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TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1017
SONG OF THANKSGIVING.
Not alone for mighty empire
Stretching far o’er land and bea,
Not alone for bounteous harvests,
Lift we up our hearts to Thee.
Standing in the living present,
Memory and hope between.
Lord, we would with deep thanksgiv
ing
Praise Thee more for things unseen
Not for battleships and fortress,
Not for conquests of the sword.
But for conquest^ of the spirit
Give we thanks to Thee, O Lord:
For the heritage of freedom,
For the home, the church the
school,
For the open door to manhood
In a land the people rule.
, -—Contributed.
THE COST OK “PROGKE8SIVISM.”
Gradually the thinking people of
the United States are coming to a re
alization of the impracticability of
many of the reforms that have re
sulted from “Progressivism” during
the past eight years. They are com
ing to understand the (term, “pro
gressive” as applied to legislation is
a misnomer—that it is not construc
tive, but really in most instances, de
structive and retrogressive.
La Follette’s "progressiviem” in
the state of Wisconsin has resulted
an increase of taxes of over 600
per cent. This too, without giving
to the people of the Badger state any
better government than was enjoyed
theretofore. His “progressivism" as
manifested in his seaman’s bill has
resulted in running the American
merchant marine off the seas and giv
ing their cargoes to foreign vessels.
The state of Washington commenc
ed its clamor for •progressivism" i:i
1008, at which time the state collect
ed taxes to the amount of $120,089,
632. Then followed all sorts of com
missions and regulative schemes that
added literally thousands of dollars
to the cost of running the state, with
a lesult that taxes jumped $13,1117,
017, bringing the total for the year's
requirements to $16,206,549. The
state of Washington repudiated “pro
gressivism” as soon as it was possible
to do so.
As one reflects upon conditions ex
isting in the States eight years ago
it is hard to see that a material im
provement has resulted. There have
been many corrective measures pass
ed by legislatures but they have nev
er served the objects for which they
were intended. Other abuses, more
flagrant have followed; and immense
ly more expensive to the taxpayers.
And there have followed also, certain
regulative features that have tended
to dissuade capital from undertaking
development plans in this Territory,
and have caused those who have al
ready invested to pursue a course so
conservative as to really be retro
active. If Alaska ever comes in to
her own the demagog and trouble
maker must be banished. Capital
must be given every chance to make
good before taxed to the limit of their
endurance. New enterprises must be
welcomed with open arms. As mat
ters now stand any project which is
hacked by a corporation meets imme
diate disfavor with the people and
is persecuted until it must either re
linquish its field and seek a more
conservative investment, or endure |
in silence the heavy costs taxed upon !
its enterprise.
But for the needless extremes in
legulation of corporations the Terri
tory would now contain many addi
tional canneries and plants. Im
mense forests of spruce are stauding
unproductive because of the excessive
antagonism to any corporation seek
ing to utilize them. Thousands of
good cannery locations stand unoc
cupied because of unwise legisla
tion. Corporations cannot afford to
take the risk of possible losse? which
they would be forced to take before
the fever of aggravating regulation
forced upon the statutes unnecessary;
and harmful laws.
Alaska will have to adopt a wiser
and more businesslike viewing of in-1
dustrial affairs before there will be:
that development of our immense re
sources which will make Alaska the
center of activity it should be,— with
its mineral wealth, its numberless
fishes, and its immense forests of
pulp timber. There must be less at
tention given to the demagogue and
to the agitator, and more attention
to reasonable, common aenae and
business tolerance.
Alaska ought to have a population
of 2,000,000 people. She has a scan
ty 60,000. It ought now to be en
joying the investment of millions of
dollars in industries attracted here
by the unusual opportunities await
ing the investor. But two per cent
taxes and six per cent insurance,
coupled with the hostility of the peo
ple toward advancement, has kept
our population down to its lowest
ebb.
The coming year promises great
things. To secure them we must lay
aside our radical, ultra-progreasive
ism and return to a safe a sane policy
of allowing a reasonable profit on
an investment. We must give capi
tal every inducement to locate in our
midst, that labor may benefit there- j
from. We must abolish all regula- (
tive methods that stifle trade. If we I
do these things Alaska will jump into j
statehood before the end of the com- (
ing year. The Territory could sup
port twenty million people in com
fort. The miner, the prospector, the
fisherman, the merchant, the farmer,
the business man—all would benefit j
by the abolishment of destructive I
"progressivism.”
THIS IS AMERICA.
A Kansas farmer sought to take
his boy out of the public schools and
place him in a private German school.
The right is being contested in the
Supreme Court. Whatever the deci
sion of the court may be, a Kansas
newspaper preaches a splendid ser
mon to all persons of foreign birth
in this country as follows:
"We can't have a nation built up
ot warring nationalities. We can’t
permit citizens of German descent
to go to German schools; French
to French schools. If Germans
want to send their children to Ger
man schools there is an easy way to
attain that end; that is, to stay in
Germany. The same can be said
with the French, Greek, or any
other nationality.”
