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JOSLIN’S SIGNIFICANT WARNING
The following article from the Seattle Times is quoted approv
ingly by the Cordova Alaskan, and should afford matter for serious
reflection between now and election day:
Seattle would do well to take immediate cognizance of the significant warning
given by Falecn Jo: lm in a recent speech, lie pointed out that the bill which passed
congress at the present session carried an appropriation of only $1,000,000 to be ex
pended in preliminary work on the proposed Alaska railroad system. The balance of the
>35,000.000, which is the limit | iaced by congress on expenditures for the Alaska gov
ernment railroads, must be appropriated by subsequent sessions of congress, l'er that :
reason his earnest caution that this city should vigilantly watch the railroad situation
i- timely and pointed. It will be remembered that when the railroad fight was on in
Washington an effott was made to have congress authorize the issue of bonds in the
.uni of $40,000,000 to pay for the construction of the Northern lines. That was the
idea of those who desired to have the fight over with the affirmative action of con
gress this year, rendering it unnecessary to continue the tedious uphill battle at subse
quent sessions, llowi ver, congress eliminated this feature and decided to keep the purse
strings in its own 'lands. Having approved the principle of government railroads in
Alaska, and having appropriated $1,000,000 for the preliminary work, the chances are all
in favor of affirmative action when further appropriations are necessary to carry on the
work But remembering the proverbial “slip between the cup and the lip, it is the
height of wisdom to continue eternally vigilant, lest sinister influences should intervene
to upset the good work already accomplished.
Falcon joshn is a man of wide experience in Alaskan affairs, and
his words are entitled to consideration by the people of the territory as
well as by the people of Seattle, to whom they were addressed. The
million dollars appropriated for preliminary work on the government
railroad in Alaska would he of little practical benefit were it not fol
lowed by appropriations from time to time to carry on the work so
auspiciously begun.
The man who conducted the “tedious uphill battle which was
conducted for the enactment of the railroad bill was James Wicker
sham, and to him more than In any nllipr nno ro,-„o,i JO d.ii. tin. miiil
of placing the law on the statute books. Wickersham is now before the
people of Alaska as a candidate for re-election as delegate in congress.
His opponent is Charles E. Bunnell of Valdez, a man practically un
known to the citizens of the territory at large. Looking at the candi
dacy of the two men from a practical business standpoint, is it the part
of wisdom to elect an untried and practically unknown man to carry
on the work so successfully commenced by a man whose ability, in
tegrity and aggressiveness have so well been demonstrated?
VANDALISM IN WARFARE
The destruction of the beautiful and historic cathedral at Rheims,
following closely upon the razing of the city of Louvain, will cause a
feeling of anger and resentment throughout the Christian world at the
seemingly wanton vandalism m the present European struggle. The
fruits of the high aspirations and artistic genius handed down from
former centuries have been wiped out as a sacrifice to the bestial in
stincts provoked by the frenzy of war. The religious sentiment in
herent in mankind which prompts the devotion of the best products
of his genius and skill to the glorification of the deity have been ruth
lessly trodden under foot. The appalling loss of human life is de
plored, but is looked upon as a necessary adjunct of warfare. It
would seem that among so-called civilized nations these beautiful
structures which are the heritage of the people of the whole world
should be spared from the insane desire to destroy.
Rheims cathedral, which the dispatches state was destroyed by
the Germans, is located in the city of that name, in the department of
Maine, 100 miles from Paris. The city was early imbued with a re
ligious character, owing to the many solemn and historical rites cele
brated in its great cathedral. Here the kings of France were success
ively crowned for many generations, and Clovis, the great king of the
Franks (438-453), who defeated the Romans and gained much fame
ac a warrior, was baptized, together with hundreds of his followers.
The facade of the cathedral was a medieval masterpiece. A wealth of
tapestry, sculpture and paintings by Titian, Tintonette and Poussin,
beautified the interior, and innumerable statues of artistic grace
adorned the exterior. The rose window and portal were of rare mag
nificence.
