THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
Entered at the Postofflce at Cordova,
Alaska, as second-class matter.
H. G. STEEL
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1919
BOLSHEVIKISM IN ALASKA
Can we accept the belief, much less
the conviction, that Bolshevism will
flourish, in Alaska soil? We do not
believe it. We have a faith in the
aggregate common sense of the Ameri
can people that utterly denies and re
pudiates such a conclusion. It is not
unlikely that Bolshevism teaching
and activities may take root here and
there, where unassimilated foreign
elements are to be found ready for
any social fermentation that may be
proposed, there may be trouble, even
violence that leads to riots which
have to be suuppressed by force
rather than moral suasion. It is for
the authorities, federal and territorial
and municipal, to watch for such mani
festation and squelch it with a strong
hand when once disclosed.
In such a course the municipal, ter
ritorial and federal authorities will
have the full sympathy and law-abid
ing, patriotic support of the American
people as a body. That support and
sympathy will be forthcoming because
the people of the United States are a
law-loving and law-abiding people.
They know the value of law and order
and the benefits of free government,
which is the expression of their own
will, as these are not known by the
people of any other nation. The peo
ple of this country are not of the
tribe of the discontented. They have
both conscience and intelligence, and
with either of these Bolshevism has
nothing in common.
The social soil of Alaska is not at
all suited to the growth and spread
of a system that thrives on ignorance
and bloody violence.—Juneau Dis
patch.
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NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE
It is a characteristic of the latest
radical political movements through
out the world that they simply re
place the autocracy of a small class
by the more general tyranny of a
larger class. It is a* true of the non
partisan league movement in this
country as it is of the Bolshevist
movement in Russia. . The leaders
and their followers have no true con
ception of liberty and democracy.
This is a sad commentary on the
thousands who have joined the non
partisan league in some of our states
because it means that Americans, who
should know that class rule is auto
cratic rule, are professing to believe
that through the non-partisan league
they are giving effect to American
ideals. As a matter of fact they have
drifted away from the old American
moorings of democracy and have set
sail upon a piratical cruise of social
ism.
The session of the North Dakota
legislature which has just come to an
end enacted into law the entire so
cialistic program and the governor,
minion and catspaw of the league, has
approved the legislation.
Perhaps the most clearly un-Ameri
can law is that which provides for the
state newspapers. A law was enacted
to provide revenue for a strong non
partisan league paper in each county.
The bill provided for one official paper
in each county to print all court and
public notices, state reports, etc. No
other paper can obtain printing of this
class. A state printing board domin
ated by the league will designate the
official papers. It is estimated by
members of the league that at least
$6,000 annually will accrue to each
league paper and they admit that the
law eventually Avlit drive out of ex
istence most of the opposition press
by killing at least $00 weeklies.
In their hypocrisy the leaders de
clare that the papers are instituted to
"offset misrepresentation which has
been made concerning North Dakota
and the non-partisan league in other
states.” Revenue which should be
distributed among all classes of publi
cations is used to subsidize papers
representing a class. In reality it is
public money used as propaganda for
a class which has abandoned the old
standards of American liberty and de
mocracy and committed itself to
tyranny over all other classes in the
state. The men who backed such a
law have about as much inclination to
fair dealing as the devil has to re
ligion.
At the close of the session a great
demonstration was held in the capitol
building at Bismarck to commemor
ate the league’s triumph in passing all
the legislation it had incorporated in
its platform. Five reels of moving
pictures disclosed Governor Frazier
signing the bills, while near him were
shown prominent league officials,
legislators and agitators. These reels
will be used in other states as propa
ganda in an effort to commend North
Dakota’s class tyranny as a substitute
for the democracy of Jefferson, Lin
coln and Roosevelt.
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ONE METHOD OF RELIEF
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Confronted by the highest prices in
American history the people are seek
ing some means of relief. There is a
widespread impression that unless
prices are adjusted to wages and to
pocketbooks generally the country
will drift into a serious commercial
crisis.
