1 TANARIA LEADER
Published Every Thursday at Tanana, Alaska.
Vtl. t SAM J. CALLAHAN. EDITOR No. 12
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PLAINT OF THE DISHONEST BROKERS
As plants and animals are born, increase in stature and in
strength, and then wax old and die, so it is with the worlds also
And this world of ours, as many a sign shows us, is now well
stricken in years, and the time of its dissolution is drawing nigh.
With each return of its seasons its strength gets more feeble.
Once goodly crops and grasses sprang from the teeming soil with
out labor. Now, labor as we will, but a scant reward is yielded.
And now the aged plowman shakes his head and sighs to think of
the earth’s exuberance in the days when he was young. And the
sorrowful planter complains of his shriveled vines, and wearies
heaven with his prayers, and comprehends not that all things are
gradually wasting away, and passing to the grave, quite worn out
by age and length of days.—Lucretius.
Enough like the foregoing are some of the present-day
emanations from men prominent in matters of vital concern
that the laying of a charge of plagarism would almost be
justifiable. Nearly twenty centuries intervene between
Lucretius and Jim Hill. Their philosophy is identical—
and false.
Our world is a lender, and requires payment in full
but without usury. Lucretius and Hill are the dishonest
brokers who sought and do seek to abscond with their
accumulated trust funds. The relation of their holdings
to the capital of the bank was not understood by,them.
But their incomprehension will not affect the solvency of
the bank. The aged plowman and the ambitious broker
will close their accounts and the institution will continue
business on the same old liberal terms; but it will not be
defrauded out of its own.
STANDARD OF MORALITY
The most striking and most deplorable change in the
standard of virtue and honor that has occurred in this
country in the last forty years may be accounted for largely
as the result of the legislation by pharisees and fanatics,
base at heart themselves and consequently suspicious of
every one else, and who have placed on the statute books
all kinds of laws radically at variance with the fundamen
tal principles upon which this government and this country
were founded.
Half a century ago every man was presumed, in law,
by custom, by his neighbors and friends, as a matter of
course, honest, and a decent man, unless he broke down
that presumption by some act; and with that standard of
morals and honor to maintain, every man and every woman
was accorded the treatment due to men and women of virtue
and honor.
But because once in a while some one failed, the fa
natic, the pharisee, the pessimist and those of evil mind
gradually injected into the laws and customs the idea that
every man was a thief if not yet found out, and no woman
-was any better than she ought to be; and the demoralizing
influence of this vicious doctrine has had more to do with
lowering the standard of American manhood than all the
beer and whisky, all the racetracks and gambling, all the
Sunday picnics and other things which have been blamed
for so much.
Take the land laws, for instance: The latest is a rais
ing of a point whether settlers on irrigated government
lands who have sold their rights acted in good faith, or
whether they were fraudulently attempting to beat the
“government.”
Time was when the pioneer who went into the frontier
and took:Up .public land was presumed to be honest; now
he is presumed to be a thief. So it is all through the law;
the presumption, is that every man is a thief, from notary
public to President, ana every man out of office is likewsei
a thief to be watched.—Tacoma Tribune.
“MARSE HENRY CALLS THE TURN ON TAFT”
Houston (Tex.) Chronicle: Henry Watterson, declaring that
Pinchot’s dismissal from office proves President Taft has made
friends with the thieves of public property, indorsed the Chroni
cle’s editorial view,..uttered in almost identical terms three days
earlier.
Here is the chain of events:
First—Prospectors discovered enormous deposits of anthracite
coal on public lands in Alaska. They lacked capital to develop
and exploit their find. They filed claim to the land, under the fed
eral land laws; then enlisted the co operation of the Guggenheim
mining syndicate, which is allied with Wall street capital in control
of the big mining interests of the American West.
Second—The Guggenheims and their financial allies contrib
uted liberally to Taft’s campaign fund. He was elected President,
with salary and perquisites amounting to more than $800,000 for a
four-year term.
Third—These big interests, haying helped to elect a President,
were able to secure from him the appointment of a secretary of the
interior, Ballinger, who had formerly been their private attorney
in the prosecution of these identical Alaska coal land claims. The
claims are before the interior department for settlement. The big
thieves got their own attorney made secretary of the interior, so
that he could pass upon the claims which he had just before advo
cated as a hired private attorney.
Fourth—Ballinger, installed as secretary of the interior, tried
to put through these claims, transferring over $6,000,000,000 worth
of public property for a mere song to the Guggenheims and their
allies, who had taken over the claims of the obscure prospector.
that found the coal.
Fifth—Pinchot, Glavis, Price and others, faithful public ser
vants, saw what was attempted and cried out against the great rob
bery, warning their employers, the American people.
Sixth—Taft ordered silence in the departments. No subordi
nate was to give information about his work to anybody except hi
superior officer, the secretary in charge of his department. Glavi
perceiving that if this rule were obeyed, Ballinger would get awa
with the big coal grab for his former employers, the Guggenheim?-,
sacrificed his job in order to tell the truth to the public service
Taft then wrote a letter whitewashing Ballinger. Pinchot, chie
forester, realized that if he kept silence as ordered the Cunning
ham claims would be patented—the big steal would be consum
mated. So he, like Glavis, sacrificed his position in order to tel
the truth in a letter to Senator Dol liver, which Dol liver read in
open senate, and thus got it b 'fore th * country. Taft angrily cu
Pinchot off the pay roll, with a canting letter in which he it
preached Pinchot for disloyalty and disobedience.
If Gen. Washington had dismissed from the service the subo
dinate soldiers who gave him the information of Gen. Benedic
Arnold’s intended treason, we could have an absolutely paralle
case.
