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MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1916
IN MEXICO.
THE- cactus towers, straight and tall.
Through fallow fields of cbapparal.
And here and there, in paths apart.
A dusky peon guides bis cart.
And yokes of oxen Journey slow.
In Mexico.
jhnd oft some distant tinkling tells
Of muleteers, with wagon bells
That jangle sweet across the maize.
And green agave stalks that raise
Bleb spires of blossoms, row on row.
In Mexico.
Upon tlie whitened city walls
The golden sunshine softly falls,
On archways set with orange trees,
Or paven courts and balconies.
Where trailing vines toss to and fro,
' In Mexico.
had patient little donkeys fare
With laden saddlebags and bear
Through narrow ways quaint water jars
Wreathed round with waxen lily stars.
And scarlet poppy buds that blow.
In Mexico
to liquid syllables the cries
Of far fruit venders faintly rise;
And under thick palmettp shades,
And down cool covered colonnades
The tides of traffic gently flow.
In Mexico.
When twilight falls, more near and clear.
The tender southern skies appear.
And down green slopes of blooming limes
Come cascades of cathedral chimes.
And prayerful figures worship low.
In Mexico
A land of lutes and witching tones;
Of silver, onyx, opal stones;
A lazy land, wherein all seems
■nchanted Into endless dreams,
And never any need they know. I
In Mexico.
Of life's unquiet, swift advance,
But slipped into such gracious trance,
The restless world speeds on, unfelt,
Unheeded, as by those who dwelt
to olden ages, Jong ago.
In Mexico.
—Bvaleen Stain.
RAPE OF TERRIBLE JAMES.
The Juneau Dispatch, a thick-and
thin Wickersham organ, speaks of
the alleged Wickersham-Shackleford
deal to control tke Republican party
of Alaska as an accomplished fact. It
heads its account of Republican pri
maries as follows:
1 “A combination of the Wickersham
and Shackleford forces have taken
•very primary in the First division,
according to advices reaching the
Dispatch office.”
1 The Dispatch proceeds to aver that
it has telegraph news from Fair
banks stating that in the Fourth Di
vision “Senator Gaustad and Leroy
Tozier fused the Wickersham-Shack
leford forces,” and carried most of
the division.
Everybody seems to have heard of
the Wickersham-Shackleford frame
up except the delegate himself. Far
be It from the innocent and child-like
Terrible James to get in bed with a
politician whom he has denounced
And fought for years, even though it
be necessary to get a coveted nomina
tion for himself, but he has plenty
of wicked partners who are fixing up
the job for him and he may have to
submit to this political rape.
Wbat a shame for JameB the Terri
ble to lose bis political virtue so cru
elly!
THE MEXICAN INVASION.
The American invasion of Mexico
in pursuit of Villa and his bandit
band has the support of those of all
shades of opinion as to the American
Mexican policy. The purpose of this
invasion has been fully stated by the
President. It is not intervention. It
does not contemplate interference
with government in Mexico. It is for
the sole purpose of captartngand
punishing a band of outlawj^Uto
--THE
PROGRAM
Instreinental Music
FATHE NEWS. War News,
“I Should Worry.” Cartoon
. ' /Comedy.
Frauds, S. & O. three-part fea
ture.
The Taming of Kota—Comedy
A Elided Fool, William Far
nuiu and Margaret Vale, on
Thursday Next.
Admission 25c and 10c.
have murdered American citizens on
American soil. Americans may be
warned to keep out of the way of
trouble when It is expected on Mexi
can soil, but they cannot and ought
not be compelled to flee from outlaws
in their own country. -
There is ample precedent for the
course President Wilson has decided
upon in this matter. General Car
ranza in likening the situation to that
at the time the Apache chief Geroni
mo was terrorizing American and
terrorizing American and Mexicans
on the border, was speaking by the
card. His request that Mexican
troops be permitted to cross the
American border in pursuit of Villa,
also is in harmony with the Geroni
mo incident. At that time an agree
ment was entered into between the
United States government and the
government of Mexico permitting the
troops of each country to pursue the
warring Indians across the border of
the other.
Geronimo was pursued by Gen.
