THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920
GOOD LESSON FOR THOSE WHO
WILL HEED
The act of Charles E. Herron in go
ing into a criminal court and pleading
guilty to having committed crime by
printing things about a responsible
eitizen of the territory that he admit
ted were not true and causing editor
ial comment to be made that was not
true, and by signing a statement in
which he not only publicly retracted
what he had said but admitted that
the man he had traduced was a re
spectable and honorable citizen, ought
to be a lesson to some of the self
styled newspapermen of Alaska. Some
of these men who pretend to be news
papermen persistently write what
they think will serve their purpose
regardless of facts or truth. They
apparently know nothing of the his
tory of Alaska, current or past, and
•are less. They write like peoplf
who never investigate anything. They
aay things that people know are not
true. They misquote people whose
acts and words are well known. They
distort words almost before the echo
of their utterance has ceased to ring.
They never retract even when their
lies are nailed on them—except when
hailed into court to answer the pro
cesses of law.
This is a sort of journalism that
•nee upon a time was familiar to
Americans, but fortunately it has all
but completely passed away with
»any of the undesirable things of the
decades that have gone. However,
it is because there are still some of
* them here and there that we continue
to hear people say once in a while that
“you cant believe anything you see in
the papers.”
If the obvious lessons of the Cor
dova libel proceedings are taken to
heart they should have a good effect
in Alaska.—Juneau Empire.
EYE FOR AN EYE
Some surprise was expressed i:i Re
publican circles as to the outcome of
the criminal and civil cases wherein
Charles E. Herron was defendant and
George Hazelet complaining witness
and plaintiff, respectively. There was
some surprise expressed that Mr.
Herron apologized, admitted guilt
and that Mr. Hazelet permitted to be
dropped the civil action which he had
started. Yet, from the standpoint of
both, it was the most satisfactory
means of bringing to a close an un
pleasant incident.
The attack upon Mr. Hazelet was
such that he could not permit it to go
unchallenged, either before or after
election. Because of the character of
the attack, no refutation would mean
virtually an admission of truth. He
therefore brought the suit to clear his
own charactfer. That was the primary
object, and if Mr. Herron is willing
to admit that he or his papers erred,
that the attack on Mr. Hazelet was
mu warranted and not true, surely Mr.
Hazelet has accomplished that which
he started out to do—to clear himself
ef the charges.
As for Mr. Herron, if cooled after
the heat of campaign, and realizing
that he had wronged Mr. Hazelet, he
■aw fit to make such amends as were
possible, he is to be commended.
With Mr. Hazelet it was not a ques
tion of an eye for an eye, or an at
tempt to squeeze money from another.
It was a matter of clearing a repu
tation, and that accomplished he cared
nothing for money or to satisfy any
resentment that he might feel.
Which brings to mind that too often
does the rancor in hearts demand the
eye for an eye, as it is written, in
stead of showing that charity which,
it is also written, covers a multitude
of sins. There are so many times, as
in the Hajzelet-Herron misunderstand
ing, when substantial justice can be
secured without demanding the bibli
cal eye for an eye, or tooth for a tooth.
And it would be well, under all cir
cumstances, if these facts were con
sidered, as they evidently were at
Cordova.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
OH, DIXIE—BEWARE
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Most of us up north can stand this,
but the cotton growers down south
would better keep an eye to windward.
The British and the French are get
ting tired of paying American grow
ers famine prices for cotton, mainly
due to failure to put in modern ma
chinery and operate the cotton plan
tations on an up-to-date basis. The
southern planters, on the average,
have never done many things that a
present-day agriculturist thinks nec
essary because they had a super-abun
dan supply of cheap colored labor. So
long as the negro could be kept ignor
ant and animal he would work, when
he worked at all, for a few cents a
day, and there was always enough of
him to go round, even when he didn’t
work much of the time. But the war
has changed conditions somewhat
The colored folks have come up north
in large numbers and gained a foot
hold in northern industrial life. They
have been forced upon the northern
employers and the northern foreign
union laborers. As a result the em
ployers have found that colored help
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and the white workers have decked
that it is better to unionize the blacks,
rather than try to rule them out in
mass and have them succeed, through
mere force of numbers, as strike
breakers. It is likely that the color
ed workers will remain north now
and that the black belts of our in
dustrial centers will steadily enlarge
at the expense of the southern plant
er’s surplus supply.
As a result of this shift, the cotton
man, unequipped with labor saving
devices, has been so short handed
that he could not produce. We have
had miserable cotton crops in the last
two years and the outlook for the
coming season is as bad as it could
be. Prices of a prohibitive level have
been the result.
The European users of our cotton
have become so weary of this con
dition and of paying tribute to Amer
ica that the governments of Britain
efforts to build up a home grown sup
ply. The French government is help
ing planters double their output in
the Niger and the Senegal valleys in
Africa, from which much is hoped.
In (he Cambodge district the govern
ment is turning ever for exploitation
six million acres. The British are
doing some very extensive develop
ment work in the Soudan and in other
semi-tropical possessions. It would
- eem to be only a question of time
when these nations are to a large ex
tent self-supporting. Egyptian long
fiber is now better than our cotton.
And we don't know that northern
American citizens have anything to
worry about. We can’t eat cotton,
but we can eat corn and other food
products that would be grown in the
Did slave states if cotton became less
profitable. And with a larger world’s
supply of cotton, linen shirts and
collars would become cheaper.
NEVER TO RETURN
Recollect the good old days when
they used to run the United States
government a whole year for a bil
lion dollars? Well, those dear old
days are gone, alas, never to return.
It looks now as if the cost of oper
ation for the present fiscal year |
would be about seven billion dollars.
At least we have achieved that proud
result up to date. If the soldiers’
bonus goes through, there will be I
another billion or so to add.
The expenses of administration to
date are as follows:
Cost of running Federal Government
for nine months ended March 31 was
$5,028,176,000, according to Treas
ury officials, made up mainly as fol
lows: War Department, $1,301,605,000;
Railroad Administration, $776,590,000;
Navy Deparment, $621,364,000; Ship
ping Board, $433,100,000; interest on
public debt, $664,923,000; maintenance
of Congress, $15,309,000; executive
offices, $6,177,000. Estimated total for
fiscal year to end June 30 will reach
about $6,750,000,000 or about $18,000,
000 a day, and $652,763,000 in ex
cess of Secretary Glass’ estimate
made in December.
The New York Times continues to
compare Mr. Wilson to Lincoln. There
was once a fond owned of a Missouri
mule who imagined whenever the pet
brayed he was listening to a nightin
gale.
The European diplomats who are
suggesting the “pooling of war debts”
do not seem to be insisting with the
same enthusiasm upon the pooling of
territorial acquisitions and indemni
ties.
a sales impost would merely result in
passing on added costs to the con
sumer.
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