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CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1915.
A SKELETON IN EVERY CLOSET
Every now and then, in small towns like Douglas, some
thing terrible will happen, and there is no need to print it—
everybody knows all about it. Then tongues begin to rattle.
It will last tor a week or ten days—this talk—and then some
thing more or less terrible comes along, something more or
less important—and then everybody forgets the first and talks
about the last happening. Time heals all wounds. The least
said the soonest mended, so don’t get excited. There’ll he
another one along in the morning. Keep your shirt on. Let
the other fellow make a fool of himself. Take a drink and forget
it. Every town has its lame and its halt and its blind, and lots
of poor, miserable sinners who make mistakes. It is not
necessary for you and me to apply the punishment. We are
all poor, frail creatures at best, and when one of our number
falls into error we should pity the sinner, no matter how muen
wo may hate the sin. The more you stir it the more it stinks.
Let him that is without sin cast the first stone. When the town
is suffering from shocks the good should pray, the wicked weep,
the happy laugh, and soon “Each one as before, will chase his
favorite phantom.” Let us not rejoice because of another’s
sin and sorrow. Remember, then* is a skeleton in every closet.
Douglas people are not really bad people. While they may not
really love one another—according to the scriptural injunction,
yet, if somebody’s little child dies, it’s a hard job to find a dry
pair of eyes in town, and, there are none that are perfect, no,
not one, and we know it, but if we only talk, each of the other’s
goodness, the world will never know of our wicked deeds, and
will perhaps think we are just as good as the rest of the world
and for that matter—we are.—Douglas News.
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The colleges are about to spill out upon the* world another
army of young workers—boys and girls with ideals, fine hopes
and strong equipment. It’s a wonderful spectacle—this
reinforcement of the world’s working armies each June.
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Alaska is certainly attracting the attention of outside
capitalists, and the greatest factor in this renewed interest in
the northland is the large shipments of valuable copper ore
from Cordova. The output of precious metal for 1915, from this
port alone, will be in the neighborhood of $20,0(X),000, which
will be in excess of the mineral wealth of the entire territory
for the year.
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THE LEAVEN OF THE MINES
Fifty years ago, when our great war closed, many shrewd
financiers, contemplating the mighty interest-bearing debt left
from it, said: “It is no use. The debt never can be paid; the
first thing the government should' do ought to be a formal
repudiation, a readjustment and a new beginning.”
As a rule careful financiers never permit their imaginations
to influence their calculations; they ignore the doctrine of
chances, and scoff at both possibilities and probabilities. But
they on the other hand, not infrequently permit their fears or
their want of faith to lead them farther astray than a sanguine
hopefulness would.
When the help of a famous New York financier was
solicited to try to start the building of a transcontinental rail
way, he almost fiercely declined and with ill concealed anger
said: “In the first place it is a physical impossibility; in the
second', could you have your road built and fully equipped, you
could not from its profits for fifty years to come, pay for the oil
you would require for lubricating its machinery.”
lie was sincere, too, only lie had not been to the trouble to
study and comprehend the facts and no vision of the expansion
there was to be had ever been before his dulled eyes.
But what will follow in the old world when in exhaustion
her people will be forced to patch up a peace and again try to
make headway against the ruin that has come to them? Russia
has lands and mines, Great Britain has vast colonial posses
sions France has African possessions; but the French do not
take well to colonial life. For the dense masses of Central
Europe, what are they to do?
They are walking in the very shadow of death today,
bound as they are by poverty which has become well-nigh
famine, and disease, and without one star of hope in their skv.
Surely ours should be a grateful people, and should
already be preparing to feed some millions in Europe who,
when another winter closes down, will, if they succeed in
retaining their homes, have no food in them.
And’ what the mines have done for the United States since
18G1 ought to arrest the attention of all thinking people and
cause them to reflect that the reason we are rated as a world
power today is because of what the mines of the west have done
for the republic and cause them to ask if, indeed, the western
miners’ work has been appreciated and if justice has always
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Members of the industrial relations commission have said
again and again that Chairman Walsh’s numerous speeches
and interviews do not represent the opinions of the commis
sion, but Walsh continues to emit. President Wilson seems
to be “watchfully waiting” in Walsh’s case, while the country
hopes for “vigorous action.” Walsh has brought the commis
sion into disrepute and injured the opportunities it hud of
doing real good.
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Hugh von Kleist, who is writing a series of articles for
American newspapers, under the caption of “The German
View,” says:
feeling extremely annoyed because the Lustiania was
blown up, just when he was being sued by a fellow politician,
Theodore Roosevelt has declared war on Germany But let
Mr. Roosevelt be consistent. Let him join the English army
We are sure that General French would gladly give him a com
mission. The Colonel might be very useful ‘in combating the
famous German gases. Perhaps on the theory that it takes like
to catch like.
HIS APPEAL FOR MEXICO
With characteristic firmness and fairness, President
Wilson cnlls upon the warring Mexican chiefs to surrender
their private aims, ambitions and animosities and unite for the
salvation of their suffering country.
“A plague on all your houses,” he says to the murderous
faction fighters. ‘‘Now get together, organize a form of
government, put it to good use, restore order, start your
industries, sot your social forces at work anti feed your
starving.”
This is sound advice from a neighbor whose friendliness
Mexico has no reason to doubt. President Wilson speaks for
the whole country. His voice may or may not be effective. No
one can tell. Mexican leadership, which seems entirely
confined to the military men, has given no significant indica
tions that it is motivated by any oth’er than wholly per aortal
and selfish purposes.
Professing to be acting in the general popular welfare only,
these men of power have yet been unwilling thus far to agree
to any policy that, in the end, would mean sacrifice of their
own ambitions. They have not harmonized nor shown any dis
position among themselves to reach a basis that would bring
about peace and provide food and clothing for the people.
President Wilson wishes to know if there is not enough
patriotism among the leaders to produce this result.
That country is now exhausted. Its resources have been
consumed. The inhabitants are facing starvation, and this in
a land where nature is so generous that she feeds her hungry
millions with the exaction of but little labor in return. Many
of the inhabitants have been killed—but not enough. Carranza
is still trying to kill Villa, without whose early aid' he himself
would not amount to a hill of frijoles; Villa seeks the lives of
Carranza and Obregon, and all allied with them; while as for
Zapata, he has not been particular whose life it was, so it was
Bomebouy’s. tiuerta ih a lugitive because he teared to stay at
home among his cruel-minded compatriots, but from the safety
of his cozy Long Island home is shouting to let the internecine
warfare go on.
But President Wilson has now squarely put it up to these
men to get busy in behalf of home and humanity. He makes
no threats, but lets it clearly be seen that unless satisfactory
steps are taken he will start something himself.
Persia is almost “broke.” Payment of official salaries
has became precarious. The government strong box is deprived
of the taxes which before the war came from great shipments
to Russia and England, and Russia has prohibited shipments
of many necessaries in Persia for fear they reach the Turks.
Every inliabited spot on the globe is suffering from financial
disturbances due to the war.
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Dispatches say that even the terrors of war have not
eliminated from the Belgian bosom the love of cock fighting,
which, though ordered suppressed, continues more or less in
hidden places. The objection to them, from the government
standpoint, is not that they hurt the roosters and to some
extent brutalize the beholders, but that they cause gambling,
and the farmers are deprived of funds which they cannot now
afford to lose.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
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 l aw
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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