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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1914.
REPRESENTING BIG INTERESTS.
On March 15, 1908, Judge Wicker
sham joined in a telegram to tin
judge of the Third judicial division of
Alaska, taking sides with the operat
ors against the miners in the Tanana
strike of that year.
On April 8, 1908, Judge Wickersham
wrote to "My Dear Mr. Birch” that
“i have entered upon the practice of
law here, and represent some of the
most important interests in the ter
ritory, and the outlook for returns is
satisfactory.”
Like as not the judge spoke a
mouthful, or more accurately, wrote
■a handful, when he registered that
allegation on paper. Could it be pos
sible that the Northern Commercial
Company, or the banks, or the big
mine operators were among “the im
portant interests that had retained
for their service Judge Wickersliam’s
unquestioned legal ability?
It is strictly legitimate and honor
able for any lawyer to act as ad
viser to big corporations. It is no
reflection on Judge Wickersham that
he did it or was willing to do it, but
,why when a lawyer goes into poli
tics should lie rage as the heathen
do against everybody with a little
inazuma.
ALASKA’S FURTHER NEEDS.
Secretary Itedfield has an adequate
conception of the shameful manner in
which the needs of Alaska In the
matter of proper lights and proper
aids to navigation have been over
looked by congress. He has invited
tlie entire Pacific coast delegation to
co-operate with him in endeavoring to
get needed congressional action on
tlie subject. He has pointed out that,
at the present rate of progress in fur
nishing Alaska’s commerce with pro
tection, it will be fully fifty years’
time before tlie waters of Alaska are
protected as adequately as all of the
waters along the Atlantic coast are
protected now.
He is conservative in his state
ment. There are more lighthouses
within a twenty-mile radius of New ■
Tendon, Conn., than there are along i
the thousands of miles of Alaska’s
coast line. There ply between Seat
tie and Alaska points steamships
making nearly 500 round trips a year,
carrying tens of thousands of passen
gers and a commerce aggregating in
■value upwards of $60,000,000 a year.
And every year a great toll of life
and vessel property is taken because
of the lack of even surveys of Alas
ka waters.
The present summer the govern
ment itself lost, in the destruction of
tlie revenue cu'ter Tahoma—due en
tirely to the lack of proper charts,
proper surveys and proper aids to
navigation—more property value than
the largest appropriation ever ask
ed for the protection of vessels ply
ing those waters and carrying that
great’ commerce. An investment in
surveying and charting Alaska wa
ters, less in amount than the expen
ditures for building a single federal
postoffice in some obscure country
town, would have saved that loss and
tlie loss of nr'llions of dollars’ worth
Of other property afloat.
There is no other route for com
merce in the world today, whether in
the territorial waters of civilized or
•a semi-civilized power, so inadequate
ly surveyed, inadequately lighted and
inadequately furnished with the cus
lomary aids to navigation as the wa
ters through which pass as $60,000,
000 domestic commerce. It is a re
flection upon tlie civilization of a
country which permits the existence
of such conditions.—Seattle Post-In
telligencer.
I
WAR’S TOLL IN HUMAN LIVES.
Despite all the efforts of the pow
ers engaged in the European war to
conceal their losses, the unofficial re
ports indicate that the final total ot
deaths will be the greatest in all rec
orded history. British regiments are
said to have come out of action with
out a commissioned officer standing.
German and French battalions (equal
to our regiments) are reported to
have been almost wiped out. Thirty
is the number of survivors given in
one case; that is, 30 of 800 to 1,000
men. Such official reports as sift
through to us justify no such esti
mates, and though they are probably
understatements, they certainly are
much nearer the truth than the un
authorized reports.
This is merely the conclusion of
common sense, if the loss of life
were what these wild stories imply,
both armies now would be mere
shadows of themselves. The so-called
battle of the Aisne already has lasted
for 30 days with constant artillery
fire and the exchange of infantry as
saults. That the loss has been heavy,
even tremendous, must be accepted,
tyet the layman has an exaggerated
idea of the destructive abilities of
modern weapons. That they are more
efficient than the old smoothbore
annon and musket may be conced
;d, but as the mechanics of offense
lave improved, so have the methodB
>f defense. The result may be that
;he ratio of loss to men engaged and
:ime spent in action will remain the
iame or even be lowered.
The reports up to this time are
sxtremely puzzling on this score. We
ire told, for example, that the Ger
man Infantry makes assaults in
'close formation.” This, of course,
Joes not mean the formation of the
Prussian Guard Corps at St. Privat
in 1870, or even that of Pickett’s bri
gade at Gettysburg. On the other
band, it does not mean the scattered
formation the British infantry learn
ed to UBe in South Africa, and it must
mean formation compact enough to
rely upon shock rather than fire su
periority and "digging one’s self for
ward.” That this formation involves
heavy expenditure of life goes with
out saying, yet the German offense
shows no sign of such a drain. With
out citing the terrible tactical mis
take of the Prussian Guard corps
which tried to carry the hill of St.
Privat in heavy columns and lost 30
per cent, in 20 minutes, or the charge
of Pickett at Gettysburg, which cost
bis division 75 per cent, and one of
its regiments 90 per cent., a fairer
comparison may be made with the
Wilderness campaign. The fighting
in that region lasted less than a
month, about the same duration, let
us say, as the battle of the Aisne.
