IDITAROD PIONEER
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BY GEORGE M. ARBUCKLE
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Vol. 9No. 2
RULES FOR DISLOYALISTS
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Here are ten rules of conduct
for those who wish Germany to
win the war. According to The
Independent, a careful observa
tion of these rules will enable a
traitor to operate without danger
to himself.
1. When driven to make an un
equivocal statement protest your
loyalty, and then change the sub-,
ject.
2. Assert on every occasion1
that “Wall street” made the war.
Never mind explaining when,
how, or why,
3 Get in all the sneers you can
at any professions of ideal mo
tives.
4. It is dangerous to denounce
the United States directly. But
rake history from end to end for
mud to throw at the Allies. Es
pecially twist the lion’s tail.
5. Profess great concern lest
sending food to Europe will
starve America. Support every
embargo movement that supplies
to the Allied nations and none
that does not. 1
8. If the President asks for any
extension of power, rave about
“dictatorship” and the “over
throw of the liberties for which
our fathers, etc.” i
7. Spread rumors that the Al
lies are going to betray us as
soon as we are deeply involved
i in the war.
8. Accept conscription in prin
ciple, but hamper its working in
every possible way. One good
way i$ to start scares about revo
lution and internal disorder as a
pretext for keeping a large part
of the army at home.
9. Demonstrate that the enemy
is inconquerable and victory
hopeless. Play the “candid
friend” and act as a depressant.
; 10. Be very jealous to prevent
I “entangling alliances,” and be
much concerned about the Mon
roe doctrine if we “mix ourselves
in Euroyean quarrels ” A per
manent league of nations would
embarrass your junker friends ii
they remain in power after the
war. Germany can only hope to
conquer other nations if they act
selfishly and in isolation.
Billy Sunday has persuaded
15,000 Los Angeles people that
they want to go to heaven. Such
disloyalty to the climate of south
ernCalifornia !- St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The dispatches from Prance
announce that the Missouri muh
has reached the fighting line.
The Germans will do well to keep
in front of him.—Topeka State
Journal. _
There is a growing theory that
the surest way to keep Germany
fully occupied is to let her take
Russia.—Emporia Gazette.
The Russians are declining
a military force, but are greatly
improved in their ability as de
baters.—Dallas News.
Speaking of enemies within,
there is the great American ap*
petite.—Brooklyn Eagle.
WOULD SHIP THEM_TO_ THEIR IDEAL LAND
(From the Congressional Record.)
Detroit, Minn., Sept. 11, 1917.
To Hon. Knute Nelson,
United States Senator, Washington, D. C.:
Resolution passed by P. C. Scholts Post, No. 67, Department
of Minnesota, Grand Army of the Republic.
To Your Honor: We would ask you to favor legislation along
the same lines as Abraham Lincoln adopted with Vallandig
ham, who was sent by Abraham Lincoln over into the South
land to remain during the period of the Civil war. We think
all the agitators who are agitating any question that is against
this government at this time when we are in trouble are to be
classed with the followers of the l-aiser.
We think they ought to be dealt with on the same lines that
Lincoln adopted with Vallandigham. They should be loaded
onto boats and shipped to the country from which they came.
If the submarine saw fit to sink them on the high seas, that
would be something that we would not be responsible for.
The American people would not stand to have these people
backed up against the stone wall, nor would they stand to have
them poorly fed; and we think it would be cheaper for our gov
eimment to ship them out of the country. A couple of ship
loads would do more to kill copperheads than anything else,
and give them the privilege of fighting at the front.
We know what we had to contend with for the four long
years when the copperheads at home were stabbing us in the
back. We knew where to find rebels, but never knew where to
find the copperheads. Yours in P , C. and L.,
John J. Merritt, Commander.
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WAR TALK
I leave my work to roast the kaiser
throughout the neighborhood; my wife
remarks that I'd be wiser if I would
saw some wood, She says I ought to
feed the cattle and dig spuds with a
spade, while I am planning siege and
battle, retreat and ambuscade. 'Tis
ever thus with wives, my masters,
great things they do not heed; they
care no hoot for war’s disasters, it
there are cows to feed. To plan great
wars I’m amply able, and wish to, bui
wife begs that I will crawl beneath
the stable and gather eggs. Oh, ihert
«re titles when I’m disgusted because
[ have no chance to |>oint out all the
punk, dingbusted boneheads they’ve
pulled in France. I know just why
he war eoes slowly, and I could tel.
hem how to put an end to strife un
holy, and break the Germans now
But when I start my explanation, rn>
wife gets on my trail, aod drags rm
from my congregation, to pack a water
pail. She dosen’t care to hear o
trenches or of tho German slump; she
-.ays I ought to take some wtencbe>
and fix the kitchen pump. She doesn’t
care about the navy that sails the dark
blue sea; sho says I’il hav* to stir tlx
gravy while she is brewing tea, Ann
;hus the patriot’s rewarded, who lovo>
the rag to chew; there's always some
ihiDg punk and sordid that he hr bilieo
10 do.—Walt Mason.
