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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE J. F. A. STRONG. TELEPHONE 3-74 Application has been made to the postottlce department for the entry of this newspaper as second class mat ter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year, by mall 310.00 Six Months, by mail 5.00 Per Month, delivered 1.00 JUNEAU. A1.ASKA. NOV. 5. 1912. ALASKA AND "THE SPIRIT." Alaska is a rich land. Its natural resources are really Just beginning to be appreciated In part. The Idea that it is a waste, howling wilderness, a region of eternal snow and Ice, in habited mainly by polar bears and eskimo, is gradually disappearing. But dense Ignorance still exists in many parts of these United States concerning this territory. But we are making a little progress all the time in the way of enlighten ing our fellow citizens elsewhere. They now know something about our gold and copper production. Alaska canned calmon may be found all around the world, though there still are people who think It comes from Oregon. Our coal deposits have at tracted wide attention and have created much controversy. They are still with us in their virgin state, to be sure, but we still hope that in the not distant future they will be of some use to Alaska and the whole Pacific Coast. Alaska furnishes a substantial mar ket for the manufactured products of the United States, and Seattle, in u great measure, owes its rise, pro gress and what prosperity it enjoys to this territory. Of course this state ment will be believed but by few people of that city. They lay the flattering unction to their souls that the "Seattle Spirit" has worked the wonders and performed the miracles. They would not have us tell it in Alaska, publish it in the streets of the Elliott bay city or pin it to the Alaska totem pole that stands in Pioneer square. Oreat was Diana of the Ephesiians, but in the Seattle mind, greater is the Spirit. Furthermore you may have noticed that the "Spirit's" withers are might ily wrung when it finds that it is not getting all that it thinks It should from the Alaska people. SEVEN BIG QUESTIONS. According to former Senator Henry Clay Hansbrough, of North Dakota, there are seven big questions con fronting the next president. Mr. Hansborough claims credit for putting the Louisiana lottery out of commis sion: putting the Harvester trust on the griddle; putting the national Ir rigation law on the statute books. It will be noticed that he has, there fore. done some putting in his time, and is still ready for further action, although North Dakota retired him, notwithstanding these accomplish ments in the way of national legisla tion. out aa iu iuc occu ui^ jyiuuicuio which the senator says confront the next president: He says he would place the trusts at the head of the list, for the truth Is the nation Is trust-sick, and those who are responsible for the trusts are beginning to realize that something la radically wrong. Next In Senator Hansbrough's mind is the tariff, and he adds that both the Republican and Democratic par ties are committed to a just and equitable revision, and they are not so very far apart, he thinks, as to the measure of protection to be pro vided. Monetary reform comes next. The government, says the Senator, is get ting further and further away from Wall street every day, this being due In a large part to the business-like policy of the present secretary of the treasury. Foreign questions are fourth in the Senator's category, and on this sub ject he says: "No one who has had legislative experience and participat ed in the secret debates of the Sen ate would presume to discuss in ad vance the nation's foreign relations, for it is a subject possessing many delicate aspects. Hence the very great importance of having a steady hand at the helm of state." Constitutional changes, sociology and conservation in the Senator's opinion are next in order, the two latter being so closely allied with the trust question that they cannot well be considered apart from It CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS There is one phase of the presiden tial campaign just closed which is worthy of more than passing com ment. It embraces the subject of campaign contributions this year. It is stated on good authority that the total contributions to the Democratic. Republican and