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A QUESTION OF VISION.
In writing concerning the Louisiana Purchase at
the thne of its consummation Thomas Jefferson visual
ized the l'nltcd States a century hence, lie said hi
saw a igreut Nation populated from the Atlantic t(
the Pacific with thriving seaports on the Pacifii
Ocean as well as on the Atlantic and prosperous conn
meiclal and industrial cities on the lakes and river:
between the oceans. He pictured farms in all tin
valleys and on the prairies. He saw water craft ci
tlio rivers and canal:) everywhere. He predicted i
population for Hie Nation of 60,000,000 inhabitant!
with organized States extending from ocean to ocean
An editorial written for the Now York Post by
Alexander Hamilton at that time, printed July 5,
1803, under the heading, "Purchase of Louisiana,"
said:
At length the business of New Orleans
has terminated favora/bly to this country.
Instead of being obliged to rely any longer
on tlie force of treaties for a place of deposit,
the jurisdiction of the territory is now trans
ferred to our hands and in future the navi
gation of the Mississippi will be curs un
molested. This, it will be allowed, is an
Important acquistion; not, indeed, as terri
tory, but a being essential to the peace-and
prosperity of our Western country, as open
ing a free and valuable market to our com
mercial States.
It has been usual for American writers
on this subject to include the Kloridas in
their ideas of Louisiana, as the French for
merly did, and the acquisition lias derived no
inconsiderable portion of its value and im
portance with the public from tills view of
, it. It may, however, be relied on, that no
part of the Flcridas, not a foot of land on
the cost of the Mississippi, excepting New
Orleans, falls within the 'present cession.
And when we consider the present extent of
the United States, and that not one-sixteenth
part of its territory is yet under occupation,
the advantage of the acquisition, as it relate)
to actual sottlimcnt, appears too distant and
remote to Ftrike tlio mind of a sober poli
tician with much force. This, therefore,
can only rest in speculation for many years,
if not centuries to come. For ourselves,
we are very much inclined to the opinion,
that after ull, it is the island of N. Orleans,
by which the command of a free navigation
of the Mississippi is tscured, that gives to
this interesting cession its greatest value,
and will render It in every view of immense
'benefit to our country.
Within nine years from the time Hamilton s edi
tcrlal appeared Louisiana was admitted as a State
and nine years later Missouri raime into the Union.
Arkansas was admitted fifteen years later and an
other decade brought in Iowa. In less than a century
after Hamilton wrote there were fourteen sovereign
Stales carved from the Ijouisiana Purchase. The
louisiana Purchase laid tho foundation for the Flor
ida Purchase under Monroe from which three addi
tional States were made. The 'bases for the an
nexation of Texas and the California and Gadsen
purchases were also in the same transaction and
they gave us four more States within the country.
Stretching the single century only a few years and
we got one more States from the Louisiana Purchase,
Oklahoma, and two more from the Mexican cession,
Arizona and New Mexico.
Jefferson's mistakes were only two: We had rail
roads instead of canal.; and nearly 100,000,000 popu
lation instead of 60,000,Olio.
However. Haanllton praised Jefferson for the Louis
iana Purchase. It more than anything else, sav«
only hlr quarrel with Burr, was tho cause for Ham
ilton s tendency during his later years to grow
nearer and nearer to Jefferson. Had Hamilton lived
•nother decade there In little reason to question that
he. like Admins anil his ran, would have been sup
poiting the "Virginia Regency” of which Jefferson
was i he fipirll and the motive power. He probably
r.Guld have commanded the army during the second
war with Great Britain and -who can say? Perhaps
Canada would have a history that would have
been a part of ours for the last century and more.
AMERICAN FINANCES.
U in only a foxy years ago that the excess ot
foreign investments in the United States over Am
erican investments in foreign countries whs about
$6,000,000,000. Noxv American investments in for
eign countries cf the Western Hemisphere amount to
that sum or more, and the excess of American in
vestments in foreign countries over the foreign in
vestments in this country exceeds $20,000,000,000.
From the largest debtor people Americans have be
come the heaviest creditor people in the history of the
vxerid and all in lees than a decade.
HENRY FORD’S ATTITUDE.
On b»ing asked whether lie would accept the
Presidency, Mr. Ford, xve read, “reached his root
out until it almost touched the rug and said: 'I
wouldn't rtep a- far as from here to that rug to
become King of Kngland.' ”
Of course Phe pa rag rap hers are wondering whether
Jlehi'j- Ford wat> knocking Kngland or being evaatve.
