The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-18

ing anything affected by relation to Post Office business, or is solely devot- ing himself to booming Mr. Taft for nomiration for President
 The Buffalo Express is apparently opposed to national support of ex- Presidents on the ground that they can make their own living. Thomas Jefferson, great President, was not a success at making his living, after he left office.
 The President is putting on the re- tired list officers who are poor eques- trians or who cannot get along in the saddle at all. The Man on Horseback apparently prefers his own kind, and we do not think that the Disability Corps will be able to make many points against him.
 From the New York American of recent date is quoted "American Citizenship Is More Than Nationali- ty." It certainly is. An applicant for naturalization in New York, a
 while ago, testified as follows: "Iy
 father was Scotchman. My mother was Frenchwoman. l was born on a Norwegian ship in Spanish waters un- der the Italian flag" He was entered as a Frenchman under the common law rule that child follows the na- tivity of it's mother. The father is
 more difficult to identify.
 Concerning the mail situation the Juneau Record indulges the following observations, which applies with equal force to this section, ana The
 Miner is not prepared to say that the
 remedy it proposes would not be a
 good one "Now that the steamers
 have broke loose again we will have
 mail to burn once more. The Seattle chased the Meteor up here. the Jeffer- son chased the Seattle, with one days
 mail, then will come three or four
 more, one following the other; then
 they will all follow each other back and let us wait another ten days for
 mail. Now, while Seattle is busy tell ing us how we should run politics in Alaska, why can't we Alaskans get to- gether and get up class in naviga- tion of steamboats? Seattle navigates
 everything for her own welfare and cares about as much for Alaska as she
 does for the fish in the sea-her only desire being that we bite at the bait " Thomas F. Cole, one of the Arizona copper kings, tells his friends that he
 believes copper will reach a price of 20 cents per pound in 1908, primarily as result of the restriction in pro- duction which is now taking place all over the country. He says l2 cents to 13 cents market for copper has shut down the smaller copper producers in considers it absurd for any large prop erty that cannot show substantial profits on 12c. copper to deplete it's reserves and give away its assets for a higher metal market. He takes the position that the American consumers are so short on stocks that they are actually sweeping up the floors to gather the filings and that if consum- CTS figure upon getting copper at be- low cost to many of the prodcuers they will be very much mistaken. He figures that the shortage in copper will be so quickly felt when consum- CTS get ready to enter the market that the price will be advanced to ..2Oc. per pound and that then many properties which are now shut down will resume operations and be able to make more money by having shut down and con- serving their ores than they would have done by pushing activities at a time of small profits.
 Anent the advantages which Alaska presents for the manufacture of pulp wood, to which The Miner has made more than one reference, it is inn portant to know that the press of Can ada, from one end to the other of that country, keeps hammering away at the question of the wisdom of the Domin- ion government putting an export duty on pulp. and there can no longer be any doubt as to the temper of the people upon the matter. The Toronto World puts it this way; "Just now the papermakers of Wisconsin, Michi- gan and Pennsylvania are reported to be unusually active in arranging for supply of pulpwood, and there can be little doubt that the requisition on puplwood will become more and more severe. This means not only an increasing direct drain on Canadian pulpwood resources, but the loss of the prof itahle industries which, under proper regulation, would neces- sarily come into existence. The United States has never suffered consideration for the welfare or susceptibilities of other nations to interfere with the policy that furthere1 the interests of it's own people. Canadians cannot