Progressive campaign funds have fallon hundreds of thous ands of dollars short of the Roose velt campaign fund In 1904. Up to Oct. 27 there had been 53,303 con tributors to the $667,460 Wilson fund, an average of only $13 each. In 1904 73% per cent of the total Roosevelt contributions came from corporations. Nothing measures the distance that progressive government has traveled, says the New York World, In these eight years better than the difference between the campaign funds of 1904 and the campaign funds of 1912. FISHER AND THE COAL LANDS. Secretary of the Interior Fisher has announced his intention to "wipe off the slate" In the matter of the Alaska coal land controversy, before March 4. He adds that there will be no coal patents issued to anyone if he gets "his fingers on them before March 4." Taking an absolutely dispassionate view of the Alaska coal land embro glio wo can come to no other conclu sion than that a grave injustice has been done to a number of the Alaska coal claimants. That there has been collusion and fraud In some cases is evident; but it does not seem to be reasonable that every man who en tered upon 160 acres of coal land is a thief, a perjurer or a fraud. In fact a not inconsiderable number of these men stand just a high in their re spective communities as does Mr. Fisher in his; they would not steal any part of the public domain know ingly or wilfully. Viewed from any standpoint one cannot but reach the conclusion that It is high time, however, that this most vexatious problem received a sane solution. The whole Alaskan coast has suffered because of It, and will continue iO suffer until the great coal fields of this territory are open ed up and developed commercially. Alaska and the Pacific Coast need the coal, and the Industries which would follow the development of the product of Alaska's coal measures. POLITICS AND RELIGION. A Seattle clergyman finds himself the unhappy possessor of a $25,000 The libel, and we regret to note It, peudage. A $25,000 bequest from a rich uncle would be far more pleas ant?and profitable. The ilbel, and we regret to note It, was the result of politics and relig ious faith, a mixture, we submit that ought not to find a place in our po litical economy. Fortunately In America the religious faith of men seeking public office has seldom been called in question. A man's religious belief is his own. It is with him, or it should be at j least, a matter of conscience. A man has also an indubitable right to his political belief. Should he be lam pooned or libeled because of It? Would straight-thinking people deem it fair, decent or honorable? But the matter of one's religious belief is a far more sacred matter. There is good in every religion that has stood the test of time. Without it this world would not have progressed as it has. And at that strange and la mentale things have been done In the name of religion, that have not been creditable to religion's cause. A story is told of the celebrated Dean Swift which illustrates the length to which religious bigotry has gone in times past. The dean was traveling through a part of Ireland where religious bitterness had reached a high development. He came to a church over the door of which was written: "A Turk, Jew or heathen may en ter h.?re. but not a papist." Dean Swift read the inscription carefully, and taking his quill pen and lnkhorn from his pocket under neath it he wrote: "Whoever wrote this wrote it well, for the same is written on the gates of hell." But that was in a day of bitter re ligious intolerance. We have gone forward since that period. THE CRIPPLED TURK. The allied enemies of the Turk are near the gates of Constantinople we were told in yesterday's dispatches. From the same source we are in formed that the European powers are hurrying pell mell, helter skelter to the aid of the Turk, in that they are endeavoring to mediate between the Turks and their foes and open negotiations for the establishment of peace. The Sublime Porto has asked the intervention of the powers because Turkey finds that she can not withstand the impetuous assaults of the allied forces. And the powers know now as they have all the time known that the "integrity" of Turkey must not be Impaired. That country's position in Europe is due solely to the alleged Christian nations of Europe. Their financial interests in Turkey