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NOME, ALASKA, NOV. 3, 1915. |
1
The seizure of two more American
steamships by British war vessels on 1
£
me pretext that they were violating
some provision of Britain’s innumerable i
and arbitrary sea laws brings to mind f
mat the administration continues to t
uisplay but little inclination to call (
ior an accounting fur the numberless
sea hold ups of like character occur
ring during the war period. In sharp .
contrast with the attitude of the gov- (
ernment toward Germany, the British [
are allowed to do about as they please |
with the sea commerce of the nation
and beyond a few feeble protests there
is nothing done. Times without num- ]
ber British warships have seized ves
sels of the American merchant fleet,
bound upon peaceful Journeys to neu
tral ports, compelling them to enter
British ports for search or long deten
tion and all this on the pretet that
such action is vital to her national
interests. This may be all very well
as far as Britain is concerned but it
would seem that respecting such ac
tion America has a duty to perform
unless we are content to have ourselves
convicted of grave inconsistency in
dealing with the belligerents. Toward
Germany we have at all times dis
played a most uncompromising sever
ity whenever that nation has deviated
in the least degree from the accepted
tenets of international law and she has
been sharply called to account for
every infraction of traditional princi
ple regardless of the exigencies of j
the occasion. All this has been done /
under the excuse that Germany was
violating some principle of recognized
law or custom. Did Germany deviate
but a fraction from the accepted code of s
things and an ‘‘international crisis" j i
immediately arose accompanied by a i
fearful hullabaloo on the part of press n
and public and the sages of Washington i
shook their heads and hoped for the
best while proltssing to see great f
danger ahead. True It is that Germany e
has been guilty of grave and repre- v
sensible errors viewed from the stand- s
points of either international or moral t
rules but this has but little to do with j
the proposition of why Britain Is al- !
lowed to do as she pleases and Ger- t
many is not. The main point in the
matter is that Germany is damned and i
condemned for violations of the prln- t
eiples of international law. This con
tention has been the key note of every
American protest delivered to the Ber- ■
lin government.
America has insisted that Germany
should not do so and so because such
action was In defiance of the custom ;
of nations and was not upheld by
traditional principles, but at the same
time Britain Is permitted to seize the
cargdes of merchant ships In defiance
of those very principles for violations
of which Germany Is held to such un- j
compromising accounting. We have, |
it is true, protested concerning such
actions but have been apparently con
tent to receive some plea of necessity
as an entirely satisfactory excuse, re
gardless of moral tights. International
!iaws or anything else. Britain has
'seized our ships, even when bound to
neutral ports, sometimes detaining
them for weeks and months to the
detriment and loss of their owners and
| has at all times, since the promulgation
|of the famous "order in council," con
uenmed any portion of a cargo which
might be construed as of possible use
to her enemies regardless of proof that
it was intended for enemy use or not.
True enough Britain has paid for such
seizure# but, be it remembered, that
tdoes not in the least absolve her from
the charge of proceeding in the face of
the rules of the international law
about which the United States raises
such a vast deal of pother where Ger
many is the offending party. In no
case where Britain has overtsepped the
recognized bounds, has more than a
most feeble protest been forthcoming
from this government and a reply of
any character whatever has been am
ply sufficient to stop further parley.
All this is all right if we are content
to accept it as satisfactory but the
[main point is that the conduct of Bri
tain is absolutely in defiance of the
iforms to which we profess such inordi
nate attachment where others are
concerned.
ALASKA A FARMING COUNTRY.
(Exchange.)
The United States department of
agriculture has recently furnished a
statement for Intending settlers in Al
aska showing the crop values produc
ed by Alaska farmers in the district
about Fairbanks, and these are of such
character as to quiet any doubt as to
the practicability of farming in the
valleys of the great territory. The
Fairbanks district is pretty well north.,
and less likely to carry on general
farming operations profitably than
some of the valleys farther south. Yet
forty-five farmers of that district last
season produced crop yields to the
value of $500 per acre. These com
prised winter wheat, barley, oats and
hay', with large yield# of potatoes, ruta
bagas and turnips, cabbage and the
military field vegetables. Stock raisers
mve also recently made a profitable
ihowing through their herds of cattle.
A'hile the large returns reported from
he Fairbanks district place it in the
irea of profitable farming, the show
ng is also evidence for settlers
vho are going, or preparing to go, into
he district traversed by the govern
nent railway from Seward to Fair
banks. There are thousands of acres
>f land in these valleys, capable of pro
luclng profitable crops, and contribut
ng to the prosperity of a large agricul
ural populaton. un the showing
nade, it is evident that Alaska will j
ittimately add to its rich mineral pro- ]
luctlon the substantial and dependa
ble usset of annual dividends from the
farm.
ALASKA
NOTES
"Powerful” Joe Houston,a charac
ter from Alaska, wag found guilty of j
forgery at Port Angele^, Wash., adn 1
given a sentence of from one to twenty '
years.
Petersburg will discard coal oil
lamps and put in an electric lighting
plant. The town council has sent Fred
Purinton to Seattle to find out the
■ost of a plant.
Postmaster Melvin Dempsey of Pax
on. has been missing since August 24,
vhen he started from Paxson’s for
late creek, and It is feared that he has
let with an accident.
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The advisability of awarding medals
»r bravery displayed by men employ
1 in and around mines and smelting
orks has lately been under discus
ion by the Canadian mining lnstltu
on.
A young mountain sheep, captured
y Thos, C. Noyes last spring near
'hisana, has been taken to an island
ear Ketchikan. It is supposed to be
he only one of Its kind In captivity.
Several hundred people In the Tolo
ana district have petitioned Judge
Junnell to establish a recording pre
■inct at the new camp, and to appoint -
S. Kenn commissioner for the sec
don.
