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THE EUROPEAN CONFLAGRATION
For many years it has been apparent that a conflict was inevitable
between the great European nations. For this the statesmen of the
different countries have prepared and planned and dreamed. Each
year has seen additions to armament and increased efficiency of per
sonnel of the different armies and navies, the acquisition of the dis
coveries of science and the skill of artisans—the brain and brawn o: ;
the a oat nations of the earth have been devoted to the one purpose, i
pt. paration for war. The long-expected happened last week, when!
Austria declared war on Servia, and the military movement which may j
decide the fate of great nations, change the map of the world and
work a complete revulsion in social and economic thought was begun.
With the attack on Servia by Austria. Russia enters the quarrel
m support of tire Servians; this is the signal foi Geimnny to bucx up
her ally, Austria, and Germany’s entry into the arena calls forth the j
armed forces of France and England in support cf their ally, Russia,
and no doubt Italy, as part of the triple alliance, will take her place in !
the line with Austria and Germany, luc possibilities of the conflict
are bevond the comprehension of man. Japan, England s ally in the
far East, may be involved in the war. Belgium ana Holland, drawn
nto the conflict by force of circumstances, may lose their identity as
n, lions in cert r events, and there is little doubt that all or most of
the,Balkan states will be called upon to defend their territory and per
sonal freedom through the interference of the Turk m the war.
It would be presumptuous io attempt to forecast t ie outcome.
The known numerical strength of the different armies and navies are
rendered worthless, as indications ci tne tacuon wmcn will claim tin
victor’s laurels, bv reason oi the unknown strategical advantages and
the character of the modern tools of war possessed by the different
nations. England’s navv, pitted against Germany’s, would overwhelm
;t were it a matter of superiority of weight of armor and guns; but
the part which modern inventions are to play in naval warfare renders
a prediction hazardous. The same applies to land warfare. None
can with any degree of certainty predict what part the aeroplane and
dirigible will take in the fighting. It will be a war in which quickness
to accept and take advantage cf favorable opportunity may turn tne
tide at any moment.
Shorn of high-sounding platitudes such as are being indulged
in by the different rulers as to “honor, the war is one for commercial
supremacy between Germany and Great Britain. Germany, m order
to maintain the place she has won for herself m the commercial wor d
must make her position in Europe paramount. England, on the of ler
hand. :■ fighting a battle for her very emstence. Lncn the issue of the
conflict rests her title as mistress of the seas and the commanding posi
tion which goes with that title. France is in the quarrel to gam lost
provinces from Germany, and Russia to assert her suzerainty over the
states of Southeastern Europe.
Meanwhile the peasantry and workingmen ol the dmerent coun
tries, who have already provided the war materials, must now inter
pose their lives in the schemes of aggrandizement of tne princes and
financiers.
The destruction and cruelty that will ensue from a conflict of
any duration are too horrible for contemplation. The rulers may
accuse each other of the individual responsibility, but civilization, m
viewing the results of modern warfare on such a gigantic scale, may
place the blame on the entire system of government, and decree a
change which will mark an epoch in the world s evolution.
POWERS OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION ;
By a decision of the United States supreme court in the Inter
mountain cases the interstate commerce commission has been given
enormous power, which it has for many years claimed to possess. The
validity of the order of the commission made some years ago, reducing
rates from Eastern points to the inland sections of the far West—East
ern Washington and Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and other states
— has been upheld by the court.
For many years the transcontinental lines have charged more to
carry freight to Spokane than to Seattle, some 400 miles farther west.
That is, they have charged more for a short haul than for a long haul.
The excuse has been that at the seaboard points like Seattle, Tacoma,
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Portland, San Francisco, etc., they come into competition with water
carriers around Cape Horn. And later they will come into competi
tion with vessels through the Panama canal. Since freight can be car
ried cheaper on water than by rail, the roads have met the water com
petition. The commission had, however, reduced the rates to the In
termountain points by some 20 per cent.
Experts of the commission have shown that these rates would
have meant for the months of October, 1009, and January, April and
July, 1910, a loss of $517,698 for six railroads running to the East.
The loss for twelve months would have been $1,553,096.
If the commissioners decide to issue a new order for a reduction
of rates it will become a matter of great interest to the railroads and a
score of Western cities. But before that shall be done the commis
sioners will consider the new element in the situation—the Panama
canal—and determine what effect it will have on business.