Mr Ford probably meant exactly what his remark
was intended lo convey—that lie would absolutely
do nothin# to secure the Presidency. That has been
his position from the beginning. He has, as far as
reports go, done not a thing to encourage the "Ford
for President movement.”
At least Lenin, Trotzky, Gorky and other saintly
abhorers of capitalism are willing that the tainted
money of capitalistic America should be used to buy
food for those who support them in luxury and
influential position.
Those nvlators have given San Diego real estate
dealers an opportunity to advertise that San Diego
Is only 27 hours from New York Perhaps, however,
they will think the advantage is all New York's.
One of the perplexing problems of the day Ip
whether or not the high seas are also the highball
seas.
American Trees in France.
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(New York Tribune.) \
The first significant achievement of the A E. F.
in France made Belleau Wood historic ground. Today
the activities ot another American organization are
endowing France with other forests which we may
hope will become no less memorable, though for an
other cause. The American Tree Association is send
ing to France seeds for millions of now trees, of
choice varieties, for reforesting the battlefields on
whlclr American troops were engaged In the great
war. The French' Commissioner of Agriculture will
plant them, and transplant the seedlings, and a few
years hence the devastated regions will be splendidly
verdant with cypress and honey locust, with Sitka
spruce and Colorado fir and Monterey pine.
It Is a beautiful benefaction. We were too late to
protect the forests of Northeastern France from the
wanton devastation of the Invader, but we helped
' measurably to avenge their loss, and now wc are con
tributing of our own stock to their re-creation.
Nor is It too much to hope that this act will
! have a reflex Influence tto stimulate still further the
j campaign for reforestation which Is now under way
! in the United States. Not by alien foes nor through
the savageries of war have our forests been wasted,
but rather by thoughtless and profligate processes of
j domestic industry, destroying far more than it used.
I Today our need of replanting Is no less keen than
I that of France. We would not withhold a single
■•seed front the millions which are at this moment
I on the way to France, but rather add to their number
| until that country has greater forests than before
the war. But we would have a similar work done
' here, until in every State, if not in every county,
|lh*re is an American sylvan memorial of Belleau
Wood and the Forest of the Argonne.
Improvements for Alaska.
• (Seattle Times.)
To President Harding’s dorire to improve pub
lic service iu Alaska and to encourage by Federal
co-operation the development of the resources of the
Northland may be attributed tlie order authorizing
the Government Railroad to build another branch in
the Matanuska coal fields. The action of the admin
istration indicates a policy of extending the facilities
of file transportation line whenever opportunity offers
for aiding the Territory's industrial wlefare.
The branch, or rather spur, of railroad to be built
in the Matanuska coal fields will he only four and
I a half miles long. It will serve the fuel properties
ion Moose Creek. The improvement will cost about
$125,000, and an idea of the activity of the coal rnin
j ing industry may be gained from the announcement
j f-hat the revenue derived the first year from the ton
^ nage of the spur will pay for its construction.
Coal from the Matanuska Helds supplies not only
, the domestic and industrial fuel needs of cities and
, towns along the railroad, but also is becoming a
tiade factor in all the coastal communities in South
western Alaska.
Secretary o! the Interior Work, whose department
has charge of tlio railway system, issued the order for
the Moose Creek extension. He will be a member of
the Presidents party on the trip north this summer,
ami then the chief executive and the secretary, who
will travel over the entire length of the main line of
the railroad, are expected (o decide on other additions
to the activities of tile transportation system.
Building of a branch line Into McKinley National
Park has been suggested, together with the construc
tion of tourist reads. The main line station, Mc
Kinley, 248 miles north of Seward, is comparatively
close to Mount McKinley, the loftiest peak on the
North American continent.
Secretary Works department aiso has charge of
Alaska’s public lands. From Anchorage to Fairbanks,
on the line of the railroad, is situated the most pro
ductive and the most expensive part of the 100,000
srpiiire miles of agricultural areas in the North. Tills
large domain contains a few farms, which yield
wheat, hay, barley and all vegetables known to the
temperate zone, besides every kind of berry. Agri
| culture has progressed with the growth of towns and
I cities and the development of mining and other in
dustries. The question of bringing about additional
agricultural Improvements by a plan of colonization
| and Immigration has received serious attention from
(lie authorities. For a while a land and Industrial
“apartment "aR n’alntained by the Government Rail
I road. Whether this activity will bn revived on a more
i extensive scale than formerly will be considered by
! President and Secretary.
