Valdez Daily Prospectoi
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1912.
Democratic Ticket
For President—
WOODROW WILSON.
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For Vice-President—
THOS. R. MARSHALL.
For Delegate to Congress—
ROBERT W. JENNINGS.
THE MILK IN THE COCOANUT.
The advent of the armored crui
ser Maryland in Alaskan waters
is but another pawn moved in the
great game of political chess now
being played for the ownership of
a large and rich portion of Alas
ka.
Anyone who has walch.nl the
many attempts of the administra
tion during the present session of
t»* 02nd congress to manipulate
that body in the interest of the
few, to obtain a foothold on the
roast of Alaska, must necessarily
have asked himself, what can he
Ihe motives actuating President
Tafl and SeerHary Fisher?
In most cases the heads of de
partments content themselves
with making recommendations to
congress in their annual reports
•and at other times submit special
'recommendations as the exigen
cies of the occasion warrant.
Hut in Ihe matter of Ihe pur
chase of the Alaska Northern
railway, every subterfuge, every
trick known to the expert lobby
ist has been employed to force a
bill through congress with the ul
timate object of purchasing two
streaks of rust, to the westward,
for want of another name, call
ed a railroad. Failing in all their
attempts they at last succeeded in
placing a rider in the enabling act
giving Alaska self-government,
providing for Ihe appointment by
I lie president, which, of course,
means Mr. Fisher, of a commis
sion to recommend the purchase
of a railway from Ihe coast of
Alaska and leading to one or an
other of the coal fields.
Of course, as the Alaska North
ern fills the bill, as far as salt
wain* and coal i« concerned, fhere
being no o| It »*!• qualifications!
sought, il will In* I lie Alaska Nor-|
1hern, provided congress will ap-l
propriate the money for the pin*— I
pose so badly desired by Mr.
Fisher. The Mouse of Rcprescn
lalivcs, and especially the Coiu
niitlee on Territories, are thor
oughly well aware of the pur
poses of the administration and
are equally determined that the
scheme hatched between the bond
holders of the bankrupt road andj
Secretary Fisher shall not be con-1
.-iiimmoli'd. They may adopt the
senate amendments to the home
rule bill, which will carry with
ii tin- appointment of an already
haded i ail way commission, hut
I hi- specific appropriation for I tie
carrying on; < f the scheme wi 1
die a hornin' in the house.
The Maryland was sent lollies.'
waters to report upon the super-!
ioriiv of Resurrect ion bay as a
naval base; upon the railroad
leading from tidewater to no-|
where and upon the availability
and character of the coal in the
Malauusk.i fields.
The Maryland will also call at
('oidova and report upon I lie ex
pansiveness of the tide flats in Or
ea Inlet. The vessel will be half
a day (at th.1 proper stage of tide)
in turning around and getting out
and will then proceed to Kalalla
to report no harbor, a storm swept
coast and pronounce Resurrec
tion bay .just the place for Mr.
Fisher's coaling station and inci
dentally the bnrgain counter price
at which the Canadian bond hold
ers are willing to part with their
railroad.
The voyage of the Ma island to
Alaskan waters is but another of
Mr. Fisher's propagandas by
which lie hopes to present tocon
ureys further evidence that Res
urrection bay is the only practi
cable harbor on the North Pacific
coast, the Alaska Northern rail
road occupying the only practi
cable route to the Matanuska coal
fields, as well as being the only
for-sale-below-cost railway on
the Alaskan market. The people
of Seward informed the command
ing officer of the Maryland that
Port Valdez was an unsafe harboi
for his vessel to navigate. He
.knew it to be a petty lie. When
:the report is made in favor oi
jResurreotion bay over. Cordova
jand Katalla, the Committee on
Terr'tories of the house will know
that all the truth has not been
told because Port "Valdez had not
beei\ visited and reported upon.
The Maryland was not ordered
to examine Port Valdez and the
route leading to the coal fields.
There's a reason. The present
administration does not wish a
coaling station established at this
point. Taft will not be president
after March 4th next. There is
hope. i / :
"CONCENTRATED WEALTH."
