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Vol. 9 No. 7
LINCOLN RED CROSS
CLUB
Kach country, lias its own lied
Cross, each society working prima
rily in its own country, but ready at
all times to go anywhere it may do
good, and no other society is so well
equipped and instantly ready as is our
own the American National Red Cross,
whose field is never circumscribed ex
cept by barriers which others raise.
Our Red Cross has neither religion,
nor politics; knows no race nor caste,
and never stops to ask foolish ques
tions, nor seeks to shift responsibility;
but wherever there is a great disaster,
there is the Red Cross, and it not un
commonly happeus that the Red Cross
is on the ground and at work before
the world at large has heard the news.
Naturally a German might prefer to
contribute to the support of the society
of his own country, and so of an Aus
trian, a Bulgarian, or a Turk. But
when war cuts one off from his own
country as an alien enemy now in the
United States, there is every reason
for supporting the American Red
Cross. True, it can not at present cross
the line of battle and care for the
enemy soldier, but it can and does, im
partially, care for all tbe sick and
wounded who fall into American hands.
No discrimination is exercised either
for or against any uniform, friend or
foe, all look alike to a Red Cross
worker.
Then let every person who reason
ably is able to do so, join the Lincoln
Club, and aid in the glorious work.
| The need of the Red Cross are enor
mous and constant, and we must give,
and giro again, and keep on giving.
No other organization, save the gov
ernment itself, handles such vast funds,
and no other organization, not saving
the government, handles them so eco
nomically aDd well.
This is not an appeal to American
patriotism, but a call to world hu
manity.
Don’t be a slacker nor a piker. Join.
If any reader of this is actually so
situated as to be unable to “make” the
Lincoln Club, then lot each one see to
it that their name appears on some
Red Cross list for some amount every
month.
No matter how much we here at
home may do, retrember how pitably
little this is compared to what is done
by those who go to the front, the “boys
in the trenches,” and the equally brave
men and women of the Red Cross.
Join the Lincoln Red Cross Club.
BISMARCK HAD KAISER SIZED UP
That. Bismarck predicted the Kaiser
would bring about the ruin of Ger
many became known in the United
I States perhaps for the first time when
I Sir George H. Reid formerly premier
! of Australia and recently Austral-Hieh
Commissioner, arrived in the United
States. “Some years before he died,"
said Sir George, “Bismarck truly cast
the horoscope of William 11., when he
said ho will some day play a trump
card at the wrong time, aud he will
ruin his country.”—Ex.
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He’s Sure Independent
The man who possesses a well
equipped fishing boat and a squaw
is much more independent these
iays than the man who is striv
, g to keep some old established
business from falling apart 01
going to pieces—Douglas Island
News.
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George Walter* left for Nixon Fork
last Tuesday.
GOVERNMENTAL IDEAS OF HONOR
President Wilson on several occasions, notably in his War Message of
April 2 and in his reply to the peace note of the Pope, has called attention
to the fact that no peace can be maintained with the Imperial German
Government: that no autocratic government such as it can be trusted to
keep faith that only free people can hold their purpose and their honor
steady to a common need, and perfer the interest ef mankind to any nar
row interest of their own.
The President was only restating a difference between two systems of
governmental policy, two different governmental ideas of national honor,
that has long existed. The quotations given below show the American
idea of a nation’s honor from the inception of this government down to the
present day and the idea of national honor held by the German govern
ment since the days of Frederick the Great.
“The foundations of our national
policy will be laid in tho pure and
immutable principals of private
morality. There exists in the course
of nature an indissoluble union of
virtue and happiness, between duty
and advantage, between honest pol
icy and public felicity. The smiles
of heaven can never be eipected on
a government that disregards the
rules of order and right, which
heaven itself has ordained.”—George
Washington, President of the
United States. April, 1789.
‘‘ Wa are now ia a state of neces
sity and necessity knows no law.
Our troops bare occupied neutral
Luxemburg and perhaps already
hare entered Belgium territory
This is a breach of internatonal law.
The wrong we hereby commit we
will try to make good as soon as our
military aims have been attained.
He who is menaced as we are, and
is fighting for his highest possession,
can only consider how he is to hack
his way through."—The German
Chancellor Addressing the Reich
stag, August 4, 1914.
“We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the
same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be ob
served among nations and their governments that are observed among the
individual citizens of civilized states.’’—Woodrow Wilson, President of the
United States. April, 1917.
The German Chancellor was simply following the keynote given by
Frederick the Great speaking in 1740: “The question of right is an affair of
ministers. Take what you can; you are never wrong unless you ^re obliged
to give back.”
Contrast the American and the German standards of national honor.
The honor and good faith of the American government from Washington’s
day to Wilson’s are back of the Liberty Loan Bonds. Well may they be
called the safest investment on earth—the premier security of the world.
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LINCOLN m * CLUB
In celebration of Abraham Lincoln'*
109th birthday, we, the undersigned, do
hereby each agree to pay to the Amer
ican lied Cross Society, through its
local organization, fire dollars ($5) on
the 12th day of each and every month
of the duration of the present war.
tlco. W. Albrecht A. S. Bourne
C. P. Wood Chas. E. Taylor
R. C. Buitoa Wm. B. Thomas
Mrs. C. Baker Iditarod Pioneer
W. R. Solibakko W. W. Nelson
Sam’l Applebaum ^
THOSE WHO HATE SEBTED
A8 GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
After the purchase of Alaska from
Russia, the territory was under the
supervision of the treasury and navy
departments for the period from 1867
until 1884. when the District of Alaska
was first organiz.ed, under an act of
congress, after which the first gov
ernor was named. Since 1884 eight
different men have acted as governor.
