of the court this notice
shall be published in the Cordova
Daily Times, appointed as the official
newspaper of said court in this cause,
for a period of fourteen days prior to
the date of said trial.
Dated April 12, 1919.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
United States Marshal for the Third
Division, Territory of Alaska.
FRANK H. FOSTER, Proctor.
STATEMENT
Of the Ownership, Management, Cir
culation, etc., required by the act
of Congress of Aug. 24, 1912
Of the Cordova Daily Times, published
daily at Cordova, Alaska, for April 1,
1919.
Territory of Alaska, ss.
Before me, a notary public in and
for the territory aforesaid, personally
appeared H. G. Steel, who, having been
duly s^vbrn according to law, deposes
and says that he is the owner of the
Cordova Daily Times, and that the fol
lowing is, to the best of his knowledge
and' belief, a true statement -of, the
ownership, management, circulation,
etc., of the aforesaid publication for
the Hate shown in the above caption,
required by the act of August 24, 1912,
embodied in Section 443, Postal Laws
and Regulations.
1. That the name and address of the
publisher, editor, managing editor and
business manager are: H. G. Steel,
Cordova, Alaska.
2. That the owner is: H. G. Steel,
Cordova, Alaska.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees and other security holders
owning or holding 1 per cent or more
of total amount of bonds, mortgages
or other securities are: Mergenthaler
Linotype Company, .New York.
That the average number of copies
of each issue of this publication sold
or distributed, through the mails or
otherwise, to paid subscribers during
the six months preceding the date
shown above is 925.
H. G. STEEL, Owner.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 10th day of April, 1919.
(Seal) FRANK H. FOSTER,
Notary Public.
(My commission expires April 5,
1923.) .
LAUNCH WAIF
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GENERAL LINE UNDERWEAR AND TOP SHIRTS 1
BLANKETS AND QUILTS
LOGGERS’ SHOES AND SHOE FINDINGS
RAIN GOODS
MATTRESSES AND SPRINGS 1
TENTS AND A LINE OF CANVAS GOODS
KITCHENWARE, STOVES
| CLAM DIGGERS’ SHOVELS AND SUPPLIES
My Store’s Name Has Been Changed to
RAWSON’S
GENERAL FURNISHINGS
We are with the Cash Store, in the Northern Block
Everything Delivered Together
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