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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, i»IO
AN AMERICAN FLUNKEY.
“Just for a handful of siller he left
us;
Just for a ribbon to stick in his
coat.”
The press dispatches last week
mentioned the amazing fact that Wil
liam Waldorf Astor of New York,
multi-millionaire and self-styled pa
triot, has been admitted to England’s
peerage.
Here is a man who was born with
in sight of the battlefields of the rev
olution. where thousands of his coun
trymen gave up their lives to throw
off the shackles of the English aris
tocracy, made onerous by excessive
and unjust taxation, throwing up his
birthright for an English title.
Descendant of one of the oldest
families in New York, this scion of
John Jacob Astor, the fur trader, has
turned his back upon republican ways
and expressed his preference for the
customs of a decadent race.
Several times in the course of the
history of this country, members of
our Eastern Four Hundred have
sought to have introduced into Con
gress a bill providing for special ti
tles and honors for those who have
the dollars to pay for them. To be
distinguished from the rest of the
herd of Americans they wanted them
selves bedecked like prize Jerseys
at a country fair,—with a ribbon and
a title.
The great danger of this attempt
to inject the virus of old-country
methods into the rich blood of our
republic is that it weakens our social
and political structures. It drags our
republican form of government down
in the mire with old-country stan
dards. American ideas and Ameri
can customs should be good enough
for anyone who has risen from an In
dian trader to a multi-millionaire.
The very Catholicism of a country
which will allow this rapid rise to so
cial prominence is one of its best feat
ures.
In the old countries a plebian is
always a plebian; an aristocrat is al
ways an aristocrat. The proletariat
is not allowed to mix with the aris
tocracy, and a tradesman cannot hope
to attain either social or political
prominence. The classes and the
masses have as close a line of demar
cation as exists in the races in the
Southland.
In America the lowliest can rise to
the highest position in the land. The
plowboy may become president, and
a president may reap the profits of
his industry in agronomy if he so de
sires. There are no caste lines and
a man is judged by his work.
The actions of William Waldorf
Astor sHow how dangerously close
this country is drifting to the break
ers of Old World Ideals. It demon
strates that our millionaires have a
contempt for the country which bore
them, and elevated them to the pin
nacle from which they look down
upon American ideals with contempt.
Our greatest safety is in preserv
ing the integrity of our standards.
To adopt old-country ideals is to ac
knowledge that the American Con
stitution, which guarantees equal
rights to all and special privileges to
of none, is wrong, and our Declara
tion of Independence a farce.
ADMINISTRATIVE CENSORS.
Brigadier General Hugh L. Scott of
the United States army, has asked the
President and Congress to abolish
the rights of free speech and a free
press. His grievance is caused by
the alleged fact that during the oc
cupation of Vera Cruz, Fred Boalt, a
Seattle correspondent of the Seattle
Star, sent out a few statements to his
paper which reflected seriously upon
the conduct of the army during their
.brief visit to the ancient Mexican city.
Mr. Bolat's stories may have been
true or may have had no foundation
for fact, but the suggestion of Gen.
Scott ia mimical to the interests of
the people of the United States. It
is their privilege to know what their
government is doing at all times, and
to have a voice in the conduct of af
fairs.
] England is a good example of the
fallacy of a censorship. IJer people
have had the nejys suppressed and
dallied along under a false sense of
security, until, when the time came
for every man to arm in defense of
his country, they refused to believe
reports, and place the kingdom in a
position of either forcing conscrip
tion or asking for an obnoxious peace.
The people are the bulwark of a
nation in her hour of need. If they
are kept in ignorance of events in
which they are vitally interested, they
cannot be blamed if they refuse to be
come enthusiastic at the call of a
government which has kept them in
ignorance. Education is a more po
tent weapon than ignorance, and if
Gen. Scott’s plan to throttle the news
is passed by Congress it will un
doubtedly result in harm to our na
tion.
This is the first time in the history
of our country that censorship has
been advocated. During the Civil
War the New York papers called Lin
coln every opprobious epithet in their
profuse vocabulary, and tried with
every means in their power to cause
his plans to miscarry. Had he been
allowed to supersede McClellan and
place a general of his own dnoosing
over the Federal army, the war would
have been over in half the time. His
approval of Sherman’s campaign and
his appointment of Grant led to a
Btorm of vituperation from these pa
pers which undoubtedly had much to
do with his assassination, as it led
certain weak-minded Southerners to
believe that with the death of Lin
coln the majority of Northern senti
mentalists would be on their side.