The destruction of such noble edifices is a distinct loss to religion
and mankind.
Baseball, “l spy” and other popular games among Tacoma boys
have taken a second place since the outbreak of the war in Europe,
says the Ledger. War is now the game among the youngsters. The
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Tacoma paper relates the following incident: “Distracted, a mother
conveyed her small son in her coupe to the family doctor’s office.
‘Quick—the stomach pump,’ she ordered, breathlessly. The physi
cian was concerned. ‘Has Tommie swallowed some poison?’ he asked.
‘No—paper.’ ‘Paper?’ ‘My son was acting as a spy and when he was
captured he went to work and swallowed his secret documents,’ was
the explanation.” _
In all the flood of literature that has been turned loose bearing on
the current European war, the article by George Bernard Shaw, the
erratic English genius, which we reproduce elsewhere, stands out boldly
for its truthful presentation of the cause of the war. The frank
ness of the writer, scorning subterfuge and the diplomatic fiction which
has been given so many different turns, according to its source, arouses
a feeling of admiration for the man who, with all his egotism and foi
bles, is yet honest and fearless enough to speak the truth to his country
men and the world at large at a time when “patriotism” is made a cloak
for falsehood and chicanery.
It appears that, knowingly or otherwise, the neutrality laws of
the United States have been flagrantly violated in the enrollment of
reservists and volunteers by the consuls of foreign governments in
various American cities. The fact that all the belligerents seem to
have been guilty of this act alone accounts for no protest having been
made and that we have not incurred the enmity of friendly nations. A
| stop has been put fo the practice, but explanations may yet be in order.
Charles E. Bunnell, cand date for delegate in congress against
James Wickersham, will probably visit Iditarod within a few days.
While his candidacy will not receive much encouragement here, he will
be tendered a respectful hearing.
OPEN ALASKA'S COAL
If anything more were required to do this,
the outbreak of the present war should
! prompt congress to take immediate steps to
j induce the opening of the coal mines in
j Alaska and to rush the construction of the
! Alaska railroad for that purpose.
All of the coal for naval uses on the
Pacific has been brought around from tire
Atlantic. To get this coal here it has been
' necessary, or at least the department has
considered it necessary, to use foreign vex
I sels. These foreign vessels are no longer
! ivvoiluliK feu (licit |'U1 jiu.-i . TllC J WOtll.l
| he subject to capture rn the high seas, not -
| withstanding that they were 1 aded by our
government, for vessels are alw ays subject
j to capture by a power hostile to the flag
I which they tiy.
There are no American shins for th° pur
! pose. Kvery vessel which flies the Ameri
> can flag which can by any po^-ibility be
used for the purpose will lie needed in our
overseas trade, to take the places of the
foreign ships which have been withdrawn
from the trade, 'there are no means avail
able for getting coal from the Atlantic for
our Pacific fleet
Of course, the naval vessels can use the
domestic coal which is good enough for all
of the* merchant vessels and also the rev
enue cutters and army transports, but it is
not considered good enough for naval ves
sels, especially in war times. The situa
tion. therefore, points now to the immedi
ate necessity of opening the mines of good
steaming coal for naval uses in Alaska as
I speedily as possible. The opening of those
mines has become a necessary part of any
-chcme of nati'-nal defense, and the last
week has shown conclusively that no na
tion can afford to neglect every possible
measure to strengthen the national defense.
—Seattle Post Intelligencer.
