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ALASKA THE TEST?
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF
RAILROADS MAY BE TRIED
IN THE TERRITORY.
COMMISSION TO REPORT SOON
May Recommend Purchase of the
Alaskan Northern, but Conserva
tlonlstA Assert This Would Be Poor
Road With Which to Start-
By GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.—ls Uncle Sam to con
sider the construction, ownership and
operation of railroads In the teyitory
of Alaska? The question probably will
be answered In a few days, and if the
answer is yes and government owner
ship and operation shall prove a suc
cess, there are congressmen in Wash
ington willing to say that the step
first taken in the territory may lead
later to a record step to be taken in
the states. This simply goes to show
that the question of government own
ership of the transportation facilities
is still occupying the attention of the
law makers of the land.
Last August President Taft ap
pointed what is known as the Alas
kan railroad commission. Its duties
have been to study the question of
railroads in Alaska with a possible
view to the recommendation of gov
ernment ownership, a subject which
has been a medium of debate, charge
and counter charge and bitter discus
sion in the committee rooms and on
the floors of congress for years.
The members of the commission
who will report on the subject are
Maj. J. J. Morrow, U. S. A., chairman;
Alfred H. Brooks of the geological
survey and one of the authorities on
Alaskan subjects; Leonard M. Cox,
civil engineer. United States navy, and
Colin Macßae Ingersoll of New York,
civil engineer in private practice. The
cominlttee has been at work on its
report for a month and the last pages
of it are being prepared for the printer.
Position of Conservationists.
Some time ago Secretary of the In
tUrlor Fisher recommended that the
government buy the Alaskan Northern
railroad and extend it to the Manta
nuska coal fields. It seems likely that
the report of the commission will deal
largely with this phase of the trans
portation problem. If the committee
supports Mr. Fisher’s position it is be
lieved in Washington that the whole
Alaska controversy may be reopened
and that the conservationists will re
start their fight. The purchase of the
particular line mentioned they think
in itself is a good thing, but believe
that it would be a bad railroad to start
with on a government purchase ven
ture.
The conservationists hold that the
purchase of the Alaska Northern rail
road would take the government into
practically virgin territory and would
leave the rest of the country to the
exploitation of the Guggenheim syn
dicate, whose operations around Con
troller bay and in the coal field lying
to the north of it would continue un
molested. The conservationists add
that the Alaska Northern railroad
purchase would be a tactical error
and instead of strengthening federal
control over the resources of the rich
territory actually would weaken the
movement for such control.
There is a story here to the effect
that some years ago the Canadian
bondholders who controlled the Alas
kan Northern sent an engineer out to
examine the 71 miles of track which
then had been laid and to report on
the wisdom of the extension of the
road to the coal fields. It is said that
this engineer said that the road was
“111 conceived” and a waste of money.
The bondholders dropped the road and
it went into bankruptcy after having
cost something like $5,000,000. Later
it was sold for $600,000 at a United
States marshal’s sale. Now it is said
that the present owirars are “willing”
to sell it to the government.
Booher Convict Labor BUI.
A hearing is about to begin be
fore a subcommittee of.. the sen
ate committee on jujdiciary on a
bill which opens up again the old
question of state rights. The bill was
introduced by Representative Charles
F. Booher, Democrat, of Missouri, and
it is known as the convict labor bill.
If it is passed its effect will be to pre
vent th? importation into any state
where convict labor for the markets
is forbidden, of convict goods manu
factured in other States where Convict
labor for the markets is allowed.
There is going to be a fight over
this bill-and the details pf the argu
ments pro and con and the influences
which are said to be back of the oppo
sition to the bill can be given without
prejudice one way or the other- One
of the strongest advocates of the pas
sage of the Booher measure says
that It “would affect intimately and
immediately the welfare/ of an army
of working girls in hundreds of gar
ment factories throughout the coun
try; of a hundred thousand innocent
wives and children of convicts who
are being punished by society for no
fault of their own; it would open the
way to reformation of a host of per
sons who are nothing more thaa pri
vate slaves of private personal con
tractors; and, finally, It would end,
once and for all time, the hundred
year’s war that has been waging be
tween free labor and convict labor
In this country,"
It Is held by the advocates of the
; measure, thqt the great evil of convict
. made goods Is .that they compete di
;; rectly with goods made by so-called
* tree labor. It is said that under pres-
conditions spoils made under the
■ '
convict contract system can be
dumped upon the market in a state
whose local laws forbid the exploita
tion of convict labor, "thus demoraliz
ing the market and practically nullify
ing the effect of the local laws."
