THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1919
LABOR DAY
A distinctive holiday for labor, a
day on which to celebrate victories
won and to discuss plans for future
betterments in the condition of the
toilers, is due to the activities of the
trades unions and those labor organ
izations which are represented in the
great American Federation of Labor.
It is and always has been distinct
and apart from the socialist celebra
tion of May day, when 'it has been
customary to display the red flag o^,
international industrial unrest.
In recent years the line between
the bona fide tradesunionist and the
socialist has become as marked al
most as that between the employer
and employed. Today will probably
s»e in different parts of the country
disturbances of more or less serious
nature, in which the representatives
of the two elements will be brought
into conflict. It is not unreasonable
to expect that with the growing agita
tion, induced by the changed condi
tions brought on by the war, the
socialists will eventually capture the
trade unions of the United States,
just as they now control those of
Great Britain and other European
countries. The trend of the speeches
delivered at the various celebrations
will therefore be watched with inter
est.
To the toiler, the man who through
intelligent organization has wrought
the improvements in working and liv
ing conditions so noticeable in the im
mediate past, the day gives opportunity
to celebrate victories won in behalf
of humanity. For every victory of
organized labor is shared in by every
unorganized worker. Laws for im
proved sanitation of workshops and
factories, against crowded sweat
shops, prohibiting child labor, re
ducing the hours of women and chil
dren workers, and raising the age at
which children can be put to work—
all these and more are due to the
continued work and agitation of
trades unionists in the face of un
reasoning opposition. And as in other
great reforms in the world’s history,
they are now accepted as matter of
course even by their bitterest op
ponents. It is doubtful if public
opinion could under any circum
stances be brought to allow a rever
sion to the old conditions.
Organized labor has much to be
proud of, a d if a the peeches with
which the day is marked there is a
note of triumph, it will be excusable.
The country at large will see in Jhe
increased prosperity of the organized
workers, with the resulting benefits
to the unorganized, its greatest bul
wark against bolshevism and anarchy.
THE IRISH QUESTION
Politicians and partisan newspapers
of this country have always been in
clined to handle the “Irish question”
rather gingerly. Because of the fact
that the head and front of the agita
tion for Ireland’s “liberation” has
been in this country, and that the
sinews of war have been furnished by
American sympathizers, there has
been hesitation on the part of poli
ticians to give offense to an element
which casts large numbers of votes,
even when the policy pursued has
been so openly in violation of inter
national comity that it has been cause
for concern by statesmen. It is not
surprising, therefore, that the follow
ing excellent summary of the situa
tion of Ireland at the present time
from Chamberlain’s Weekly, should
carry the caption, “Begging Pardon
of course”:
“Let’s not talk about an Irish re
public. Everybody except a few very
enthusiastic enthusiasts knows there
isn’t going to be any Irish republic
Preident de Valera may come tc
America and talk about it and thou
sands of Irishmen born in the United
States, as de Valera himself, may
cheer about it. But for all that, all
of them, or most of them, know that
there will, in the end, be no Irish re'
public. Home rule we will grant, or
a dominion, but never a republic. Un
' less, of course, you insist that the
British empire is going to break up.
'The case O' the Irish is not so
strong as it was? before the war. At
that time almost everybody, whether
bis name was Mahaffey or Goldmark
or Drgrczwski, had a sort of fondness
for the cause of the Emerald isle.
i
) We all felt that the Irish people had
| been persecuted in the past and that
they ought to be rewarded with a lit
tle extra in the present. But then
came, first the Irish disputes over
what they wanted and what they
wouldn’t have, and later the failure of
Ireland to participate in the war.
“Through long decades of slow re
lenting England in 1914 had finally
got to the point of being ready to
grant home rule. She was ready to
accept the enactment, but civil war
all but broke out in Ireland. The
north was against the south. Dis
agreement grew violent and armed
forces were enrolled. To the by
stander in this country it seemed that
Ireland wras making a mistake. Then
came on the war. Individual Irish
men volunteered but the bulk of the
nation stayed at home. It seemed to
the bytander again that, the English
having offered home rule and the
enactment having been postponed
only through the disagreement of Ire
land itself, the Irish people should
have joined in the cause of empire as
whole-heartedly as the English. But
such w^as not the case. The Irish
did not volunteer and the English
wrere afraid to draft them, while every
halfway able-bodied Englishman and
Scot and Welshman was in uniform.
“A good many American observers
thought that, wrhen the war ended,
the English and Scotch and Welsh
soldiers would return from the front
and demand the gore of the big buck
Irishmen who had remained at home
enjoying war profiteer’s wage. But
nothing of the sort occurred. The
English seemed to hold the Irish free
from prejudice and w^ere, and still are,
willing to take up home rule the min
ute a working arrangement can be
figured out between the Irish factions
themselves. And what more could a
free Irishman want than some sort of
home rule that will leave him a sub
ject of the British empire—as good
an empire as he is likely to find any
where—and complete independence in
local affairs?”
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DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office and Residence, Cordova
General Hospital vOstrandcr
Building).
Phones—Residence, 115; Office, 132
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store.
Residence, Alaska Hotel.
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WINDSOR HOTEL
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DENTAL OFFICES
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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ADAMS BUILDING
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CORDOVA, ALASKA
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U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
Juneau, Alaska
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and Scalp Treatment, Bleaching
ind Dyeing. Room 22, Hospital bldg.
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Piano Tuning and Regulating
C St., Opp. Hegg’s
Phone 123—2 Rings
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SCHOOL OF DANCING
Private lessons every evening.
American Bakery. Phone 203.
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All Waists. .$6.50 and $7.50, 4.00
Georgette Waists.... $35.00, $20.00
Georgette Waists.... 15.00, 6.00
All Waists. 9.00, 6.00
Drummer Boys’ Stockings, 35c to
50c. Good bargains.
No goods taken back. No credit
on this sale.
Best bargains ever offered in
Alaska.
Sale Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday.
Sale of Table Cloths is still on.
THE REGENT
(MRS. JOHN NELSON)
Across St. from Modern Laundry
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Half-soling, $2.00
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P. O. Box 986
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