ARCHDEACON REPLIES TO CRITICS
In a letter to the Ruby Record-Citizen,
Archdeacon Stuck denies that he made the
sweeping charges against all the white men
in Alaska attributed to him by newspaper
reports. He says:
“Nothing ever went into any statement of
mine Outside that I have not made again
and again in public in numerous places in
Alaska. I have said that the chief hin
drance to the work of Christianizing and civ
iiizing the Indians is the evil influence of the
‘low-down whites’ (the phrase is Robert
Service’s', who consort with them and ped
dle liquor to them and debauch their
women; and that statement I am entirely
willing to stand by. for it is the truth, and
it is the experience of every missionary or
teacher of any kind who has ever worked
amongst our natives. But I have never
made that statement without expressly ex
cepting the great majority of the white
men of Ahe country. I have always gone
on to say (the phrases have been used so
often that they scare, ly varied in the us
ing!. T am not talking about the miners
and prospectors; they are hack in the hils
digging holes in the ground; I am talking
about a 1 ary (lass that has test all ambition
and fa if res; cc and has dropped down, not
to the level of the Indian, but indeed be
neath him altogether: a class that obtrudes
iu-.’Ii into native villages and forms alli
ances, legal or illegal, with native women
who will do most of the little work neces
sary for livelihood. This class is not pe
culiar to Alaska. Robert Louis Stevenson
has described it in the South Sea islands,
mid Kipling and Conrad in the Orient, and
| it may be found wherever a simple, primi
j live people is found.’ ”
CYNICAL ENGLISHMAN
PLACES BLAME FOR WAR
LONDON, Aug. 11.- The London Daily
News today published the following signed
article by George Bernard Shaw, dealing
with the real cause of England’s participa
tion in the European war :
Now that we are at war it is well we
should know what the war is about. To
begin with, we are not at war because
Germany made an infamous proposal that
we should allow her to violate Belgian neu
trality. If it had suited us to accept that
proposal we should have found plenty of
reason for accepting it. The devotees of
our own neutrality have found some of
them already no more infamous than the
diplomatic reasons we have given in the
past for courses which happen to be con
venient to us. Let us, therefore, drop it.
Our national trait of virtuous indigna
tion is tiresome enough in peaceful party
strife at home; at war it is ungallant and
unpardonable. Let us take our pugnacity ;
to the field and leave our hypocrisy and \
our bad blood at home. They weaken the 1
heroic fighter and encourage only black- |
guards.
This war is a balance of power war and j
nothing else. And the fact that we all have j
to face is that if our side is victorious the j
result will be an overbalance of power in '
favor of Russia far more dangerous to all
other combatants than the one we are fight
ing to redress.
Prussian militarism has bullied us for
forty years, and months ago neither Ger
many nor France believed that we would
fight when it came to the point. That is
why there was such a wild explosion of
delighted surprise when the French cham
ber learned that we were game after all.
That is why the kaiser, though reckless
of every other interest concerned, offered us
the best excuse he could invent for our neu
trality, believing we were only too willing
to snatch at it. And that is also why we
had io take off ou^ coat and sail in. YVe
bad io show that when it. comes to a bal
ance < f power we are no mere dummy
weights in the scale
Our immediate business, therefore, is to
fight as hard as we can, for our weight
when the siutlemeiu comes will depend on
the part we shell have j layed in the con
flict.
Meanwhile the political influences of or
ganied labor at home must not be waved :
in if!le and exasperating platitudes about the
wickedness of war and the extravagance of
big armaments and the simplicity of non
intervention and all other splintered planks
of the old peace, retrenchment and reform
[ lath Till.
The difference between the foreign pol
icy of the Socialist and the foreign policy j
of capital is simple. Capital sends the flag j
at the hecF of commercial speculation for !
profit; socialism would keep the flag at the
hear! of civilization. Capital, badly wanted I
at home, is sent abroad after cheap labor, i
Financiers une the control of the army and
tlie fleet, which they obtain through, par
liament, solely to guard their unpatriotic '
inve-tments. That is the root of the pre- J
ent mischief.