Had there been a censorship at that
time on hindering the administra
tion’s policies, it would have been a
good thing; but it was at a period
when the abuse of the right of free
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speech was at Its height, and immense
harm resulted.
The newspapers of today are more
conservative in their methods, and
with very few exceptions, would en
dorse the administration’s plans un
equivocally were its wishes made
known.
The press nor the people have nev
er caused the nation’s cause to be in
danger, but it has been imperilled
thousands of times by unprincipled
demagogs working in the dark, their
actions clothed in secrecy.
The people have a right to know
what their officials are doing, and
we predict that the plan to establish
a censorship will prove very unpopu
lar In this republican government.
J “Coal, $10.00 per ton delivered,
! Pacific Coast Coal Co.. Juneau, Alas
ka.” Daily Alaskan Dispatch, Dec.
15. We take the above from a daily
paper to refute the statements of our
contemporary that the city handleu
coal in Juneau and it was never more
than $8 per ton. This is in line with
most of his mendacious arguments.
When they are investigated they
prove just as unreliable as his alleged
fight in Juneau, wherein he and the
Mayor saved the city $50,000. Bri
quettes are advertised in Juneau, "at
$7.50 per ton, "in the bunkers.”
before briquettes were invented and
if so, we will state that the calories
in a ton of briquettes equal the calo
ries in 1275 pounds of steam coal,
in the difference in the haul.
Briquettes are cleaner to hauQie but
of lower heat calories. The difference
in priee between here and Juneau is
“District Attorney Spence saw all
this and for the first time waked up
to the true situation of affairs.” Star.
The District Attorney must be a sound
sleeper if it took this long to awaken
him, as for the past year both the
city attorney and editor have been
clamoring for the indictment of the
Club. After reading the tirade
against the grand jury and presiding
judge, one would imagine that the
only unbiased persons in the case
were this trinity of trouble makers.
Coal costs $8.00 laid down on the
dock at Valdez, according to the cap
tain of one of our freighters. It is
hauled and delivered into your bin
for $12.50. We can see nothing ex
orbitant in this in view of the fact
that the same coal landed on the gov
ernment wharf in Seward is sold at
$17.00. Coal in the States costs you
$8.00 per ton delivered, and in view
of the high cost of freight and long
haul it is a wonder it can be sold as
cheaply here as it is.
Our competitor acknowledges that
be and Mayor Valentine saved the city
bf Juneau $50,000. We are not ac
lualnted with Mr. Valentine, but we
will cheerfully concede the argument
in our competitor’s case. He has
been gone from Juneau nearly ten
rears. If he will leave Valdez for
that time we’ll guarantee he will save
this city $100,00, thereby breaking
bis Juneau record 100 per cent.
Mr. Bryan may not be a prophet,
cor even rank as a son of a prophet,
but he certainly called the turn
in a stacked deck when he said that
Mr. Wilson’s policy was shaping to
ward war, and that if pursued would
‘drag our country into one of 'he
most disastrous conflicts she has ever
sxperienced.”
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“Do you take it for granted that
the people of Vaidez have no sense at
ill?”—Star. We had not formed any
bpinion on the subject but after read
ing the excerpt the above was taken
from, we are prone to confess that
we are sure that one hasn’t.
It can do a city no good to have
the names of its prominent citizens,
—the makers of payrolls—dragged
continually through the mire of a
putrid journalism, whose plea for ex
istence lies in the class hatred it can
Incite among its readers.
And now the "anti” down in
Wick’s Foundation is ferninst the
Democratic party of Alaska. What a
corrupt old party it must be when
it will not accept the dictation of
“anti.”
We will gladly publish a copy of
District Attorney’s letter to the At
torney General, just to.show our citi
zens how unprejudiced a man can be
and still do his duty.
Alaskan coal is selling in Seward
at $11 per ton. The difference be
tween that price and the price of coal
here will be absorbed by the longer
haul.
iThe Cordova Times Btates that it
.is reported that Wickersham will run
for Congress on a straight Republi
can ticket.
If Henry Ford will only run for
President.
