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The Ketchikan miner., 1908-06-27
DISTURBING NEWS.

If the report from Harbin proves
 we'll founded, and the Chinese mer- chants in Manchuria are boycotting Japanese goods, serious developments may be anticipated. A boycott in southern China could be ignored in Tokio, but not one in Manchuria, where Japan's status is of prime im- portance from many points of view. The late war was far from settling conditions in the Chinese province.
 Indeed it left them in more danger ous state than ever. Japan now makes certain claims in the nature of sove- reignty; Russia does the same thing, and China seems determined to pre- serve her standing if possible. The chances for discord were grave enough without the boycott, which introdces a factor for which diplomacy may not be able to provide remedy. There never was anything quite like this Chinese boycott. The people seem to have determined to avenge an insult to the nation. It is very remarkable demonstration of democracy. People who have lived long enough in China to understand the race, say that it is the most democratic country in the
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ermining the cost of production,

termining the cost of production. At the same time 1t will undoubtedly lead to lowering of the tariff, which at present is specially framed to give home producers very great adyan- tage over all competitors no matter at what cost to the consumer. A tariff reform on Mr. Taft's principle will he a long way from free trade, but It will open the markets of the Unite States to certain articles that are nils excluded. Among them is wood pu
 which will serve very well as an eA ample of the working of the proposs change. Wood pulp is now high
 protected, although it costs just as much to produce it in Canada as i the United States. and the consumer south of the boundary line simply pa, the producers there more for pulp because the price is put at a figure covering the cost of production, n reasonable profit and the duty. un- Ter the proposed p'an wood pulp would oe free, and Canadian makers could sell their product in the United States on terms of equality with thpe put makers of that country. Of course, before Mr. Taft's plan is adopted he must. be elected and congress favor able to tariff revision must also he chosen, but at present both these things appear exceedingly probable. The United States was the first coun- try to adopt high protection, and the proposed new departure will he await ed with much interest all over the world. Victoria Colonist.
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The value that is put on human life by the U. s. marine inspectors is shown by the penalty applied to the case of Capt. Schage. Three months he is not allowed to endanger the lives of passengers on a ship by rushing upon reef at full speed The penalty for the carelessness that endangered the lives of hunderds is three months, not solitary confinement at hard labor with bread and water diet. but simply enforced idleness for three months. Why not give him a meda and let him go on his way?-Douglas Nays
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It is just such talk as this on the part of Congressmen that is calculated to make the people of Alaska exceed ingly tired. Alaska says Con
 gressman Will E. Humphrey to the Seattle F. l., "has no organization to secure the legislation which is asked of Congress and the majority of the members are not familiar with the needs of the Northern territory. l doubt very much if there is a very strong sentiment in favor of home rule. for Alaska at this time, but any other legislation that the people of that country want, if it can be shown to be benefit to Alaska, will secure favorable action at the hands of con- gress." It is up to the honorable Will E. Humphrey to explain what kind of an organization Alaska needs to enable her to secure from Congress the modicum of legislation that body is willing to concede to her people other than the organization congress itself withholds from them. Has it ever occrurred to Congressman Will E. Humphrey that the only possible way out of the Alaska dilemma which he suggests is through the enactment ol the very legislation which he makes an exception to, that which Congress is willing to concede for the asking the privilege of making her own local laws subject to the approval or disap- proval of Congress, by a legislative body through which Congress can be memorialized for legislation not with in the province of territorial legis- lature to enact? Alaskans are not likely to be satisfied with the assur- ance of Will E. Humphrey though he speaks by authority of the entire Congress, with the assurance that they can have everything except that which they especially want by simply asking for it. and proving it necessary to their welfare.
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ALASKAta TRADE


 The volume of business transacted annually between the United States and Alaska Is valuable asset to the government and compares fayorably with tue amount of trade carried on between the United States and the Philippines, The New York Sun, in a recent issue, commented upon the subject as follows:
 As shown by the recent report oi Clarence L. Hobart, collector of GUS toms for Alaska, aour northernmost territory compares most lavorably in the matter oi total volume of it's business with tlat of our insular pos sessions.
