THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1920
**> SELF-DETERMINATION FOR
ALASKA
We hear much about, self-determin
ation for Egypt, Ireland- Armenia,
Syria and other countries, but why
not self-determination for Alaska?
While the death battalion has been
fulminating about the wrongs of
those distant peoples, it has had noth
ing to say of the Wrongs suffered by
Americans in the far north, though
they, as the last of the pioneers,
should have a superior claim.
When the gold discoveries of the
Klondyke, Fairbanks and Nome and
the copper discoveries of Copper river
drew tens of thousands of men to
Alaska, it was hoped that mining
would be the precursor of develop
ment of all the other wealth of the
far north. The miner has ever beep
the forerunner of the farmer, the cat
tleman, the fruitgrower, the lumber
man and the manufacturer, bringing
in their train the full organization of
civil life. So it was with California,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Colorado,
and so it would have been In Alaska
if the government had done for it
what was done for the states mention
ed here.
But soon after Nome was discover
ed the conservationists appeared on
the scene, and they got a grip on
Alaska which has not yet been broken.
The government sent no officials to
that territory with authority to de
cide anything that settlers should not
be permitted to use the land. Any
body who wanted to tie up anything
found a ready ear in Washington. The
big game hunters won the protection
for the great brown bear of the
Alaska peninsula in order that they
might have the fun of chasing and
killing him. But if any body of men
wanted to develop a coal mine or an
oil well or to cut timber or to im
prove a harbor by building a wharf,
the cry of “corporation” or “landgrab
ber” was raised, and they were then
hounded by investigators and inspect
ors. Authority over Alaskan affairs
was. so finely divided among many
bureaus at Washington that nothing
could be done without referring to
one of them and some other usually
found encroachment on its authority,
while the conservationists warned
them all to beware of the corporation
bugaboo. So much time was thus
spent in discussion and referring
things to and fro that the man who
wanted to do somethTng tired »f wait
ing and left Alaska to its solitude.
Thus the northern territory is being
strangled by a bureaucracy more
cruel than that of the czars at their
worst.
Not only Alaska, but the whole
Pacific coast, in fact the whole West
is interested in this maater. If the
coal and oil of that territory were de
veloped, they would be added to the
fuel supply and would lower the price
both for the cities and ships. Great
herds of caribou and reindeer could
be raised to increase the meat supply.
The coast needs the help- of Alaska
as much as Alaska needs help. By the
consideration which they have secur
ed for reclamation, Western congress
men have proved that, when Ihey
unite, they have power. They should
use that power on behalf of Alaska,
that it may J?e emanicipated from
bureaucracy, and be given real self
government with freedom to develop.
—Portland Oregonian.
“If the Hon. Robinson Crusoe were
still numbered among the living, he
might pick up a neat income teach
ing the people how to make goatskin
clothes,” says the New York Sun.
Evidently the Sun hasn’t looked into
the present prices of goat sKfns.
LET HARMONY AND UNITY BE
THE WATCHWORDS
This is no time for tolerance, in
Republican affairs, of the politician
who insists upon having his own way
or starting a rough house. There has
been entirely too much government
by fear both in national and party
affairs during the past two years.
The Republican party, nationally, is
now in a position where it should.
! through its chosen representatives, do
i that which_ is believed to be perman
| ently best for the party and country,
i without immediate consideration of
mere expediency. The Republican
party is far bigger than any man or
set ,©f men in it; most of all it is
far bigger than the Wilsonian delu
sion that the tail can wag the ele
! phant. The convention proceedings
at Chicago should be characterized
: by unity- harmony, good feeling, as is
appropriate to an assemblage of men
; who are moved by a common patriotic
purpose. It is no time for calling
names, impugning motives, attacking
character or resorting to any of the
other old time-honored methods of per
sonal politics,—and it is time when
such performances as this, directed
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. toward the disruption of Republican*
i ism and the consequent sacrifice of
the national interests, can only be in
' jurious to those who indulge in themj
OREGON DEMOCRATS HAVE ANS*
WERED MR. WILSOIN
i President Wilson wrote a letter to j
I the Oregon Democrats appealing to j
them to stand by the record of the j
^ national administration in the primar- ]
j ies about to be held, and giving forth ;
' much eloquence about the necessity
; pf preserving the “national honor’’ by
rebuking the dastards who voted foi* j
the reservations which sought to;
Americanize the league of nations:
covenant, he brought home from Paris.
