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MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1»1«
VINDICATED
Alter many months of investiga
tion, the "Eastland" tragedy, involv
ing the lives of a thousand more or
less no account people, has been sat
isfactorily settled—that is, the set
tlement is satisfactory to the impor
tant people of the country. Ho*' the
relatives of the drowned will take it
is another matter, which, after all. is
of no particular importance.
The steamboat inspectors have all
been exonerated, the owners and of
cials of the company and the cap
■lain and engineer of the vessel have
also been exonerated, the indictments
against them having been quashed.
There is nothing or nobody to blame;
the thing just happened.
The wreck has been raised, patch
ed up. sold at a fair profit, and will
be used again to carry human and
other freight, so the incident may be
considered closed.
But the "Lusitania" tragedy—
only one-tenth as great in the loss
of American lives, and which occured
more than two months before the
“Eastland" catastrophe—is still a
subject of friction and is far from
settled. In fact, there is still a pos
sibility that we may kill a lot of peo
ple—-or get killed trying to do so—
in order to establish justice and pun
ish crime in the "Lusitania" affair.
And. of course, any one who would
dissuade us from the procedure and
urge us to settle the matter in view
oi the danger of war over it is a cow
ard. a traitor, and in the highest de
gree unpatriotic.
But those who would insist on jus
tice and punishment in the “East
land" case—they are much worse;
they are agitators, demagogues, trai
tors, inciters of class hatred, destroy
ers of our most sacred institutions
and enemies of society.
Germany has at least offered to pay
an indemnity for the American lives
lost on the “Lusitania” but not one
red cent will be paid from any source
to indemnify the dependents of the
“Eastland” victims.
It is “the principle of the thing"
that we stand for.
JAPAN’S PROTEST TO V. S.
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Japan's protest against the adop
tion of the proposed immigration
hill providing for the literacy test, is
more serious than is generally admit
ied by the administration. A break
with Japan over the proposed Cali
fornia alien laws was only averted
by the greatest diplomacy, a few
years ago. and Japan is much more
affronted with the proposed federal
immigration law than she was with
the California alien law.
Japan claims the present hill is a
direct insult to the Japanese, and has
notified the administration that it will
not stand for the bill as proposed. She
tlaims a violation of her treaty rights
under which the same privileges were
to be accorded Japanese in the United
States as were accorded Americans in
Japan.
The administration is in a serious
predicament, as the proposed bill has
been strongly endorsed by the Feder
ation of Labor and labor unions all
over the country, who have declared
that they will fight any congressman
who votes againt it. If it carries it
means war with Japan; if it don’t
carry it means war with the Unions.
And in either case, the results would
be extremely embarrassing to the ad
ministration.
In ease we ever engaged in war
with Japan, Alaska would be the first
portion of the United States which
would bear the brunt of the war. Ab
solutely undefended, with thousands
of miles of coast line to protect, and
with its splendid harbors and rich
coal fields, the Japanese could land
on this great possession without the
loss of a man or a ship.
Japan needs Alaska, and would
probably try to seize it as soon as she
went to war with the United States.
It must be remembered that England
is now an ally of Japan, and Canada
has long cast covetous eyes upon our
Territory. Whether the blood ties
between the two great nations would i
be sufficient to impel Canada to break
off from England and side with the
United States in case of trouble with
Japan is extremely problematical.
But Japan today is Alaska’s great
est menace, and with trouble with
the Orientals steadily drawing nearer
it is high time that the most promi
nent harbors were fortified and pro
tected against invasion.
WAR WITH .MEXICO PROBABLE.
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When Gen. 'Scott invaded Mexico
in 1S46-S he was at the head of thirty
thousand regulars and forty thousand
militia. His cannon were six-pound
ers, his guns used percussion caps,
and were muzzle loaders, and his mu
nitions and supplies were conveyed
on ox wagons. With ail these hand
icaps he fought the Mexicans to a
standstill in two years, and defeated
a force nearly four times as great as
his own under Santa Ana. Our mod
ern equipment should end a war with
the peppery little republic in from
two to four months, as Mexico has no
arms or munition factories, and must
depend on what she receives from
outside sources.
