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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 26th. 1919
TRANSPORTATION
Decreased transportation costs are the first essential to the full devel
opment of the Alaska Territory. This fact is the most important and ineon
iiavertable one confronting the people of this and every other district.
I tegardless of the nature of all other schemes hatched with a view to increas
ing local production and industry, they cannot resell more than a partial stage
of development under present transportation conditions. This should l»e
borne close in mind by every business man. miner and laborer who possesses
an interest in the future of the district.
The costs of the goods we purchase in the Outside markets are regulat
ed’almost wholly by supply and demand and there is no prospect of greatly
altering them to our own benefit. Alaska transportation rates, however, are
arbitrary charges. Transportation to and from Alaska is controlled by pri
vate corporations, tlie primary object of which is the making of profits for
greedy stockholders. There is nothing of the altruistic about them. Their
inclination to serve the public is measured solely by the standard of how
much there is in it. The two transportation companies which hold a present
monopoly of Alaska shipping, work hand in hand and have never at any time
displayed the slightest inclination to assist the development of the Territory,
unless such assistance netted immediate and profitable returns. Kven when
it was plain to be seen that a slight reduction in current traffic tolls would
tend to create a vast future increase in their own business by promoting the
development and production of the Territorial industries, they have seemingly
preferred t<> let a languish industry die rather than extend a helping hand ' y
granting a decrease in rates on the commodities belonging thereto.
No finer example of this form of corporation rapacity and short sight
edness could be found than is displayed in the attitude of the steamship com
panies toward the Nome fishing industry. Here we have a vast potential
industry, whose present development is infinitesimal compared to the possibil
ities of ultimate and comprehensive enlargement and which would grow by
leaps and bounds if the costs of transporting supplies and marketable pro
ducts were such as to enable local fisherman to compete with foreign packers
in the Outside business marts. moderate reuucuon in me present train©
charges on packed fish and fishing supplies would enable many fisherman toj
enter the business as producers and result in an immense increase in thej
volume of the annual pack.
With a larger number of packers in the field, within a year or two the
outgoing traffic of the steamship companies would be doubled or trebled. In
a lesser degree, perhaps, the same argument applies in the case of the quartz j
and reindeer industries of the district, both of which are languishing for no
other reason than that the local producers are unable to compete with similiar|
producers of other sections of the nation by reason of the immense costs of
transporting their products and the essential supplies of their industry. A
modest reduction in the shipping charges on crude ores and reindeer meat
v. ould undoubtedly have the effect of more than doubling the prosier it ship
ments with.n r. short time, with resultant benefits to .*-•? transportation con
cerns, as well as the producers.
Th© companies, however, instead of attempting to foster those in
dustries in order to profit by their future development, appear entirely willing
to let them Unger and possibly vanish entirely rather than make an eminently
Justifiable reduction in the tollage charges on their products. Judging from
their attitude in the past, the companies prefer to let their ships leave the
shores of Alaska with empty holds rather thari to secure a cargo by granting
a nominal reduction in rates on a limited variety of products.
The companies at present controlling the transportation trade of Ala
ska are probably no more to blame for their attitude than other corporations,
would be liable to blame in the same situation. Corporations,.are all more
or less alike. “Get the money and get it quick’* is in a general sense, the
slogan of all of them, big or little.We cannot hope to alter the present situation
by merely substituting one corporation for another. What we have to do is
to enlist the interest of independent shipping firms and make it worth their
while to enter the local transportation field by giving them the bulk of our
business as long as they play fair. Competition will soon change the at
titude of the monopolistic concerns.
We should bear in mind that the first essential to any important in
Alien Property Custodian hnd one of the prominent figures of the nation.'1
war administration forces, has been sent to the Senate by President Wilson
for confirmation for the office of Attorney General of the United States, 1>
succeed Attorney General Gregory, who has handed In his resignation.
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