are the sole, impelling cause. But for the money question the Turk would have been driven out of Europe a century or more ago. But because of the European financial interests in Tur key she has been allowed to main tain herself in face of murderous outrages on her non-Moslem subjects that have made the rest of the world shudder in horror. Turkey has been often told that Bhe ( must effect reforms in her subject provinces, and as often has she prom ised immediate compliance. Fre quently the promised reforms have been made with Are and sword. And still the powers have blinked and nodded?the money power la the greater. Turkey has Just emerged from a disastrous war with Italy and is crippled financially; her navy Is a farce. At Beirut, in Syria, last March, Italian .warships Bank two gunboats in that harbor. It might have been done with modern fire arms at a long distance. The armor plate of the Turkish gunboats was only boiler plate. That incident il lustrates in a fair measure the war ships of the Ottoman navy. But the concert of the European powers will bo unanimous. Turkey must be saved for the European money kings have so ordained. And her Christian provinces and redress ing their wrongs by fire and sword, and will continue in the same old way. THE VILLAGE TIGHTWAD. A young country merchant who had something of a reputation for close figuring was especially atten tive to the village schoolma'am. The young woman had a sweet tooth, and was not at all retiring about making the fact known. Accordingly, she hinted to her admirer that a box of chocolntes would be greatly appre ciated on the occasion of his next visit. Later the suggestion was re pented and again duly heeded. The third time the subject was broached, however, the dispenser of sweets turned a deaf ear to the entreaty. "I don't know about takln* thr.t girl any more candy," he confided to a companion next day. "She's owln" me 60 cents for chocolates already." ?Ex. ?M l M'l-I M I M'l-I I M M 1 1 I I M+ { SIDELIGHTS | n m 11 m n m m 11111 > Travollng In a German railway train one day last winter the writer engaged In conversation (bad Ger man ar?d worse English) with a Ger man professional man, who entered a compartment of tho car. He was loquacious In the extreme and was greatly interested In America and Americans. Finally he asked what part of America we came from. Alaska, he was told. "Ach!" he said, In mixed German and English, "der land of gelt." Then he was told of the Pacific Coast. San Francisco he had heard of. Seattlo? "Nein, uein," he shook his head while its location was laboriously explained to him. The name and the fame of the city which Alaska has built up he had never heard of. ? ? ? Some of the numerous national election forecasters will know today how it feels to be funnier than they intended to be. ? I I If Alaska does not have a credit able first territorial legislature it will not be because there was a lack of good timber. It will be the people's fault, not the candidates. # ? # Well there's something to be thankful for in the fact that Seattle's two leading commercial bodies don't see all dollars alike. ? ? ? The Seattle Chamber of Commerce, it may not be known, has an "Alas ka Bureau. Now, we really wonder what Important functional duties It performs that are of benefit to Alas ka? President Tnft favors Governor Hadley, of Missouri, as the succes sor of the late Vice President Sher man. The selection is an excellent one. Gov. Hadley is a clean, able man, who in the opinion of many loomed large in the Republican Na tional Convention at Chicago. Next to Senator Elihu Roos he was by far the ablest and moBt conspicuous fig ure in that groat gathering. Alert, brilliant, well-poiBcd, ho made a clean-cut fight for the nomination of Roosevelt, but when the smoke of the convention battle had cleared away he refused to follow the Col onel and become a Bull Mooso, choosing, rather to suffer affliction with the Republican party than to en joy the pleasures of browsing around in the Moose pastures. Governor Hadley will yet be heard from in the national politics. ? ? ? The women of the states of Wash ington and California enjoyed their first voting privileges in a national election today. Wonder how many of them will get their ballots on straight? Fred Garner, of Juneau, haB a well presorved copy of the first issuo of the Nome News, published