Trance, instead of using her surplus in
come in abofishing French .Hums and build
ing i:p French children into strong men and
women, has lent it to Russia to strengthen
the most tyrannical government in Europe,
and. to secure her interest on her loan, she
has entered into in unnatural alliance with
Russia against her more civi ized neighbors. ]
We have no right to throw stones at 1
France on this account, for we made an
agreemenut with Russia of a still more sor
didly commercial character for the exploita
tion of Persia with capital that should have 1
fed our starving children; and now mark
the consequences. Germany, with hostile
France on one side and hostile Russia on
the other, is in a position so dangerous that
we here in our island can form no concep
tion of its intolerable tension. By our
blindness we have brought about the war. 1
Wc have deliberately added to the strain by
making a military and naval anti German
lliance with France without at the same
time balancing its effect by assuring Ger
many that if she kept peace with France
we would not help Russia against her, nor.
in the last recourse, allow Russia to ad
vance her frontier westward.
I- it to be wondered that Potsdam mili
tarism with a chronic panic and with mili
• ui.'in. raise. 1 to desperation by the menace
f Russia. Trance end England—has made
a wild attempt to cut its way out after a
despairing appeal to let it fight one to two
instead of one to three?
Let us be just to Potsdam. It may serve
Potsdam right that she frightened us all so
much that we became incapable of realiz
ing that our terror was nothing to hers.
But if we had been true to civilization
and kept our capital at home and our honor
untarnished by squalid commercial ventures
in the East, we should have controlled the
situation and kept the European peace.
History will not excuse us because, after
making the war inevitable, we ran around
at the la*t moment begging everybody not
to make a disturbance.
NOT TALL ENOUGH
And now, with all the great nations of
Europe in arms, little Holland is mohiliing
i her troops. This recalls a story of some
years ago. The prince consort of Holland,
a guest of the kaiser, was attending a re
view of the German troops. A regiment of
six-footers passed by. “Not tall enogh/’
said the visitor to the kaiser.
A second regiment passed in review, in
wjiich every man was six feet five inches
j tall.
“Not tall enough,” said the man from
Holland.
“Not tall enough'” exclaimed the kaiser.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, your majesty,” said the visitor,
“when we open the dikes the water aver
ages eight feet deep.”—Ex.
Ramps Peterson is displaying in his place
of business a sample of Indian workmanship
in the shape of a totem pole made up of a
series of uncouth masks. It was picked up
by the boys at the “dog ranch” in their ;
wood boom in the river.
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the people in the precinct.
NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL
T. W. Gregory, recently named by the
President to be attorney general, was a
special assistant attorney general in charge j
of the government's investigation of the
New Haven company. He is 53 years old,
a native of Mississippi, and xvas admitted
to the Texas bar in 1885. As a special
counsel for the state of Texas he prose
cuted many anti trust cases.
He declined appointment as attorney gen
eral of Texas in 1892, and later declined a
federal district judgeship. His home is in
Austin, Texas.
The President, it was learned, originally
wanted to name Secretary Garrison of the
xvar department as attorney general. Mr.
Garrison was for a long time on the bench
in Nexv Jersey. The President said, how
ever, that at this time he could not part
with the experience and ability of Mr. Gar
rison in the war department.
SERVIAN WOMEN READY
TO FIGHT WITH THEIR MEN
NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—'“Servia’s war
strength may be given as 240,000, but that
figure must be doubled, for all Servian
women can and will bear arms,” declared
Princess l.azaro vitch-1 Ircb(-li anovich, the
American wife of the last descendant of
the old Servian kings.
“Even now I have no doubt they are
drilling as the Montenegrin women did dur
ing the Balkan campaign, and looking over
their underground storehouses, for they al
ways have had charge of the commissary
department of the army. For every Servian
soldier who falls there will be a wife or a
Sister to take up his gun.
“They are wonderful creatures, tall and
almost overmuscled from outdoor work they
have done for generations. They are often
very beautiful. And always they are afire
with patriotism.”
The princess drew herself up and her
blue eyes brightened with pride in her
adopted countrywomen. It is easy to be
lieve that she was very kindly received
when she went to them as a California
beauty fifteen years ago.