End Sought Is Favored.
There seems to be a general disposi
tion among members of congress to
regard with favor the end sought by
the Booher bill, but there is a feeling
also that It will interfere with the
rights of the states to do what they
wish within their own borders. The
question, therefore, with some of the
law makers, as far as one can get at
their opinions, is that the bill, excel
lent though It may be, would be an
entering wedge for further federal in
terference with the affairs of the
states. The tendency of the times,
however, seems to be to give fuller
control to the federal government.
To give some idea of the sharpness
of the controversy over this convict
labor bill, a report recently made by
a man who has studied the situation
for years says that the advocates of
the present system form a rich and
powerful group and that their opposi
tion “may result In the defeat of the
Booher bill.” It is said in Washing
ton "without naming names” that one
of the convict labor contractors is a
social and financial leader in Cincin
nati and a friend of the president of
the United States; another is a Chi
cago multi-millionaire and secretary
of a great charitable organization,
while another is a prominent Baltimo
rean.
Arguments on Other Side.
It must not be understood that all
the arguments are to be allowed for
one side. Before the hearing on the
bill Is ended persons representing the
contracting interests affected will pre
sent as forcibly as they can their
side of the question. They will not
depend entirely upon “uncoustitution
ality” or upon state rights arguments,
but they will talk about the extra pay
which convicts earn and some of the
other (hinge which have gone to make
up the arguments in behalf of the pre
vailing custom.
Nearly nine years the United States
bureau of labor made a special inves
tigation of the convict labor system
and in a report condemned it. This
report will be used by the advocates
of the measure to uphold their conten
tion that the Booher bill should pass.
It seems probable that if there were
no state rights questions involved the
bill would go through by a heavy vote.
As it is, its passage may be consid
ered as in doubt.
Money Legislation Certain.
Nobody knows what is going to be
the outcome of the money trust inves
tigation. On the word of a "prom
inent” congressman there are not ten
congressmen in the capitol who have
knowledge of finance broad enough to
afford a base for legislation which
would give promise of being worthy.
In truth there are some congressmen
who say that men do not know any
more about real methods of regulat
ing the currency than they did in the
days when sea shells were used as
cash. This is not a very promising
outlook for the results of the money
trust investigation or for eventual
currency reform legislation, but it is
pertain that some time or other Dem
ocrats, Progressives or Republicans
will put through some kind of a cur
rency measure in the hope that it will
stand the test and do the things gen
erally which have not-been done in
times of trouble in the past.
In a room almost next that in
which the money trust delvers delve
sit the members of tlje ways and
means committee to hear the argu
ments for and against tariff reduc
tions,. The wool growers’ representa
tives are to come back here from the
country of Warren and Smoot and
from the sheep ranches of Texas.
They repeat what they have said
twice before since Mr. Taft became
president. What is true of the hear
ings on wool will be true of the hear
ings on other things. Repetition Is
to rule the committee room.
Other Inquiries Going On.
Anti-trust legislation is to be in
vestigated. The house committee on
judiciary is to grant hearings this
month to all those Interested. The
shipping trust is to be looked into by
the committee on merchant marine,
and simultaneously there will be an
inquiry into the New Haven-Grand
Trunk railroad situation in New
England. January is to be a time of
investigation.
The work of gathering facts ex
tends to the framing of a currency
bill, which is to be put into the hands
of a sub-committee. It was only last
year that the Aldrich currency com
mission ended its work. Its report
was voluminous. Its members had
gone to Europe to dig into banking
methods, its principal member had
gone to the big cities of the United
States to speak to men interested in
the subject and incidentally, probably,
to win them to his view of the rem
edy for currency laws.
