Valdez Daily Prospector
PUBLISHED By THE
Prospector Publishing Co.
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ne Dollar per Month: Twelve Dollars per Year
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1912.
THE CANAL'8 BENEFITS.
A large-sized howl of pain and
rage has gone up over the length
and breadth of seaboard Canada
over the decision of congress to
pass American ships through the
.Panama canal free of tolls. Pos
sibly the Canadians had brought
themselves to imagine that the
United States was expending sev
eral hundred millions to repay
Canada for the inconvenience she
was put to in defeating reciproc
ity, or, it may possibly be that
our neighbors arc laboring un
der (he halucination Ihal we have
more money than we know what
lo do with and have turned to
building canals even as Andy cre
ates public libraries, hut unfor
tunately for our neighbors, they
are wrong.
The canal was built by the
American people, first, as a mili
tary necessity and then as a com
mercial undertaking fraught with
widespread possibilities for our
own commerce. We don't Ihink it
rvi-r entered into our calculations
what elVecl it would have on Hie
commercial faeilities other than
what advantages il would give us
e<>mii)ercj;i||y over them.
II certainly appears to us that
Ho* demands of Kngland, urged on
by Canada, is lit lie short of an
e\h ilul inn of that old-fashioned
British habit of wanting every
thing in sight. Our British cou
sins can rest, assured thai under
the law recently passed by con
press and signed by the presi
dent, they will be I rented within
ihe spirit of the Itay-Pauncefotc
1 realy.
In according lo American ship
ping the free use of the canal, no
obligations entered into by this
country has been violated. If
Puget Sound profits more direct
ly from tlie benefits of the open
ing of the canal than does the Gulf)
of Georgia, such benefits can bej
attributed only to our thrift and]
enterprise. The boundaries of
these benefits is a study in geo
graphy, not diplomacy.
PAROLES AS A HEALTH CURE.
President Taft pardoned Char-1
ies W. Mor«<e, I hr» New York bank
wrecker, from the federal prison
a I, Allanfa a few months ago, on
fhe "epres *ii I a (ion thai Morse was!
dying. Morse look a I rip 1 <» Par-j
is, rcfurucd f;if and saney ami1
renewed his fiprliI against his
former financial enemies in Wall!
st reel.
A few days afro Mr. Morse went
lo Montreal, ostensibly for the
benefit of his health, and eon
eluded negotiations with the
(•rand Trunk railway for a con-i
solidation of railroad and steam
ship interests, involving the con-1
.«;! met ion of extensive terminals
al New Loudon for the joint use
of the Canadian road and Morse
coastwise lilies, and providing a
through freight route between
Canadian cities and Gulf and West
Indies ports, with the possibility
of ultimate extension to the Pan
ama canal.
If Morse can pull off a finan
cial deal like that with one foot
in the grave and the olh.'r in the
penitentiary, imagination falters
at contemplation of his financial
achievements if he is fully re
stored lo health and freed from
any danger of a return lo prison.
President Taft also recently pa
roled George If. Parker, of Seat
tle, who was sent to McNeil's is
land for two years for complicity
in the United Wireless frauds
which had thousands of victims
in the state of Washington. The
records do not show that Mr.
Parker was on fho verge of death,
but the fact, is established that he
suffered from earaches. Mr. Park
er can now return to his palatial
home al Seattle, saved as a part
of his loot in the wireless frauds,
and it will occasion no surprise
if he follow^ Mr. Morse's exam
ple and gels back into the game
with the captains of industry.
"The President's Parole Cure"
has all the other patent medicines
in the discard.
SOUTHERN STYLE BULL M008E.
Decision of fho bull moo..or* of
ll)o Soufh lo Irnake fho third lorm
pnrly one of whifn men will in
cronse the tear of colored nion
that their rights would be endan
(gered if the recall of judicial de
cisions were established. In most
of the Southern states where
Roosevelt men have met negroes
were not welcome. Dr. Horace
Grant, state chairman of the third
term party in Georgia, flatly re
fused to let any negro delegates
be sent to I he Chicago conven
tion. The gathering presided ov
er by Grant declared for a party
of white voters and for woman's
suffrage. Another faction of bull
moosers chose a rival delegation.
While it did not declare against
negroes, no colored men were
chosen.
We do not wonder that negroes
are alarmed over recent political
propositions. Their rights were
secured by an amendment to the
federal constitution adopted af
ter the civil war, and they have
reason to view with misgivings ef
forts to upset the constilution by
I be recall method.
They are fearful of the uncer
tainty in which their rights would
be placed. The rights of all citi
zens would be less certain, but in
the case of colored voters partic
ularly their privileges would be
imperilled because of race pre
judice. That such prejudice is
still strong is manifest from the
action of the bull moosers.
Though Col. Roosevelt has said
I hat. the new parly is to be non
sectional and is to be I he party of
"social and industrial justice" for
all classes, wo find the members
in the South at the very beginning
barring colored voters.
This is only another fad dial
goes |o show the 111 i i'il term move-1
nii'iil is lacking in any great prin
ciple, 1ml is rather a movement '
of disappointed polil ieians wlioj
are able, in a period of unresl, !«»
gather a f«»llovviupr <>f the inno_
(•••ill and unsuspecting.
A. J. Beveridge, who was tem
porary chairman of the third term
convention, reiterates the colon
el's big talk about non-sectional
isrn. "Only a truly non-sectional
parly," lie says, "which will per
mit Americans of all sections who
believe in the same Ihings to act
and vote together, will dissolve
this wicked and dangerous sec
tionalism and unite the nation in
very truth." Yet while he is ut
tering these fine words the actual
work of the bull moosers is sec
tional and class-prejudiced, as
witness the refusal to let negro
voters participate in the Chicago
convention.
It only goes to show that the
leaping ambition of the colonel is
<ready to accept support on any
terms. Every state in the union
may, if it chooses, proceed on
different' principles, so long as the
one great essential is complied
with-the support of the colonel
for another term as president.
The colored voters are practi
cally disfranchised by the action
of Col. Roosevelt's followers in
Chicago; well and good so long
as it. is for the colonel. Meantime,
he will go ahead, in his usual way
denouncing sectional appeals.
EDITORIAL NOTE8.
Both Orozco and Johnson have
declared peace overtures off.
Evidently they are still voting
for Wiekersham in some portions
of the territory.
Roosevelt denies that he is ped
dling out prospective offices for
votes for November delivery.
The re-appojntmenl of Post
master JefTerxon is a deserved
trihulc to a faithful and obliging
public official.
Had the Populists applied to the
Harvester trust their campaign
might have been underwritten as
others have been.
While Chairman llilles was at
the job he might as well have
claimed Mississippi and Texas and
made it thirty-eight slates.
Another iceberg has bumped in
to a trans-Atlantic liner without
injuring the berg. The greatest
damage done was to Canadian
lines of steamers.
Fish Commissioner Bowers is
not alone under the influence of
the sealing magnates. The enn
nery trust, f«»r instance, have
something Io say regarding the
action of that bureau.
The impartiality shown by
President Taft to friend or foe,
mentioned by Attorney Heneral
Wiekersham, was most particu
larly noticeable in hi* treatment
of the progressive members of
congress a year or so ago.
THE MAJESTIC
H. C. DAVIS
Complete Change of Pro
gram Tuesday, Thursday
and Sunday
One Skow Week D»y* • • 8 P. M.
Two Skowi Sndijt 8 and 9:15 P. M.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
"back" a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day's successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to llio man willi the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
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Corns Removed, Without Pain, $1.00
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'Civil Engineer and^
iU. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
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