Joe Stanton, who has the govern
ment contract for carrying the mails
from Valdez to Copper Center during
the summer months, is a passenger
on the steamer Alameda dne to ar
rive in Valdez tomorrow morning.
WILSON’S NOTE TO AUSTRIA
ON THE ANCONA SINKING
Following is the note sent by
President Wilson to the Austrian
government regarding the sinking of
the Italian liner Ancona, when a
number of American ^ citizens lost
their lives. The note was cabled to
Ambassador Penfleld in Vienna, and
by him delivered to the Austrian
ministry.
“Reliable information obtained
from American and other survivors
who were passengers on the steam
ship Ancona shows that on Novem
ber 7, a submarine flying the Aus
tro-Hungarian flag fired a solid shot
toward the steamship, that thereupon
the Ancona attempted to escape, but,
being overhauled by the submarine,
she stopped, that after a brief peri
od and before the crew and passen
gers were all able to take to the boats
the submarine fired a number of
shells at the vessel and finally tor
pedoed and sank her while there were
yet many persons on board, and that
by gunfire and foundering of the ves
sel a large number of persons lost
their lives or were seriously injur
ed, among whom were citizens of the
United States.
The public statement of the Aus
tro-Hungarian Admiralty has been
brought to the attention of the Gov
ernment of the United States and re
ceived careful consideration.
This statement substantially con
firms the principal declaration of the
survivors, as it admits that the An
cona, after being shelled, was torpe
doed and sunk while persons were
still on board.
The Austro-Hungarian Govern
ment has been advised, through the
correspondence which has passed be
tween the United States and Ger
many, of the attitude of the Govern
ment of the United States as express
ed in no uncertain terms to the ally
of Austria-Hungary, the commander
of the submarine which attacked the
Ancona failed to put in a place of
safety the crew and passengers of the
vessel which they purposed to de
stroy, because, it is presumed of the
impossibility of taking it into port
as a prize of war.
The Government of the United
States considers that the commander
violated the principles of interna
tional law and of humanity by shell
ing and torpedoing the Ancona be
fore the passengers on board had
been put in a place of safety or even
given sufficient time to leave the ves
sel. The conduct of the commander
can only be characterized as wanton
slaugter of defenseless noncombat
ants, since at the time when the ves
sel was shelled and torpedoed she
was not, it appears, resisting or at
tempting to escape, and no other rea
son is sufficient to excuse such an at
tack, not even the possibility of res
cue.
The Government of the United
States is forced, therefore, to con
clude either that the commander of
the submarine acted in violation of
his instructions or that the Imperial
and Royal Government failed to is
sue instructions to the commanders
of its submarines in accordance with
the law of nations and the principles
of humanity. The Government of the
United States is unwilling to believe
the latter alternative and to credit
the Austro-Hungarian Government
with an intention to permit its sub
marines to destroy the lives of help
less men, women and children. It
prefers to believe that the comman
der of the submarine committed this
outrage without authority and con
trary to the general or special in
structions which he had received.
As the good relations of the two
countries must rest upon a common
regard for law and humanity, the
Government of the United States can
not be expected to do otherwise than
to demand that the Imperial and Roy
al Government denounce the sinking
fo the Ancona as an illegal and Inde
fensible act; that the officer who per
petrated the deed be punished, and
that reparation by the payment of an
indemnity be made for the citizens
of the United States who were killed
or injured tfy the attack on the ves
sel.
The Government of the United
States expects that the Austrtf-Hun
garian Governments, appreciating the
gravity of the case, will accede to its
demand promptly, and it rests this
expectation on the belief that the
Austro-Hungarian Government will
not sanction or defend an act which
is condemned by the world as inhu
mane and barbarous, which is abhor
rent to all civilized nations, and
which has caused the death of in
nocent American citizens.
Longitudinal fenders to guard ped
estrians from the rear wheels of mot
or cars have been invented.
A practical self starter for aero
plane motors has been invented by
an Englishman.
Artificial feathers for millinery,
made of fur. have been invented by
a Boston man.
A motor road has been built in
Bolivia that crosses the Andes 17,
000 feet above sea level.
An inventor in Russia has devel
oped a method for making felt
boots and knit goods from dog hair.
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Fourth Are, Seward, Alaska
Phil Collins, the well known min
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Arcade Cafe
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Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
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