THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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MONDAY, MAY 29, 1920
THE PIONEERS’ HOME
Seems as though we are getting the
Pioneers’ Home pretty plenty these
days. Saturday w^ printed the edi
torial of the Juneau Empire, writ
ten to prove that the home is not in
politics but showing in every line that
it is. Today we print the request
of the Juneau Capital that we help
them advertise the new newspaper
venture there by soliciting subscrip
tions to buy an auto for the Pioneers
*n the home.
It is silly of the Empire to try to
pretend that the home is not in poli
tics, when the gift of its management
is entirely in the hands of the poli
tieian who happens to be governor of
Alaska at that time. The Empire
gays that the home has only had two
managers, and that both of them are
good men—Shoup and Morton. Then
why was Shoup thrown out to make
a place for Morton? Simply because
the Democrats held the governorship
and wanted to give -the place to a
ttemocrat.
In contending that Morton is in no
sense a politician, and in naming the
positions he filled before he was giv
« the management of the home (the
positions of twice chief clerk oi
tiie territorial house, an official in
tiie marshal’s office as a jailor and
a deputy marshal) why doesn’t the
Umpire tell of something else Mor
ton has been in Alaska, besides a
political appointee?
And, take it from us, we are not
going to help the Juneau Capital ad
▼ertise itself at the expense of the
Aged pioneers in the home until we
have at lease heard from some other
source than the Capital that the Pio
neers want an automobile or would
get to ride in it after it was bought
end sent to the home. This “popular
demand” the Capital claims to be
working in response to was never
heard of in this neck of woods until
this telegram came, and no pioneer
here knows that it exists. The ter
ritory is running the Pioneers’ Home
and the Igloos are not consulted as
to how it shall be run—it is a poli
tical matter. If the Pioneers in the
home need anything, there is nothing
that they could possibly need that
the Igloos wouldn’t see that they get
if they would put the matter up to
thtlfr home Igloo. But the Pioneers
need no newspaper to tell them their
whole duty toward their brother pio
neers, and as a pioneer, the writer
isn't going to fall into this error.—
Fairbanks News-Miner
The reason the Plumb plan cam
paign continues is that a lot of the
big fund collected to put it over is
still unexpended. Everybody knows
the scheme is as dead as Ramese II
Until Secreary of War Baker is
impeached it looks a little premature
to haul any other government offi
cial up for trial. That man’s incapa
city cost the American people ter
er fifteen billion dollars.
When Doc Grayson compared the
Srane cottage at Woods Hole with the
presidential palace at Paris he very
guickly concluded that it was not be
fitting the economy and simplicity
befitting a democratic government, ai
the Wilson platform of 1912 said.
Assistant Secretary of the navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt complains o
"fifty-seven varieties of investigation!
going on at Washington at a cost o:
three million dollars.” Well, thre<
million dollars isn’t so awful much t(
spend for looking over nine or tex
billion dollars worth of waste, es
pecially as the knowledge of what th(
administration spenders have done t(
them is about all the people get foi
their money.
' MEXICO, TOO, TIRES OF THE NEW
BLEED ’EM
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The present upheavel in Mexico is
' due to popular revolt against which
the Wilson administration, in its sup
port of the Carranza regime, has help
D ed to fasten upon the people of our
5 neighboring republic.
0| The Wilson administration used the
] military and naval forces of the
> United States to turn Huerta out and
f to put Carranza in. This service has
i been recognized by the Carranza ad
I ministration by the wholesale confis
. cation of American property and the
ruthless taking of American life to
which the Wilson administration has
been consistently indifferent.
We have been told that Mexico
was in the enjoyment of the new free
domn through the operations of the
socialistic constitution under the Car
ranza administration. But the new
Mexican constitution has been inter
preted only as a means of conferring
autocratic personal power on the
government’s chief executive, where
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in, of course, Carranza has perhaps
only been emulating a distinguished
| personal example.
The most recent manifestation of
'this autocracy camouflaged under the
eloquent phrases of democracy, is the
effort of Carranza to dictate the pres
i idential successorship. New freedom
elections in Mexico seem to be con
ducted on the true Democratic Mis
sissippi and South Carolina pattern,
nobody voting but those whose bal
' lots are cast in accordance with the
| desires of the coterie in power. As
pirants to the office not favored by
the Carranza regime have been made
military prisoners.
Even in Mexico the scheme of the
new freedom doesn’t seem to work
smoothly, and consequently the south
ern republic is again in the throes of
a revolution.
The movement to fasten autocratic
socialist on the people doesn’t seem to
he working much better in Mexico
than it is in the United States. But
in this country free elections are still
held in all that part of the country
that is not dominated absolutely by
the Democratic machine; in other
words outside the Solid South; and
therefore peaceful revolution will
come here in the orderly, American
way at the polls in November,
i The people of Mexico have paid
heavily for the “‘watchfull waiting”
and wobbling of the Wilson adminis
tration. The loss has not been con
fined to the Americans who have
been so basely abandoned, in disre
gard of American principles and tra
ditions, by the party leadership no%v
in power in the United States.
We have been told that American
rights and interests had been aban
doned in the interests of the Mexi
can people, but the Mexican people
do not seem to appreciate the new
freedom that has thus been bestowed
| upon them. And they seem to be
heartily anxious to get rid of the now
demagogism and the new despotism
camouflaged under the lofty phrases
of the new freed om.
! The Nebraska Democrats are asked
to choose between Bryan and Hitch
cock. It’s a case of ‘“pick your own
; poison.”
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The reason why a woman voter
should be a Republican is exactly
the reason why a man voter should
be; namely, that the Republican party
does a better job of running the
country.
John Sharpe Williams hasn’t yet ac
cused the non-rubber-stamp senators
of having planted floating mines in
the path of the “‘George Washington”
but he has a few months to serve
yet before he begins to “bay at the
moon.”
There is danger hat some Republi
cans are going to use up so much
steam in the nominating campaigns
they will not have much left to go on
when it comes time to contend with
the Democrats.
The New York World says the Re
publicans laders in congress have
been trying to keep the country in a
state of fermentation. And we thought
all the time that the chief grievance
of the World was that so much fer
mentation had been interfered with.
Norman Mack says the Democrats
ought to put a “wet” plank in their
platform this year. Well, with that
1 they could make a good strong drive
for the dry vote on the demonstrated
truth of the statement that the Demo
’ eras do exactly opposite of what thev
L promise to do in their platforms.
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By the way if Colonel Bryan really
* believes, as he so often alleges, in the
» rule of majorities, why didn’t he let
i the majority rule at the Baltimore
■ convention in 1912 when it went for
* Champ Clark and the Colonel was
> enable to put over Woodrow Wilson
' only because of the existence of the
two-thirds rule?
a sales impost would merely result in
passing on added costs to the con
sumer.
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CORDOVA
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