This is America—an English speak
ing nation. It is made up of the peo
ple of all countries and their descen
dants, but English is the language of
the nation—and must continue to be.
We owe much to the people of all
nations; we have become great be
cause of the intermingling of the
many races, not because a few of the
races have tried to remain separate
and apart. But we shall frown upon
racial prejudices and warring nations
within our midst. It is America,
and must remain America.—Douglas
Island News.
“RUSSIA’S attainment of the tasks
created by the war—regarding Con
stantinople and the Dardanelles as
well as the creation of a free people
has not been guaranteed,” says the
czar in a manifesto to the army, in
which he says the time for peace ne
gotiations “has not yet arrived.” Rus ,
i.ia’s aims are somewhat like a snowr
1 all rolling down hill. They increase!
as progress is made. One of the
“tasks created by the war” was to get
the sultan’s capital, the dream of a
thousand years, and Russia has eu
chered her allies into consenting tnat
she shall have the city of the Crescent
as a war prize. This is the oppor
tune time and Russia is not going to
let go until something breaks. Ar.d
the allies have agreed among them
selves not to make a separate peace.
Perhaps in Russia Great Britain has
a bear by the tail.
A RECENT cold snap in Arizona
found the people without fuel and
according to the press dispatches they
were compelled to burn their furni
ture to keep warm. This must be
a newspaper story for if we remem
ber Arizona rightly there was enough
greasewood, sage brush, mesquite and
paloverde to furnish fuel for seventy
centuries.
A MEMBER of the British parlia
ment estimates that the value of the
oil fields in Rumania deliberately de
stroyed by the allies during their re
treat before the Teutonic advance
amounted to $150,000,000. This is
one—and a minor—illustration of the
tremendous waste incident to war.
THE agents of the Kaiser who are
looking for hotel accommodations at
The Hague for the peace delegates
whom Germany intends to send to a
proposed peace conference evidently
have been impressed with the idea
that they should do their shopping
early.
Announcement.
S. Blum & Co. wish to announce
that all their books and records which
were in the vault of the First Bank
of Valdez were unharmed and in per
fect condition. tf
Portugal Quells Revolt
PARIS, Jan. 9.—There have been
revolutionary outbreaks in various
parts of Portugal, according to a
Havas Agency dispatch from Lisbon,
filed yesterday, but an official note
declares that the uprising has been
everywhere entirely quelled and that
Lisbon is tranquil.
OH Price Sets Record.
PITT8BURQ, Pa., Jan. 9.—The
highest price ever quoted for Pennsyl
vania crude oil was announced by the
principal purchasing agencies today
when, through an advance of 10 cents
r. barrel, the quotation leached $2.S5.
Some refiners are quoted thai not un
til $3 oil has been reached will they
[release their stocks.
Policeman Is Shot.
RAPID CITY, S. D„ Jan. 9.—Jas.
Hawkes, a policeman was slain as he
tntered a hotel here yesterday i/i
response to a call for help. Enso.'
Spiking, who is under arrest charge I
with the murder, is accused of firing
cn Hawks as he entered the hotel.
Spiking was said td be creating a dis
turbance in the hotel..
Charged With Sending Bomb.
SPOKANE, Jan. 9.—The postoifice
inspector in charge of the Northwest
ern district was notified from Port
land yesterday that Milton A. Mor
gan has been arrested, charged with
having sent a bomb from Algona,
Wash., to Albany, Ore. The bomb
was received through the mail as a
Christmas present b> James S. Meis
ner. He became suspicious and •\v
ploded it from the limb of a tree.
Workmen's Compensation Lav.s.
Editor Prospector: The Alaska
legislature of 1915 enacted a law
which purports to be a workmen's
compensation law, modeled after the
workmen’s compensation and Indus
trial insurance laws in force in about
twenty states. It lacks, however,
many features of the state laws, and
is particularly deficient in making no
provision for enforced settlement of
claims out of court. Therein lies the
fatal defect that justifies the charge
that the act was never intended for
any purpose but to limit the liability
of raining companies. It did not in
clude any occupation but mining.
No doubt most of the legislators
who voted for this law did so in goo-i
faith. They believed it was what its
title alleges it to be. The legislature
which will meet next March will ha/e
■an opportunity to make it a work
men’s compensation law. I have drawn
an amendment providing for compul
sory arbitration out of court at lit
tle expense of all claims for compen
sation by injured workmen. This is
based upon provisions of the Illinois
and Nevada compensation acts and
Senator Hubbard has promised to in
troduce it with any changes which
may occur to him as likely to make it
more effective. ( It is as follows:
“In case any question of law or
fact regarding the application of
this law arises in fixing the com
pensation payable under its provi
sions which cannot be settled by
agreement of the parties, the em
ploye and employer shall each se
lect a disinterested party, to
act as arbitrators, and these two
shall select a third, or in case of
their inability to agree upon a
third disinterested party the judge
of the district court of the judicial
division in which the injury occurs
shall on request name such third
party. The persons so named shall
constitute a board of arbitrators in
the case and it shall be the duty of
both employe and employer to sub
mit to such board within ten days
after it is constituted, all facts or
evidence in their possession or un
der their control relating to the
questions to be determined by the
arbitrators. Said board shall in
considering the case have access to
any books, papers or records of
either the employer or the employe
which may be material to the ques
tions at issue, and the members
shall be empowered to visit the
place or plant where the accident
occurred, to direct the injured em
ploye to be examined by one or
more regular practicing physicians
or surgeons, and to do all other
acts reasonably necessary for a
proper investigation of all matters
in dispute.