LENGTHENING THE GROWING PERIOD
At Dayton, 0., they are experimenting with a plan of providing
growing plants with light twenty-four hours a day, an advantage which
is provided by nature in Alaska. A recent newspaper article says':
“Electroculture, something new m the agricultural world, may
extend the growing day for plant life to a full twenty-four hours.
Whether it does or not will be determined by experiments now being
conducted on the farms near Dayton of Governor James M. Cox and
E. A. Deeds, general manager of the National Cash Register Company.
Electricity is the agency whereby these wonderful results are hopec Is
be accomplished. It is to furnish sun when the clouds or night :nfer
fere with the agency for light, and heat during the colder seasons. By
comparison of results in fields with and without electroculture. soil ex
perts expect to determine the old question as to whether or not plants
ancl seeds rest or sleep. Farmers say that they long ago determined
by a system of measurements that corn and some other plants grow at
night, corn especially fast on hot nights. But experiments in electro
culture are to settle that question for ali plant life. The experiments
are being tried upon land so fertile that it was believed nothing else
remained to be done except to control the flood waters of the Great
Miami river. In fields c? cabbage on the Deeds place, tremendous
growth has been shown under electroculture, even m unfavorable sea
sons. Two boxes of vegetable . ; b-.nted at the same hour, in the sane
oil, and wait red the came, were put under the closest to-is. One was
grown twelve hours and the other Iwer.ly-fcur hours, ike result of
this experiment has not yet been determined. I! gh tension wires ana
various sort? of lights are being used above the garden plots m tins
experimental work of forcing plant life. It is plairned later on to
apply electric currents in substrata ex: : rimer.ts. Some experts declare
that not only will harvest hme be hastened, but that quality will be
enhanced in the products.”
ALASKA’S AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES
Alfred Burbank, a noted plant specialist, and brother of the noted
naturalist and originator of new fruits and flowers, Luther Burbank,
who has been visiting Yukon Territory, says:
“Give me time in Alaska and ! will evolve a potato that will be
adapted thoroughly to conditions there and that will be free from
water, equal to any grown in the world, and that will enable Alaska,
with her thousands of miles of fine valleys, to supply all the potatoes
needed in the United States. America’s potato lands are already short,
and much more will be needed. Alaska may be looked to for the
future supply. Alaska also should ship cabbages, turnips, celery and
all kinds of root crops. The government railways and rivers afford
the natural highways. Siberian apples should thrive in Alaska.”
Such words, from such a source, will have a tendency to create
interest in the agricultural possibilities of the great Northland.
Archduke Karl Francis Joseph, the heir apparent to the throne
of Austria-Hungary, was born August 1 7, 1887. His father was Arch
duke Otto Francis Joseph, brother of the present emperor. Three
years ago he was married to Princess Zstia, daughter of Duie Robert
of Bourbon-Parma. They have a son and a daughter. The families
of both Karl and his wife are tainted by insanity. Karl had a public
school education and is generally supposed to hold somewhat demo
cratic views.
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Delegate James Wickersham has announced his candidacy for
re-election from Alaska. Unless sentiment in Alaska has changed
greatly in the very recent past, the fact that Wickersham will run
again is practically paramount to election. Alaskans have confidence
in him and he has never betrayed that confidence.—Whitehorse Star.
King Peter of Servia abdicated on June 24 last in favor of the
crown prince. Ill health was given as the reason. Peter is succeeded
by his second son, the eldest having renounced his right five years ago.
The new ruler’s real name is Alexander, but he comes to the throne
under the name of George, which properly belongs to his brother.
A successful demonstration has been given in England of the
telectrograph, an electrical invention which reproduces a photograph
at a distance of 600 miles. Before long it is believed pictures will be
telegraphed between New York and London.
Washington and Alaska, comprising one internal revenue collec
tion district, paid $551,000 income task for the last fiscal year, con
sisting of ten months. _
On Sunday, July 5, fourteen persons were killed and thirty seri
ously injured in automobile accidents in various parts of the United
States.
REMARKABLE EDITORIAL ON
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH
The following appeared in the Japan Ad
vertiser, published in Tokio, May 8. It
seems almost prophetic of the recent
tragedy which precipitated Europe into
war:
“The Austrian Emperor
“May heaven and hell blast his happiness!