 '.The figures for the last month of 1907 are not yet available, but esti- mating the business for that month on the basis oi the preceding monthly average the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico did a total trade in l90i of s67, s2i, 6s4 and $57, BOT, sos respective ly, while Aalska's total for tae same period is BIS, 425, 339. Eliminating-the foreign trade and taking account only .of receipts and shipments 10 and from the United States, Alaska makes stiIis better comparative showing, its total for l907 heinz s45, e00, 947, while the Philippines are credited with only s23, eco 0e0 and Porto Rico with 849, 50o, coo. It must be remembered tbat while-Porto Rico and the Philippines are old, settled lands, which are Wel known and fairly developed, A.iasla is
 new country, whose devebpnent. has been a matter of little more tban q decade ''''
 Taking the list of shipments in detail, the principal items Of Anska business embrace copper ore fish, fresh, cured and canned fish guano, fish oils, furs, gSpsum,tln ore and con centrates, whaleRone, gold and other merchandise. Of these principal pro- ducts canned salmon was shipped to the value oi $7,72l, 740, and copper ore and matte to the value of $l. 559J2o, while the largest item in the list. gold, amounted to $ll,9ll, Ss2, de crease Of about S2, 0o9, o9o as compared with the output of the preceding year, This decrease, however, was due to strikes and labor troubles, and the figures also do not include the gold shipped out by mail.
 As the foregoing figures show, Alas kan business is no small part of the carrying trade of the United States and it certainly deserves more atten- tion on the part of congress than it has hitherto received. A country that is preparing in connection with the Yukon territory and the Pacific coast, for q great exposition at Seattle next year should no longer be neglected and sligbted as # seems to have been by congress. Alaska seems at least entitled to an efficient organized form of territorial government and it is to be hoped that the efforts to that end'in congress may be successful. ?
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A SUBSCRIBERS RESIGNATION.
 4 we'll known Michigan editor has received the following novel ''resig- nation" from q subscriber
 Dear -----: l hereby offer my resiguashun as subscriber to your papier, it being pamphlet of such small konsequel ce as not to benefit my family by takin it. What you need in your shete is brains and someone to russell up news, & rite edi- torials on live topicks. No menshun has been made in your shete of me butcherin polen china pig weigh 369 pounds or the gapes in the, chick ems out this way. Yu ignor the fact that l got bran new bob sled and that 1 traded my bline mule & say notbin about Hi Hopkins iersy calf .brakin his t2 front legs fallin down q we'll 2 important chiyveries have been utterly ignored by your shete X a 3 coium obitcury notice writ by me on the death of granpa Henery was left out of your shete and to say noth- ing of the alfabetical pome beginning "A is for And and also for Ark, writ hy my darter. This is the reason your paper is so unpopuler here. II yon don't want any edytorials from this place and aint goin to put no
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 CHILD LABOR. CONC

01 i-i1y LA DUN oOi4Ntp.
 The discussion of child labor, like that of forest preservation, smoke nuisanees, and a hundred other evils of our present day commerciaIism seems to De progressing from the sentimental to the economic stage. And this stage brings it's abolition within reaching distance. So long as sentiment is on one side and business on another, sentiment has hard row to hoe. But sonnd, sentiment is always good business. and dicussion usually makes the connection clear.
 When the agitation against child labor began, the sentimentalists had the field to themselves. They saw the obvious injustice tochildren of forcing them to spend their days and nights at monotonous and i'll paid labor They declamed against the hard heartedness of men who would rob childhood of its pleasure in order that they might make greater profit They made the men lttle uncom- fortahIe; in few Of the more en- lightened and progressive states they secured child labor legislation, but the total result seemed to he simply q shifting of scenes. Massachusetts cotton manufacturers opened factories in Georgia.
 The great value of the sentimental crusade, however, vas that few of the diseomforted manufacturers began to ask themselves whether in the long ruin child labor does pay.
 Taking one year by itself, which has been the usual American way, the profit seemed clear; child wages are less than adult wages. But fgur- ing on five or ten or twenty years, the result WAS dilferent. The great complaint oi manuiaclnrereps today Is that they4oan not.get efficient work men., anu they are beginning to ask why. in Massachusetts special commission investigated child labor thorougly and reported that the child who goes into the mills practically never becomes more than |, child so far as the value of the labor is con- cefned he is forever stunted. The possibilities that were in him are never realized, while the child who is given chance to develop is capa- hle of indefinite progress. This was followed by the statements ct nahu- faeturers in various. parts of the coHntry that child labor even as child labor is not profitable as thesold short sighted view of t had made them be- 'ieve. So, in factory after factory the age limit is being raised. volun- tarily. An exchange recently con- tain9d an interview Yith, one of these enlightened empioyeSAld who said : No boy under siX9eeu. cap set ta job wi h me, as do not consider him fl for my work at that age. It is rarely that one is employed under seventeen. such reasoning as this gives usemore hope of the final stamp ing out of child labor than do all the hills introduced in Cor g eess.
