THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1919.
ONE GOOD ADVERTISER.
Politically and personaly, Wicker
sham is the “best" personal advertis
er who ever came north. He knows
no rule of fairness or political honor
which he will observe a minute longer
than it serves his interests to do so,
and there is no advantage he will not
take; no length he will not go to in
the effort to obtain credit or hurt
an opponent.
However, tms is proDamy me rea
son he has worn out his welcome and
his “pull” in Alaska. He has the
ability which would enable a kinder
man to remain delegate of Alaska
forever, but he cannot think of others
or refrain from trying to hurt some
body. It is recited in his Own Home
town where he is best understood and
where a study has been made of his
acts in the long years he was there,
that it is impossible to recall the
name of another man who never has
a word to say in favor of any other
man on earth, at any time or in any
' place. It is called to mind that in the
long years lie was on the Bench here,
never in a single instance in sen
tencing some poor devil to long terms
of imprisonment did he ever find a
word of kindness to say to the con
victed man, but rather added to the
man’s punishment by “balling him
out,” and in the man’s hour of trial
when he had no possible protection
against insult being added to punish
ment. This last play of writing a
private letter to a cabinet officer and
then giving a copy of it to the press
of the country; the making of charges
which it would be impossible to sub
stantiate; the intimation that John E.
Balaine was ever thought of as a di
rector of the Alaska government rail
way under Secretary Bane, and the
kind words Wick says of Ballaine
whom he knows no Alaskan has any
use for or confidence in his Alaskan
ism. is an indication of the political
Machuevellism of Wickersham which
makes him the menace he always will
be to Alaska and has finally reduced
his voting strength until it is no long
er formidable in Alaska—hoist by his
own petard.—Fairbanks News.
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SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT.
During the era of muckraking of
Alaska in the days when Gifford Pin
chot dictated the editorial policy of
Collier’s Weekly, and various publi
cations from Nome to Tallahassee
were joining in the hue and cry, never
a day passed by without some vicious
story about the north, its resources or
those who were engaged in the indus
trial development of the territory.
Every single statement made by such
publications or officials during the
long period of misrepresentation,
have since beep proved absolutely
false. Canadian coal is still being
taken into the territory, Seattle lum
ber was used to build a railroad
through the Chugach forest reserve.
Gifford Pinchot is in the discard and
the public knows the truth about his
participation in the conservation
fight. And now, the waste, extrava
gance and failure of the government
railroad, so thoroughly advertised
since 4914, is leaking oht and destin
ed to become one of the great polit
ical scandals of the year. The mo
ment one word is printed about this
enterprise, those interested make
vociferous denial and-utter plaintive
cries of distress. For six long years
private enterprise in Alaskq. .had to
stand the dally muckraking and It em
erged from the fray guiltless tend
Facts about the government railroad
are Just beginning to leak out and the
cries of anguish echo from the in
terior department in Washington, D.
C., clear to the Talley of the Susitna.
—Railway and Marine News. '
IN DAYS GONE BY.
Many *Alaskans who look forward
to a visit to the states at son?e early
date, and before general prohibition
goes into effect, will be able to sym
pathize with the early Russian resi
dents of Alaska. By the charter of
1844 the Russian American company,
the supreme power in Russian Am
erica, was forbidden to sell "firearms,
ammunition and spirltous liquor to
the natives.” And this prohibition, ac
cording to Bancroft, was followed by
an order from the governor that no
intoxicating drink should, be sold in
the colonies.
It is related that when this order
was read to the servants of the com
pany many of them could not refrain
from tears. The temperance cause
had but few advocates in Russian
America. One of the men, Markof,
who in 1845 sailed from Novo Ark
hangelsk (Sitka) for San Francisco,
thus relates his experience:
"How easily and willingly the labor
of getting the ship under way was
performed. Each sailor had it in his
mind that he could enjoy himself for
his trouble in the first tap-room in
California. In the evening we could
see only the outlines of our former
home, traced in black, indistinct
shapes against the darkening sky.
‘The devail must have planted these
cursed set-otters in these out-of-the
way regions,’ said one of th sailors.
‘As far as we can see land up and
down the coat not a single rum-shop
is to be found.’
“ ‘Yes,’ answered another, ‘but I re
member Father Baranof. There was a
time when a camp-kettle was set out
brimming full, and he would shout,
‘Drink, children,’ and he would join
himself in a merry song. Those were
better days,’ continued he, with his
eyes fixed on the waning land; ‘but
now what times have we. We can
do nothing but work, and when that
is done we promenade, or smoke in
the barrack. What a life!’
“ ‘You see,’ replied his comrade, ‘in
this country we all have to join the
temperance society.’
“ ‘What is that?’
“‘I don’t exactly know; it is some
kind of a sect. I belonged to it once but
it is so long ago I forget. I can make
no reckoning of time when I get no
drinks to count by; but I remember
we all had to pay a beaver skin
apiece.’
“ ‘That is a big price to pay for the
privilege of drinking nothing but
water. I’ll have nothing to do with
such a sect. There was that German
Mukolof; he joined the sect, and in a
few weeks he was dead. God knows
where he is now (crossing himself).
I don’t think there is much room for
Dutchmen in heaven; so many Rus
sians go there.’ ”
Markof adds that on reaching San
Francisco the first building they en
tered was a drinking-saloon, kept by
one of Napoleon’s veterans, who had
served in the campaign of 1812.
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A small boy initiates a declaration
of war by making wry faces. Wicker
sham’s way is to shout, "Guggen
heim. Wicks meaning and that of the
little boy are the same. Each means,
"I don’t like you!”—Juneau Empire.
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The news that there Is to be an
other delegate contest is about as wel
come as the school report cards we
used to carry home when a boy.—
Valdez Miner.
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