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CORDOVA" ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, VM'r
THE GUGGENHEIM BOGYMAN.
Tim Seward Post is charging that practically every one
who says a word in favor of the Copper River & Northwestern
Railway is on the payroll of the Guggenheims. It charges that
Col. Richardson in trying to get additional appropriations for
improving and keeping open the American overland trail is in
league with the Guggenheims; that, with the building of a gov
ernment railroad from Seward to Fairbanks then* will be no
further lie d of an overland trail. In fact, the Ballaines, who
have interests in Seward, are quoted as also charging a giant
Guggenheim conspiracy to try and defeat the purposes of the
government railroad running from Seward.
The charges are so absurd on their face as to carry their
own refutation. It may be worth while to note that Col.
Richardson has been severely criticised for keeping the gov
ernment road open from Valdez to the interior by the resi
dents of the Copper River Valley, on the theory that it was
paralleling of Copper River railroad at least as far as Chitina,
and the need ceased with the building of the railroad. Col.
Richardson, however, maintained that many people might
want to use the overland trail who did not want to use the
railroad. Even when his opponents stated that it was not in
tended for the government to enter into competition with
private carriers, the colonel insisted on following his own
.judgment. In fact, the building and maintenance of the over
land trail has been one of his Alaskan hobbies. So much for
tin* argument that he is in league with the Guggenheims.
Other alleged arguments advanced are just as baseless.
It, is the same old tactics*of shouting the cry of wolf. During
the conservation craze under Pinchot every resident of Cor
dova, and every one who dared to say a favorable word for
any of the operations of the Guggenheims were accused of be
ing in their employ. Every resident of Cordova was supposed
to be owned, body and soul, by the Guggenheims, notwith
standing the fact that Wickersliam, who was fighting the
Guggenheims, received an' equal break in votes.
Many Alaskans have readily discriminated between
“petty” officials and agents of the Guggenheims in Alaska,
who sought to further their own ends, and the real construc
tive operations of Guggenheim capital. The people resented
the officials getting into politics and trying to use the “Gug
genheim club” for selfish purposes, and very properly smoked
them out.
There is enough room in Alaska for the government rail
road from Seward to the Matanuska coal fields, to the Tanana
and' finally to the Kuskokwim and Iditarod, and for the Cop
per River & Northwestern to the Bering River coal fields, and
to the Matanuska, if it wants to build there, and also to the
Tanana and' the head of the White River, and for the govern
ment overland trail from Valdez to Fairbanks, or even a rail
road from Valdez to the interior, without fighting each other
and trumping up charges and imagining all sorts of conspir
acies. To rush into print with unsupported charges, on the
least suspicion, only cheapens us in the eyes of the people out
side who really want to do something for Alaska. — Juneau
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MODERN WAR COMES HIGH.
In view of the fact that Great Britain’s war bill for less
“uin a year and a half of modern warfare will be in the neigh
borhood of $8,000,000,000, it is interesting to recall that dur
ing the 23 years that England fought Napoleon she spent only
$4,850,000,000. During the same period, due to Napoleon’s
thrifty method of making other countries bear most of the
expense of his wars, France spent just about $487,000,000.
In the last year of our Civil war tin* United States gov
ernment spent $1,030,690,400. The Civil war debt, which rep
resented outlay in addition to the current revenues of the gov
ernment, reached a total of $2,808,549,437, a sum which Eng
land had exceeded before she had been in the present war six
months.
The enormous financial drain under modern war methods
is a factor that must determine the length of the conflict. The
spirit may be willing, but the purse has its limitations.
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Hero Hobson may be a bell-ringer as a naval expert, but
we seem to be able to get no enjoyable and ’satisfactory intel
lectual reaction out of his statement that there is perfect ac
cord between Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan, and that Mr. Bryan
will support Mr. Wilson in 1916, while Mr. Wilson w ill support
Mr. Bryan in 1920. Mr. Bryan just at this moment doesn’t
have the appearance of a “good Indian.” He carries in his
right hand' something that gleams very like a scalping knife.
Furthermore, he is one of the poorest forgetters on American
soil, and there’s that one-term plank in the Baltimore plat
form.
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It is important that Seward be named an official port of
entry and a custom house located here before next season. At
present vessels landing here and entering Cook’s Inlet are
forced to go either to Cordova or Ketchikan to enter on their
incoming or outgoing trip.—Seward Post.
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