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FRIDAY, MAY 10 1010
PORK BARREL PREPAREDNESS.
The United States has been spend
ing one hundred million dollars a
year on the army and about one hun
dred and forty million dollars on the
navy. Experts agree that these sums
should be amply adequate for mili
tary and naval defense, if expended
wisely. Vet, when we come to exam
ine the outcome of the expenditure
of two hundred and forty million dol
lars, we find an army whose total
strength is approximately ninety thou
sand, of which only about one-third
is available for the general purposes
of a mobile army! Turning to the
navy we find that we are shy ten bat
tleships. have no battle cruisers, and
have but few obsolete scout cruisers,
our submarines are cuitus, and the
shortage of men to man these vessels
totals some ten thousahd. In air
craft the condition is even worse;
all told, we have one dirigible and
23 aeroplanes, none armored, and all
far below the standard. If one of them
makes a flight of one hundred miles
it is hailed as a great achievement.
When the present war broke out, Ger
many had 40 dirigibles and 1000 aer
oplanes; France 22 dirigibles and
1400 aeroplanes; P.ussia IS dirigibles
and S00 aeroplanes, and even little
Belgium had two dirigibles and one
hundred aeroplanes.
Where does this two hundred and
forty million dollars go? Into the
“pork barrel” directly. The military
heads have no voice in congress; the
appropriations being handled solely
by congressmen and senators, fhe
heads of the military and navy have
no voice in regard to the control of
their departments. This is done by
a Secretary of War, selected by the
President for his fitness as a politi
cian. not for his ability as a military
economist.
This is why with the enormous
sums appropriated for defense pur
poses we receive nothing for our
money. This is the reason that the
howl is going up among the big in
dustries for preparedness. If the gov
ernment took over the manufacture of
its own supplies and munitions they
would fight teeth and nails to pre
vent preparedness; as witness today
the Bethlehem Steel Company, and
kindred organizations.
They know that ninety cents out
of every dollar appropriated for pre
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paredness under the present system
would gd into their pockets. What
the nation wants is for that ninety
cents to g» into the government's
[pocket.
Take the military and the navy out
of the hands of these four-year-term
politicians, and place it where it be
longs : in the hands of the men who
I are trained at great expense of time
and money to look after these tilings.
Give the people a square deal; cut
out the ‘‘pork,” and we will have one
of the strongest armies and navies in
the world.
THE IRISH EXECUTION'S
Let as admit tnar an John Red
mond and Premier Asquith have said
about the Irish revolution is true.
Let us admit that the rebels, repre
senting a minority of the Irish peo
ple, committed crime—costly and
cruelly fiendish crime-—against the
Irish people as well as against the
government, and committed it at the
connivance of a National enemy in:
the time of war. Yet, the popular ver
dict the world over will justify the,
position of John Dillon in a speech
delivered in the Commons yesterday, j
and condemn the action of the Brit-i
ish government for the executions
that have taken place in Dutdin, just
as it has condemned Great Britain |
for scores of wholesale Irish execu
tions during the hundred years that
have last passed. In spite of the terms
of the British law and in spite of the
fact that the criminally foolish men
who atttempted the impossible task
of establishing an Irish republic by
force against the desires of a major-j
ity of the Irish people timed their j
task in the midst of a terrible war, in
which the National life is the stake at
issue, the world will not forget that'
the act was inspired by generations
of inbred racial hatred for England j
and the English, resulting from treat-i
ment that many English statesmen'
have condemned even more severely
than Dillon denounced it in yester
day's speech. For that reason, the
alleged treason for which the Sinn
Fein leaders were executed was not of
the character that should have met j
with the extreme penalty that was ad
ministered. I
Granting that justice was adminis-:
tered according to the letter of the'
law, its administration was one of the i
many British blunders that have cost
that people so dearly since the begin
ning of the war. At the outbreak of
the rebellion none were so shocked !
as i^he thinking majority of the Irish j
people. But the wholesale executions j
have caused a reaction, and Ireland!
has added many more martyrs to the!
long list of her illustrious dead, and ;
a whole world has stopped discussing 1
the execution of Miss Cavell. substi- i
tuting English cruelty as a topic. j
The occasion was one when justice
should have been tempered with mer-j
cy and Great Britain showed none.— j
Juneau Empire.
i
A news dispatch today states that:
the Manufacturers’ Association favors J
preparedness. There must be some j
mistake about this, and it should be j
accepted with considerable reserve-1
tion.
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PRICE RAISING.
The world must readjust its scale
of values. There have been tremen
dous advances in the price of thou
sands of things owing to the war.
rrnl many of these articles will re
main high long after peace returns.
We never sen’ll get back to the old
average. Great convulsions such as
the European conflict disturb the
whole fabric of the world's domestic
organization, increase the debt of na
tions, and make the cost of living
li-ore expensive.
A decade or two hence men will
tell their children how cheaply they
could buy bread and meat, c'othes
and fuel in the early part of the twen
tieth century, just as our fathers tell
us how cheap living was a generation
ago, and their grandfathers told iliem
how moderate prices were in the -lays
before the Civil \Var.
Naturally in the course of civiliza
tion, values are enhanced and prices,
whether they be of labor or commod
ities, once established, are hard to re
duce. War aggravates or hastens the j
advance, and creates an abnormalj
bulge in a great number of conimodi- j
ties for a long time.
Few persons appreciate how the
prices of some necessities have risen
or how much higher they may go.