The commission did its work,
framed its report and turned it over.
To-day apparently the bankers of the
country and financial men generally,
to say nothing of members of con
gress and such laymen as are sup
posed to have any currency sense, are
as divided as ever they were on the
subject , of a reserve association and
the other things made prominent
either by negatives or affirmatives in
the report of Mr. Aldrich’s commis
sion.
Inferior Dreamer.
“I dreamed,” said the poet, “that
I had won the Nobel prize for litera
ture.”
“You’re always dreaming something
impossible,” hfs wife sadly replied.
“Why don’t you dream that you have
found a place where you can get a ton
or two of coal, and then try to make
the dream come true?”
LOST BEAUTY
OF WOMEN
Caa be Remedied, b Many b*
stances, According to State
ment of Mrs. Ladle
McElroy.
Laurel, Miss.—ln a letter from this
place, Mrs. Lucile McElroy says: "I
was sick for three years, with back
ache, headache, pains in my stomach
and back, low down. At times I could
not do a thing, I was so weak.
After I was married, I thought I
would try Cardui, the woman’s tonic,
and after using two or three bottles,
I couldn’t tell one day from another
—felt good all the time.
I not only still use Cardui, but ad
vise every lady I think needs it, to
give it a trial, and several whom I
have persuaded, say they have ob
tained great relief.
Another good thing I have noticed
about Cardui Is that It fills out hol
lows under the eyes, which are sunk
en as if from a bad spell of sickness.
It fleshens up a woman’s eyes, and
makes them look bright and plump.
Many a woman would be pretty If It
were not for her sunken-in eyes.
I believe that Cardui, the woman’s
tonic, is the only treatment for wom
en.”
Do you suffer from womanly trou
ble? If so, give Cardui, the woman’s
tonic, a trial.
Judging from the experience of a
million other women who have been
benefited by this remedy, it should
surely do you good.
N. B.—STH. ft, Medion. Co., Ladia'
Advisory Department. Chattanooga, Teaneeee*. for
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Treatment for Women, sent in plain wrapper. Adv.
MR. GOSLINGTON GO.T EVEN
Collision of 111-Mannered Man and
Fire Hydrant Afforded Him Much
Satisfaction.
“You know the crowding, pushing,
ill mannered chaps,” said Mr. Gosling
ton, “that elbow their way through
and crowd you off into the gutter, like
as not, and pass right on with never
a thought? I encountered one of
them this morning in Sixth avenue.
"He overtook me, coming up from
the rear, walking faster than I, and
when he had come to me he didn’t
sheer out, but kept right along, shoul
dering me so that I almost fell Into
the street. But in one brief moment I
was more than fully avenged.
“Just as -this ill-mannered chap
shouldered me I had arrived at a fire
hydrant, for which I was about to
sheer out. You know the fire hydrant?
Built of cast Iron, very hard, and
standing up rigidly, very rigidly. You
can’t just shoulder a fire hydrant out
of the way, and just as this man
shouldered me out of his course he
came upon the fire hydrant, which
with me covering It from view he had
not seen. His next rude, reckless
step forward carrying him up against
this fire hydrant fair and squarely
perbunk!
“And it didn’t break his leg, but It
did make him limp; he limped quite
perceptibly, I was pleased to see, as
he walked away.”
BROKE OUT IN HEAT RASH
822 Georgia Ave., East Nashville,
Tenn. —"My baby was about two
months old when he began to break
out in small red pimples like heat
rash, afterward turning Into festers.
They gradually spread until his little
head, face, groins and chest, his head
being most affected, became a mass
of sores with a great deal of corrup
tion. It became offensive and gradual
ly grew worse. I kept a white cap on
him to keep him from scratching, It
seemed to Itch so badly. It made him
cross and his chest and' groins would
often bleed.
“Nothing seemed to help It, and I
had almost come to the conclusion
that my baby’s case was hopeless,
when hearing of the Cutlcura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment, I decided to try It.
