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CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1915.
READINESS FOR WAR
The interesting subject of preparedness for wnr takes on
an aspect somewhat new in the light of England’s present
plight at home—a nation angry with discontent and tom with
recriminations over disturbing and dangerous local conditions
when she was supposed to be adequately prepared for wrar in
every essential way—believed ready, yet shown to be actually
unready.
England’s prevision and provision for war, particularly
her navy, have long been pointed to with great admiration by
devotees of Mars. But now that England has not been success
fully toeing the mark on land in the conflict with Germanic
and other foes—through no indisposition to fight, however—it
is put forth as an excuse that this is due to the development of
unpreparedness. Which presents a dilemna with the usual
two horns, but with no alternative for grabbing either by those
who need a “holt.”
England was ready and was not ready. When is a prepared
nation really prepared? If Britain was unready at war’s out
break when could a nation be said to be prepared? In what
degree and to what extent must war conditions and provisions
be maintained? How' great the taxation, how big the army,
how many dreadnoughts? England was ready and was not
ready—a case of half and half; ready on sea, because her
nnnmaent surpassed that of all other nations, unready on land.
The early efficiency of the English navy, when it cleared
the sea effectually of German warships, has been since curtailed
to watchful waiting, so far as the rest of the big German ships
are concerned, and to ineffective warfare in the Dardanelles.
France and Belgium have proved much harder nuts for Ger
manic cracking than England. Indeed’, Germany and France
are shown by events to be the only nations that were ready to
go to grips; and as to France this has proved to be “some”
revelation. Her fore*handedness has stood her in good stead.
The most serious thing at this time in England appears to
be that she is suffering from perilous social conditions created
by long self-indulgence of the upper classes; by great profit
taking through commerce with all the world, and too little
home profit-sharing; and by inattention to the basic necessities
of her own work-people—good’ wages, plenty of food and
clothing. A policy of national gain by trade and commerce
that does not allot a fair share to flu* laborer—enough to keep
him contented, to say the least—is certain to wreck things
sooner or later.
The effect of this neglect is manifest now, especially in
its military phase. English workingmen do not care to enlist,
nor work overtime for maintenance of the supplies required
by the army. Britain is feeling the effect of slothfulness. It
was one of her ow’n great poets who wrote:
Til fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
^ Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
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DEPARTMENT RED TAPE
Any Alaska man who tries to secure a patent from the
general land office at Washington gets tangled up in red tape
until he wishes he had been a painted savage running loose in
Uncharted wilds where no government octopus ever reached
out its meddlesome claws.
The game is worse in Alaska than anywhere else. Ever
since the pestiferous l’inchot and the ghoulish Giavis tried to
immortalize themselves by their effort to prove that any man
wh oseeks to sequester a few acres of Alaska land for his own
use is a thief and a swindler, the general land office has been
stringing out more red tape each year. Thus they curry favor
with the muckrakers and necessitate the employment of more
clerks in the bureau.
Suspicion has long been abundant that the chief function
of a \\ ashington bureaucrat is to expand the work of his
bureau by multiplication of records. A big corporation that
would keep books and manage its business by government
methods would go into tin* bankruptcy court in a year, even
though it started with the capital and income of the Standard
Oil Company.
Under the reign of tin* truly great reformer, Colonel Roose
velt, a host ol gumshoe men were turned loose on the suffering
public. Succeeding administrations have kept these useful
persons going and they have swarmed over Alaska. Special
agents infest the whole territory. When a man applies to
patent lour dollars worth ot hill and hollow an agent comes
around and tries to work up a case against him. If the agent
tails to discover a mare’s nest the applicant is permitted to
trundle along the crooked and narrow path that leads to a
patent. Among other things la' lias to make affidavit to a lot of
rubbish that the special agent’s report ought to have
disposed of.
Samples of useless red" tape are found in the newly invented
requirements that the applicant for patent to a mining claim
must get affidavits that there are no hot or medicinal springs on
any part of his land, and that no Indian or native is squatting
on any part ol it, and that none of it is included in any proposed
allotment to Indians. You would think the special agent’s
gumshoe report would cover all that stuff.
Getting title to a townsite on the public domain costs about
three times ns much as a private corporation would do it for.
Valdez can testify to this.
Solomon observed, “There be three things too wonderful
for me. \ea, four that I’m blest if 1 know,” or words to that
effect. If he had lived in the United States in the twentieth
century and tried to do business with the general land office he
wouldn’t have worried about the little things that were too
wonderful lor him .5,000 years ago.—Valdez Miner.
The use of Katalla oil for work on the government railroad
is another indication of the effect which the building of the
railroad will have on the territory. It has often been said no
market could be found at home for the oil. It has also been
said that no market could be found' for the farm produce and
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various sorts of homo production. It shows us how limited
human foresight can he.—Seward Gateway.
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The business man who complains about poor business
should remember that harvest time comes in the fall.
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One-third of Villa’s army-—8,000 men—again has been
killed, it is reported. That man certainly is recruiting cats.
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A Wisconsin girl is dead from fright at a mouse. The
equal suffrage movement gets one blow after another.
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Japan is said to be suffering from internal troubles, the
Chinese dose having produced painful peristaltics.
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The tag of virtue has been tied to the steel trust by the
courts. Doesn’t the Harvester trust now feel like a hopelessly
lost sinnerf
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Sporting writers, in casting up the spring’s athletic
records shouldn’t overlook Russia as a contender for the long'
distance run.
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A Chicago woman has been arrested in Milan as a spy. If
legend is right, no Chicago woman should act as a spy. Her
footprints are too conspicuous.
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Judging from the reports of the meetings held by Billy
Sunday, the modern revivalist certainly knows how to get thei
money.
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Cordova added $275,000 to the wealth of the United States
today when the steamer Northwestern sailed with 1,200 tons of
copper ore from this port for the Tacoma smelter.
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The re capture of Przemysl by the Austro-Germans—a
tremendous victory for the Teuton allies—again gives promise
of a change in its name. It will be pronounced' as well under
any other cognomen.
The verdict has been rendered. The first suspicion of a
break between this country and Germany obliterated the term
German-American, and our German brothers proved they are
just as much Americans as the descendants of the Mayflower.
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The tobacco trust has received another blow. Tacoma has
passed an ordinance forbidding smoking in street cars or jitney
busses of any kind. The man behind the five-cent cigar in an
open street car will breathe a prayer of thankfulness.
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A Seattle woman called the flag a “dirty rotten rag” and
was fined $500, or $ltiti,G(> for each defamatory word, not
counting the court costs. It is plain she did not count the cost
when she uttered the grievous remark. She would have saved
money by thinking.
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Western senators and congressmen are urging President
Wilson to appoint Hon. Franklin K. Lane as Secretary of
State, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Bryan.
If Alaskans were consulted they would prefer to see Mr. Lane
continue as Secretary of the Interior.
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