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EX-PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE SUPREME BENCH
Probably no political development of recent years has caused so
much diverse comment as will the announcement that President Wilson
is seriously considering the appointment of ex-President W. H. Taft
to the supreme bench of the United States. That there is a probability
of such an appointment being made there is little doubt, and the fact
that the ex-president is of opposite political faith to President Wilson
in no way detracts from its probability. Indeed, there are those who
profess to see in such an appointment a graceful act toward the man
whom Mr. Wilson defeated for the presidency.
As President, Mr. Taft set the precedent for such an appointment
by naming Justice White, a Democrat, for chief justice of the supreme
court, and throughout the country the appointment was looked upon
as the act of a broad-minded man who recognized true ability and re
warded it. That the appointment was unexpected by Mr. White made
the act more conspicuous. If President Wilson were to confer a like
distinction upon his predecessor in office, there is little doubt but that
in some quarters it would be looked upon as eminently proper. But
among a large proportion of the citizens of the republic the appoint
ment will be viewed with grave concern. There are, and should be,
more serious questions involved in such an appointment than mere
official courtesy. It is true that in recent years the highest tribunal in
the land is looked upon as a non-partisan body, as it was intended to
be, but it is remembered that only a few years ago that court split upon
strict party lines, and by a majority of one vote an important law of
congress was overthrown as unconstitutional, involving the necessity
of a change in the constitution before it could be put into effect. And
in previous years it was not an unusual occurrence for that court to
arrive at its conclusions by a strict partisan division.
Ex-President laft, whether justly or unjustly, is known through
out the land as ‘‘the father of the injunction” as applied to labor dis
putes. It is claimed that as a federal district judge he first applied this
judicial weapon in the handling of controversies between capital and
labor. That the injunction was seized upon by the great corporations,
with the aid of subservient judges, as a means of quelling labor dis
turbances and enforcing their conditions arbitrarily upon their dissatis
fied employes, is matter of history. From the decismn: in these injunc
tion cases sprang the application of the Sherman act’s restraint of trade
clause to labor unions, culminating in the famous Danbury hatters’
case, where members of a trade union were mulcted of hundreds of
thousands of dollars in damages. That Mr. Taft himself, when a can
didate before the Chicago convention for the Republican nomination
for President, recognized the wrongs that had grown from the appli
cation of the injunction indiscriminately in labor disputes, was evi
denced by his insisting on the insertion of a plank in the Republican
platform pledging the enactment of legislation to curb the growing
tendency of “government by injunction. However, that legislation
was never enacted, and only the awakened public opinion has in any
way restrained the abuse of this judicial power.
Men of all shades of political belief will concede the eminent
qualifications of the distinguished ex-president to sit at the head of the
nation’s highest tribunal, from a standpoint of legal training and ex
perience. No one will doubt for a moment that Mr. Taft would bring
to that exalted position as great talent and ability as that of any other
jurist in the country. But those who have watched his career with
impartial eyes will have grave doubts of the advisability of conferring
the immense power of the chief justiceship of the United States upon
a man who has shown that he regards property rights as superior to
the rights of liberty of conscience. There is a growing sentiment in
this country that, while property rights should be given the full protec
tion cf the courts, they are by no means sacred, and that there are
other rights conferred by the constitution which must be given at least
equal protection under the law. There are many others besides the
trades unionists of the republic who will “view with alarm” the con
templated appointment of Mr. Taft as chief justice of the supreme
court. _
Editor Thompson of the Fairbanks News-Miner announced on the
last day of the year that he had “sworn off on being Democratic.” In
the words of our contemporary: “There is no use in trying to run a
Democratic newspaper when you have no opposition—it’s too easy.
Then, too. Democracy is the thing today. The new administration is
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running straight as a string, without a hitch. Even the most hide
bound Republican must respect the Democratic administration of to
day, and we have seen no evidence of their failure to do so.” In other
words, having set the Democratic party safely upon its feet. Editor
Thompson feels that it is now able to take care of itself, and he will
now look around for other forlorn hopes to bolster up.