I lie Administration is in earnest In Its effort
! to co-operate Intelligently In the development of
Alaska.
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Now \ork is about 'to get the Democratic conven
1 19?4' AI1 Ulat romains to 'be done is to dump
Wall Street into the Atlantic Ocean, move the city
a few hundred miles west, change Its name, and have
, ov th K° before an attorney and depose that
he will not take the nomination for President_
(New York Post.)
The undertakers' union In France having declared
1“ 1'?rl*L«' »° the sickly will be compelled to
,hold off dying until a living wane and proper work
j "K conditions have been established.—(Cincinnati
hnquirer.)
The jester who knows how amusing we all are is
orten more useful than the solemn fellow who is
forever demanding a remedy when there is no remedy
—(Howes Monthly.)
The difference between an immigrant and a loc
Iturcr is that the immigrant is content to come aeroas
|and the lecturer expects us to come across—(In
| dianapolis Star.)
What British ships need most is not a great diy
dock at Singapore but a wet dock just outside the
American three-mile line. — (New York Post.)
Trotzky is said to have sent $125,000 to his
brother in Berlin. It's a poor rumor that isn't worth
a few billion rubles.—(New York Post.)
1 he larger the diamond the larger the possibllitv
that it is pa_ste. — (San Francisco Journal.)
Consistency is not (he hobgoblin of little minds
among the Progressive Bloc. -(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
The old-fash'ionod man who always
got stung in a horse trade now has
a son who buys a used car.
The Ananias Club
"1 never bawl on! my husband for
dropping cigar adhes on Ihe carpet or
jerking back the lace curtains so he
cah setj out of using the guest towel
or things liko that, because I want
him to feel his homo is a place he Is
free to do just as ho pleases," said
a earctful housewife to her neighbor.
That'* Different
"Oh. brother, you always ought to
speak well of the (lead," said the
preacher.
"But not of deadbeats, parson," re
torted the grocer
You Never Can Tell, or at Least Hus
bands Never Do
They say kissing goes by favor, but
after marriage if loo often goes by
the board. -Sam Hill. The divorce
1 alwyers are not doing anything to
prevent It.—J. -H. It -d- After mar
riage klissing goes on—but the wife
doesn’t know it.—-Adam Breede
Modern Idea of Old Timer
WHAT'S HOME WITHOUT A GA
RAGE?
In Bad Fix
"Just what is your trouble, that
you think you ncpil a prescription?”
askod the doctor, suspiciously, then
added: "You look the picture of
health to me."
"All. doc, l am simply deathly sick
of proh.iblition," groaned the thirsty
man.
Friendly Philosophy
Nature purtislhos neglect and plays
no favorites. The neglected field be
comes an unsightly mass of tangled
briars and rank weeds; the undrained
swamp a stagnant cesspool—repnieive
breeding place of varied ills and
poisonous growths; the human bra.in
an unclean generator of falsity and
soul blasting ideals unless directed
into channels of realism and Truth.
Neglect is indeed costly.—J. E. F.
Nature Note
Blinks—It says here that a blow
fish can inflato itself to twice its
natural size.
ijinks—Well, haven’t, you ever seen
a lot of two-legged fish do the same
thing?
If It Fits—
■Gong engagements often are due to
his being short.
Nothing makes a widow more at
tractive than tho (insurance left her
by her late lamented.
Yoy never hoar a rich man com
plaining about the curse of riches
nor a man in tile poor house moral
izing on tho blessings of poverty.
About the only thing a crank ever
can start is a conversation, or rather
a monologue
The martyrs of history may have
been great people but the poor fish
we have around who think they are
martyrs are about as agreeable as a
landlord trying to collect six months
back ront.
'Wo know some women who seem
to get as much pleasure planning a
funeral as others do in planning a
wedding.
A lot of men who have been hurled
in marble mausoleums haven't as
much chance of getting Into Heaven
as some of the poor birds who have
been parked in the pother’s field.
An old lady wears a bonnet, an up
to-date woman a Paris creation, a
man a lid, and children wear hats,
when their mothers are around to
keop them on.
You can't do more than one thing
at a time and do It well. And you
HOTEL SEATTLE
“Home of Alaskans"
Prices reasonable. European
plan Seattle, Wash.