When the poor man is compelled
to pay taxes that surpass any thing
he could have imagined three or four
years ago and looks forward to years
of taxation on an equal scale he is
bound to demand as much for his
money as he can get.
For purposes of consideration and
discussion we desire to suggest a plan
which has been tactily or purposely
ignored.
The government has in its posses
sion war materials worth hundreds of
millions of dollars. When a nation
goes to war it utilizes everything that
is needed in all the arts and pursuits
of peace and many things in addition.
Gigantic communities have been
established at dozens of points in this
country and the government has
amassed at these points iron, steel,
lumber, copper, foodstuffs and count
less machines, tools and implements.
Decay and rust are daily reducing the
value of automobiles and auto trucks,
of vehicles, implements, lumber and
of foodstuffs, and we are pouring in
taxes by the billions so that the gov
ernment may pay for materials which
] it purchased long ago and which are
going to waste. The whole country
has the feeling of paying for a dead
horse.
Why does not the government place
these goods on the market and reduce
prices?
“It would be ruinous,” cry dealers.
We can hear the clamor of manu
facturers, wholesalers and retailers.
But would it? Is it possible that it
would be ruinous to utilize the wealth
that we have stored up, wealth that
the world needs. Remember, money
is merely a representative of wealth.
Wealth consists in useful products,
buildings, goods, wares and merchan
dise. If these be not used, are we not
wasting our wealth?
But the argument will be that if the
government sells these goods at low
prices and unloads them on the
markets the dealers who have paid
high prices will be ruined.
But is not that stating the proposi
tion crudely! Are we so incapable
that we cannot devise ways and
means of placing these materials on
the markets without causing a great
disturbance.
The dealers who cry out against
the plan are the men who must sell
these goods ultimately. Cannot the
government and the dealers arrange
matters so that the goods now de
generating in government camps and
storehouses shall be sold at reason
able prices over a period of months
and cannot this arrangement be made
without injuring either manufactur
ers,, wholesalers or retailers?
It is true that the consumers will
not permit any conspiracy by which
the government and the dealers shall
dispose of these wares at present
prices. The main object to be ob
tained is a lower level of prices. That
sounds like a terrific blow at business,
but if the lower level Is attained
gradually profits will still be reason
able.
At one encampment a million dol
lars worth of automobiles and motor
trucks is going to waste, almost all of
it without shelter. At another camp
millions of feet of lumber are de
teriorating.
Perhaps we have taken the wrong
view of this question from an eco
nomic standpoint, but we think the
long-suffering public would be glad to
argue the point and to know where
the flaw is to be found.
RED CROSS CARING
FOR REFUGEES AT OMSK
OMSK, Siberia, Feb. 2 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).—Hu
manitarian work for destitute refugees
is being effectively conducted at Omsk
by the refugee section of the Ameri
can Red Cross, under the direction of
Colonel H. S. Thompson of Concord,
Mass. The refugee department has
its headquarters on a train in the main
railway station of Omsk. There Is a
storage room in the Czecho-Slovak
headquarters, near-by.
Several active young American
women circulate among the destitute
of the city and its suburbs making
investigation of needs. They make
their report to the directors, and ne
cessities, chiefly underwear, sweaters
and socks, are immediately distribut
ed. Americans at home who may be
knitting to supply Siberian needs may
be assured that their efforts are ap
preciated and are serving to render
less terrible the rigorous Siberian win
ter, where the temperature reaches 45
degrees below zero.
Colonel Thompson and his assistant,
H. F. Fales of Shanghai, formerly of
Chicago, have purchased much cloth
ing at Omsk, for the condition of the
i lana-oiueriau ranroaa nas prevented
the coming of adequate supplies from
Vladivostok and China. Among other
things they were able to find and buy
twenty thousand suits of children’s
underwear, which have perhaps saved
the lives of manay underclothed chil
dren of this district.
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Job printing at Daily Times office
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Bakery. ' 2-6t
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF- SALE
United States of America, Territory
of Alaska, ss.