The greatest difficulty in a war
with the southern republic will be
getting supplies to an army with a
base in central Mexico, but a cordon
of warships thrown around the coast
would reduce Mexico to terms in a
year's time without firing a shot, as
she is absolutely dependent upon this
country for supplies. For ten years |
Mexico has not been able to raise
enough to supply her people, and if
her ports were blockaded would be
literally starved out in a few months.
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PROVK CASK FOR Pl’BLIC. j
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The Bethlehem Steel Company is j
conducting an extensive advertising!
campaign against the proposed gov
ernment armor plate plant, a bill to
appropriate $11,000,000 to construct
which has passed one branch of
Congress and has been favorably re
ported to the other. Ip the advertis
ing literature which it is sending out,
the Bethlehem company says it has
reduced the cost of armor plate to
the United States since the incoming
of the Wilson administration more
than 20 per cent., or from more than
$500 a ton to $425 a ton. It states
further that it is now promising Con
gress that it will further reduce it to
$395 a ton, or if the government de
sires. it will enter into a contract to
make armor plate at such a price as
government appointed experts on the
Educational film* at timet have a
place on our program. Bat why tin
gle certain films as “educational f
All films that show yon something
yon have never seen am educational.
Yon can’t help bnt learn by watch
ing them.
EMPRESS PROGRAM
PA THE NEWS—Big Reel of Interesting Subjects.
THE CLUTCH OF d RCUMST AN OES—3-part Drama with a
Swell Plot.
HAM IN THE NUT FACTORY—Comedy, with Ham and Bad at
Their Best.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
Federal Trade Commission may de
termine to be fair. In other words,
it says in so many words, "we will
make the armor plate and let the gov
ernment name the price.”
This would indicate that Secretary
of the Navy Daniels knew something
of what he was talking when he said
that the United States had been pay
ing too much for armor plate and that
it could be made cheaper, and further
it shows that he already has accom
plished a great deal that he started
out to do. In short, the armor plate
makers have proved the case against
themselves for Mr. Daniels.
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GOOD HEA VINKS! VALDEZ!
Now comej an inquisitive tutam
arusie and propounds to us this mo
mentous question: "What and
Where Is Hell?” Sherman said it
was war, but we are constrained to
believe that it is a community which
is always quarreling over which fac
tion shall run things and never get
anywhere.—Skagit Valley News.
The sole argument of an ignorant
man is his fists.
Disappointment is that feeling
which comes over a woman when she
sees a neighbor come out with a rep
lica ot her new Easter gown.
Henry Ford carried Michigan and
Nebraska as the most suitable Repub
lican candidate for president. One
sure thing. Henry is not the only Ford
that started well and never got any
where.
The Wharf fund year before last
was hut $S36.00. Last year under
the “campaign for economy" it was
$1504.28: according to the report as
published by the town clerk. Econ
omy backwards.
With war on in Mexico, with war
nearly certain with Germany, and
with war with Japan over the immi
gration question looming up on the
horizon we don't see where Theodore
gets that “mollycoddle" stuff.
Dispatches state that the new style
hats for women will he distinctively
“mannish” in style. It is to be hoped
that the price will be as mannish as
the hats, for most of us gents can
cover our massive domes for about
$2.50 per skull.
It begins to look now as if Mexi
co would pen our army up in the
Guerrero mountains and send an army
north to invade the United States.
Mexico is going to receive an awful
shock if she don’t quit monkeying
around Uncle Sam's dynamo.
Hans Tauscher, Gadski’s husband
has been arrested for carrying dyna
mite concealed in a suitcase, into
Canada, ostensibly to blow up some
thing. As the husband of a noted
singer perhaps that is the only way
the poor chap can get his name in the
papers.
