THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920
GOMPERS’ REGULAR BIENNIAL
PERFORMANCE
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is a
Democratic party leader of unques
tioned loyalty and zeal in behalf of
the party and the administration now
in power. He has been a powerful
influence in the councils of the pres
ent national administration, and is
entitled to his share of whatever
praise or blame may attach to the
record of the party in power during
the past seven and a half years, in
national and international affairs. In
particular he is the zealous champion
of the un-Americanized covenant of
the league of nations.
Mr. Gompers has been a benefi
ciary as well as a partisan of the ad
ministration. His activity as a Dem
ocrat during the past third of a cent
ury has been recognized, for instance,
by the appointment of his son to a
lucrative federal position. Mr. Gom
pers has represented the administra
tion in one official or semi-official
capacity and another. He cannot, of
course, under these circumstances,
be called a disinterested commentar
ian on the record of the admfnfstra
tion or the party in power. But hr
would be unappreciative of favors re
ceived, and forgetful of the prompt
mgs of a lifetime of fealty to the
Democratic party, if he were not tc
demonstrate in his campaign, as he
has in every other national campaigr
since a time of ante-dating his natur
alization, that he is a good, loya'
booster for the Democratic party al
ways ready to come to its assistance
when occasion requires.
In fact, Mr. Gompers has been sc
good a Democrat that he has nevei
even lifted his voice against fran
chise laws and practices imposed by
his fellow Democratic politicians or
the states of the Solid South, where
by fully four-fifths of the wage-earn
ing element of these states, which as
well as black, has been denied the
fundamental rights of citizenship.
The general Democratic party war
cry, as passed down from the White
House and echoed by every deserving
Democrat and near Democrat from
one end of the country to the other
is that “Congress is a failure.” Mr
Gompers has issued another statement
charging the present congress with
having failed to solve the problem
of the high cost of living and with
failure, also, to complete the task of
reconstruction. Of course there are
people who might think that in view
of the fact that Mr. Gompers’ party
camie into power seven years ago
last March pledged to solve the high
living cost problem, and otherwise to
make the nation over on the model of
the New Jerusalem, so much indigna
tion ought not to be wasted on a Re
publican congress for its failure to get
done in a few months of partial re
sponsibility what Mr. Gompers’ party
failed to accomplish in six years com
plete control of both the legislative
and executive branches of govern
ment. Mr. Gompers was never heard
to denounce any of the three Demo
cratic congresses, sitting from 1913
to 1919, which failed to bestow upon
us the millennial situation we were so
solemnly promised in 1912 and 1916
would be the certain aftermath of
Democratic victory.
Of course the present congress is
a failure in the eyes of Mr. Gompers.
No Republican congress could be any
thing else to so hardboiled a Demo
crat as he. The whole situation is
that Mr. Gompers always has been
an undeviating Democrat and he al
ways will be. No Republican congress
ever pleased him; no Democratic con
gress ever peeved him; and in the
nature of things neither of these
things could posibly happen. Mr.
Gompers, we should say, makes a pret
ty good leader of organized labofr
under a Democratic national adminis
tration. Just how valuable he is go
ing to be when the party he has been
bitterly fighting for years returns to
national authority, as it certainly will
next March, remains to be seen.
Whether or not Mr. Gompers should
compromise the cause of organized
labor by trying to drag it along with
him in his biennial campaign for the
Democratic party is, of course, a ques
tion that is open for debate.
However, just keep this in your
mind all the time in estimating the
campaign output of Mr. Gompers. He
is a staunch, partisan Democrat; al
ways has played and always will play
the game that way. He has as deep
seated hatred of the Republican party
as that which obsesses Woodrow Wil
son himself.
A third of a century ago, in Hay
market Square, Chicago, bombs were
exploded at an anarchist demonstra
tion and hundreds of spectators, in
cluding many policemen, were killed
! or injured. Several professional anar
I chists were arrested for complicity
| In the plot, were found guilty and
' sentenced to be hanged for the crime,
j Mr. Gompers participated in the hear
i (ng which took place at Springfield,
! 111., before the governor of the state,
! in behalf of the convicted men. He
i declared in his remarks on that oc
casion that if these anarchists were
hanged, it would set back the cause
of organized labor twenty years. The
anarchists convicted of the crime
were duly hanged, and everybody
knows now whether or not this execu
tion set back the cause;of organized
labor a single minute. It is probable
that Mr. Gompers may be badly mis
taken today as to what is in the best
interests of unionism, as he was on
that occasion. Certainly organized
labor as a whole is not properly repre
sented in Mr. Gompers’ appearance
every two years as a Democratic
party campaigner, always sure that
his party is the loving friend of labor
and that the Republican is the enemy
| of mankind.
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TO ADVERTISE ALASKA
Bureau officials at Washington are
to be warmly commended for the de
cision that a large sum is to be ap
propriated for advertising Alaska, as
in no other manner can the traveling
public be attracted. This has been
amply proved by the many American
and Canadian steamship lines operat
ing to and from Alaska who have col
lectively during the past twenty years
expended three million dollars in ad
1 vertising scenic attractions and indus
trial opportunities of the Northland.