Miles into Mexico and he was cap
tured in that country by a detach
ment of Miles' forces under com
mand of Capt. Lawton, afterwards a
famous General of the Spanish-Amcr
ican war, who was killed in the Phil
ippines by an active sharpshooter.
It is fortunate that the American
commander in the Mexican trouble
will be Gen. Funston. On many criti
cal occasions this volunteer officer
has proved his capacity, and he will
probably do so again.—Exchange.
A DRAWN BATTLE.
It grows more and more apparent
every day that the final result of the
war in Europe and Asia must be a
drawn battle.
Germany and Austria-Hungary can
never obtain what they started out to
accomplish. This dream was to still
further partition France, capture Bel
gium and the Dutch States, make a
clear way from the North and Baltic
seas to the Adriatic and Mediterra
nean, make France and Great Bri
tain subject powers, dictate the poli
cies of all western Europe and domi
nate the ocean trade of the world.
While France has maintained her
position with magnificent valor, while
Great Britain and Russia have under
the war s attritions steadily grown
more and more formidable, they can
none of them, nor all of them, break
the Teuton army. Germany has pour
ed out German blood like water. She
has attained what she struck for, and
her territory is still intact, and be
hind her defenses are still bristling
with her long lines of fighting men.
They still number millions, and her
machinery of war is in as perfect run
ning order as it was when the first
gun of the war sounded the begin
ning of the wreck of Europe.
The lesson ought to be that civil
ised nations have reached a point
where an appeal to arms to settle dif
ferences between them is a crime;
that the seeking to perfect the means
of murder through war has outdone
itself; for it involves so much ex
pense that while nations may satiate
their blood lust there is no appeal to
reason in the great sacrifices that out
of soil so saturated with blood only
hate and cruelty and sorrow and a
desire for vengeance springs.
That is the situation today and be
hind it all, when the field is surveyed,
the things most in evidence are,
broken hearts, acres of graves, pov
erty. empty cradles, cripples, lunatics,
sad-eyed women and the spectre of
famine stalking over whole countries.
We do not think that the neutral
nations are doing their duty. We
think our own republic is most to
blame among them all. ' .
We think that the representatives
of all the neutral nations should be
in session now, and even though the
belligerents should repel every over
ture, that body should hold daily ses
sions, and every night send out a bul
letin to the world stating conditions
among the belligerents and making
clear that the hate and fury and false
pride that is drving them on are avail
ing them nothing. It is a disgrace
to our republic that it supinely ac
cepts thfc assumption that it is with
out influence or righteous power.—
Cordova Times.
RAiCER HAS GOOD TRAINING.
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Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
had excellent early training for a
Cabinet officer and National figure.
He started his political Career as pri
vate to Postmaster General William
L. Wilson when the latter was a
member of the late President Cleve
land’s Cabi|»*| William L. Wilson
was one of the really great men the
United States has ^Muced since the
Civil War. It was due to as
sociation with him that President
Cleveland said that the President
should have the assistance of a man
at the head of his Cablet, who was
not tied down by themtfttuils of.j.
portfolio, who should be called “JB*
sistant President.” He said that if
there were sif^i a® arrangement he
would name Witliatn ''ii^Wllson, of
[west Virginia for. that posraph.
The new Secretary of War has nev
er been an office seeker, yet he has
I bad an active political career for a
!young man. Although he is but 44
years of age, he has served as a Cab
inet officer’s secretary, ten years as
City Solicitor of Cleveland, Mayor of
that city, and now, after twice refus
ing the position of Secretary of the
Interior he is Secretary of War, and
at the head of the Cabinet Depart
ment that will have charge of the in
vasion of Mexico.—Juneau Empire.
The recent New York charity ball
cost $75,000 and netted $10,000 for
charity. That is about the fair aver
age of the amount which reaches
those for whom it was designed after
the expenses of administration are
taken out.
Fifteen thousand men eligible for
the army In London have asked for
exemption on the ground that their
“consciences” will not permit them to
take up arms. "Conscience” is a nice
euphemism in this connection.
A medical expert issues a solemn
warning against eating sirloin steak
more than once a day. Here is one
hit of medical advice which will be
followed by the vast majority of the
Alaskan people.
The woman suffrage cause in Mex
co is somewhat handicapped by the
fact that even the men have not yet
won the right to vote.
