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The Anchorage Times, in a recent
editorial, states that the Chamber of
Commerce of that city has forwarded
petitions to prominent congressmen
asking that a re-allotment of roa<^
funds be made, as that district had
received only $25,000, while the bulk
of the $500,000 appropriation would
be spent on the Valdez-Fairbanks
trail, which “would be abandoned as
soon as the railroad is completed.”
Granting that the major portion of
the funds will be spent on the Val
dez-Fairbanks trail, which taps a
greater farming community than the
whole railroad system, via the Sus
itna, the statement that the Valdez
trail will be abandoned after the
railway is completed is extremely er
roneous and injurious to the great
farming section around the Copper
River Valley and south of Fairbanks.
This road taps an extremely fertile
country, and one which has a larger
population than the proposed railway
will serve, if it is ever practicable.
While any conservative person must
admit that the road will serve a use
ful purpose in tapping the rich coal
fields of the Matanuska country, it
is common talk by old timers that it
will be a failure when it attempts to
penetrate the interior via the Susitna
and Broad Pass route. The trail will
never be abandoned for the reason
that in summer time parties can take
auto here from a south bound boat
and be in Fairbanks before the boat
reaches Anchorage, thereby saving a
long, expensive trip and two days
time. In winter the time will be
about the same, as Anchorage is shut
altogether from the interior traffic,
while Valdez is reduced to dog team
travel, and mushing, and in many
cases the musher from Vaklez will
make nearly as good time as the
train.
we have no wish to detract from
Anchorage's superior political pull in
getting the railway, but we must in
sist that the mushroon metropolis
recognize the fact that other towns
of the territory expect consideration
from the government, and will insist
upon getting it. Had the Valdez
route been investigated, with its easy
grades and light snows, there is no
question but that this city would
have secured the coveted railway.
The Road Commission are doing their
utmost to serve all communities alike
and with fairness to all. To cease
work on the trail before its comple
tion would be to throw away all the
moneys expended up to the present
time. We must respectfully remind
our valued competitor that while
feeders are necessary to the railway’s
success, they can be constructed after
the completion of the road, when
their locations can be more accurate
ly determined.
$25,000 for the Matanuska district
which comprises only a portion of the
agricultural lands of the territory,
is a much more liberal appropriation
than the rest of the division is re
ceiving, and it would be setter for the
Times to refrain from unjust critic
ism of the Road Commission and
await its turn in development.
THE Anchorage Time* again un
load* two column* of valuable space I
upon the devoted head* of Marshal
Brenneman and T. J- Donohoe, terri
torial committee rnffb. The opposi
tion to Mr. Brenneman I* that he has
appointed several men who used to
deal faro, in the old days to positions
as deputy U. S. Marshals, overlooking
staunch Democrats like John Frame,
Jerry Murphy, Delaney and Cobb.
This, coming from Charley Herron,
is good. It is the first broadside in
his "holier than thou” campaign, and
will undoubtedly have great weight
in Mr. Brenneman’s future appoint
ments. Any nr an who is acquainted
with the seven men castigated by our
old friend Charles, and who is famil
iar with the men he crowns with the
laurel wreath of rectitude, may draw
his own conclusions as to Mr. Her
ron’s ability to pick out eandidiates
for his Purity Squad. The fact that
Billy Sunday and several other prom
inent and respected men once stretch
ed their legs under the green cloth
has escaped his mind. If our mem
ory serves us aright, a certain man
not far from the counsels of the Pres
ident once lost a few dollars at a pok-1
er game, which has undoubtedly slip
ped the attention of our Honorable
President when he filled his cabinet.
Some times it takes more sense and a
higher degree of honor to be a suc
cessful dealer than it does to run a
newspaper. It is extremely bad taste
to bring up a man's past record when
he is making an excellent new one.
IF Alaska has a few more friends
In the National Congress like Hon.
Frank Park, of Georgia, who is aid
ing us in the matter of the protest
over the road commission fund allot
ment, this great, undeveloped coun
try will soon come into its own.—An
chorage Times.
