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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, I1J05.
THE CHLXESE QUESTION.
The Chinese boycott against
United States vessels and United
States merchandise is on, and it is
apparently 011 to stay. The dis
crimination against America is
showing its effect in appeals to
Washington for more forcible rep
resentations to the Chinese govern
ment, and in open advocacy by the
commercial classes of the States of
a new treaty whereby present re
strictions will be removed and Chi
nese admitted, substantially, on
terms of equality with the more
favored peoples.
bo many strange tilings nave
happened in American politics since
the great movement northward be
gan that not much room is left for
surprise. If the spirit of commer
cialism now so clearly in the ascend
ant deems it profitable to admit
Chinese they \\ ill doubtless be ad
mitted regardless of moral consid
erations or future consequences.
In Alaska, any way, the most we
can do is to hope that out country
men will he spared such a dangerous
experience.
When peoples of totally dissimilar
traditions and standards ot manhood
come in contact they impart their
vices one to the other at the expense
of the virtues of each. This is a
sociological tinth which has been
demonstrated in the sections where
Chinese have gained a footing, as
well a> in frontier settlements where
whites and the native races have
overlapped, in many parts < f the
interior where the negro has min
gled with the whites in the pursuit
ot a livelihood, and in all ol the
great industrial centers where large
numbers of vie ions aid depraved
immigrants have I wen induced to
go as laborers. In each instance,
results have been similar, vat) mg
only in degree—-the tendency has
been toward a lower scale of man
hood; and it is a remarkable fact
that in the case of the natives and
whites where contact resulted in
open war the consequences to each
sale were less demoralizing and
scarcely more fatal than where they
kept at peace. Indeed, the moral
harm that is sure to accompany an
influx of coolies is so well under
stood that the public man who ad
vocates a removal of the restrictions
on that class of immigration for
business reasons, places himself in
an attitude dangerously near that
of the private citizen who would
invite the fouling of his own home
that the family fortune might be
increased thereby.
GRAND JURY'S ESTIMATE
OE WICKERSHAM.
The grand jury lately in session
at Fairbanks adopted a resolution
urging a division oi' the Third judi
cial division, so that the territory
north of the main divide of the
Alaskan range, including the Yu
kon valley, the Tanana country,
and thence northward, should con
stitute one divi ion, while that
which lies to the south of it, and
which is now included in said Third
division, should constitute another.
Kacb of these should have a sepa
rate judge, the judge of the division
north of said Alaskan range to re
side at Fairbanks. “Much could
be said as to the great need ot im
mediate action on the part of con
gress in making this change and
the necessity therefor,” said the
resolution; but the facts and fig
ures that can readily be obtained to
demonstrate it we will leave for
others to gather.”
i ne [CMiiuuuii conciuueu as ioi
lows:
“Of equal if not of paramount
importance to the foregoing, to the
people of the Tatiana valley, is the
necessity that we have an able,
competent anil honest judge—a
roan who knows the people and
understands the conditions, a man
who does right and knows how to
do right.'
“The Third judicial division of
the territory of Alaska has been
singularly free from any judicial
scandals, itt marked contrast to the
other divi ions of this territory.
Much of the credit for this is due
t<> the judge of the said division.
Ilis fearlessness and sterling quail -
ties as a man. and his known ab
horrence of anything that taints ui
‘graft' or official corruption, has had
a salutary effect upon the other
officers •>! the division, with the
result that the finger of suspicion
has never been pointed toward
them It is our desire that tnrh a
condition eonttnuc.
ESTABLISHED 1904
N. V. HENDRICKS
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
We Buy and Ship for you, Only on Commission
Coll on our Ajjent or write to u»
“Judge Wickershatn has been a
judge of this district for five years.
During that time he has proven
himself to be just, able, honest,
dignified, patient and fearless.
During that time he has acquired a
knowledge of our laws and condi
tions that can only come from deep
study and experience. Property
rights and the liberties of the
people have been safe in his hands
and justice has been fairly and
honestly administered. We feel
that we, as American citizens, have
a right to demand that ihis man
who has served us so faithfully,
conscientiously and well, shall con
tinue in his present condition, and
shall be designated, in case of a
division ol the Third judicial di
vision, to preside over that portion
of it that shall embrace the Tanana
valley.
“We, therefore, the undersigned
members of the grand jury and citi
zens of Fairbanks, do hereby pe
tition the president of the United
States and congress that the Third
judicial division be divided as here
in specified, and that the lion.
James Wickershatn shall be contin
ued as judge of said division, and
that he be designated as the judge,
in case of a division, to reside at
Fairbanks."
At Fresno, Cal., Aug i, Emmet
I Higgins killed Robert E. Deane,
an ex Philadelphia editor who had
[burlesqued Higgins in a published
article. The killing was brutal and
can not be justified on any principle
of right. Hut the tragedy shows
the weak spot in the Tolstoy doc
trine of non-resistance Deane had
received warning of Higgins’s in
tentions, but declined to take steps
for self defense. When the climax
came his whole moral philosophy
was dissipated in a moment, and
whatever of good there was in hire
was destroyed forever without an
effort at self preservation. There
t» a sermon in the tragedy, and il
teaches that right can not cottquei
by an appeal to the mercy of wrong
FoVKTltot'tiHT is a virtue ab
normally developed in a number o
prominent gentlemen whose me ita
calculi are dally it g with the presi
dential nomination of
(iKOItGK A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart. Alaska
J. LINDLKY GREEN,
Lawyer.
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OFFICE OF
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THE MIRROR
Wines,
Liquors,
Cigars.
JERRY FORD,
M. R. DOWNING.
Fresh Eggs $15 a Case
New Potatoes $8 a Crate
TENTS, ALL SIZES
All iny new and desirable stock
must be sold, as I will not continue
in business through the winter.
_V. M VICKS, I rontSt
1' r 1}Ant —RESIDENCE formerly
UI I\v III occupied by I)r. Gibltons.
For particulars apply to Miners Store.
Manufacturers of the east, who
| arc most insistent in the demand
tor the repeal of the Chinese exclu
sion act, are willing to endure the
effective boycott resulting from the
constantly increasing tariffs of Can
ada. (ie:many and other countries
in order to protect the monopoly
afforded them in the prohibitive
American tariff, but they arc un
willing that American labor should
be protected against Oriental inva
sion it the protection is to cost them
a market tor a lew dollars' worth ol
their supplies. SLagwav Alaskan
I'resent virtues are better than
(.nast victories.