As commendation from an unexpected quarter, the following
from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is notable: “Eugene V. Debs, in
the course of the last 19 years, has been paying off gradually the debts
contracted by the American Railway Union, of which he was founder
and president. The last payment has been made and the whole amount
reached $22,000. Without being any admirer of Debs’ political views,
it must be conceded to him that he has a high ethical standard.”
Says the Valdez Commoner: “Had Wilson not been a school
teacher, the currency bill would never have been passed. There is
nothing brings a lot of big, over-grown bucking boys to time quicker
than ‘keeping them in at recess.’ And when he began to talk of not
letting them have a Christmas tree, they gave up the ghost and prom
ised to be good.” _
The high order of musical talent displayed at the ladies’ entertain
ment Wednesday evening was a pleasant surprise to many of our peo
ple. Also the kindly impulses which prompt the musicians to devote
time and talents to the pleasure and entertainment of others are certain
to be greatly appreciated, as they should be.
A queen bee lays from two to three thousand eggs in 24 hours.
The man who will discover how' to cross a queen bee with a hen will
soon have money enough to buy an automobile for himself and all
his poor relatives.—Cordova Alaskan.
With Sunday closing in Nome and the curtailment of saloon
licenses in Juneau, it looks as though the temperance reformers are
about to make an organized assault on “Demon Rum’s” stronghold in
this territory.
LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY
Next. Thursday. February 12, is the 105th
l anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lin
I coin. While no official recognition is taken
j of the date in this territory, in many .states
of the Union it is a legal holiday. At this
j time the following Lincoln stories and rem
iniscenes will no doubt be of interest to our
readers:
LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL WORDS
AT GETTYSBURG
Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this conti
nent a new nation, conceived in lib
erty and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.
Now’ we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or
any nation so conceived and so dedi
cated, can long endure. We are met
on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion
of that field as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. It is al
together fitting and proper that we
should do this.
out, in a larger sense, we cannot
dedicate—we cannot consecrate, we
cannot hallow—this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here have consecrated it far
above our poor power to add or de
tract. The world will little note nor
long remember what we say here, but
it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us, the living, rather,
to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they have thus far so
nobly advanced. It is, rather, for us
to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us—that from these
honored dead we take increased de
votion to that cause for which they
gave the last full measure of devo
tion—that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died in
vain—that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom—
and that government of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
Lincoln's Year of Insanity
In 1832, at the age of 23, Abraham Lin
coln was the owner of a farm seven miles
north of New Salem, and the half owner
of the largest store in the place. At this time
he met Miss Ann Rutledge. Two well-to-do
gentlemen of the place—Hill and McNeil—
were courting her with devoted assiduity;
ihe decided in favor of the latter. He
parted with her early in 1832 to visit his
father in New York, promising to return
at a given day and make her his own.
