The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
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H. G. STEEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publisher*
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__________ C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL L’8, 1915~
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RESTRICTIVE LIQUOR LAWS REDUCING
REVENUES OF THE U. S. TREASURY
ANDREW J. Peters, assistant secretary of the treasury,
has just completed an interesting statement showing how
prohibitive and restrictive liquor laws are cutting into
Uncle Sam’s receipts.
“My investigations show,” said Mr. Peters, “that the
growth of the temperance movement has caused the revenues
to shrink over $2,000,000 a year, and the outlook is for con
tinued heavy shrinkage.”
Speaking of the future, Assistant Secretary Peters called
attention that nine states from which the federal government
derives a total revenue of more than $5,000,000 a year from the
sale of intoxicating liquors will go dry next year. The states
and the amounts received from them by the federal treasury
are as follows:
Distilled Spirits Fermented Liquors
Alabama .* 108,081.62 * 49,186.31
Arkansas . 66,652.82 17.306.48
Colorada . 165,323.14 386.242.50
ldaho .i. 13,788.54 23,062.66
Oregon . 381,040.03 218,434.67
Virginia . 1,763,363.26 206,397.14
Washington . 300,760.64 974,296.87
Iowa . 66,105.96 524,339.08
Arizona . 21,166.90 23,398.83
Totals .*2,845,161.80 *2,422,673.94
Totals liquor revenue from the nine states.*5,267,836.74
Furthermore, states which produce annually $30,000,000
in liquor revenues have either voted to submit prohibition to
a vote or have passed county option laws the last year. At
present in Kentucky a red-hot contest is being waged upon
which may turn the question as to whether or not that state,
the home of the biggest distilleries in the country—a state
that produces $31,870,000 of liquor revenue annually—shall
go dry. One of the leading candidates for the Democratic
nomination for governor of Kentucky is standing squarely on
a state-wide prohibition platform. If Kentucky should go
dry an enormous hole would be made in the revenues of the
government from liquor licenses.
Last year the government revenues from customs were
$292,320,014, while the taxes on distilled spirits and fermented
liquors amounted to $226,141,350. Spirits and fermented li
quors yielded about 30 per cent of the revenues received from
all sources. The year before distilled spirits and liquors
yielded’ -4,000,000 more, so there'has been a rapid decline in the
income from intoxicants in recent years.
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THE RAILROAD SITUATION AS VIEWED *
BY BROTHER THOMPSON, OF FAIRBANKS
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(From the Fairbanks News-Miner)
NO construction work will be done this year on this end
of the line of the Alaska government railway—that is
final. The road as routed by the president, s ofar as we
can see, ends on tlie Tananu river where the “drainage of the
Nenana nver enters the Tananu. From the way theater ts
i e"?dra’i,ul ofC,° '“V’f m>iJ"nce’ il W'ars to us that
t it drainage ot the Nenana nver” passes through our back
ard and ends in Cliena Slough just above the bridge, but we
may be wrong in our geography—the “drainage of the Nenana
nver” may end and fall into the Tananu ri/er som.nvhere in
the vicinity of Nenana, in which case the terminus of the gov
ernment railway may be at or near Nenana, instead of in our
back yard on Eighth street, Fairbanks. In which event Nena
na should grow into a city the size of Chitina at least
Ot course, if anybody cares to wish a free railroad upon
us, we are willing to let them do it, and we wouldn’t look anv
ot its locomotives in the mouth to determine its age. All of
us have been all our lives struggling and fighting to keep as
far ahead of railways as we could, in the belief that the rail
roads makes it too easy for tightwads in our line of business to
get in and run us out ot business, but maybe we have had our
worries lor nothing. It the railroad made it easy for Chinese
cheap labor to come in and drive us out, it would also make it
easy for us to get out when we have to—although where we
could go that would be better we might not know. The only
reason we wanted their old railroad anyway was that it might
lower freights so that we could go on drawing the old' Klondike
w'ages and yet allowing the producer to live on what was left
after paying those wages, but maybe it would have brought
cheaper labor with it. Generally a fellow doesn’t know
whether he really is well off or when, so maybe it is all for the
best—if it is true.
There is one way we can beat the game for a time and beat
it RIGHT, and that is to back and encourage and assist Fal
con Joslin to build the Tanana Valley Railway into the Tolo
vana. He MIGHT be able to build it as cheaply as we could
build a wagon road, and it would last longer. Nothing could'
beat us out of the Tolovana trade then—it would be ours for
ever. t | *.(
Of course we are not giving up hope of having that gov
ernment road flow into Fairbanks and come right up and eat
out of our hands, but we might as Well be prepared for any
thing that comes. The railroad is a political gift, and any
thing can happen in politics. For instance there isn’t a
chance of any railroad being built in Alaska this year unless
it is a branch from the Alaska Northern to the Matanuska
coal fields, which are apparently no nearer Fairbanks than is
the end of the Alaska Northern.
Next year is presidential election year, and’ how much rail
way could be built during a National campaign, anyway?
Not TOO much. It, in November, 1916, the Republicans
should get together and are able to convince the voters that
the hard times of 1914, 1915 and 1916 are the fault of the Dem
ocrats, how would you keep the Republicans from winning?
If the DO win, the Democrats will build no railroads in Alaska
in 1917—maybe the Republicans won’t, either, for they are not
fond of government ownership theories. So, take it by large,
we might never have gotten our government railway if it
had been routed straight through to us by the president on
Saturday last. Also we can’t lose anything wre never bad.
So far as we can see, there’s no use of worrying. Worry
won’t help. Only the future can tell what Santa Claus has
in store for us, but there isn’t any use of spending money on
the strength of the promised gift until you have the gift in
your hand. So far, the government railway has cost us noth
ing but the money we spent celebrating its promised coming,
and out of that celebration we got our money’s worth. We
might as well keep on wishing for the railroad and working for
the railroad, but at the same time w’e have an idle thought to
the effect that the fellow who, prior to the appearance of the
cars in Fairbanks, reduces expenses to the quick and hustles
for all he can get will be in better shape to buy the drawing
room of the sleeper on a trip outside from Fairbanks than will
the man who goes on “regardless” in the belief that our rail
road is as sure as death.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
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Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at I aw
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
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Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, 8. 8. Seward. 8. 8. Seward, 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
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ADMIRAL WATSON, April 25
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Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
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Seattle San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
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