Consider potash. It is used in ten
thousand ways—in medicines, in fer
tilizers, in the arts, the sciences, et
cetera. Two years ago it sold in bulk
for $35 per ton. Today it sells at
$400. There have been sales at over
$1000 a ton. In its re,ned forms, its
values have advanced in a far greater
degreb. Bromide potassium, which is !
used largely in photography and en- '
graving has advanced 1300 per cent I
in price.
The appreciation in the values oi ,
dyes is unbelievable, almost. Direct
black, which used to sell at eighteen
and one-half ce;«ts now sells at $12.
Green crystals, which formerly were
quoted at t>5c now are hard to ob
tain at S22. Direct blues for cotton
colors, formerly sold at 45c. Now
the price is $7.50.
All this has had its effect on the
cost of cotton and woolen goods. The
world will have fewer colored shirts
or dresses or general fabrics for the
next few years not only because of in
creased cost of colored goods but be
cause the supply of dye is so reduced !
that, regardless of price, there is not
sufficient to meet the norma! demand.
White goods'will be as cheap, almost,
as before, but for gay and striking
garments, only one with a fat purse
can indulge.
All the metals—steel, copper, zinc,
tin and such—have gone up 50 to 100
per cent or more in value. Machin
ery has had a far greater advance.
Rubber in every form, from a pencil
eraser to an automobile tire, has fol
lowed suit. On the sea it is as on the
land. A ship that two years ago was
worth three hundred thousand dol
lars, now is hard to buy for seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
As for paper, everything that en
ters into its making—pulp, sulphites,
rags, color matter, linen cuttings etc.,
—has gone kiting. The refuse of the
collar factories and the shirt factories
and the linen mills now bring money
never dreamed of as possible to ob
tain.
Temporarily the world is short of
a multitude of things. This condition
has made fortunes for people out of
what had been of little or no value.
The waste of the cotton mills now
sells at a higher price than staple cot
ton sold for in the late nineties. It
is used for making guncotton and
smokeless powder and hundreds of
millions of pounds of it are being
used.
A prudent person will not inveigh
against the shopkeeper for what has
come to pass. Rather will be buy
only according to his needs and view
with such complacency as he can the
revolution ip values that is under
way ail over the world, for it is the
same in Asia, in Africa, in South
America and in Europe as it is in the
United States.—Popular Magazine.
TAKE IT TO THE LAUNDRY.
Every once in a while some party
with a real or imaginary grievance
against existing conditions takes a
punch at this paper for not taking up
arms on his side and wielding the
cudgel of publicity in his behalf. And
in a majority of cases, when his case
is investigated and the facts ascer
tained it is found that the grievance
is purely imaginary, or else one easily
adjusted in an amicable manner.
Now why, in the name of justice
and common sense, should a paper be
expect^ to fight the private quarrels
of individuals in a community. A
paper is supposed to be representative
of the best interests of a community,
its statements editorially are not sup
posed to represent the views of any
one class in particular, and nine times
out of ten do not represent the per
sonal preferences of the editor. The
main idea is to make a paper read
able; to have something in it for
everyone. By catering to one class
alone you would soon have the sup
port of that one olass. Did we print
all the vituperation and abuse we
were requested to print we would be
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in personal conflict with every citizen
in the town within a short time, as
we all have our skeletons to cover
up; -none of our lives are such that
we could afford to have our thoughts
laid bare to the vulgar gaze of the
morbidly curious. While the truth is
very commendable, none of us can af
ford to adhere to it strictly; and it
is just as well for the sake of erring
humanity that we do not.
Therefore, when you regale the edi
tor of a paper with some racy bit of
scandal, with the request that he
print it, examine your own skirts and
see if they are clean.
A newspaper's sphere is to dissemi
nate news; its editorial opinions may
be taken as a literary effort to en
hance the readableness of the paper;
but the last use a paper should be put
to is in retailing gossip and scandals.
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Jock Collin-Proprietor
An agitator is a man who tries to
disturb the usual conditions existing
in a community ih which he lives. It
does not matter what his views are,
whether for the betterment of a com
munity or for the suppression of some
real or fancied public wrong; if he
stirs up dissension in remedial ef
forts he is agitating> and agitation is
had for a community. Every man
should be allowed to live his life his
own way so long as his views do not
interfere with the rights of another;
and if we all lived and believed and
thought alike the world would be
hardly worth living in. Therefore
If you want pe^ce in a community,
Mind your own business!
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The Prospector solicits your views
on matters of interest to our readers.
Many persons in Valdez can write
a good article on current topics and
we would be pleased to publish them.
Give us yo.ur vacation experiences;
your trip to foreign countries; your
last prospecting trip to the interior.
It is all interesting, and will make
our paper more readable.
Roosevelt has been downed so de
cisively in those states where Repub
lican primaries have been held that it
is considered extremely doubtful if he
can seeure the nomination at Chicago.
The people have had enough of the
Colonel, and in time he will realize it.
ALASKA
Investment
Company
For money-saving bargains. x 2t
Call and see our new spring stock
of wallpaper just arrived on the Str.
Northwestern. Some of the latest
patterns. C. C. Rudolph. tf
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Delivered to all parts of the city.
One cent per pound. Love-Whitley. tt
Men, women’s and children's wear*
lng apparel, household utehstls and
articles of every day need, at the
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Office on Alaska Avenue, in
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Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
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 nanr
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would stiU
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.
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Positively No Coal Delivered Un
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Graduate National University,
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
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Office Opposite Court Houne
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ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U, S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
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VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
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nesday In each month In McKinley
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