She watched him ride away on Old Char
ley, an antiquated animal that had seen
hard usage in the Black Hawk war, and
that jogged slowly along the bad roads to
New York. Then there came a letter tell
ing of sickness in the family, which forbade
his return at the appointed time. This
was followed by other postponements, until
years rolled by. The Jfn account able delay,
the infrequency of his letters, and his failure
to give a reasonable explanation for his
postponemnts finally lessened her attach
ment and made frightful inroads upon her
health. She only waited to see him in or
der to ask a release from her engagement,
and to let him know that she preferred
another and more urgent suitor, whose name
was Abraham Lincoln. During three years
young Lincoln visited Miss Rutledge two or
three times a week, first as a friend in
quest of congenial company, and finally as
a suitor for her hand. She was a great
favorite in the village, loved by all who
knew her. She was probably the most re
fined woman to whom Mr. Lincoln at that
time had ever spoken. He was always wel
comed by her father and mother. The lat
ter he always called “Aunt Polly" in his
familiar way. Both father and mother en
tertained for him a deep affection, and
though they never openly expressed them
selves in regard to Ann’s choice of a hus
band, yet they w'ould, without doubt, have
rejoiced to receive the manly Abe Lincoln
into their family. He lighted up their home
with a cheerful glow whenever he entered,
and he gave a pleasant flow of mirth and
joy to their conversation. Ann's relatives
were all united in encouraging the suit,
which the young man pressed with great
earnestness, but she firmly insisted that her
honor demanded her to wait until she could
be released from her first engagement be
fore she made a second. In 1835 she and
Lincoln were formally and solemnly be
trothed, but she asked to wait another year,
hoping that McNeil would return and that
she might release herself from her engage
ment to him. Weeks and months passed
and he returned not. While she was wait
ing, Lincoln was studying night and day
to make himself more worthy of Ann, and
while he was growing in mind and body
and daily developing the great intellect that
was to fit him to lead a mighty nation
through the fierce struggle of war, Ann was
hourly fading away. In August, 1835, she
died, as her physicians said, of brain fever,
but, as her neighbors believed, of the long
series of bitter disappointments and the
pangs inflicted upon her heart and mind in
striving to do right in regard to two lovers
to whom she had pledged her hand. Ann
was buried at the little cemetery at New
Salem, and as the future President, stood
over her green grave with streaming eyes
he said, “My heart lies buried here.” After
the burial he began to exhibit that deep vein
of gloom and sadness so often noticeable
in his conduct while President. He lost all
self-control, and every friend he had in
New Salem pronounced him insane. He
was constantly watched, and with especial
vigilance, says one of his neighbors, “during
storms, fogs and damp or gloomy weather,
for fear of an accident.” At such time he
would rave piteously, saying, among other
wild expressions, “I can never be reconciled
to have the snow, ram and storms to beat
upon her grave.” His friends finally suc
ceeded in securing him in a log hut a little
way from town, where he was watched over
with anxious solicitude for a few months,
until he appeared to be restored to his rea
son, but the traces of sadness always lin
gered in his character. He visited the ceme
tery daily and wept over the grave. At this
time he was heard frequently to repeat a
few lines of that poem he so often recited
In after years, entitled, “Why should the
spirit of mortal be proud’” Some nights
as he left the grave of Ann Rutledge he
was heard to murmur portions of it. On
the night of March 22, 1864, as he sat in
the White House, he dropped his pen,
turned from his letters, and with half closet:
eyes repeated it entire to a Rieitd. r
Lincoln as Seen by an Associa'e
Hon. Lawrence Weldon of Bloomington,
III, who in early life was associated will:
Lincoln, when asked whether in those ear
lier years when he practiced law with nim
he thought Lincoln to be the great charac
ter he afterward became, replied: “Mo, to
be frank about it. I did not. Lincoln was
not a student. He would read the news
papers, hut he had very little hook learn
ing. He was not a man of application, even
in the law. He would practice the law to
support his family, and he kept in the line
of what people were talking about; hut lor
learning he seemed to have no great cuii
osity nor passion. He affected me as a very
interesting man on account of his humor,
geniality and his pretty general effective
ness before the juries of our state. In point
of fact, the greatest of Lincoln’s qualities
was his oratory, by which I mean not only
the beauty and clearness with which he ex
pressed himself, but the remarkable style in
which he composed his speeches. He be
longed to the type of orators, and it is as
an orator that the public must remember
him, even though unconsciously. A certain
turn he gave to his enunciations touched
both the intellect and heart. There he was
a master. As a story-teller he was decid- '
edly the best I ever knew, and that was a 1
great faculty through Illinois. Though his J
stories were not always nice, they were [
above being low, and the wit of their ap
plication was something extraordinary.”