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world, but it is. 2 surprise to fna people voluntarily making great sacrifices to'do what their gover1Went $ unable to do.
 That the Japanese government will tamely submit to movement caen- lated to check the commercial aspira lions of the country at the very outset is hardly likely, especially now that
 ms spread to region where that
 ernment thinks it has some rights.
 do net look for any immediate Gen on the part of the Mikado's min
 ", who can not he at all desirous
 aarticipate in war with China ;
 f the boycott grows formidable.
 Y serious trouble. may be looked r.- Victoria Colonist,
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A man in Portland, Oregon, says the Victoria Colonist, has been fined s576, 094 and been sentenced to pay i | off at the rate of S2.00 a day by inn prisonment in goal. He is alleged to have received the sentence with indifference, which is not matter of surprise. Most of us would be quite indifferent to sentence of im- prisonment for 2S6, ,0i7 days. But could anything be more absurd than such a sentence? In addition to this hne the defendant was sentenced to five years Imprisonment. The law did not per init him to be imprisoned for life, and yet it permits penalty amount- ing to over 500 years. Such things make the administration of justice appear ludicrous.
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But this is to be borne in mind-ii Governor Hoggatt is for Corson, The Alaskan is against him as will be all those who have the interests of Alaska at heart. No man can serve two mas ters.. The nominee of the convention must be for or against the governor for or against Alaska. He that is for Hoggatt is against Alaska and Alaska is against him. These two cannot be reconciled -Skagway Alaskan. Ii that is not an example of inexcusable individual and partisan prejudice a proper interpretation will nos easily be discovered. On like theory the Alaskan might base an opposition to the republican candidate for president who will doubtless have all the sup port Governor Hoggatt may be able to give him. Personal hatred thus publicly proclaimed can only work to the injury of the party by whom or in whose behalf it is thus exempli- fed.
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ALASKA AND WOOD PULP.

The question of the tariff on wood
 pulp and white print paper has been discussed so frequently in these col umns-and in fact in the columns oi nearly every paper in the United States that it is almost unnecessary to re-state the apparent facts. ID brief, the newspaper men of the country presented such clear and un- controvertib ble prcof of the existence of a gigantic monopoly which was, and is, sapping the life-bloo from every
 publisher in the country. and showed further that the monopoly is made
 possible solely by the existing sched- ule, that it was impossible for the stand-pat party lenders to avoid some action in the matter, however much they wished to do so. Speaker Cannon finally lodged the issue by appointing Congressional Committee to investi- gate what was already proven, which was nothing more nor less than con- temptible subterfuge. and which has driven a spike of enormous size into Cannon's political cofiin. That the ruse was promptly recognized is ap- parent from the following words oi Congressman Suizer, who took the op- portunity to call attention to a fact which will eventually affect not only Alaska but the entire country. The enormous resources of Alaska are gradually becoming known through the efforts of such men as William A.. Sulzer-and may the tribe increase.
 Congressman Sulzer's speech follows l:
 ''Of course, l know the report oI the select committee on wood pulp and white print paper will be sad disappointment to the newspaper pub fishers of the country. l say now, and always have claimed, that the tariff tax on wood pulp and white print paper should be repealed. These essential commodities of one of the greatest and most important indus tries in the country must sooner or later go on the free list. However, it seems to me that in connection with this question matter of much moment to the people most interested has been overlooked Look away to Alaska if you want the best wood pulp Alaska, especially Southeastern Alaska, can furnish wood pulp for hite print paper for all the country for a hundred years to come. Here Is the place to start the business that will force the paper trust on it's knees by legitimate competition. l am sur prised that some enterprsing manu- facturer has not started the wood pulp industry in Southeastern Alaska long before this. Alaska can beat Canada thousand miles on wood pulp. It can be manufactured cheaper there than any other place in the world :: and. of course, would come into the United States without paying tariff duties and will have this additional
 advantage over Canada. In few years the wood pulp from Alaska will shut out the competition from Canada.