Oct 9, 1899, which he prizes highly. It is a four-page, four-column sheet, and on tho editorial page the announce ment 1b mude that tho News "will bo lr lollverod to subscribers at $2 per Is month, or $24 a year, in advance; di price of single copies GO conts each." ti Tho advertising rates are quoted at n $20 per inch a month. Tho News 41 waB published weekly until the fol lowing summer whon it became a dally. _ * * * Alaska today enters upon a new epoch in her somowhat peculiar and tortuous history. As history goes yesterday it was a Russian province, but today it Is a full-fledged terri tory of the United States, its legisla tive powers dating from today. And at that wo think that tho recognition was slow in coming. But imagine, if you can, what Alaska would have been today were it still under the Russian flag. Glfford Plnchot's wild est dreams of conservation would not have been a marker for the close - season that would have prevailed " all the year round, except to tho fav- r ored few. SPECIAL TERM OF COURT. In the District Court for the District of Alaska, Division No. 1, At Juneau. In tho Matter of Calling a Special December, 1912, Term of Court at Juneau. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to an order of tho Honorable Thomas R. Lyons, District Judge for the District of Alaska, Division No. I, made on-tho 4th day of November, 1912, at Juneau, Alaska, a SPECIAL TERM of the DISTRICT COURT will bo holden at the United States Court House at Juneau, Alaska, beginning on Monday, tho NINTH DAY OF DE CEMBER, 1912, at tho hour of ten o'clock in the forenon of B&ld day. E. \V. PETTIT. Clerk of the District Court for tho District of Alaska, Division No. 1. .Dated and published at Juneau, Alaskn, this 5th day of November, A. D. 1912. FEMMER & RITTER. Sco thlB Arm for all klndB of dray ig and hauling. Wo guarantee sat ifactlon and reasonable prices. Coal olivorod promptly. Fommor & Rlt ;r'B Express. Stand Burford's Cor er. Phone 314. Residence phonos )2 or 403. ??? Subscribe for The Dally Emplro. R. P. NELSON Wholesale and Retail Dealer In All Kinds STATIONERY Typewriting 'Supply*, Blank Books, Office Supplies, Sporting Goods, Huyler's Candles, Gun ther's Candies, Toys, Notions, Books, Magazines, Waterman's Fountain Pens, Conklln Pens, Etc. Cor. 2nd. and Seward Sts. Juneau, Alaska JUNEAU FERRY & NAVIGA TION COMPANY TIME CARD Loaves Junoau for Douglas and Tread well?*8:00 a. m., 9:00 a. m. **11:00 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 3:00 p. m., **4:30 p. m.t 6:30 p. m., 8:00 p. m., 9:00 p. m., 11:00 p. m. Leaves Treadwell for Douglas and Juneau?8:25 a. m., 9:25 a. m., *?12:00 noon, 1:40 p. m., 3:25 p. m., **4:55 p. m., 6:55 p. m., 8:25 p. m., 9:25 p. m., 11:25 p. m. Leaves Douglas for Juneau? 8:30 a. m., 9:30 a. m. **12:05 p. m., 1:45 p. m., 3:30 p. m., **4:45 p. m., 7:05 p. m., 8:30 p. m., 9:30 p. m? 11:00 p. m. ?On Sundays this trip is omit ted. ??This trip to Sheep Creek daily except 4:30 p. m. trip on Saturday, which is omitted and trips leaving Juneau at 6:30 p. m. and 11:00 are made Instead, and Sheep Creek trlpB at 11:00 a. m., 6:30 p. in., and 11:00 p. m. HUMBOLDT STEAMSHIP CO. The Alnnkn Flyer S. S. HUMBOLDT I The Abuk* Flyer NORTHBOUND NOV. 3 SOUTHBOUND NOV. 4 DOCKS AT JUNfeAU CITY WHARF Seattle Olllco, 716 Second Ave. GEO. BURFORD, Agent ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY INSIDE ROUTE nni PUIN NORTH ...NOV. 5, 17 HJXjLul mil SOUTH NOV. 6, 18 IFFFFRSON N0RTH N0V- 11 tlJLil i Ut\0\JW SOUTH NOV. 12 Steamers Jefferson and Dolphin all the year round serving the prosperous cities and settlements of the world famous Inside Pass age Splendid service. Courteous treatment. ELMER E. SMITH, Douglas Agent WILLIS E. NOWELL, Agent. NORTHLAND STEAMSHIP COMPANY S. S. ALKI, South, NOV. 10 S. S. NORTHLAND, Carrying Freight and Explosives H. C. BRADFORD, Mgr., Pier 4, 8eattle. SOWERBY & BELL, Juneau JOHN HENSEN 1 CO., Deugla* CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO.-B.C.CoastScrvice Sailing from Juneau for Port Slmjwon, Prince Rupert, Swanson, Alert Bay, Vancouver Victoria and Seattle PRINCESS MAY NOVEMBER 7 Front and Seward Sta. C. P, R. TICKET OFFICE j. t. spickett, agt THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE A paper for all the people, all the time. Independent in every way. 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