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NOME. ALASKA. FEBRUARY 11. 1915
AMERICA’S GREAT NEED.
That the war has given the Ameri
can nation a wonderful opportunity for
trade expansion is hardly a matter of
dispute. Thru' nf (he greatest man
ufacturing and exporting nations of the
world have practically withwradw from
among tlie world’s supply depots and
America stands practically alone as the
prospective supply market and granary
of the earth. And yet, with the world
looking lo us for the bulk of their
mamifaetureil and food products wo
tind ourselves in i lie almost paradox
ical position of one who has everything
to sell and yet can sell nothing. The
reason for this, as is generally realized,
lies in the fact that since the begin
ning of the war, and witli the conse
quent withdrawal of the great mnra
I itne nations of the earth from the
carrying trade, we are not in a posi
tion to place our products in the hands
of those who are seeking to purchase.
As some one lias aptly expressed it we
are like a farmer who has plenty of
produce to sell lull is lacking a team to
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•arry it to market. Kor years the
Tnite<1 States has been compelled to
ook to England and Germany tor the
rlaelng of practically all her surplus
rroduets in the places of demand and
his inthe face of the fact that she is
ine of the greatest producing and man
ifaeturing nations of the world
Since the beginning of the decline of
the American merchant marine some
time prior to the civil war. the T nited
States has been under the necessity of
shipping the bulk of her products in
foreign bottoms and the percentage has
grown steadily with each passing de
cade until the account stood last year,
according to the statistlcans, ninety
one per cent in favor of foreign carriers
and nine per cent that we were able to
retain ourselves.
Of thus enourmous total in favor of
others sixty per cent according to the
same authorities, was carried by Brit
ish vessels and fifteen per cent fell to
Germany and the toll or carriage there
on has run Into many millions, so many,
that last venr they ran well Into the
hundreds Of all the exporting nations
of the earth China excepted, America
alone has no means of placing her pro
ducts in the market of the world with
out. having to pay a toll which equals
nearly ten per cent of the value of the
marketed products The need of an
American merchant marine is thus ap
parent, and now that the hulk of the
nations carriers have been withdrawn,
ttie need lias reached such monumental
poi-porlions that it can no longer be
ignored and has taken concrete form
in the Ship Purchase bill now before
Congress.
The wisdom of President Wilson in
| insisting that this measure shall be
come a law must be apparent to every
level beaded person and the bitter fight
that is being waged against its passage
in tlie halls of Congress is one of the
most significant evidences that the law
is needed. Erom every side orders are
pouring into America, demanding tier
products, and the administration with
most commendable dispatch have en
deavored to meet this ever growing de
mand That the strenuous opposition
offered is the work of the solidly in
trenched shipping interests cannot be
concealed, and the firm altitude of the
President is therefore all the more
worthy of regard in that he is refusing
! to consider the interests of the few lie
cause of the benifils which will be
I brought to the many
A "CABBY’S” TRIBUTE
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Wo havn't his name. but it doesn’t
make any difference; the "cabby" who
took a strange young girl to the Y. \V.
O' A. and left her there amid friends,
instead of dropping her at a place to
which she had been directed by an
over-friendly stranger on the train,
deserves public recognition and praise.
It didn't take “cabby” long to tumble
to tiie facts in tbe case. The girl, un
sophisticated. laid let it be known she
was coining to tho city to lind employ
ment. She had been directed to two
questionable places The one proved
vacant: "cabby' knew something about
the reputation of the other. Me knew,
too. that ids fare was no woman of the
world, and with the concern of a father
and the kindness of a gentleman he
quietly sized up the situation and
I placed (lie girl among friends and amid
surroundings clean and wholesome,
from where she was returned to her
home.
It refreshes our faith in mankind
to read of incidents like that. It helps
[one to fight off the insinuations that
I frequently come from high places that
those who occupy the lowly stations In
life have not hitih ideals Whether (lie
public ever learn who this particular
"cabby" was or not, he has the satis
faction of knowing be paid as hinli i
tribute to dean womanhood as ever
fell from the lips of any orator.—RX
ALASKA
(From v#ur Exchanges.)
! S \V. Jensen, who for the past six
I months has been placer prospecting
in the vicinity of Mile 55 on the Copper
River Ai- Northwestern railway, lias
great faith in the placer possibilities
Of that part of the count r\ ami has
shown that faith by doing a lot of
hard and practical work. This work,
he says, has uncovered "good pros
pects,” although he does not claim any
bonanza finds. Mr. Johnson came tc
Cordova yesterday after supplies.
While he is a eheeehaco, he is also a
bedrock crank with the reputation of
having doncg more real prospect in
than any other man in that immediate
section.
"People rushing to remote and almost
inaccessible parts of the interior are
passing over good placer ground near
home and accessible by railroad." In
said. "1 have put in an open cut 50
fed long and from 12 to 30 feet wide,
with good prospects appearing as bed
rock is approached. In addition. 1 hav<
sunk several holes A peculiarity of
that section is the drainage which pre
vents water from interfering with shaft
work. These surface skinners who
condemn the country without giving
it a fair trail make me tired"
The Juneau Empire says: Congress
man J. A Falconer, of the state <»f
W ashington. threatens to introduce a
bill in Congress at the present session
providing for prohibition of the liquor
business in Alaska Moreover he also
threatens to devote a great deal of
bis energy toward securing the pas
sage of the bill.
No doubt Mr Falconer feels strong
ly on the subject and is actuated by
very high motives, but would itn nt
seem more polite for him to wait un
til the people of Alaska have had an
opportunity to express themselves on
the subject?
Juneau Copies of the Quines
(Illinois) Daily Herald containing
notice of the death in t'hiengn of Gen
eral William I. Dustin, former survey
or-general and secretary of Alaska,
were received recently b>- the Empire
(’ol. William Dustin, honored citi
zen of Quincy for many years survey
or-general of Alaska and much of the
time acting governor of I he Territors
from the fall of 1 Xf*7 until Iasi fall,
when he resigned, died at Chicago
last evening at the home of his aunt,
Mrs Robert W. Dunston. Tic had been
in customary health and his death was
so terribly sudden, only half an hour
elapsing between the time be was
stricken with heart disease until be
breathed his last
In a letter received front Martin
Nelson, of Wiseman, in the Koyakuk.
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I by George Hill of Juneau, in the last
I mail from the interior, the writer says
that there will he more work carried
! forward this winter in that section
! than has been done for a number of
years.
Hammond river will he pretty well
J represented on all <>f the claims from
Vermont creek down to 1 below with
several working along the benches
along the left limit in the hopes of
striking the pay on the claims where
it has not been found in the creek.
FAIRBANKS Cashibr Preston of
the N. O. Co. has received an an
nouncement of the wedding of Gordon
l‘.« Hard Morris to Louise, daughter
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of Mrs. 1), F. Shipman, at L»*s Vegas
New Mexico, October nth last.
SEATLE.—Giving Sand Point.f?ngu
and other Aleutian Island points their
first direct winter service with Seattle,
the schooner Harold Blekum. Capt
Walter Tinn, will sail Monday for the
North with a cargo of general merch
andise and supplies. The cargo covers
a wide variety of goods.
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