Notice is' hereby given that I have
‘.his day levied upon that certain one
story frame dwelling house known as
ihe McVae house, same being situated
upon government land of the United
States of America adjacent to station
grounds of the Copper River & North
western Railway Company, near the
town of Cordova, Alaska, under and
by virtue of a certain chattel mort
gage given by Dan McVae to the
First Bank of Cordova, at Cordova,
Alaska, and by said bank assigned to
Johp Muller; said mortgage being
foreclosed and said property sold un
der Section 749 of the Compiled Laws
of Alaska. And I hereby give notice
by virtue of the authority vested in
me that I will sell said house and
the whole thereof to the highest bid
der for cash to make the sum of $600
with interest thereon at the rate of
12 per cent per annum from the 24th
day of August, 1918, together with
costs and increased costs of sale. Said
sale to take place on the premises
on the 12th day of April, 1919, at the
hour qf 2 p. m.
Dated this 2d day of April, 1919.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
U. S. Marshal.
By WM. L. FURSMAN, Deputy.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, Cordova Precinct, Territory
of Alaska (In Protmte).
In the Matter of the Estate of Gun
nard Johnson, Deceased.
Notice is' hereby given that V. a
Vance, administrator of the estate of
Gunnard Johnson, deceased, has ren
dered and presented for iettlement to,
mnd filed in' the probate court of said
Cordova precinct, his final account as
such administrator, and that Tuesday,
the 15th day of April, 1B10, at 10
o’clock a. m., at the court room of our
said probate court at Cordova, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the pro
bate court for the settlement of the
g,i>i account, at which time and place
any person Interested in said estate
may appear and file his exceptions in
writing to the said final account and
contest the same.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) A. J. ADAMS,
Judge of the said Probate Court, and
the seal ot said Court affixed, this
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TRAPPERS ATTENTION TRADERS
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, Inc.
DEALER IN
RAW FURS
Seattle— New York—
Alaska Building 127 W. 27th Street
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We do business direct with you and solicit all Raw Furs. Your ship
ments are handled by expert graders and New York market prices are
paid on correct-grading the day received. If desired, your shipments will
be kept separate in order that our prices may be approved by you. Pro
viding that our valuation does not prove satisfactory, the furs will be
returned to you, transportation charges prepaid. Ship by insured parcel
post or express. Ship in a dry condition. Always inclose an Itemized
list of contents, with name and address. Also attach duplicate list to
the outside of bundle. Special instructions, if any, must accompany ship
ments. Payments are made by check on the Seattle National Bank, or
| in any other manner desired. Ship now.
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NICHOLLS TRANSPORTATION CO.
WEEKLY TRIPS BETWEEN
Chitina and Fairbanks
Carrying Passengers and Freight from’
Either End
Fred Nieholls and Ed Bartlett have joined forcea and are now prepared
to give a Regular 8ervlee to and from the Interior
ABE YOU GOING OUT THIS FALL?
Visit San Francisco and Stop with
Mark C Thompson
at his new hotel in the heart of the city between
Pewell and Mason Streets.
The Dale-Tallac Hotel
140 ELLIS STREET
Special Bates and Headquarters for Alaskans.
GETREADYFORMVICilmi
I NOTICE
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| I have sold my stock of second-hand goods to Mr. Keist f
I and from now on will devote my entire energy to the
| workmen’s trade. Come in and look my stock over, see |
| the quality of goods and get the prices.
Here Are a Few of the
| Articles I Carry 1
1 GENERAL LINE UNDERWEAR AND TOP SHIRTS I
1 BLANKETS AND QUILTS
LOGGERS’ SHOES AND SHOE FINDINGS
RAIN GOODS
MATTRESSES AND SPRINGS §
TENTS AND A LINE OF CANVAS GOODS
KITCHENWARE, STOVES
CLAM DIGGERS’ SHOVELS AND SUPPLIES §
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My Store’s Name Has Been Changed to
RAWSON’S
I GENERAL FURNISHINGS
| We are with thesCash Store, in the Northern Block
| Everything Delivered Together
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