J R U. nODGDON, Manager
It’a all In knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner. Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
7 THE making op concrete *
Is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFO.
COMPANY
Willoughby Ave. Phone 31.
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Motm, Packs and Mom Freight
and Baggafo.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMJTtl COAL
Phone 48.
-i
can't court more than one girl at a
time without getting into hot water.
One thing a groat many people
never learn is that being thrifty and
being stingy are two different things.
■A wife uften will stand up for her
husband when they are out in com
pany and then ait on him when they
get homo—hut not on ilia knees you
bot.
Daily Sentenc? Sermon.
, It takes brass to g"t, the gold of
the realm.
New* of the Names Club.
M T. Little is Mew York salesman
for a Cincinnati firm.
Make your own comment on these
two, A. Due ia reported from Dallas,
Texas, in the sanv- mail Carey Dew
is reported from Kansas City. >
Royal Jewels Nearly
Caused Trouble.
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13 3/a.vd- 1 ecv? «
Th(> "Kandy Box Revue,” a mu
sical comedy show backed by Lo
per B. Laldlaw, eon of Edward
James Laldlaw, multi-millonaire
New York banker, went on the
rocks in San Francisco while
awaiting a booking. Young Raid
law and his pretty wife, Betty
Baird, leading lady of the com
pany, called on a pawnbroker
with $50,000 worth of jewels that
had boen given her by a son of a
Turkish Sultan. The “uncle” be
came suspicious and called the
police, but when young I.aidlaw j
w'ns taken into a leading bank
and greeted effusively by the
president he was discharged with
proper apologies.
Willoughby
tween Cole's
dock.
—adv.
NOTICE.
Avenue .closed be
barn and Fenimer
C. W. RENDER,
Street Commtsioner.
Furniture moved and stored.
Heavy hauling done. Phone 48. Ju
neau Transfer. —adv
SAFE
BOXES
FOR RENT—$4.00 PER YEAR
Wm. D. Perkins & Co.
BANKERS—211 Cherry 8t-, Seattle
EU M00RH0USE & CO.
Certified Public Accountant*
L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle.
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| Audita and Income Tax Service
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, Annual visits to Alaska.
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USED FUEHITUBl
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
I V. 10 CO VICE
111 Seward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Bon Ml.
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ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
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PROFESSIONAL
I
Dr*. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Qoldttexa Bldf.
PHONE N
Hour* * a. m. t« 9 p. m.
■-——a
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Room* 8 and 9 Va»«ntln* Bldf.
Telephone 176.
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Dr. DeVighnc
Malony Building
Honrs 1 to 4. 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 164; Rea. 10*.
DR n. N. DONAHEY
Some Good Service as In the
Past
HUTESON-DOHAHEf
OoticoKanM>*e/
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
b. p . o. sirs
Meeting Wednesday
Keening* at S:00
o'clock. Bike' Hall.
Charles P. Jenne,
Bzalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:SO p. m„ Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HBI8BL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVRR BOW
LOD&B NO. > A.
Meeeta every Thursday at I P. M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Qrandf
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE RFEEEAM
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. P. Hall, at
8 P M. PRANCBS OU8TAPSON.
N. O. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAD LOOSE
No. 147, F. * A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month, In Odd Felicia
Hall, beginning at 7:t» o'clock.
Homer 0. Nordling, Master.
Chaa. E. Nagnel. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAX
Second and Fourth Tua»
days of each m—tfc
At 8 o'clock, I. O. O. F. Ball
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
era urged to
Fifth Street.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SISOHB RS COUNCIL MS.
17-*0. Meeting* a *00*4
and laat Monday* at T:W
p. m. Tranalent Broth
attend. Council Chamber*
John F. Mullen, O. K.
J. L. McCloskey, SecreUry.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at I ». m.
Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; 0. ■,
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 194.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSX.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hhll. E. F.
Kodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevens
Secretary.
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WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439 i
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary. I
T AUXILIARY, PIONEER! OF f
ALASKA, Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
I month. Social hour with mem
! bers of Pioneer Ixtdge to fol
low each meeting.
I Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President.
I Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
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WHERE'
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the Saving* Window.
How early yon attain success depends on how
often yon deposit. Many of our captains of industry
owe their success in a large peat to the habit of
thrift acquired in youth. Have you started your boy
in the right direction T
The B. ML Behrends Bank
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