Through the courtesy of Delegate
James Wickersham the Prospector
has received four volumes of Abridg
ment—Messages and Documents, for
the years 1913 and 1914. Parties de
siring information on the questions
covered by these volumes are wel
come to peruse them at the Prospec
tor office.
Legal services “including salary of
town attorney” cost the city $475.00.
and court costs $465.20, last year, ac
cording to the published statement of
the town clerk. And yet, if you will
remember, when the Prospector ac
cused the council of having expended
$835.00 on legal services it was vo
ciferously denied by the municipal or
gan. The truth will out if' you wait
long enough.
And when you come down to it.
about all the saving that was effect
ed last year over any previous year
was in the matter of city printing.
Year before last printing and adver
tising came to $552.10: according to
figures published in the town clerk's
alleged report. Last year printing
and advertising cost the city $66.98.
The difference between two two sums
came out of the Prospector.
Gee whiz! Whadye know about
that? After advertising to the world
that the Star had elected its council
at the recent municipal election, and
that tho ‘‘mudflatters” were wiped
out nolus bolus; the Star comes out
Saturday with a column of its usual
vituperation regarding “its council's”
failure to appoint one of its owners
as marshal and assessor. That "love
at first sight” stuff never does last.
Tho Star’s warcry is "Swat the
Lawyer." It ie just as good a war
cry, possibly, as any other would be'
for John, and no one objects, unless
it may be the lawyers. But the Star
calls Us party to gether and extends
the honor (?) of the nomination for
Delegate to Congress from Alaska to
James Wickersham ta lawyer) whose
record is not much different from
other lawyers. Rather inconsistent
with the warcry, isn’t it.
LOCAL BREVITIES .
George Hazelet and T. E. Scott of i
the Cordova delegation to the Sew- ]
ard convention passed through last j
night on their way home.
Our new stock of Wallpaper arriv-1
ed on the steamer Farragut, also lin
oleum. C. C. Rudolph. 3t
Fresh Cordova Razorback Clams
at Keystone Produce Co. It
Your business or property proper
ly taken care of in your absence.
Alaska lnv. Co. 2t
J. V. Lydick, auditor for the C. R.
& X. W. Ry., who came up on the
Farragut. returned to Cordova on the
Northwestern.
Oscar Fish returned from Seward
on the Northwestern last night.
E. E. Ritchie was a returning pas
senger from the Seward convention
on the Northwestern.
Robert P. Ferguson and little
daughter, left on the Northwestern
last night to accompany the remains
of his wife to their old home in Mis
souri.
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FOR SALE: All my household I
furniture. Mrs. E. C. Dalton. tf!
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Joe Schultz came up from Cordova
yesterday afternoon with his launch
Alice, bringing some of the razor
back clams for which Hinchinbrook
island is noted.
TASKER H. BLISS.
Major General, Assistant Chief
of Staff of United States Army.
Photo by American Frees Association.
Candy [Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—la Owl Dru* Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT- -COLD
LOUIE’S CAFE
Everything First class
Open Day and Night
ANDY MAROVICH, Prop.
OWL DRUG CO.
PRESCRIPTIONS
OUR SPECIALTY
TRY US Phone 40
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free aad Accepted Maaoae
Regular Communications flrst Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
P. M. BROWN. W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary.
This Is The Time
To Get Ready
To Fix Your
Lawn
We Have
Bluegrass Seed, and
White Clover Seed
Also
A Large Assortment of
Flower Seeds
Garden Seeds
Onion Sets and
Seed Potatoes
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater
Jack Callin - Proprietor
The Best Place tn Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Warm, Ligkt Roomr-The Home of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rater Brftke Moatk
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING. Prop.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National VmJaeaadtp,
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years hi Valdea.
PHONE It*
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEOH
Phone 42
Alaska A venae Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
A1TORNEY S-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court Honor
Phone 34 VALDEZ. * ILA91LA
j JOHN LYONS E JT RITCHOi
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNKYS-AT-LAtA
Offices la Wbfiling Bulldtnir
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
Valdea. Aludna
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good manw
of today’s successful bus?
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.