Whereupon the Democrats of Ore
gon, in stubborn defiance of the wil
ful One, and in the face of his asser
tion^Efeat such a course was one of
jp vv
perfid£->iffid,''dishonor, proceeded to
swat the administration candidate for
the Democratic senatorial nomination,
|and to renominate Senator George E.
1 Chamberlain, who voted for the Lodge
reservations, has criticized the gross
inefficiency of the administration, and
has otherwise made himself persona
non grata to a presidential incumbent
who makes personal fealty to himself
a test of party and national loyalty.
President Wilson, with his ukases
I which get nowhere and his orders no
body obeys, is getting himself in much
the same position as King Canute,
; who commanded the ocean to back up
and got “sore” w'hen the tide pro
ceeded to function as usual.
There are still those mindless think
ers w'ho proceed on the theory that
everything Mr. .Wilson says is Holy
Writ, but there is a growing number
\ even of Democrats inclined to believe
. this ought to read, “Wholly Rot.”
The Oregon Democrats have told
Mr. Wilson very plainly that he Is
w^rong in the theory that he is the
only man in this country who is en
titled to think or act on behalf of
the American people. No question of
“national honor” is involved in the
matter of standing by every agreed
ment Mr. Wilson made at Paris. The
American people told him in Novem
ber, 1918. that he lacked a good deal
of being the whole American govern
ment, and 39 members of the United
States senate warned him, on March
4th, 1919, that they did not propose
to stand for the thing he wras cook
ing Tip at Paris. That he proceeded
in violation of these definite instruc
tions is no fault of the American peo
ple. and the diplomats who accepted
his at his own valuation at Paris are
; simply in the position of the Copen
hagen University professors who
feted Dr. Cook as the discoverer of
the North Pole. Both these perform
| ances humiliated the American peo
ple, but they did not bind either the
American people or the American gov
j ernment in any way.
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Suits for sale at Peyser’s Tailor Shop.
Ask for quality bread, the City
Bakery’s famous Cream Loaf
If you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy—report your
new address to the office.
Why do we sell so many Congoleum
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SHORT-ARM
JOLTS
Hot anger cools friendships.
Silent thinkers are never loud talk
ers.
A chip in the kindling is worth two
on the shoulder.
Pretended jealousy sometimes cov
ers a multitude of sins.
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Why expect men to act like men if
you treat them like fish?
When a man boasts of his past he
only tells part of his past.
If you are a law unto yourself,
you’ll never disobey the law.
A spendthrift tastes joys that a
“tightwad" can’t even imagine.
There are lots of queer people ?n
the world—and you’re one of them.
There is only one test of friendship
—whether it stands by the down-and
outer.
You do not look half as important
to people you meet as you do in the
mirror.
Nobody has any faith in public opin
ion if it doesn’t agree with his private
opinion.
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However boastful she may be in
general- a woman doesn’t crow over
crow’s feet.
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When the \vish is father to the
thought, the thought should be father
to the action.
A man may be feared by his ene
mies but it’s all bunk about his being
respected by them.
Your life may be an open book, but
when a book is open, most of the
pages are turned down.
A crazy man may think the whole
world is crazy, but no sane man im
agines the world is sane.
If your favorite pastime is “knock
ing” others, you may be certain that
others’ favorite pastime is “knocking”
you.
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The difference between great men
and near great men is the same as
the difference between beer and near
beer.
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A “loud” colored automobile is an
insult to the beautiful green land
scapes of the country, these spring
days.
It may be possible to shoot a rock
et to the moon but nobody will ever
invent a fountain pen that will always
write.
Nature makes some mistakes but
she never made a beautiful girl and
then failed to give her sense enough
to know it—and show it.
The only dangerous kind of enemies
are the cheerful ones who do not car
ry a grouch around with their en
mity but stab you with a smile.
Scarborough pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings,
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CORDOVA
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WORKS
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New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
Next door to Alaska 3. 8. Office
THOROUGHLY MODERN. NEAREST TO EVERYTHING
PRICES
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Corner First Ave. and Pine St
SEATTLE, WASH.
J. A. Farnham and E. Taylor,
Proprietors
Headquarters for Alaskans. Ted
Taylor, formerly chief steward
S. S. Alaska
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