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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
COKIN >VA. ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL I*.»1K_
THE GENERAL OUTLOOK.
The Mexican situation, however unsatisfactory the proofs
may be of our inadequate military readiness for even minor
emergencies, will, as it develops, act as a tonic tor the whole
country, and will clear away the cobwebs of impractical doc
trine and inefficient idealism, putting us in position to con
template cold realities with restored common sense An icy
plunge will wake up the sleepiest dullard.
The outcome of the complications in our relations with
Germany may have a marked effect upon tie* future. Events
• that have transpired and are transpiring from da\ to day, will
make an astonishing chapter in analysis of national character
and motives—amazing in its revelations of inconsistency or
criminality, or both.
These events make for hesitation in so sensitive a record
ing instrument as the Stock Exchange, but in general business,
outside of the caution and conservatism which we have re
failed to as prevailing everywhere because of the overshadow
ing influence of the great war, there is no hesitation caused
by this international complication.
The event, whatever it may be, w ill not stop the great de
maud in all directions nor the continuance of strenuous effort
to supply it. The country is embarked for excessive cummer
eial activity on a period, which in all probability will last two
years more, and during which prosperity in even greater men
sure than last year will prevail. Given even the most censor
vative disposition of results in the way of distributions, care
fill investors, it would se< m, cannot fail to be greatly benefited.
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CONTROLLING PRICE MARKETS.
The news from the steel trade this week is rather more re
assuring in the matter of the runaway market which had do
veloped in steel prices. The conservative attitude assumed by
consumers, of holding off as far as possible on new orders, and
the abandonment or postponement of many building and otliei
propccts, has had the effect of quieting down excitement. Tin
Iron Age thinks there are signs that the crest of the wave of
price has been reached, or is near at hand, but that there is no
belief that the demand will let up to such an extent that tin
mills w ill not be crowded for all this year.
The apparent approach of the steel price market to soberer
progress is a favorable factor for all business, because it
makes less possible the extension of a runaway market to many
manufactured products—a state of affairs which would be
exceedingly dangerous, because a speculative boom in business
as in the stock market, is sure to fit* followed by disastrous
collapse. We shall have difficulty enough in descending after
the war from our present level of high prices.
The attitude of steel consumers is but another evidence of
the commendable spirit of conservatism which has thus far
pervaded American business.
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NEITHER REVOLUTION NOR EVOLUTION.
Francisco L. Do La Barra, provisional president of Mexico
after Diaz fled and before Madero’s succession, writes to the
New York Times that President Wilson should have known
that “Mexico was to be saved by evolution, not revolution.”
Ho writes a brilliant paper, but o,ur belief is that Diaz had a
clearer idea when he said, in effect, that neither “evolution or
revolution, but substitution was the essential thing needed.”
Diaz despaired of the ability of his countrymen to maintain an
orderly government until the idea should become fixed upon his
people that a stable government must be maintained until
such reforms as might be needed in the government could be
worked out and fully established by reasonable and peaceable
methods. Hence, his appeal to the men of the world’s steady
brained nations to come and help him, and his promise to them
of protection for their lives and property.
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It is appalling to think of all the good'motion picture ma
terial that is being wasted at the front in Mexico without a
camera to record those thrilling dashes and fights of the Am
erican troopers.
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The United States army officers are optimistic for the
early capture of Villa, which proves that optimism is not
merely a word coined to express mental attitude toward pros
pective good times.
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Kansu' Cih is preparing to try Dr. Hyde for the fourth
time. This case contributes valuable testimony to the persist
ence of the Missouri spirit of “Show me.”
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At Verdun the Germans by their long range bombardment
are performing the unusual feat of cracking the kernel before
the shell is broken.
The political situation in the great republic across the
Pacific just now is a veritable Chinese puzzle.
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We don’t hear of so many “pipes of peace” any more,
tense.
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between 8eattls, Ketch
ikan. Wrangell, Juneau. Skagway, Cordova. Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Hails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
April 11 . NORTHWESTERN . April 23
April 2 . ALASKA.May 3 %
Regular freight service Tor Ketcnikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas. Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives. S. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. 8.
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without notice.
Tickets on sale at up town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
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EVANS.April 30
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
| Copper River &
I Northwestern Ry.
gj Effective October 4th, 1915. gj *
Two trains every six days between Cordova and
jjg Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making gi
jg connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving jg
jg from Seattle.
gj Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, i
gj Mondays and Thursdays.
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jg Leave Kennecott for Chitina, Wednesday and Saturdays.
|j Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Peasenger Trains Be- if:;
ijif tween Cordova and Chitina.
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