“In the great wars of the past when
the men have fought the Turks in front,
the women have fired their guns at the
Austrians in the rear. They have fought
side by side with the men, worn the same
uniforms, undergone the same hardships
and in the end received the same honors
j from their country.
“Perhaps it is because these women have
fought and died beside the men that there
i- no need for suffrage in Servia. Long be
fere Magna Charta was thought of the j
queen sat in the Servian parliament with |
her husband, and when the king issued a j
proclamatio nhe began it: T have taken'
council with my dear wife, the council of .
state and the national asssembly, and do i
! hereby decree.’
“Today if a woman is considered the
| most able member of one of the great
family groups i r Zadrugas into which Servia
is organized she is unhesitatingly elected
its head. Then it is her business to over
see the work of the fields which belong ;
to the family and its branches in common
! and the work of the household as well. The :
! men obey her unhesitatingly.
| “When a man is head of the family his
! wife oversees the household work. There
j is the great central house, with its im
i mense never-dying fire in the midule of the
central room. Oxxen and sheep are often
i roasted whole over the oak logs and hams
and pieces of sheep meat are smoked in
the great chimney which overhangs the
fire like an extinguisher above a candle.
“There is much cooking to be done, for
the sons and cousins and their wives come
| in from their little cottages or voyais scat
i tered round about for the evening meat.
! The women do the work in groups a week
j at a time. Afterward they sit about the
j great fire and someone plays on the one
I stringed fiddle of the country, while an
other sings one of the old ballads of Servian
'victory. At intervals the young people
I dance. For refreshments there is a great
; cauldron of green corn boiling on the fire.
"It is those songs and dances, with the
I stories of the old days tcl; 1 to the chd
j dren around the fire, with the good food
and the free education, that make the Serv
| ians the wonderful, indomitable people they
are. The iq right lives they lead may cor.
tribute something to their moral fiber, for
there is practically no illegitimacy in the
country, while just across the border, where
the Serbs are crushed under Austrian tyr
anny, it amounts to 40 pier cent of the
population.
“Not 800 Serbs have left their country,
but they emigrate from the Austrian-ruled
provinces by thousands every year. These
are the men who are crowding the boats—
the men who want to see Bosnia and Her
I zegovina and Croatia free once more. Ansi
[ the women will follow them if they fall.
| How many of them, I wonder, are brighten
! ing up the daggers they wore from child
hood to preserve themselves from Turkish
j and Austrian soldiers ’’
THE QUITTER
When you’re lost in the wild, and you're
scared as a child,
And Death looks you bang in the eye,
And you’re sore as a boil, it's according to
Hoyle
To cock your revolver—and die.
But the code of a Man says “Fight all you
can,”
And self-dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe, oh, it’s easy to blow
It’s the hell-served for-breakfast that’s
hard.
“You’re sick of the game!” Well, now,
that's a shame.
You’re young and you’re brave and you’re
bright.
“You’ve had a raw deal!” I know, but
don’t squeal;
Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight.
It’s the plugging away that will win you
the day,
So don’t be a piker, old pard!
Just draw on your grit; it’s easy to quit;
It’s the keeping your chin up that’s hard.
It’s easy to cry that you’re beaten—and
die;
It’s easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight on and to fight when hope’s
out of sight—
Why, that’s the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each gruelling
bout,
Just have one more try—it’s dead easy to
die;
All broken and beaten and scarred,
It’s the keeping-on-living that’s hard.
—R,obert W. Service.
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ON A PLEASURE JAUNT
Oliver Anderson shipped as freight clerk
on the Ruby City. He will also act as
purser and cook, and when Johnson is
otherwise occupied Oliver will manage the
expedition. The remainder of the time he
will assist the deckhands, Black Jack Mc
Dermott and A. Ouellette. When the boat
is tied up Oliver will cut wood. He ex
pects to return with the boat, as he is
only out on a pleasure trip. Ruby Record
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