I noticed at once that baby rested bet
ter. I continued it for a few Weeks and
my baby was entirely cured by the Cutl
cura Soap and Ointment. They cured
where all others failed.” (Signed)
Mr. E. O. Davis, Nov. 28, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
post-card "Cuticura, DepL L, Boston.”
Adv.
Mind Reader.
First Straphanger — Look out!
You’re treading on my feet!
Second Straphanger—Beg pardon!
I also prefer to ride in a cab. —Judge.
To prevent Malaria is far better than
to cure it. Tn malarial countries take a
dose of OXIDINE regularly one each week
and save yourself from Chills and Fever
and other malarial troubles. Adv.
Short on Breath.
Patience—What sort of a dog is
that?
Patrice —A knickerbocker poodle.
Patience—A knickerbocker poodle?
Patrice—Yes; don’t you notice his
short pants?
It a man didn’t have a wife he prob
ably wouldn’t know that he had neigh
bors.
Her Limitations.
“Can you cook on an emergency?”
“No, sir; but I can on a gas stove.”
Death Lurks In A Weak Hpart
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This simple and harmless formula
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and one ounce of syrup of Sarsaparilla
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take a tablespoonful before each meal
and at bed-time.” Good results come
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the genuine Toris compound In the
original, one-ounce, sealed, yellow
package. This was published here last
winter and hundreds of the worst cases
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oratories of Chicago.
Took Load Off Mother’s Mind.
Six-year-old Dora returned unusu
ally earlj* from school the other day.
She rang the door bell. There was no
answer. She rang again, a
longer. Still there was no response. A
third time she pushed the button, long
and hard. Nobody came to the door.
Then she pressed her nose against
the window screen add in a shrill
voice, which carried to the ears of
every neighbor on the block, called:
“It’s all right, mamma. I ain’t the
installment man!”
A Tub of Rosewater.
The small son of Victor Rosewater
was Bssirous of sailing boats in the
bathtub of the Rosewater home.
“You cannot,” said Mrs. Rose
water. "Father is taking a bath just
now.”
“Why Is father taking a bath?” de
manded the boy.
“Why do you take a bath?” coun
tered Mrs. Rosewater.
“Because I have to,” replied the son.
—Saturday Evening Post.
Regular practicing physicians recommend
and prescribe OXIDINE for Malaria, be
cause it is a proven remedy by years of ex
perience. Keep a bottle in the medicine
cheet and administer at first sign of Chills
and Fever. Adv.
When your hair starts going it
doesn’t Bay, "Au revoir.” It says
'■goodby.”
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Doctor (to Mrs. J., whose husband is
very ill) —Has he had any lucid inter
vals?
Mrs. J. —’E’s ’ad nothlnk except
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Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Its style.
"I want a light fruit lunch.”
"How would some electric currents
do?"
A great majority of summer ills are
due to Malaria in suppressed form. Las
situde and headaches are but two symp
toms. OXIDINE eradicates the Malaria
germ and tones up the entire system. Adv.
A bird in the hand fails to catch the
early worm.
FROM EXPERIENCE.
olivet- UA I
CK>oor»//I n
Mr. New Wed—A wife Is a gift from
heaven. We get the sunlight and the
gentle rain from heaven.
Mr. Old Wed —And also the thunder
storms.
Collecting Antiquities.
Slopay received a card on which
was engraved: “Professor Brace,
Antiquarian.”
He knew no such person, so his cu
riosity led him to receive him.
“What is your business, professor?”
he asked, politely.
“I am a collector of antiquities,’’ an
swered the old man.
“So I imagined. And how can I
serve you?”
“By paying a deposit on this little
bill you have owed for more than
three years.”
As a summer tonic there is no medicine
that quite computes with OXIDINE. It not
only builds up the system, but taken reg
ularly, prevents Malaria. Regular or Taste
less formula at . Druggists. Adv.
Hla Guess.
■ “Wot’s ’inflated currency,’ Bill?”
"Dunno!’)ess it’s money wot’s been
‘blown in.’ ’’—Boston Transcript. .
Don’t buy water for bluing. Liquid blue
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It takes a goocj pugilist or a poor
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