Washington, however, unlike Taft, was fighting for the Amer
ican people. He did not owe his nomination or election to the big
thieves of public property.
Now comes the investigation.
We do not believe the thieves will get away with the goods
We believe the American people will retain ownership of th
$6,000,000,000 worth of Alaska coal lands, and we believe that jus
tice will eventually be done the honest men who were dismisset
from the public service for the crime of telling the truth ngains
orders.
In this deal, we believe, the big thieves have overreached
themselves.
MORN AND EVE
In life’s morn our fi ien 's ire many, gay our greetings as \\<
pass; every Willie lias Iris Jen it-; every lover has hi- lass Fiieinls
are made each passing minute, midcrneatii the morning sky; there
is nothing mcurnfol in it, when we pause to say goodbye. If a
friend departs, however, we can spare a pa-sing tear; then it’s on
to our endeavor—life is young, the sky is clear. In lile's eve we
wait and ponder for the word that we must go, gazing at the sense'
yonder, at the shadows as tiu-y grow. Thinking, brooding, dream
ing only of the friends who went before; for old age is sad at d
lonely, by tile sunless river’s short. Casting weary backward
glances to the reache- we have ctos'td, where the dyi: g sunlight
dances, where the flowers are zeph’. r !o-sed; thinking of rhe dear
old places where the n quiems were sir *g; thinking of tilt vanished
faces that we knew uli-n iif.- was voting Youth i ever bravely
keeping forward march again~t ti e blast; Age, alas, is ever weep
ing, o'er the ashes of the pas;!—Walt Mason
Thoughts
on Sci&noe
In current newspapers and magazine
is the portrait of a man who lived
200,000 years ago. The portrait is
taken from a plastic form modeled from
scientific data b.v Prof. Richard S. Lull
and other paleontologists and placed in
the Peabody Museum at Yale, there to
be kept in clay for a time for criticism
and amendment by other scientists,
and then to be cast in plaster — the
truthful effigy of one who has lain
dead and forgotten through the passing
centuries.
The man whose picture is thus at
this late dale finding its way into the
papers is known as the “Alan of Spy
No. 1,” because he is the first of two
specimens found at Spy, in Belgium.
He is a type of man who dwelt in
Europe during a portion of the Paleo
lithic period, whose prototypes are
variously known to Science under the
names of Homo primigenius, neander
thalensis or mousteriensis, and is but
one of multitudes who lived throughout
Belgium, France, Germany and other
countries. The picture shows him to
have possessed a refined countenance
compared to the low type of calvarium.
Science has also mastered enough of
his history to tell us he was a mighty
hunter and killed a bear known as
Ursus speloeus. While his language
and therefore his original name are
believed to be irretrievably lost, it is
yet possible to get a fair conception of
his dominant political proclivities.
Thus, we perceive that the great
paunch of the gastronome is lacking
and in its place is shown the clean-cut
athletic form of the torso, such as is
seen in the typical North American
Indian; wherefore it is concluded that
were he living in the United States at
the present time he would be out of
harmony with the administration. It ]
is not yet determined whether his race ]
.was blotted out or absorbed by the
succeeding horde of Homo sapiens.
Occasionally, however, something of
his type appears in modern man, which
is significant. j
The Man of Spy No. 1 lived and died
before the last glacial period, that
awful long spell cf cold weather that
enveloped Alaska and exterminated
the mastodons, horses and great horned
cattle that ranged the hills and valleys
of this theretofore favored land. What
a wonderful achievement of science it
is, then, after all these ages to lift him
out of the obscurity in which he hit
been buried ?o long and introduce bin
to a fame for which, perhaps, h.
yearned but scarce hud reason to hop
during his strenuous and uuadvanta
geous life! How inspiring to us poo
mortals of the present day to km:
■ hut we may be appreciated, some time
by a more just generation than ihu
wliich now impugns our motives am
detracts from our most laudable accom
plishments! Vet what irony there it
in the reflection that while lie ha
at last been accorded a place in his
tory over all the petty great of his da.'
and generation, the honor lias com
200,00;) years too hue to procure any <
the luxuries of life for the Man of Sp.'
Mo. 1, and that personally he is in no
happier condition today than his bu
rner neighbors who are mingled wit
the dusts of oblivion. This recognitioi
of his quaiilies stands in a similar re
lation to him that a bill recently intro
duced into congress does to Geora
Washington: the bill proposed to pa;
to Washington’s estate $.‘10(1,000 i
recompense him for favors it is al
ieged- he ought to have had but didn’
get while he was living.
The one valuable lesson set before u
by him is what Science may de for u
in the ynrushing future. For, with tli
advancement of learning unimpeded,
it is easy to foresee the time when oui
turn will come to be dug from tilt
slides, drifts and breccias by tht
paleontologists, our Periods deter
mined, and, the investigations tbet
being under fixed and immutable Law,
our public and private character sub
jected to vulgar scrutiny and all our
subterfuges and hypocrisies exposed.
By the curvature and measurement ol
the spine, limbs, frontal bones, cere
bral cavities, etc., etc., the future pro
fessor will judge more accurately the
man of the present day than a congres
sional committee can now do. So it is
that whoever values his reputation in
days to come should be yery careful ol
his conduct now.
A steam dredge, made in Hoi
land, for use at Mantes, digs and
carries off 500 cubic meters an hour
A swivel knife weighing tons and
dtiven by a 300 horsepower ma
chine cuts out clay as hard as iron
to be scooped up by the buckets,
which hold two tons each.
A. J. Faber was down from Hot
Springs the first of the week, taking a
look at Tanana. his former place of
residence._
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