May his family be exterminated! May he
lie smitten in the persons of those h. love-!
May his life be wrecked, and may his chil
dren be brought to ruin!”
Such was the curse that Countess Karolyi,
whose son had been one of the detims of
the repression, showered over I rands
Joseph in scathing words which seem to
sum up all the possibilities of human hate.
A memorable curse, truly, and one winch
one might, if one chose, take for the text
of his biography, showing how time has
brought the fulfillment of it, drawing the
punishment out slowly, relent-le dy. unceas
ingly. The tragedy of the Square of Quere
taro, where brands Joseph’s brother faced a
firing party of republican executioners; the
tragedy of the Vatican, where his sister-in
law lost ntr reason; me tragedy oi weyer
ling, where his only son perished in his
shame; the tragedy of Geneva, where his
wife was struck down by the dagger of the
assassin all these things, and many others
also, might be represented as so many
stages m the untiring and undeviating
march of Nemesis- fulfillments of the curse.
The venerable emperor of Austria, dean
of rid. r-\ and who is reported seriously ill.
hi. ' sat upon the throne of the Ilnosburgs
and ruled with something of what is
euphemhtica:ly termed sagacious flexibility
for a length cf time almost as long as
the whole three score years and ten that
arc taken to be man’s allotted span from
the cradle to the grave. The very length of
that rule would of itself make the story of
his life of interest. Politically it lias to be
remembered that when Francis Joseph came
in strange fa.hion m the throne of his coun
try as a lad of 18, it was in that year of
revolution, 1848, and that tho problems
which faced him and his advisers for a
long period, were* many and dirheull. Again
and again it seemed as though the am.d
gam nam 'd Austria "there is no Austrian
nation, only a medley of races which detest
each other" was in the melting-pot, but
again and again a combination of ruthless
••tre.a/th and sagacious flexibility preserved
it. Now it was the sacrifice of a “scape
goat.” as of Bene lok after Sadowa; now
it was the grudging concession to the de
mands of the Hungarians; now it was the
timely giving up of the Italian province;,
ami now the turning the back on an ally
at the elcvcmh hour that saved Austria
from any final disaster and kept the Hups*
burg throne to outward seeming secure.
Austria h.a b am called “the dick Woman
of Europe;” but the Sick Woman has had
a wonderfu.iy clastic constitution, and has
b< i n wonderfully favored by the chapter
of accidents. Again and attain in her his
p;v we have a vium of dimccta memnrn j
r-:/.taching themselves, as it were, to the!
disabled trunk, -o that it could once mere j
mu up mi l walk.
There is -•> much < f tragedy surround
i or the ia!ier half - f the reign of Francis
,!c-r; h that even his bitterest enemy mini
.•re the ]-aid.- - cf the lonely, aged figure
i -Vhonbrunn. B1 nv after 11 w ha/ be^n
i at the t mi - r >r through fho>e ar. end ■
;r-'gedy af.'T trw.o :y has (..-t it
• iu ,!v)\v uj.t n him in a fashion that mi;.-’ I
ha. 1 made ih • head of the Hap/bur feel
- uueihii.g < f a mockery in his position. :
M’mcthing cf the lit time*- of family r.nd
rinor agaii fa It ■ :
u e of those who suffered during the early
cart of his reign had been gifted with awful
prophecy.
In the above mentioned brief summary
only the more tragic events have been
enumerated, ’ih re have been many ’'‘her
blows r ■ mantle. stinging and mysteim us
1 I ' nca pride of th Hans
burgs. There have been members of the j
fa ily who turned their backs upon it j
ami became “e< u.mi ners/’ who have thrown |
tin <r t r I ts in the face of their emperor,
have el.p'd. and otherwise created scan
dal . iiiur >f Francis Joseph has had a
difficult rule as he al of the state, he has
also lived to a great age only io >ee the
awful curse of years ago fulfilled iu
a terribly literal way.
It \ya . ■ the rnir.g of I )ecember
2, ls-p\ that the limpcr- r 1 erdinand suri- |
br ther, the Arch luk<
Francis Charles, renounced his right of sue- j
ce.-.-ion, and that brother's son, Francis
Joseph, was placed on the throne; “chosen !
for his august and exalted post as the |
sanest and healthiest Hap.-burg available.