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A PASTORAL LETTER
The more you ponder the pastor*:
etter read iu the Protestant churches
f Berlin on a Sunday recently thr
more incomprehensible it appears.
*‘VVe will comfort ourselves »*•
Christiaus toward the enemies," read
the letter, "and conduct the war, in
the future, as in the past, with human
ity and chivalry."
This utterance, which would hav,
been amazing when standing by itself,
in view of Germany's well known con
duct of the war, happened to reach the
outer world just after the news repor
of the sinking of the British merchant
man Belgian Prince. Every news
paper reader is doubtless familiar b.\
this time with that particular exhibi
tion of "humanity and chivalry." The
German commander, after placing the
helpless crew od the U-boat deck,
smashing their lifeboats and stripping
off their clothing, ran a couple of miles
and then submerged, drowning 38 of
ihem—including four Americans, ac
cording to later reports.
The Holland newspapers immedi
ately printed this story and the Berlin
pastoral letter in parallel columns. Tne
rest of the world naturally followed
their example.
What’s wrong with the Prussian
mentality, anyhow? Is their a special
Prussian type of Christianity, different
from that of all other people?
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HE DIDN’T KNOW HIS OWN NAME
Skagway Alaskan, October 12.
“Hello, Ed!” greeted a man over the
desk of the Golden North hotel in sa
luting Ed Foreman, upon the arrival of
the train Tuesday night. " “Hello,
there,“ answered Ed. “I don't believe
you know me," said the stranger.
“Your face looks familiar, but I don’t
know your name,” answered Kastus.
“You don’t, eh? Well, you ought to for
its Foreman,” said the stranger, and
the two brothers, after a separation of
almost twenty years fell on each others
neck and embraced as real brothers
should.
J H. Foreman came to the north
land about 23 years ago, and since that
time he has followed up all the big
stampedes throughout the width and
breath of the great north. For the last
eight years he has been located in
the Iditarod country, and has come out
to see the great white lights. He will
remain here for some time before go
ing on to the states.
-A
JACK, THE PEOPLE S DEAR ERIE HD
Jack Wallace, whose long experi
ence in the restaurant business in
Alaska has made of him a familiar
figure in nearly all the camps of the
interior, has taken charge of the Wood
river roadhouse for the winter and
promises to have the glad hand ex
tended to all travelers making the trip
between Nenana and Fairbanks by way
of the river trail. The Wood river
roadhouse is one of the best establish
ments of the kind in interior Alaska.
—Anchorage Times.
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Police!
“But why did you jump overboard?”
we asked the man who had been res
cued ia mid-ocean.
“I jumped overboard because I was
ovsrbofrd with Mfe,” was the reply. Ex
BORAH & JAMES’ AERIAL TBAM
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The work of installing the aerial
tram at the Ronan & James mine in
Moose Pass is progressing favorably
and will be completed before winter.
As soon as the tram is In operation the
stamp m 11 will be started und in case
we should be favored with a late fall,
it is very possible that the property
may rpake a substantial increase in the
gold production of the Kenai penin
sula for this year.—Seward Gateway.
-A.
HEINIE MAKING BOUND OF VISITS
Attorney Henry Roden, who has
been visiting old friends here for the
oast week, left on Watson last night
tound for Seward where he will stay
i few days before continuing his jour
ney south. Mr. Roden recently arrived
o Seward on the steamer Victoria
rom Nome and came over the trail to
Anchorage.—Anchorage Times, Oct. 11.
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JACK BAIBD INTERESTED IN FISH
Jack Baird, a well-known oldtimer,
irom the Fairbanks district, passed
ihrough Seward last week enroute to
Kachemak bay where ho has gone to
make an investigation of fishing con
ditions at that point with a view of pos
sibly engaging in that business there if
conditions impress him favorably.— ]
Seward Gateway.
Bishop Row* is now enrout# to
Washington, D. G\, to secure title for
he Episcopal native mission included
in the government townsite reserve
' ion at Nenana.
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Dr. W. O. Cassels, formerly of Fait
.tanks, has been givon a commission of
captain with the medical corps at
'amp Lewis.
apt made to order and Furs repaired
Mrs. Shaller, Flat.
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