If President Taft is quoted cor
rectly in his speech of acceptance
when he "favors that the equal
opportunity sought by those who
proclaim for social justice, in
volves in the end a forced division
of property," he only reiterates
his incapacity of understanding
great public questions from the
view point of the intelligent
masses, the great middle class,
the farmer, the business man, the
small mine owner, the lumber
man, the artizan, the men who
really support the government in
time of peace and fight, for it in
time of war. He reproves that
section of I he public press which
arc Ivying 1o arouse I he people to
fight again**! "concentrated
wealth." No doubt Ihe president
believes in coneentrated wealth as
lie believes in his brother Charles.
Ihe representative of coneentrat
ed wealth in our executive's kileh
<•11 cabinet. In protecting concen
trated wealth from Ihe onslaught
of the common herd lie nuisl nec
essarily give a like protecting arm
to such agents of wealth as Boss
Cox, brother Charley's forin.'r
right bower, Chris. Magcc and a
horde of others of like ilk.
It is no matter of wonderment
that. President Taft stands today
as the head of a discredited and
disrupted party. Assuming as he
did, the reins of government as
the product of a political organ
ization in the zenith of its pow
er, he has within a period of but
little more than three years re
duced that splendid machine to
the level of a Mexican insurrecto
command. The Republican press,
in defending Mr. Taft. and bis
administration, contend lhal Col.
Roosevelt is Ihe cause of the dis
ruption in Ihe parly of Lincoln,
(•rant and McKinley. Hut how,
in<|), iijuiii u privaie ac
complish such results, had not
Mr. Tafl and the parly under hint
betrayed the confidence of the
voters. Three years is hut a short
span in the life of a nation, yet,I
in that short lime, Mr. Taft has
become responsible for a taritl"
measure which lias added to the
burdens of ninety million people,
to the profit of a few thousand.
Under the guise of fighting the
powerful trusts, lie has legalized
them, and through a court of his
own creation has placed them in
a position to further concentrate
wealth in the hands of the com
paratively few. And now, to add
insult to injury, he invokes the
constitution and tells us that our
efforts to disentangle ourselves
from the meshes thrown around
lis by the money power, is lead
ing on to Socialism and the forced]
division of properly.
The argument of Mr. Taft, then,
is that present conditions are
ideal and any attempt to equal
i/.e the conditions existing is
manifest heresy. Mr. Taft's po
sition will bring around him the
hopeless minority with its aggre
gate wealth, to which he may add
those purchasable in one way or
another. AgAinst him will be ar
rayed the bulk of the American
people, who believe in equal op
portunities, a fair field, and no fa
vors. Were he not actually ob
tuse and wholly ouf of touch with
[the true American sentiment, he
long ago would have discovered
that he had left, the frail blazed
by Abraham Lincoln and was
(redding fhe political morasses
which engulfed the nobility of the
older world barely over a cen
tury ago. It only remains for him
!to proclaim the divine right of
!wealth to accumulate at the ex
Ipense of the hunger and naked
jness of the struggling masses.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Where is Steve llireh and
(ieorge Baldwin?
Isn't it about time for Wiek
ersham lo again pass the dike
bill?
President Taft was notified of
his nomination yesterday. It wil
be a long time before he learns
of his re-election.
I With a scratch of his trusty
pen, little Tommy-rot composed
an order relegating Col. Richard
son to the fastnesses of garrison
duty.
It is well that home rule em
bodies the principle of home ap
pointments. The Wickersham
camp in Valdez can furnish
statesmen enough to fill every
office in Alaska, with a few to
spare for the Philippines and
Hawaii.
Since Wickersham crammed
Teddy down the throats of his fol
lowers, there are many of them
who have brought themselves to
believe the hero of San Juan will
be elected when he himself ad
mits that he will carry but six
states, and all of them taken from
the Republican column.
There are advantages in being
a mere dependency of the United
States instead of an integral part
of it. The Canal Zone is to have
a parcels post. It is probable that
the United States government
would not consent to an exchange
of parcels between the states and
the Zone, but there seems noth
ing to prevent parcels post ex
change within the Zone. Strange
that the express companies-over
looked this, but their counsel may
have been too busy figuring out a
plausible reason for existence in
tin* sta1os to get Hip necessary!
legislation Ihroush for !hiolt!ing|
the Zon<\
Launches and Lighters
For Sale, Rent or Charter
Weekly service to Ellamar
Landlock and Fidalgo
Capt- D. E. MORRIS. City Dock
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meetings, first and third Monday.
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