Thus was Francis Joseph launched upon j
hi- stormy p< liticul career launched upon :
it as the rising hope* of a decadent family
youth of energy and promise, with no sign
adence ab >ut him, supj1 • but strong,
: r . uld be . u 1 ;ed, fr< in
the family taints of physique and character j
and designed to restore the threatened dig- ,
nity of the Austrian empire, by confronting
the- new era in a new spirit.
It is character;-l ;c id all the ttap.sourg> |
that they cannot cross the road without j
Staking an attitude which shows us exactly j
where they stand ami What they think of
things. It is easy enough to accept the j
present,emperor as typical of the Hapsburgs ■>
at their best. He comes before us. frank j
and brave, adaptable and affable, out at J
the same time, proud as Lucifer; infinitely j
gracious to those who do not presume j
readily regarded by such as a gallant soldier
who has grown into a genial old gentle- j
man. anxious to make things pleasant for
everybody yet seeming at some crises of j
his fate to mistake himself for God. and j
the archdukes for the archangels, not be- i
cause they behave as such, but because they ;
are Hapsburgs.
The long reign of the Emperor Francis I
Joseph affords most varied materials, his- 1
torical and personal. It is a spectacle of an
empire continually threatened with disso- i
lution under the control of an historic !
family continually displaying all the symp- |
toms of decadence.
PADDY SAYS IT'S WATER WE NEED |
Paddy Green, an old-time Nomeite, who
came over from Iditarod after an absence
of several years, reports that there is plenty
of work in that region if there was but
plenty of water. As a result of the de
forestation of that region the water runs |
quickly off the ground, leaving the miners j
without water as soon as the dry spell j
comes. However, with plenty of water in !
the region, there would be work for all ;
the men on the ground. Nome Industrial j
Worker.
When you come in from the creeks don’t
forget to stop in at the Crosby and take
a hot air of vapor bath.
THE CROSBY BATHS.
Location Notices at Pioneer office.
FIGHTING STRENGTH OF THE
NATIONS LIKELY TO BE IN- i
VOLVED IN GREAT WAR
Army
Total
War Strength j
Germany . 4,000,000
France . 3,000,000
Russia . 4.500.000
Austria Hungary . 2,000.000
Italy .'. 1,200.000 ,
Great Britain . S00.000 I
Japan . 1.200,000
Bulgaria .335.000
Servia . 230.000
Rouinania . 195,000
Greece . 125,000
Navy
Bat t'.-ships
and Other
Gnrisers Vessels Men
Great Britain ... is a :: T l'G'.'•<«'!
Germany . ‘.Mi y I nr..ooo
France . c.} 'A*-7 r»x.ii \ \
.!;ip;i r. { iy 10<u
Russia . aa is? t r» ;*
iialy .... I-j Bo.r.s?
A ns.-Hungary y.» A 1 I \ S
Greece .. y:? i.euu
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE
AND THE TRIPLE ENTENTE
—
The Triple Alliance was formed in 1883
between Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Italy, for th'* purpose of checking encroach
ment.-' by Russia and France. By its pro
vision.'. the three powers are bound to sup
port one another in certain contingencies
Its terms were made more definite in lss7.
The exact terms of the alliance have not
been divulged, but are said to have been
modified as to France and Italy in 1893.
The alliance has been renewed at (iiiTrrent
periods. For many years Great Britain,
while not a party to the alliance, was closely
linked with ii through apprehension of
French and UusHan aggressiveness, but
later, becoming disquieted by the growth of
the German naval power, adopted in 1892
a (.Vcidsd change of policy, with a view to
seeking in the balance of power greater
security against invasion.
In pursuance of thn policy Great Britain
••ntere-vl into an agreement with France in
1904 and with Rus>ia in 1907. The aims of
the Ti i• i. Entente, so called Great Britain,
France and Russia were substantially: The
balance of power, the strengthening of the
treaty law in the interests of peace and the
status quo, and di-urmamen4. In some re
efs this pol cy has t • id« ralde
success. An opinion of much w. :ght is to
the effect that in the event of a war between
.he power* of the Triple Alliance and those
of the Triple Entente, the land force* of
the Entente would probably exceed bv a
million men those of the Ml:;.nee, but it is
doubtful whether the vast army of Russia
could be promptly a> -“rubied f< r service in
the theater of war. The strength of the
combined navies of the entente in ships,
tonnage, ermanent and number < f men
would exceed the combined strength of the
lhance. _ _ _
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