Senator La Follette announces that
he will be a candidate for the presi
dency, but the general public is not
inclined to credit the report.
Wherever T. R. is, things are do
ing. The volcano on the island of
Martinique had a violent coughing
spell, concurrently witht he arrival
of T. R. in the West Indies.
The petit jury will be drawn to
morrow, (Tuesday), afternoon at
the Court House at 2 p. m.
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We are ready to affirm, with every
prospect of being upheld by our citi
zens, that it would have been emi
nently more fair for Valdez if the
cow's owner had been included in that;
bill of sale and the cow allowed to
come to Alaska. Instead of being
milked our taxpayers could have
done the milking.
We agree with the Twinklets that
the Senator has done his utmost to
help “get" industries. Unfortunately
he and his confreres have been so
successful in their “getting” that but
few remain.
WHEN IS WAR
GOING TO END
PREDICTS A LONG STRUGGLE
Former Valde/.tan Writes of Changes
to Come When Peace Is Finally
Reached by the Warring Countries.
—Relieves Countries Should Agree.
A. F. Soderstrom, formerly of Val
dez, but now a resident of Phoenix,
Arizona, writes the following regard
ing the great struggle, between the
European nations:
“There are thousands of opinions
about the time when the European
war will be brought to a close. One
thing is certain that if the great war
is going to be fought until either one
of the sides is conquered that it will
last for throe or four years more, or
even longer. But this war can be
much shortened by reasonable agree
ment among the powers. If Germany
could give Belgium a fair settlement,
this would mean the foundation to
peace. If Germany gets defeated
then of course Gelgium will regain
tier country. France will regain Al
sace and Lorraine and England will
expect a huge sum of money In in
demnities, and Russia will claim
some territory in Germany. Italy
will grab Austrian territory, and also
exact a big sum of mouey in indem
nity. The Serbian government will
be set free as before, and ask a sum
of money from Austria in indemnity.
But this does not mean the end of
of the war as there ithout any
doubt be troubj f England
and Russia in-;i< ermany,
consequently Hj [^6 defeat
ed as the bai 'e on water,
and not on 1j Ingland would
force Russia to pi uch a big indem
nity so it would take her at least 100
years to get out of her debt. Sweden
will take her Baltic provinces back
by fight or the provinces that Rus
sia took away from Sweden in the
18th and 19th centuries. On the
S^cr band i{ Germany is not defeat
ed she will claim England and France
will pay to Germany so much indem
nity as the peace terms call for. But
Germany would have to remunerate
Turkey and Bulgaria for their assis
tance in the war. As already has been
explained this war can bo much
shortened by reasonable agreement
among the powers. We give this for
'illustration: Say Germany gave Bel
gium each a settlement that the lat
ter country can be redeemed in a cer
tain number of years, if not that
country too belongs to. Germany, and
it doesn’t matter whether . Germany
•will be defeated or not, the last trou
ble will be in settling with the Rus
sians, therefore we must divide that
country among England', France and
Italy with Germany on the other side,
(that is in order to secure peace
soon), and form a new government.
This government should constitute a
big part of Russia, particularly Sibe
ria. with all her mineral resources
and agricultural products, etc. This
country should have a ruler elected
by the above mentioned countries,
and be divided according to the agree
ment and peace terms. Austria would
keep Serbia, so that country would be
| considerably larger, and if Sweden
can keep neutral until the war is set
tled with Germany why the alliance
between England and Sweden will be
stronger than ever. It is very impor
tant that peace be secured soon, or
we will have better times to expect
both m Europe and in this country.
James Clock returned on the
Northwestern from a visit to the
states.
Mrs. M. M. Hopkins returned on
the Northwestern after visiting in the
States for several months.
Capt> J. C. Hunter Is again in com
mand of the Northwestern after a va
cation of five months, spent in sunny
California.
Mrs. A. Von Gunther returned on
the Northwestern from a visit to the
States, where she went to place her
daughter Lena in school at.Tacoma.
She reports a very enjoyable enjoy
able trip, but declares there is no
place like home.
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Tactless Fellow.
Mr. Notact — Why, Mia Tonnage,
bow cloeely yon resemble Mm. Van
Stout! One might take yon for bar
double.—St Louis Post-Dispatch.
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