 Mark my prediction, . Southeastern Alaska will soon be manufacturi6g wood pulp on an extensive scale, and it will be a better grade than any other wood pulp manufactured on this continent. When the industry starts
 in earnest, Alaska will control the ood pulp market and cause a ieduc- tion in the price of white print paper of 50 per cent, at least, from the present exorbitant price of the trust. "
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In the opinion of Judge Reid, re- gently outlined in his instructions to the jury in an important mining case on trial in his Court, actual dis covery is necessary to the valid loca- tion of mining claim. "To consti- ute valid discovery in the opin- ion of Judge Reid, "the law requires something more than conjecture, hope, or even indication. The geological formation of the country may be such as scientific research and prac- tical experience have shown to be likely to yield gold in paying quanti- ties: taken with this, there may be other surface indications. All of these may be sufficient to justify the ex- pectation or hope that on sinking his hole to bedrock gold may be discover ed, but one and all, they do not in themselves amount to dis covery."
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And now, it is announced, there are noiseless .typewriters. These, one would imagine, are likely to be high ly in favor with young men contem- plating matrimony.
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For the past several months Uncle Joe Cannon had pretty much every. one in Washington dancing to his music-such is the power of the office of speaker. Later it has been Uncle Joe's turn to dance, while the nation al republican committee did the iddliny.
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A Finley Ohio centenarian had his hair cut and said it was the first time in seventy years he had sat in bar Der chair. Sometimes when waiting for their turn it has seemed that long to others.
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The piano makers have formed a rust to improve. the business. They can improve t some by refusing to sell the girl who plays ragtime un- til 2 a. m.
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news in soar sbete We don't won't said shete.
 F s.-If you print ohitehury in your next might sine again for your shpte f,.s
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Alton B. Parker, head the resolu- tiops committee at Denver? Well. not if MT. Bryan is the power. of the con- veption that his admirers expect him to be,
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Professor Wenley of the University of Michigan thinks that "the United States needs a d. good thrashing' to restore to it proper sense of pro- portions. But Professor Wenley has DO answer for the question who is going to administer the thrashing.
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The veil of privacy covered the last sad farewell between President Roose- welt and Speaker Joe Cannon.
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If Peary insists on rushing away to the north again he will lose his vote, that's all.
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By the way it doesn't seem likely that John Hayes Hammond is likely to land the vice-presidential nomina- tion within several rows of stumps, if not more.
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Carrie Nation says that she is going to pay no more fines. The gentle Car rie would never be called upon to do so, if she would behave herself like a respectable woman.
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A man in Winnipeg killed hims elf on his wedding day because the girl he was going to marry was too good for him. She certainly must have been. He proved his case with a razor.
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Senator La Toilette uttered 66, GOO words in his eighteen hour speech on the Aldrich- -Vreeland currency bill. If the flibuster had gotten fairly un- der way there is no telling how far he might have gone in his utterances.
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A foolish old man in Chicago took his life because of ''The Osler Theo- ry." Seeing that Dr. Osler never had any theory in respect to old age, the old man made a sad mess of things.
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There is less and less heard of Governor Hughes in connection with national politics. Whatever may be said for his conception of the proper course for a governor to follow, it is not one that conduces to success in practical politics.
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John w. Corson lives in Seattle:
 the Congressional Record gives Dele gates CaIe's address as Fond du Lac. Wisconsin. MaJor Clum is rank car pet bagger. now postmaster of Fair banks. We do not as yet know the home address of the Democratic can didate, but out of the four there should be. one who has a perma- nent Alaska address. Inde- pendent candidate Cum. however, is outspoken anyway. He admits that for thirty odd years he has been feed ing at the government corn crib, and be- finds it pleasant, -Katalla Herald.
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.. The capital of the Standard Oil Company is to be increased from s1OO, GOO, GOO to $500, 900, GOO. But let no one suppose that anyone is going to subscibe this additional $400, GOO, ,- 600. The old adage that oil and water will not mix does not apply to the stock maket. The chiefs of the Stan dard Oil will get this stock for nothing and will unload it on the public at their leisure.
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Rufus Choate once endeavored to make a witness give an illustration of absent -mindedness. Wal" said the witness cautiously, I should say that a man who thought he'd left his watch at hum, an took it out'n his pocket to see if he had time to go hum to get it-I should say that that feller was leetle bit absent mind ed." Every body's.
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It is announced from Pekin that the Chinese government is at present framing plan for the education of Chinese boys in America. It requires no very great stretch of the imagiua- tion to realize that this is an exceed ingly important step and one pregnant with results of far reaching char acter. 1t is only another sign of the imminence of the "awakening of the Orient which has been the night mare of statesmen all over the world for many years.
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can people are more truly Democratic, in the broad sense, than ever before.
 They are more determined than that the people shall rule. They have come to a new eomppehen- sion of the fact that parties are more- Iy the instruments of their will, and the party or the candidate that affords the best promise of governing in the peoples interest will have their cor dial support.