“The finding of such board of ar
bitrators shall be binding upon
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both the employer and the employe
except for fraud or mistake. Pro
vided, that either party to such ar
bitration shall have the right of
appeal to the district court of the
judicial division where the acci
dent occurs by filing a petition on
appeal in such court within twenty
days after receiving a copy of tho
written findings and award of the
arbitrators, and giving a bond to
be approved by the court or judge
thereof to comply with the final de
cision in the case. Upon such ap
peal all questions in dispute shall
be heard de novo, and either party
may have a jury upon filing a writ
ten demand therefor with his peti- (
t'*on.
"A demand for arbitration of .•
claim for compensation as herein
provided ma7 be served at any time
by either party upon the other and
it shall be the duty of the party
upon whom such demand may be
made to comply with the same
within ten days thereafter. In case
of refusal to comply with such de
mand the party moving for same
shall have the right after the expi
■ ration of ten days to apply to the
judge of the district court of the
judicial division where the accident
occurs to name two arbitrators to
act with one named by the party
and the tlir^e persons so designat
ed shall constitute the board of ar
bitration in the and they shall
proceed as if named by the parties
All expenses of the arbitration
shall be taxed to the employer, sub
ject to revision in the district
court on appeal.”
Another amendment will propose
extension of the law to cover all haz- j
ardous employments in the territory, j
such as railroading, sawmills, can
neries and various manufacturing j
plants. The present law is consid
ered by many lawyers to be class leg-;
islation, for the mining operators. b> i
the mining operators and of the min
ing operators.
The law so amended will be a real
compensation act. It will take away
from the courts and lawyers contro
versies over compensation to injured
workmen and make such cases mat
ters of business adjustment with rare
resort to the courts on appeal. That
has been the result in the state which
have such laws.
The present Alaska law pro'ides
that employer and employe “may”
jsue in the district court. They had
that right before and the law added
nothing to it. It provides that if t o
settlement is made the employe ‘may
cuie in the district court. The em
ploye had that right before, without
limitation of the amount he could re
cover.
E. E. RITCHIE.
Anything in nugget and ivory jew
J elry at Valdez Drug Co.
Randall Ashby arrived on the
Mariposa bringing a large hardware
and miscellaneous stock from Cordo
va for the Blum store.
Rev. Father Crimont was an arri
val from Cordova on the Mariposa last
evening.
Superintendent Standard of the
jBeatson mine at Latouche, was a
through passenger on the Mariposa
last evening for Latouche.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offices over Valdes Draff Co.
Phone *15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National (JDiversity
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdes.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
J. L. REED
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
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Phone XU) VALDEZ, ALASKA
EDMUND SMITH
LAWYER
Suite 1212 American Bank Building,
SEATTLE, WASH.
Special Attention Given to all Alaska
Business. , -
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ASA C. BALDWIN
w CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
Valdes, Alaska
VALDEZ CAFE
AND
BAKERY
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Bergstrom and Rogstadt
Try the Cottage Liming ttoom for i
good home-cooked meals. Mrs. M.
Rucker. Phone 131. tf
We have all outside rooms, well
lighted, and well ventilated at t'nfj
St. Elias. if
SI' F FRA GISTS MI ST BE
GOOD OR STAY AWAY
WASHINGTON, 1). C., Jan. 9.—
Women suffragists will be barred
from participation in the inaugural
parade here March 5, officials in
charge announced tonight, unless
they promise not to display banners
advertising the suffrage cause. “All
paraders will escort and honor the
chief executive and will be in line for
that purpose alone.” said the an
nouncement. “Any scheme to attract
particular attention to any particular
cause will be strictly banned."
Women’s organizations, however,
will be welcomed in the parade, mem
bers of the inaugural committee said,
and for tfke first time in history wo
men will take a conspicious part-. In
augural officials said they had learn
ed that the suffragists had planned a
big demonstration during the par
ade and that they desired to head it
off.
The Best Place in Valcfl* to
Stop at is the K, ^
Arctic Hotel*
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Everything First class
Open Day and Night
ANDY MAROVICH, Prop.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
We*tern Federation' of Miner*
W. H. GARNER, Provident.
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdez Alaska.
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polished tops, at Mead’s. tf
A full line of pyralin ivory at Owjjj
Drug Co. tf
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at Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. tf
All kinds of cocktatlB. At the
Candy Kitchen. tf
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