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CORDOVA COPPPER
ATTRACTING ATTENTION
(Seattle Star.)
It is good news—that coming from
Alaska—that for the year 1916 copper
v. m take first place In the products
, that territory, following by lead,
g,.id coming third. For many years
g. id has taken first place.
The aforemention reversal shows that
Alaska is coming into its own; that it is
i.o longer to be looked upon solely as
•i tiPid for the hardy adventurer, but
that an era of commercial develop
ment has begun, coincidental with the
commencement of work on the federal
railroad, which will populate Alaska
with a permanent and desirable class
of s (tiers.
WAR ORDERS A TRANSIENT BOOM
(Leslie's.)
The country needs something besides
.car orders to put prosperity on its feet.
\\ ar orders will give us a big balance
of trade, but this balance will be big
only untl lthe war ceases. If peace
should come sooner than we expect
and able-bodied foreign workmen re
turn at once to their looms and their
forges, this country would have to
meet increaisng ocmpetition from the
manufacturers abroad intensified by
the reduced tariff on foreign goods. I?
the war should continue for two or
three years we shall have time to re
vise our tariff and to replace the dutv
on sugar, which was removed, despite
the protest of the cane-sugar growers
of Louisiana and the beet-sugar grow
er:- of the west and northwest. The j
growers of citnjs fruits In California
titul Florida, the producers of wool In
'"onus and workmen in the iron fac
tories and mills north and south will
nil be heard front when the products of
foreign firms and factories begin to
crowd our products harder.
I hope that he bread line and the
bundle day have had their brief ex
i. t nee and from this time forward will
be .inly a memory. Give the American
worker work. Fill his pay envelope
and his dinner pail, lpt him earn his
money and he will spend it and every
line of trade will be benefited. You
cannot do this unless at the same time
you give capital an opportunity to earn
a profit sufficient to justify its invest
ment in new enterprise and Its in
creased investment in establishing n
dustries.
THE GERMAN VIEW.
(Seattle Star.)
In the newspaper revelations of the
correspondence °f German agents in
this country with the German govern
ment and the activities of the Ger
man secret service, we find the follow
ing passage from Herr Von Waetzoldt,
German trade representative in the
United States, in a letter to his govern
ment:
•'Tlie Inrge war orders, as the pro
fessional journals also print, have be
come the great means of saving Am
erican business institutions from idle
ness and financial ruin, this is not only
true of the average and smaller intl
tutions, but also of the larger ones.”
Every business man and intelligent
laborer knows that Herr Von Waez
holdt's statement Is true.
Therefore, the German govrnment
and Its friends in this coun
try. when they ask us to stop the
exportation of war supplies, are asking
us to choose “idleness and financial
ruin” in the place of the present Im
provement In business conditions.
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I They ask us to cease a trade which Is
admittedly legal, In which Germany has
! always freely engaged In time of war,
und the stoppage of which would bring
down on us the enmity of the allies,
1 and in addition to choose “idleness
and financial ruin" in place of business
improvement.
They ask a good deal, it may be well
to inquire whether Germany or Aus
tria would do as much for us; whether
any nation ever did as much for any
other nation; and whether any nation i
;ought to be expected to do such a
thing.
It Is safe to say that the smart Ger
man business man would, in his secret i
heart, eall tis fools if we did it.
CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT.
(New York Sun.)
Mr. Gisaku Takikawa, vice president
of the Kobe chamber ot' commerce,
reveals himseif as distressingly ignor
ant of the duties of American states
manship when he sa. s:
•‘in Jujian we have liked the Pacific i
Mail Steamship Company. We have '
considered its dealing always fair and '
above suspicion. That this important
concern should be forced out of busi
ness by American legislation, which
irom a Japanese viewpoint at least ;
might be expected to encourage and
foster a national project, is soihething
taut an Oriental mind cannot quite com- |
prehend.
His quaint Japanese notion Unit
“American legislation might be ex
pected to encourage and toster a na
tional project" will arouse unrestrained
nilurity among our lawmakers, who
anow that their tirst duty is to block |
and obstruct the progress of industry j
and to penalize success, llis failure j
10 comprehend the ideals our legisla
tors struggle to enforce will convince
them again of the immeasurable su
perority of the west ns compared with
the east.
lias not tile grand purpose and high
aim of our statesmanship been for
years to cripple, restrain and punish
American enterprise? Cannot Mr,
. uttikawa be made to understand that
the object of our government is to
take from those who have and prevent
j others from getting?
STRIKING FACTS ABOUT ALASKA.
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(Leslie’s)
Statistics are tiresome. Most per
sons will not read them, and most
who do speedily forget their signifi
cance. But every reader can remember
a few striking facts ubout Alaska, uni
Ique, incomparable, unequaled, unex
celled. It is magnificent in its isola
j tion. It has an area of 600,000 square
miles, one-fifths the size of the United
States, which means that it will make
fourteen New Yorks and nearly 600
Rhode islands. It cost Uncle Sam
$7,200,000 forty-eight years ago, or less
than 2 cents an acre. It has paid for
itself twenty times and more in the
output of its fisheries. Its gold mines
this year will produce more than three
times w'tiat Alaska cost us. Alaska
claims to have more gold than Cali
fornia and more copper than Michigan
and Arizona, more coal than Pennsyl
j vanla, and is willing to prove it if the
I government will cut the red tape re
! strictions of nonsnslcal conservation
land let capital do Its work, as It has
| done it with the gold and copper
mines and the fish Industry. Its great
cattle ranges remain untouched, and
moBt of them are free to the home
steader. Wealth'.' Alaska will roll in
it long before the present century ap
proaches its close. Already Fairbanks
away up in the interior 500 miles from
the coast, is getting ready to celebrate
the semi-centennial of Alaska's pur
chase, two years hence. Get ready now
to go.
, Seattle, too, the great, big good
brother of Alaska, that has done more
than all the rest of the country to
induce the newspapers of our great
cities to give Alaska a fair hearing,
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