—
A Louisville Lincoln Story
General Porter tells the following Lincoln
story in his '‘Grant’s Last Campaign” :
"About S :30 o’clock Mr. Lincoln came
ashore to say good-by. We had the satis
faction of hearing one good story from him
before parting. General Grant was telling
him about the numerous ingenious and im
practical suggestions that were made to him
almost daily as to the best way of destroy
ing the enemy, and said: 'The last plan
proposed was to supply our men with hay
onets just a foot longer than those of the
enemy, and then charge them. When they
met. our bayonets would go clear through
the enemy, while their3 would not reach far |
enough to touch our men, and the war ,
would be ended.’ Mr. Lincoln laughed and
remarked: 'Well, there is a good deal of
terror in cold steel. I had a chance to
test it once myself. When I was a young
man I was walking down a back street in
Louisville one night about 12 o’clock, when
a very tough looking citizen sprang out of
an alley-way, reached up to the back of
his neck, pulled out a bowie knife that 1
seemed to my stimulated imagination about
three feet long, and planted himself square
across my path. For two or three minutes
he llourihed his weapon in front of my
face, appearing to try to see just how near
he could come to cutting off my nose with
out quite doing it. He could see in the
moonlight that 1 was taking a good deal
of interest in the proceedings, and finally
he yelled out, as he steadied the knife closer
to my throat: 'Stranger, kin you lend me
five dollars on that?’ I never reached in
my [wicket and got out money so fast in
my life. I handed him a bank note and
said: ‘There’s ten, neighbor; now put up
your scythe.’ ”
\
Another of Lincoln's Stories
The following anecdote of President Lin
coln is told by George W. Curtis:
“When he was President there was a sen
ator of the United States, distinguished as a
more expert office broker than any of his
associates in congress, whom we may call,
for this occasion, Hon. Jeremiah Jones.
Early and late, in season and out of season,
when news from the front was most en
couraging and when anxiety was heaviest,
the Hon. Jeremiah was busily pushing one
follower into a postoffice, and another into
a custom house, making this man a mes
senger, that woman a floor-scrubber, build
ing up everywhere the power of the Hon.
Jeremiah, hunting the president and sec
retaries, bawling for ‘place, place, place, as
Patrick Henry's John Hood bawled for
‘beef, beef, beef,’ and one day Mr. Lincoln
being asked by a friend to give him the
routine of his daily employment, complied,
and, describing what he did during the day,
added: ‘After ali this comes night, and I
must think of rest. I think of the brave
boys in the field and on the sea, of the
aching hearts and the praying lips at home.
I kneel down and pray, too. Then I jump
up, look under the bed to see if Jerry is
there, and, if not, thank God and bounce
in.’ ’’
A Lincoln Illustration
During Lincoln’s second presidential cam
paign John J. Janney of Columbus, 0., went
to see the President at Washington. In the
course of their conversation Lincoln said:
“You are going to defeat Sammy out in
your district this time, aren't you?’’ refer
ring to a Democratic candidate for con
gress in Ohio. “I understand that Sammy
is a great friend of mine—just as Warm a
friend a.-- 1 have. lie reminds me of a hog
that old Sam Brown had; It got out and
was gone for some time. Sam could see
where it had been rooting along the creek,
and he said one morning to one of his sons
that the hoy was to go along one side of
the creek and Brown himself would go along
the other, ‘for I think,’ said he, ‘that the
hog is on both sides of the creek”'
The Dangers of Jesting
President Lincoln used to say the best j
story he ever read of himself was this:
Two Quakeresses were traveling on the
railroad and were discussing the probable
termination of the war. “I think,” said the
first, ' that Jefferson will succeed.” “Why
does thee think so?” asked the other. “Be
fa use Jefferson is a praying man.” “And
so is Abraham a praying man” “Yes; hut
the Lord will think Abraham is joking!”