1 Naturally one cannot expect to hear
that the government would appropri
ate a proportionate sum annually for
any such purpose but any expenditure
in the populous centers of the East
cannot help but attract attention tc
the Territory and at the same time it
will be helpful to the Territory ir
many other Avays. The greatest care
however, should be used by those Avhc
prepare these advertisements, to pre
vent any rush to the North of indi
gents, laborers or others not possess
ing a small amount of capital Avitli
Avhich to provide for their own needs
otherAvise the government Avould be
greatly embarrassed in having to
send a ship north to bring such people
out. For years past Alaska advertis
ing has ever discouraged this partic
ular class from moving northAvard
Conditions are so \mlike any other
country that the only people desired
from an industrial viewpoint are those
possessed of either the ability or cap
ital to invest and then develop. To ad
vertise the scenic attractions for the
tourists and then the wonderful op
portunity for legitimate investment
and industrial development Avill prove
of the greatest possible "benefit to the
Territory at large.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Ketchikan, like other bustling cities
of the country—Spokan^, for in
stance — believes she was short
changed in the census enumeration.
She is to have a recount and a re
check.—Douglas News.
The Overalls Idea has reached Val
dez. If every pair carried a recipe
for ten hours’ work a day by the
wearer there would be no necessity
for the overalls.—Valdez Miner.
The postponement of a decision by
the house contest elections committee
in the Alaska delegate election case
cannot but be a source of regret to all
Alaskans, whatever their political
creed may be. The adherents of both
parties would prefer to enter the No
vember campaign with that feature of
it eliminated. It can do neither man
any good and may cause an injection
of Wickitis into Alaskan politics which
is a thing to be avoided for the good
of the Territory.—Juneau Empire.
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Even when familiarity doesn’t
breed contempt it breds familiarity
and that’s about as bad.
SHORT-ARM
_____ JOLTS
A wisher is seldom a winner.
If you can’t laugh you can’t win t
A secret is no secret if you hint
it to one person.
Your lot is pretty hard, but think
of Lot’s wife’s lot.
You can’t keep your ear to the
ground and your head in the air.
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Any girl knows she’s modest so
long as she keeps her ears covered.
If you are a slave to custom you
will always be accustomed to salve.
It doesn’t pay to be a crab in busi
ness. If you are, somebody will eat
you.
Nature tries to cause as little pain
as possible. A “nut” never knows
he is.
People who user to wander through
the woods and fields now wander
through the movies.
Beauty may be only skin deep, but
it’s deep enough to have made mil
lionaires out of a lot of complexion
manufacturers.
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I’ve said this before but I wish to
repeat: Happiness consists mostly in
forgetting things.
No life is a complete failure into
which has come, ever, the love on a
single earthly being.
Newspapers are mentioning Mc
Adoo’s “invisible boom.” As if all
Democratic booms weren’t invisible
this year!
You may not be able to make a
silk purse out of a sows ear, but
you can buy several silk purses out
of a sow’s carcass.
President Wilson will insist that the
port of Batum be made free to Ar
menian commerce, but what most of
us would like to see him do would be
to reduce the price of sugar.
The sedate, conservative fellow who
used to settle down at fifty and raise
whiskers is seventy years old now,
uses his safety razor every morning
and gets up at 5 o’clock every morn
ing to play golf.
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GEORGE
ANDERSON
PIANO EXPERT
And Factory Representative
High-Grade Pianos
At the Windsor Hotel for a
short time only.
My New and Complete
Hat - Blocking
Outfit
Is now in operation. Bring in
your old hats and have them
made like new.
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PEYSER THE TAILOR
PHONE 188
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BEAUTY
Here is a 2-panel
3-ply fir-veneer
door sold at a com
mon door price.
Send for our free
illustrated home
builders’ 1920 cat
alogue.
"Better Mlllwori,
Sash and Doors'”
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which are sure to please, including
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SILK UNDERWEAR HOUSE DRESSES
AND PETTICOATS
In and out sizes of the last two garments.
THE O-T-O SHOP
MRS. GRANT REED WINDSOR HOTEL
CORDOVA
SHEET METAL
WORKS
Goods Manufactured to Order of
Sheet Iron, Galvanized Iron, Tin
and Zinc.
Phone 143
Second St., Next to Hospital
Keist Furniture
Company
Is the Place to Buy
New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
Next door to Alaska S. 8. Office
THOROUGHLY MODERN. NEAREST TO EVERYTHING
POPULAR PRICE8
HOTEL ATWQQD
Corner First Ave. and Pine 8t,
SEATTLE, WASH.
J. A. Farnham and E. Taylor,
Proprietors
Headquarters for Alaskans. Ted
Taylor, formerly chief steward
S. S. Alaska
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LAUNCHES
PIONEER AND SWAN
Wm. J. Crooker, Owner and Master
REGULAR TRIPS TO KATALLA
FREIGHTING AND TOWING
To All Parts of the Sound
Phone 57—2 Rings
AT
The Club
billiard
HALL
Milk Shakes
Ice Cream Sundaes
Ice Cream Sodas *
Gin Fizzes
Starboard Light Fizzes
(Club Special)
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For Rooms that are
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