Grant had about 120,000 men, Lee
about 70,000. The latter fought on
the defensive in well intrenched,
strong natural positions, and at the
end of what we might now call the
battle of the Wilderness, the North
ern army had lost 41 per cent., the
Southern 46 per cent, of their respect
ive strength in dead, wounded and
missing.
In the battle line in France there
are said to be over a million men on
each side. If the carnage is as great
as in the Wilderness, each side has
lost over 400,000. If the art of kill
ing has outstripped the art of self
protection, the loss is heavier, but
it is to be doubted that we are to
find, when the curtain lifts, that a
new record has been made by the
Moloch of battles.—Ex.
THOSE BELGIANS.
To date the Belgians have suffer
ed and lost more heavily by the war
than any other country. That little
power has been so thoroughly and
completely devastated that Its pres
ent generation will never live suffi
ciently long to see it restored to even
a semblance of what it was three
months ago and before it felt the
crushing heel of the German kaiser.
Without cause or semblance of prov
ocation Belgium has been reduced
from a prominent position in the
business world to one of poverty and
nakedness. Where formerly there
was peace, plenty and happiness, sor
row, devastation and gaunt starvation
now stalk and conditions, instead of
improving, grow worse every day.
Belgium, unlike many other coun
tries, has no “cousins" to come to
her rescue In her hour of sore need
and tribulation and It Is now up to
humanity to prevent her people from
dying of exposure and starvation.—
Ex.
“O doctor, I have sent for you, cer
tainly; still, I must confess that 1
have not the slightest faith in mod
ern medical science."
“Well,” said the doctor, "that does
n’t matter in the least. You see, a
mule has no faith In the veterinary
surgeon, and yet he cures him all the
same.”
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Notice of Election.
Whereas, pursuant to acts of Con
gress providing for the election of
a delegate to congress from the Ter
ritory of Alaska, and members of a
legislative assembly for the Territory
of Alaska; such election is required
to be held on Tuesday, November 3,
1914, at which election the qualified
voters of the Third judicial division
of Alaska are entitled to vote for a |
delegate in Congress, one member of
the senate and four members of the
house of representatives in the legis
lative assembly of the Territory; and,
Whereas, pursuant to the require
ments of said acts of congress the
Common Council of the incoporated
Town of Valdez, in said Third divis
ion, by resolution duly adopted in
regular session on the 21st day of
September, 1914, divided the territory
embraced in said town Into two vot
ing precincts as follows, to-wit;
precinct numDer l; including tnai
part of said town lying easterly of
the middle line of Alaska avenue.
Precinct number 2; including that
part of said town lying westerly of
the middle of Alaska avenue.
And at said meeting the Common
Council by resolution fixed the poll
ing place of precinct No. 1 at the
Council Chamber at the Town Hall
on Broadway; and the polling place
of precinct No. 2 in the ground floor
room of the Pish building on West
McKinley street.
The following named persons were
designated by the council at said
meeting to serve as judges and clerks
of such election:
Precinct No. 1—Judges: H. M. De
lano, Tom Hunt, Louis Rosenthal.
Clerks: H. M. Conrad and H. P. Sul
livan.
Precinct No. 2—Judges: Con Low
ney, T. E. Wikidel, Prank Hayes.
Clerks: Ross Heckey and Frank Mil
lard.
Dated September 28, 1914.
E. E. RITCHIE, Mayor.
RANDALL E. ASHBY, Town Clerk
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President Woodrow Wilson
A LASKA as a storehouse, should be
" unlocked. One key to it is a sys
tem of railways. These the govern
ment should itself build and adminis
ter, and the ports and terminals it
should itself control in the interest of
all who wish to use them for the ser
vice and development of the country
and its people.
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
v •
C. E. Bunnell
THE policy of President Wilson’s
I administration toward Alaska has
been one of magnificent constructive
development.
Support the Administration by voting
for
C. L BUNNELL
FOR
Delegate to Congress
From Alaska
Latest War News!
Santa Claus Breaks Through the German Ranks
With Toys for S. Blum & Co.
It is generally understood that the United States has
been importing most of its Toys and a great many Holi
day Novelties from Germany, and that owing to the war
all importations have ceased. Limited supplies, how
ever reached this country prior to the declaration of
war, ond owing to the presence of our MR. KRAMER IN
EASTERN MARKETS at the RIGHT TIME we have
been able to secure a large and well assorted stock of
Toys and Christmas Novelties
We are now busily engaged in opening and displaying
these goods, and in a few days we will be ready to have
our many patrons call and inspect them. You will not
be compelled to send out for anything, either on account
of assortment or price. OUR PRICES WILL BE AS
LOW AS THOSE IN THE STATES.
Respectfully,
THOS. C. PRICE
of Cordova.
Democratic candidate for Senator.
Believes in government con
trol and immediate development
of the resources of Alaska.
If elected will work in harmony
with the National Democratic Ad
ministration in its attempt to open
up Alaska. A vote for l^lm is a
vote in support of President Wil
son.
For Representative
Thomas H. Holland
of Chitina.
Democratic Candidate.
Has lived in Alaska since 1902.
Knows Alaska, knows the needs
of Alaska and if elected will work
for Alaska.
A vote for him is a vote In sup
port of Woodrow Wilson in his
attempt to develop Alaska.
JOHN LYONS
Independent candidate
for Representative in
Alaska Legislature....
Resided in Alaska since
1897. Resided in Valdez
since 1901. Believes in
opening up Alaska for
this generation, and that
such a course is best for
all future generations.
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