The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.
H. G. STEEL, C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publisher*
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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One Month . 1.00 One Year (In advance) .... 10.00
Dally and Weekly, by carrier or mall, $1.26 per month.
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BELIEVES ALASKA MERCHANTS
ARE ENTITLED TO PROTECTION
THE agitation in favor of an equitable license tax against
itinerant peddlers from tlie outside is spreading
throughout Alaska, and there appears to be a univer
sal demand that the present session of the territorial legisla
ture pass some remedial measure to protect the local merchants
from the invasion of “fly-by-night” concerns which are apt to
flock to Alaska as soon as railroad construction begins. This
is a matter of great importance to the material welfare of our
Northland empire.
In a recent ism* of the Juneau Dispatch a prominent busi
ness man of that town gave a straight-from-the-shoulder talk
on this subject, from which the following excerpts are taken:
“What I want and what 1 believe every Alaskan will back
me up in requesting is a license law both territorial and munici
gather up merchandise junk on tin* out side consisting of shop
worn goods of cheap, shoddy wares, which may be secured for
next to nothing, and for a federal tax of $25 a year rent a room
in a hotel or rent a vacant store room for a week or a month
and peddle off his goods.
“The last legislature enacted a territorial tax of $200. The
federal license is for any part or the whole of Alaska for a year
and the territorial tax gives the same priveleges. Even though
the courts should hold that the latter is valid, of which there
now seems to be a question it is not enough.
“Municipalities besides should be given authority to pass
regulations against itinerent merchants and fly-by-night ped
lars.
“Neither myself nor any merchant in Alaska can, nor does
he, object to honest and legitimate competition. But speaking
for myself, I maintain a payroll of $1800 per month. 1 have
my home in Juneau. Every cent I have in the world is invest
ed in Juneau. I pay taxes and assist in numerous other ways
in keeping up the municipal government.
“In Juneau, as well as in every other town in Alaska, art
merchants just beginning to start in business, who have their
families there and who are identifying themselves with the
country. Some of these do all their own work. They are also
entitled to protection against unjust competition. All us start
ed' in small at one time and those of us who have built up a
large business know best the trials and hard work that confront
the man just starting in business.
“If Alaska is to continue to allow itself to be made the
dumping ground for every man that can gather up junk on the
outside and sluff it off under pretense that it is worth some
thing, and then leave so as not to face the music and not be
forced to make good for his cheating, then the home people
will have a difficult time in keeping up schools, churches, streets
and other municipal and public improvements. I believe that
the people who live in Alaska, who spend all of their money
here, who believe in its future and who keep things moving,
should' be given the first consideration. It is not myself alone
I am speaking for, but for every merchant and business man in
Alaska and for every one who earns his living in the north and
has his home here.”
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RENO’S INGEMINATION RESULT
OF CHASE FOR THE MAZUMA
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NEVADA has surrendered to the dollar. Recently a bill
was passed making a six months’ residence sufficient for
divorce purposes, and Reno again will become the Mecca
of rich immorality. For years tin* state enjoyed a great income
from the Hocks of easy-virtued men and women who, tied inliar
moniously, Hed to the state for tin* quick relief it offered, many
of them taking with them their “soul mates” so as to be ready
for another marriage the moment the mild' mannered courts
made it possible by untying existing knots. Reno tliove.
Then came two years of famine, for a puritanic tide swept
away tin* six months’ provision, and it was proclaimed to the
world that Nevada’s moral perceptions had been aroused and
thenceforth she proposed to live upon natural, not unnatural,
resources. But tin1 general business depression, the weakness
of the silver market, and the absence of the garish malcontents
who made the wine glasses rattle, who never counted the change
and never looked at the bill but once. Silence palled on un
prosperous Reno. “Give us back our tainted and painted!”
was the cry, and the legislature, responsive to the Voice of the
People, complies.
Supping eargerly at the lees of moral irresponsibility is
not by any means unusual in individual cases, and even some
municipalities seem to enjoy it, but for a great western state to
luxuriate in the very essence of it—Heaven, turn thy face away!
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American diplomacy, which the foreigners have lampooned
so long, and, in the main, justly so, seems nevertheless to be on
the road to recovery.
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Among the gifts sent to the starving Belgians was $127.50
from the lepers of Molokai. Comment upon such a sacrifice
and unselfishness would be a waste of words.
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The phonoscope is a new instrument by which the deaf
shall be made to hear with eye. Then we shall be able to know
what a man’s lips are saying when an attempt is made to explain
the reckless extravagance of the majority members of the pres
ent council, and' why one of them drew $10 per day as a “straw”
boss. It will not be found to be paradisical verbiage.
A man who is holding a lot of wheat .just now knows what
it means to a woman to have a mouse in her skirts.
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Garibaldi says Italy must either enter the war or face a
revolution. Is he sure that it will not have both?
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If forced to it we can sieze the many German ships interned
in American waters. And what would England say to that!
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It now develops that Dr. Musso, who recently made a suc
cessful test of a new submarine telephone, which he invented,
between Valdez and Cordova, visited Alaska at the suggestion
ot the War Department, to give the machine a through test, as
the l nited States government is endeavoring to secure an in
strument which will make it possible to telephone over the sea
cables of the world'.
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There is a strong sentiment throughout the town in favor
of nominating a ticket composed of seven substantial and level
headed citizens as councilmanic candidates at the coming elec
tion, in opposition to the present reign of mis management on
the part of those now in control of the affairs of the city. This
action will no doubt cause the “Holier Than Thou” crowd of
misfits to put into the campaign additional vingear. In fact,
something is about to blow up, but it will have the same effect as
the bursting of a soap bubble.
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calle may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
ROBERT E. CAPERS
Attorney at Law
General Civil Practice
Suite 3, Adams Block
CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
V. A. SCHMITZ
PRACTICAL OPTICIAN
Office at
CORNER DRUG STORE
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or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
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ADMIRAL EVANS, February 15
ADMIRAL WATSON, February 25
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