The Cordova Daily Times
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GREATER CORDOVA'8 GREATEST NEWSPAPER
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Entered at the Postofflce at Cordova, Alaska, as second class matter.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDA, MAY 24, 1915.
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VERDICT IN BARNES ROOSEVELT CASE
NO CHANGE IN MEN’S ESTIMATIONS
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IT has has come down the years that on one occasion the
acuteness of James Buchanan was called to the attention of
Daniel Webster, when Webster remarked: “Buchanan is
a defa politician, but no statesman.” That about the same
time someone called Buchanan’s attention to some masterful
words of Webster and praised his statesmanship, to which
Buchanan replied: “Webster is a statesman, but he knows
no more about politics than a child.”
So far as reputation is concerned Saturday’s verdict in
the Bames-Roosevelt case has made no difference. Although
Roosevelt won, his reputation for always standing “for right
eousness” when things go his way will not be changed. Of
course Barnes will still remain in public estimation a mere po
litical boss.
It is clear that bad- as the Colonel thought Barnes he had
no repraches for him until Barnes refused to accept his per
sonal domination and opposed his plans of self-aggrandizement.
But the people who read and reason knew all this long ago.
They have known it ever since the Colonel on his return
from Africa jumped into the New York campaign and changed
what promised to be a decisive Republican victory into a de
cisive Republican defeat. If the Colonel was moved by any
thing in that campaign except personal vanity, egotism and
ambition, people who read and reason when they read have
never been able to se it, or to catch on to the “righteousness”
which the Colonel stook for. The same thing was the more
pronounced when backed by the Perkins money in 1912 the Col
onel, denouncing the party that had given him so much of
honor and emolument, started out to pack primaries with
cheaply-bought ruff scuff cannaille and Democratic votes, got,
himself sent to Chicago and when there tried by a transparent
trick to obtain control of the national convention, and when
beaten filled all the atmosphere with his laments and denun
ciations, and finally succeeded in electing Mr. Wilson president.
That histor yis perfectly well known and hence to rehash
covering many days in court, of the methods of one class of
New York politicians throws no new light on the character of
either of the chief performers in that odorous drama. Some
men are born great, some achieve greatness, some are like
aeroplanes or Zeppelins; they rise majestically, soar a good
while, but after all their places above the earth are not due
to inherent angelic qualities, but on the amount of gasoline
they have on board.
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UNITED STATES AND CANADA SHOULD
HOLD CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF PEACE
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EXINGTON Day is to have a special significance this
corning June in the form of a great pageant on the his
toric ground where “the embattled farmers fired the shot
heard ’round the world.”
It ostensibly, is to celebrate tin; century of peace that has
existed between the mother land and our own; the century
since the men with the long rifles, firing from behind cotton
bales, overthrew Packenliam and his army.
It is a good idea, but we believe it would be a better one
for the men ot the Dominion to join with us in a centennial cel
ebration over our century of peace. A stormy ocean rools
between our country and the United Kingdom, but for quite
fifteen hundred miles ulong our northern border the line that
separates our country from the Dominion is as intangible as the
Arctic Circle, and like it can only be discovered by instruments
and a sum in arithmetic. Still, for a century, while sometimes
growls have been heard across the line, there has been no war.
In the meantime enough Canadians have come across tin*
line to lick those remaining on the other side in case they be
come obstreperous.
And a host ot our people, lured by* the mines and cheap
lands in the Dominion have gone there to intensify the thrill
that begins to quicken things on the other side with the opening
of the Canadian Pacific and our own explorations in the Yukon,
until now we are all becoming a little like Mark Twain’s descrip
tion of the Fourth of July procession in San Francisco in 18G0.
California was about equally divided at that time between
Union men and rebs. Both were mad enough to fight, but
neither wanted to start the clash, for all could see how bloody it
would be.
But all professed’ loyalty to the Fourth of July and wanted
a celebration in the usual old way, with a processian, speeches
reading of the Declaration, etc. But the southern-bom men
did not want any colored men in the procession. However,
Mark said, a happy expedient was evolved “by placing the
darkest white men in rear of the white procession and the
whitest black men in the front of the dark procession, and be
fore they had marched a quarter ot a mile in the drifting sands
that the trade winds always in July set things going in San
Francisco, it was impossible for the most careful onlooker to dis
tinguish where the noble Caucasian left off and the degraded
Ethiopian began.”
The processions of the United States people and the Domin
ion people is constantly moving across the border, both ways
but as yet more grandmothers in Canada are feeling grandchil
dren on this side tuggin gat their apron strings and' heart
strings than are felt the other way, but the two people are
merging into one faster than ever before, while at the same time
the two governments w*ere never more distinct than they are
today. But they might have a joint peace celebration and
meet and exult together with the more cordiality for the
thought of the dreadful work going on beyond the Atlantic
would be in all their hearts and would give a deefier rhythm
to their hymns of peace.
It would be a good thing even for those on l>oth sides who
could not attend, for it would deepen their resolve that n'
war between the two countries should ever bo fought, and with
that thought in the souls of the people, no war ever will be
fought.
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The gi. atest of Alaska’s curses is not poor mining laws,
nor gambbnj/, nor dissipation, nor idleness, nor carpet baggers,
nor women, nor wine, nor brown bears, nor wolves, nor fish
traps, nor incompetent federal investigation, nor claim jumpers,
nor blizzards. The greatest curse of Alaska is the effort on the
p«ut of cei tain unworthy members of the legal profession to cre
ate unjust litigation. A bounty of ten dollars a head' has just
been placed by the legislature on wolves. The amount is too
small for the human wolf who commits wholesale robbery by
driving an innocent individual into the courts to defend his title
to his nu ll property, S-ward (i,ib-wav.
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Also four groups of copper
properties on Prince William
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All of these properties could be
made producers with a small
amount of money and fo. a party
who can open same up or can se
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For prices and terms apply to
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