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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
J. F. A. STRONG.
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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."
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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.
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