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“POLITICIANS’ TALE OF WOE.”
The postofficj department is not addicted to levity or
irony, :is a general tiling, but a statement it lias .just given out
is like salt rubbed into the lacerated feelings of politicians
who have failed to get jobs under the Wilson administration,
as well as those who disapprove of the President’s civil ser
vice ideas. The statement might well tie labelled “The Poli
ticians’ Tnli. of Woo,” l ut the caption over it shows that it is
a list of “first, second and third class postoffices where presi
dential postmasters have not been appointed since March 4,
191.1.” The period co\ej« 1, it will be noticed, takes in all the
time since tl e present administration went into power.
The list covers eight and a third long single-spaced type'
written sheets, and it reveals the faet that there are about 1,
000 president ia- postoffices where changes of postmasters
have not been made under the present administration.
T.i Alaska there are six presidential postmasters who have
not been disturbed. They are the postmasters at Juneau,
Skagway. Cordova, Valdez, Seward and Nome. Since atten
tion has been called to the direlection of duty so far as the
department is concerned in not taking better care of the “un
terrified,” tli<‘ word has evidently gone forth to “smoke out”
the Republican holdovers. Tn Alaska the offices were stripped
of clerk hire allowance, and sooner than give a poor service
practically all of the Republican postmasters immediately
turned in their resignations, and will insist upon getting
“from under” before the holiday rush comes.
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HEDGING A LITTLE.
We are in receipt of a letter on tariff reform that says
many congressmen who voted for the Underwood bill are dis"
satisfied with the result, and are preparing a new hill amend
ing that now famous instrument which Mr. Underwood and
President Wilson exultingly proclaimed' “meant at last indus
trial freedom.” Just so.
“When the devil was sick—
The devil a saint would be;
When the devil got well—
Devil a saint was he.”
There is to he a presidential election next autumn, and,
surveying the present situation, we do not wonder that certain
gentlemen who voted' for the Underwood bill are alarmed.
Factories idle, thousands of skilled laborers out of employ
ment, an appalling and growing deficit in the treasury; the
manifest fact that except for the demands made bv the foreign
war, the country would be prostrate under an appalling dv
pression; there are certainly reasons enough why the dullest
Democrat who, under the party whip, voted for Mr. Under
wood ’s tariff smasher, should be apprehensive, if not actually
alarmed'.
So we read that the administration is seriously considering
the advisability of leaving the sugar schedule on the bill just as
a revenue raiser, and in other respects changing the present
law.
We had supposed that all tariffs were for the purpose of
raising revenue, that way being less burdensome upon the
people than direct taxation, but the demand has been that the
tariff should be a fair one to American enterprise and labor.
This is what the Republicans have long clamored for, this is
what Mr. Taft urged repeatedly upon Congress when he was
President, but the Democrats in the Senate and House stood
like a stone wall against every proposed revision, as they
'WanltMl 11m* siumiion mmi 11 wars unit' u> jmhih uui
to the people in a presidential campaign how the tariff was
robbing them.
With the assistance of Colonel Roosevelt they were en
abled to have their way. They stood in solid phalanx for the
monstrosity which Mr. Underwood prepared and the Presi
dent favored, but now another campaign is close by, and they
seem to bo worried. But have they changed their hearts at
all ? If back in the old place would' they not vote as they did
three years ago?
Mb' fear that they would; that whereas they were healthy
devils three years ago, their present apprehension does not
come from contrite hearts, but from a disturbed digestion as
they contemplate the legitimate results of their work.
Suppose the colonel is once more forced, much against his
will, of course, to enter the field as a candidate and draws
away dupes enough to give Mr. "Wilson a second election, how
will these solicitous gentlemen feel then? Will they not be
declaring that the country has vindicated' tin* President and
his policies?
We are afraid that they will, hence their present work is
altogether in the wrong direction. They should be sending
Iheir teachers around to instruct the faithful to all turn out at
the primaries and vote for the colonel because he is the only
asset that tbe Democratic party can rely upon to re-elect their
Democratic president.
Water sells for 25 cents a bucket at Brooks. If you don’t
want to pay the price there is plenty else to drink.—Fairbanks
Citizen.
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Fast and commodiuue steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan. Wrangell, Juneau. Skaqway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle— Salle from Cordova—
December 3 .... NORTHWESTERN .. December 12
December 10 . ALAMEDA . December 19 *
Regular freight service Tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova. Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives. S. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; 8. 6.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
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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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PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Next (ailing from Seattle will be
VDMIRAL EVANS . December 15
\DMIRAL FARRAGUT . December 26
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak f
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
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| Northwestern Ry.
| Effective October 4th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and jg
jiji Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making jg
j| connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving gj
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jiji Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, jjjj
jiji Mondays and Thursdays.
jiji Leave Kennecott, Tuesdays and Fridays.
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jjjj Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays.
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g; Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Train# Be- g:
gi tween Cordova and Chitina.
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