The names of these chief executives ot
Alaska, and the terms during which
they served are as follows:
John II. Ivinkhead—From Seplem j
ber 15, 1884, until May 8, 1885.
A. P. Swineford—From May 9, 188.5.
until April 12. 1889.
Lyman E. Knapp—From April 12.
1889, until August 23, 1893.
James Sheakley—From August 23,
1893, until July 4, 1897.
John C. Brady—From July 15, 1897,
until April 23, 1906.
William B. Hoggatt—From April 29.
1906, until September 30, 1909.
Walter E. Clark—From October 1,
1909, until May 20, 1913.
J. F. A. Strong—From May 21, 1913
until—
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SUBMARINE ATROCITY
London, Dec. 7.—Harrowing details
are received here of the sinking in the
waters of the European war zone of the
British passenger steamship Apapa bj
a German submarine.
Two torpedoes were fired at the
Apapa. The first torpedo struck the
vessel in a vital point. She immediate
ly began to sink. Her pasengers and
crew put off in small boats. While
i he small boats were leaving the dis
abled craft, a second torpedo was sem
among them. It struck one of the life
boats, smashing it into pieces. Severa
of the occupants of the lifeboat were
killed instantly and others were
drowned.
There were fourteen woman passen
gers aboard the Apapa and eight of
these were in the lifeboat hit by the
torpedo. All these eight lost their
lives.
HESAILEDWITHPERRY
Portland, Ore, Dec. 20.—“Captain'
W. H. Hardy, of Portland, Ore., a
bearded veteran of the seven seas who
sailed as a bluejacket on the American
ship-of-war Mississippi to Japan in 1852
with Commodore Perry when the lat
ter opened the doors of the far Eastern
islands to eastern commerce, plans to
return to Japan this winter to deliver
lectures descriptive of conditions that
existed in the island kingdom over
sixty years ago.
Hardy claims to be the sole survivor
of Perry’s first trip to the land of Sho
gun. _ __
BUYER AND MARTEN PROTECTED
Many trappers beliera that the
closed season is out for bearer this
year and are making preparations to
trap them when in fact the law is not
out for another year, Norember 1, 1918.
being the first day bearer can be
trapped proriding the legislature does
not extend the term of protection,
which it is liable to do. Marten can
not be killed until 1920. Parties found
with bearer skins in their possession
can be heavily fined and their furs and
outfit confiscated. Any marshal, deputy,
commissioner, or other officer is ex
officio game warden.
TWO SOLDIERS HANGED
Yuma, Anz., Feb. 11.—Two of Car
ranza’s Mexican soldiers were executed
today at San Luis, Sonora, for stealing
from American farmers.
SLAUGHTER OFFICERS
Sanford, Ariz., Feb. 11.—Sheriff Mc
Bride and Deputies Kempten and Woo
tan were killed yesterday by John and
Tom Powers, two slackers, in the Ga
lure mountains, i
HR. PARKS’ PLEA
Parka* Min*, Kuskokwira River,
Alaska, Jan. 15, 1918.—To th* Gov
ernor and Territorial Legislature of
Alaska: We have just received a letter
of instruction from our worthy commis
sioner at Aniak, Alaska, eaclosing
blanks, and requiring us to fill them
out, and make application for a mining
license. Then we are to travel 90
miles to Aniak and make affidavit to
ihe application, and send it to the Ter
ritorial secretary at Juneau.
Then we are to make the same 90
mile trip in the fall and make affidavit
to our output during the year, and do
it all before January 15, 1917 and 1918.
We are in the prospect stage. In
testing our ores we make a small pro
duction of quicksilver, not with an
idea of making it pay, but to learn the
value of the ore that we are develop
ing, and when we get our mill and fur
nace built we will be glad to apply for
a mining license.
We Lave read the compilation of tax
and revenue acts, session laws of 1915
and 1917, and find it all good as to pro
ducing mines, and very detrimental to
he prospector. There are many iso
lated prosectors on this river who
make a small production of gold and
other metals, and which production
helps to keep up their prospecting ex
pense.
All of these prospectors are working
hard to get on a tax-paying basis, and
i bey are not slow in letting it be
Known when they get on a tax-paying
basis. We think it an unm cessary and
wasteful expense to the prospector and
to the Territory of Alaska to compel
■ hose prospectors to travel to a notary !
public and pay their meagre funds for
ittidavits and obtain a license from the
Territory, and pay no taxes.
Some of the prospectors that are not
producing go off and work for wages in
i he summer. Some are too weak from
exposure and hardships to swing a
No 2, so they catch and dry dog sal
mon, which they sell in exchange for
provisions to continue their work.
Are we going to put a burden on
those struggling men? We have very
great faith in our legislature and the
judiciary of Alaska, and we don't be
lieve they will do anything of the
Kind. E. W. Parks,
Sourdough Prospector.
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