With Fairbanks as a source for our
political Information, we learn that
ielegate James Wtckersham aspires to
be the governor of Alaska and that
the mantle of delegateship Is due to
[all upon the shoulders of Dan Suther
land, of Ruby.
William Thomas, an old timer on
the Yukon river, died recently at Cir
cle City and was burled under the aus
i
pices o£ Hie Fairbanks Igloo o£ Pion
eers. lie nuu neon ailing lor a lime,
turn ilie i uniters expecteu to senu mm
uUutiuti ioi iiealllieUi.. lie was oti
> ears of age anU uealh was uue to a
general breakdown anil olu age. lie
was one ot tne earnest settlers in uie
cnne uisuiol unu was living uieie
wnen uuwson was uisuSvereu.
Captain Hunter, ot tne Norlhwesl
em, reports that tne Columbia glacier,
near \ aider and opposite Kilamer, has
been spin m two and a portion of it
thrown into the sea apparently b> some
mighty convulsion of nuture and that
vessels now have lo alter their usual
course to gel around it.
l ather Duncan, the aged missionary
of Motlukulitla, who led a band ot In
dians from British Columbia across
I the line into Alaska more than forty
1 years ago because he believer the Brlt
I isli government was not treating the
natives right, is again preparing lo
[move to another place and start life
anew with Ins followers, some of whom
were members of tne original party
which followed hinr Into the land of
I the free as they have always in the
(past regarded Alaska.
The trail from McCarthy lo the
Nizina river is still impassable. Pack
ers to the Chisana and other placer
camps ure using the old Niikaloui trail
which ,it is slated, is to steep that the
horses are competed to scale the cliffs
h> means of long ladders.
Keen death has its uncertainties in
interior Alaska. Andy Beckwith died
at Brooks of heart uisease, and the
local deputy marshal wired the tact to
his boss at Fairbanks with the further
statement that there were two witness
es present when the death occured.
The Ketchikan Progressive cannot
understand. The territorial legislature
passeu an act taxing canneries, and
the judge ruled that they must pay.
'r lie same legislature reduced the pen
alty for selling liquor lo Indians trom
a felony to a misdemeanor, and the
same judge lias ruled that they over
stepped their powers. Tile Ketchikan
Progressive cannot understand.
Alex Hanot, a placer operator of
Fairbanks, Alaska, has been granted a
patent on an improved scraper for
open cut mining or excavating. The
Hanot brothers own the lower half of
the original discovery claim on Pedro
creek, the first on© staked in the Fair
bunks district. It is pH open cut
ground, being about 12 feet to bedrock,
and has reatnined practically virgin
since 1902 through litigation.
Tlie Cordova Times correspondent
front Anchorage tells the folowing in
cident as illustrative of the attitude
taken by the railroad commission to
wards Alaskans: A sourdouogh trom
Hope recently asked Commissioner
Means why, in giving men employment
here, Alaskans were discriminated
against and favors were shown aliens—
Canadians and "bohunks." The pert
inent part of the answer was in sub
stance: ‘‘We re going to show the sour
doughs that we cun build this road
without their assistance.”
Seward Gateway: The only child
saved from the Lusitania when that
liner was sent to the bottom was the
child of Wm. Dougherty, who Is now
working on the Kenal Alaska mine
near Seward. Mr. Dougherty was the
maid of Mrs. J. H. Sears, of this city,
and took passage with the child on the
big liner’s last trip. The mother was
also saved and states that she could
see the German submarine sailing
about watching calmly while the peo
ple of the Lusitania were going to
their death. Mrs. Dougherty, herself,
is English.
When the cannery boats arrived re
■ently with 27,000 seine fish, the catch
for the season was completed, and
within a couple of weeks the cannery
LTew will have finished work.
The Petersburg pack this season Is
the largest put up by any cannery in
this section of Southeastern Alaska,
and is. a record pack for the cannery,
exceeding by 8,000 cases the output
for any previous year.
The total pack is 63,000 cases, of
which SO,000 are pinks, 6,000 reds, and
the balance cohoes with a few chums.—
Petersburg Report.
AT THE NEW EAGLE.
Old Lswii Hunter Rye and ths Fa
mous Atherton Bourbon whiskeys, Dis
tilled spring 1904-1908, bought in bond
and reduced to 90 per cent, by U. B
government by tho bot*le er gallon.
NEW Year greeting, Lomen Droe.
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WHEN THE WORKERS QUIT.
(Saturday Evening l’ost.)
To the number of men under arms
! add those engaged in making war
luuuitions except food and clothing -
though a great deal of war clothing is
wasteful in that it is used up far fast
er than if the wearers were in a civil
occupation.
Economically considered, ail these
men are idle, for they are producing
uc wealth. For Great Britain their
j ember has been calculated at some
tiling like half the total working pop
ulation. The proportion is probably
about the same for the other belli
gerents, except llusslu, where it is
somewhat lower.
Suppose something like half the gain
fully employed population of the Uni- j
ted States struck work, sat down and
twiddled their thumbs for two or three i
years, being supported in idleness by |
the government during that period. !
Suppose there was some destruction of
real property by blowing up bridges,
throwing explosives into factories and
burning vtlluges. Suppose there was a
very high casualtiy and mortality rate
among the idlers. Uur economic posi
tion would then be about like Euorpe's.
The government would be borrowing
immense sums to support its millions
of pensioners, and uur problem would
lie to offset tile drain as much as
possible by levying on labor that Is
not normally employed productively—
the surplus of labor of women, children,
the aged and the halt—and by econo
mizing in all possible ways.
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The Squires
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HIS COERSION.
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