If the Record is quoted correctly
about all that Mr. Park, of Georgia,
has ever done for Alaska, was to try
to bring the Wickersham-Sulzer Con
troversy before the floor of the house,
as an advocate of Mr. Wickersham’s,
which may account for the fulsome
praise bestowed by the anti-Sulzer
Times. If Mr. Park has ever men
tioned Alaska’s name in any other
connection the Congressional record
niust have omitted it.
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WHAT an awful blow the appoint
ment of Judge Jennings will be to the
republican papers of the territory.
Notwithstanding the bitter opposition
developed to the Judge’s appoint
ment, he was unanimously confirmed
by the Senate. Gov. Strong, Alaska's
“Democratic” governor, was a strong
opponent of Judge Jennings, suppos
edly on account of his decision in the
delegate contest, and every opposi
tion paper in the territory gladly took
up the Governor’s attack upon one of
the foremost legal lights in Alaska.
The fact that the administration over
rode this unwarranted opposition
gives the democrats the hope that
their opposition to the Governor may
also succeed in the retirement of the
traitorous executive.
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JOHN B. MARSHALL, a promin
ent attorney of Juneau, is out in an
open letter to Delegate Charles A.
Sulzer, protesting against the ap
pointment of Judge Robert W. Jen
nings of Juneau, and giving his rea
sons as entirely personal. Among
other charges against Judge Jennings
lvir. iwarsnau states tnat tne Honor
able legal light of Alaska’s metropolis
called him a ‘‘damned fool’’ for ma
king a speech at a temperance meet
ing last fall. In view of the fact that
the Juneau gentleman airs his views
in the republican press of the terri
tory, and claims to be a Democrat,
there are others who may share the
eminent jurist’s opinion before the
dust is allayed.
REMEMBERING the old adage
that it is the truth that hurts, the
man who rushes into print over be
ing called a "damn fool" runs a great
chance of clinching the argument.
To Deforest Belgium
THE HAGUE, June 18.—Not con
tent with devastating French forest
lands, the Germans are about to pun
ish Belgium still further by cutting
down all timber available for trench
purposes. General von Felkenhaus
en, the new Military Governor, has
issued an order demanding full de
tails as to the stand of fir, pitch pine,
larch, poplar, elm, and ash. Such
trees are to be cut down and com
mandeered for the use of the army.
Any owner who fails to give the in
formation demanded will be fined
$2,500 or imprisoned for three years,
or may suffer both punishments.
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Republic Cannot Uve if Sissy Men
and Adlepated Women Rule, He
Says.
TACOMA, Wash., June 18.—Op
ponents of conscriptive draft
Methodist church by Maj. S. S. Sul
liger, chaplain of the 2nd Washing-;
ton regiment, who spoke on "Wash-!
ington-Lincoln-Wilson.” The chap
lain’s address marked three great i
epochs in our history and was tilled 1
with patriotism.
More than 1,200 persons heard the;
address. Maj. Sulliger was escorted
to the stand by the regiment band,
which played patriotic music. Offi-i
eers of the regiment were present.
“The man whose opposition to the,
selective draft is made up of one
third ignorance and two-thirds cow-1
ardice ought to have to be forced toj
have a hard time calling his conclu-;
sions ‘conscientious objections.’ Con
science is not an infallible guide to
the right. When a man says he is!
conscientious in his efforts to nullify j
a national law, passed as a war meas-:
ure, that man needs a new baptism of!
manhood and the yellow, streak in |
him will be washed out by military ^
discipline.
"It is no excuse to say that such I
sissy-men are weak rather than vi-1
cious. I do not believe it. Even if |
it were true, 1 lay down this eternal
truth, that when the result of a man’s
weakness is as disastrous to others j
as the result of his meanness, then, so j
far as the general welfare is concern
ed, he might just as well be mean asj
to be weak.
