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U. 1901, at the Postulllce at Nome,
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City Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA. AUGUST 12, 1915.
il appears the results of the Chicago
Grand Jury's investigations are not in
tin- least ftkely to disturb the long es
tablished custom of picking out a scape
gnat to tie offered as a sacrifice to the
public clamor for the punishment of
someone for the occurance of great
disasters like that of the Kastland.
After much searching into the various
features of this awful catastrophe, the
inquisitorial body have decided that
some of the smaller fry are the ones
responsible and they must he made to
suffer as is exactly the case in all oc
curances of like nature. No attempt
is made to look for a victim outside of
the ranks of those directly engaged In
the operation of the vessel: not a word
of censure will fall upon the heads of
those who are the owners or control
lers or those whose duty it is to sec
that unseaworthy or dangerous ves
sels are not allowed to operate undei
such conditions as will tend to menace
the safety of others. It will he the
engineer or the stoker or the captain 01
some other of equally low degree wh<
did or failed to do this or that little
something which can be used as a pre
text for Axing the blame, who will have
tei suffer. It is not the question o
whether the vessel could be classed ai
safe under emergency conditions o
whe'ther it was safe under ordinarj
conditions and very little will pro
bably he said about thp man who gave
Instructions to the underlings, whict
they probably diel their best to obey
No investigation will follow of the pos
sibility that the conditions of naviga
tion should lie so unusual that in ordei
to meet the orders of the owners or con
tiollers the men in charge were com
polled to such measures as would tenc
t<> make the vessel unsafe. Little ac
count will probably be taken of the
fact that in order to navigate waterf
of shallow depths, where they were
ordered to go, and dared not disobey
for fear of forfeiting their jobs, they
were compelled to empty the ballast
tanks to the degree that when hun
dreds of people threw their weight
upon one side the vessel would in all
probability founder. No account will
he taken of the fact that the men in
■——■I 'l 'I
charge probably were doing their best
to obey orders: to meet certain con
ditions imposed on them by those
whom they must obey or else get off
the Job and that it was due to those
orders that the accident occurred. The
question of responsibility will be con
fined to who emptied the tanks and
who gave the direct order to empty
them. The captain or engineer may
protest with might and main that they
knew by the charts that they could
not get in or out of the river with the
ballast tank9 full and in ordsr to fol
low the commands of the owners they
were compelled to empty them. No
questions will be asked as to why the
owners ordered them to a place where
such conditions were necessary. The
only fact to be taken into recount will
be that they were the ones who gave
the order for the tanks to be emptied
and therefore they must be held re
sponsible for the awfut consequences
of their net. That is always the way.
The most striking illustration of
blundering incompetence of Congress
in the attempt to frame revenue meas
ures is now brought prominently be
fore the country in the decision of the
customs court on the so-called "5 per
cent, clause" of the present revenue
law. On the pretext of aiding Ameri
can shipping, the revenue law passed
by the last Congress contained a pro
vision that 5 per cent, of all customs
dues should he rebated when the goods
entered the United States in American
Ships.
When the hill was before Congress
II was pointed out over and over again
that the United Stntes had commercial
treaties with practically every nation
in the world, by the terms of which it
was In express terms provided that no
other or different rates of customs
duties should he collected on goods en
tering this country in the ships of the
rountries with which such treaties
were outstanding than were charged
upon goods entering in American ves
sels. Rut the Democrats refused to
pay any attention to this and forced
tho hill through.
The treasury department, when the
law went into effect, faced this same
difficulty, lint decided to ignore the law
[altogether: rather a lawless proceeding
in itself. The case was taken into
court. Now the court holds that the 5
per cent, rebate provided in the law is
operative and must be granted on all
goods entering in American ships. Fur
ther. the same rebate must be allowed,
in accordance with the express treaty
stipulations, on all goods coming here
in ships of countries with which we
have such treaties.
The effect is to reduce customs re
venues another 5 per cent., or some
thing like $11,000,000 for the present
fiscal year, and to compel the rebating
of some fifteen million dollars unlaw
fully collected through the treasury’s
refusal to obey the law. This is all
due to the stubborn and blundering re
fusal of Congress to pay the slightest
attention to the treaties by which the
government had bound itself. It fur
ther disturbs the finances of the coun
try and knoks out almost the last
vestige of protection to American in
dustry.—Seattle R. I.
THE FIRST SAW.
Talus, the Greek, is said to have In
. vented the saw from having once found
the jawbone of a snake, which he em
ployed to cut through a small piece of
wood. In early periods the trunks of
I trees were split into boards with
wedges, and, although these deals were
not always straight, they were regard
ed as much hetter suited to e.instruc
tion than sawed hoards because they
followed the grain and lasted longer
and were stronger. Water mills for
the purpose of sawing came into use
in the fourth century.
WE CAN PO IT.
For first class work and prompt de
livery phone Mein 161 and the People's
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get office.
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AMAZON
NATIVES
WIRELESS
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In the Juamaar region of the Amaz
on the natives use a crude system of
wireless telegraphy, which. It is claim
ed, has been in operation for thousands "
of years. The transmitter found by an
explorer was a hollowed trunk of a
tree suspended from a horizontal poli
stretched between two stumps. Inside
the transmitter had been arrnnged
much like a violin, nnd it was explain
ed that when the Instrument was
struck smartly with a small rubber
hammer a vibration was created that
carried for miles over the hills. The
receiver is very similar to the trans
mitter. except that it is placed on a
hardwood platform. When the 'mes
sage Is struck in the neighboring vil- I
lage, sometimes thirty miles away. J
this receiver catches the vibrations,
causing a jerky, singing sound. The
sound system, it is said, can he read
by the members of the tribe, and in
this way news of victories and other
happenings ate told throughout the
countryside.
INTERESTING
mm
No city in Europe has known so
many changes of masters as Warsaw,
which the Germans now hold. Founded
about the year 850, it was the capital
of the independent dukedom of Maz
ovie until the fifteenth century, when
It was annexed by Poland. In the
seventeenth century its possession
was contended for by Sweden, Russia,
Austria and Brandenberg, until 1701, j
Russia practically annexed it. In 1796
the city was handed over to Prussia, .
but Napolean occupied it in 1800, ami
at the peace of Tilsit Warsaw was
proclaimed an Independent Duchy. In
1809 the Austrians seized the city but
lost it again, and after another brief
spell of independence the city passed
finally to Russia in 1813.
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