No Strength in Sissy-Men
"O, fellow citizens of Tacoma, if
this great republic is to be true to
the new division and true to the new
duties and faithful to the new service,
her citizens must be willing to sacri
fice many personal opinions and
much personal comfort. The fiber of j
a true manhood is not made without
sacrifice and the old world across the
sea will never be lifted to the plateau
of true democracy by sissy men and
adle-pated women. That will come
thru the heroism of red blooded men
and the sacrifice and work of the
heroic and queenly women of .Amer
ica.
“If ever a people were criminallly
asleep on a great menace, the people
of the United States are asleep on this
awful war. When, before long, the
cable flashes the names of those of
our homes who paid the price of
world democracy by their lives, we
may wake up to the fact that we are
in war.
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Liberty Bond Sale Vital
"Service i6 to be best rendered by
the prompt furnishing of the money
to equip and maintain an army. The
liberty bonds are as important as the
enlistment of a great army. We might
just as well get it in our minds now
as later that we must either pay for
liberty bonds or German indemnity
bonds. It is as sure as God reigns
that whether the United States had
gone actively into the war or not, we
would have either paid to Germany
not less than $50,000,000,000 indem
nity or fought that victorious nation
alone.
Washington, Lincoln and Wilson
served as Presidents at three great
epochs in the history of this nation.
True, Mr. Wilson has not closed his
life, but in all human probability he
will serve as President during this
most awful and stupendous epoch in
the history of America. To Washing
ton was given the rare privilege of
seeing a nation whose present great
ness has not been dreamed of by even
the wildest of dreamers.
World Freedom Necessary
"It was given to Lincoln when the
eagle gave his first shriek of genuine
freedom; a shriek that sent the first
exhilirating thrill of personal liberty
thru the soul of the negro; a shriek
that answered the opening words of
the declaration of independence by
saying in so far as liberty and free
dom are concerned those words are
forever to be true for the black as
well as white.
“It is the privilege of Wilson to be
President when this great natiou,
bom under Washington and un
shackled under Lincoln, will sweep
across the water and unfurl the ban
ner of world freedom, the banner of
untrammeled and unfettered demo
cracy. Under Washington the na
tion was born and christened, under
Lincoln it shook the black links of
human slavery from its body, and un
der Wilson it will become a world
power.”
Small Mills Starting
HOOD RIVER, Or., June 18.—The
recent demand for materials has
stimulated the local lumber business,
especially among the smaller mills.
Within the next 15 days 85 men will
be employed in camps and small millB
on the mountain range west of the
valley.
The Lausman Lumber Company,
with a plant in the West Belmont dis
trict, is employing 40 men. This con
cern will begin the operation of .the
Ruthtown planer of the Stanley
Smith Lumber Company, which was
closed down last Fall.
The Phillips Lumber Company is
ready to start a new mill in Post Can
yon with 25 men. The Mitchells
Point Lumber Company will renew
activities at its mill just west of the
Mitchells Point tunnel on the Colum
bia River Highway. The daily ca
pacity of the three mills will reach
65,00a feet.
A full line of Nemo corsets, all sizes
at E. Winter’s' tf
Just received, a new line of Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co
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will deliver passengers, mail, ex
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point on Prince William Sound.
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VALDEZ, ALASKA
Valdez Miners Union No, 188
Western Federation of Miner*
W. M. CONLEY President.
Valdez Alaska.
GEORGE M. BARRY Secretary.
Valdez Alaska.
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
Free »4 Accepted Muaai
Regular Communication* Ajyt Wed
nesday In each month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
P. M. BROWN. W. M.
ED WOOD. Secretary.
A. M. DIERINGEE
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
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LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Pud for in Advance
1 Candy Kitchen j
f E. W. HUNT—b Owl Dru Sure. f
j FOUNTAIN DRINKS S
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OBet« over Valdes Drag C«.
Phone ’IS McKinley Street
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A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
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WasklDftoa. D. C.
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In Viildez Since 181)8
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Funding
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Coart House
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
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ATTORNBYS-AT-LAW
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Phone 101 YaLDEZ. ALASKA
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JUNEAU, ALASKA
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SEATTLE, WASH.
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Business.
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American Flags, Pins and Buttons
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