Lincoln’s Prophetic Words in 1865
“I see in the near future a crisis ap
proaching that unnerves me and causes me
to tremble for the safety of my country. As
the result of the war, corporations have
been enthroned, and an era of corruption
in high places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor to pro
long its reign by working upon the prejud
ices of the people until all wealth is aggre
gated in a few hands and the republic is
destroyed. I feel at this moment more
anxious for the safety of the country than
ever before, even in the midst of war.”
BRITISH DIPLOMAT TO BE
TRANSFERRED FROM MEXICO
London, Jan. 6.—Sir Lionel Carden, the
British minister to Mexico, is to be trans
ferred to another post, and it is hinted that
the reason for his transfer is his outspoken
comment on the relations existing between
England and the United States over affairs
in Mexico, published some weeks ago.
Minister Carden at that time telegraphed
to London that English subjects were in
danger and that the United States either ;
would not or could not protect them. He
demanded that the home government take
immediate steps to protect the English peo
ple in Mexico, and his demands were so
urgent that a cruiser squadron was hur
riedly ordered to sail for Vera Cruz. Upon
the arrival of this squadron it found the
harbor occupied by eight American battle
ships and the American commander under
orders from Washington to protect all for
eigners.
Then came the battles fought in the vi
cinity of the Gulf ports, and Carden again
demanded that British ships be sent, as the
Americans would do nothing. While his
cablegrams were still unanswered, the Amer
ican gunboat Wheeling was. under the fire
of the rebel guns, removing foreigners and
Americans from the danger zone, and it
eventually turned out that the presence of
the English ships was not needed.
In view of these facts and the desire to
keep on perfectly friendly terms with the
Washington government, it has been de
cided that Minister Carden’s usefulness in
Mexico has passed.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Max Minard, J. F. Morrow, Chas. Llndfors,
to Joe Blanched, Alex Lopp, Barney
Welch and J. Kimball.
You and each or you, your heirs and a*
signs, are hereby notified that the under
signed has expended in labor the sutn of
one hundred dollars $tou; for each of
the years 1910, 1911, 1912, 101 i, upon
placer mining claim known as and called
Wild Cat Association, on Yankee creek, a
tributary or lnnoko river, lnnoko mining
district, district of Alaska. That said la
bor was done and performed as annual la
bor for each or the above named year? ac
cording to law. A certificate or location
ror the above named mining claim being or
record in Vol. in, at page 110, lnnoko min
ing district records.
You are further notified that if. at the
expiration of ninety 90 days after the
last publication or this notice, you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
such expenditure, your interest in said
claims will become the property of the un
dersigned. your co-owner, under Section
2324 or the Revised statutes or the United
States.
J. w. STONE. Co-Owner.
Date of flr<t publication. \<»v. 15, 19 13.
Date of last publication, Feb. l s, 1914.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Mat Pesola and F. Oksanen, and to your
heirs and assigns:
You and cadi of you are hereby notified
that the- undersigned has expended In labor
and Improvements the sum or one hundred
dollars (4100.Ou for each or the years of
1911, 1912, 1913, upon placer mining
claims numbers five and six (Nos. 5 and 0 >
above discovery, situated on Yankee creek,
a tributary or Innoko river, in the Irrnoko
ruining and recording district, District or
Alaska.
Location notices therefor being of record
in Voi. 8 at Rage 03, and in Vol. 7, at
Page 2S9, or tii- records of location for
said mining district.
You are further notified that tr at the
expiration of ninety 90 days after the
last publication this notice you fall or
r«- f use to contribute your proportion or
such expenditure, your interest in said
claims will become the property or the
! undersigned, your co-owner, under Section
2324 or the Revised Statutes or the United
States.
Date ,,r first publication, Dec. Q, 1913.
Dale of la -1 publication, March 7. 191 4.
i.HAiiLKS A NSW, Co-Owner
Forfeiture Notice
To S. s. Allison, J. H. Rodger-. Joe Bums,
Mrs. \Y. Wilma Rodgers, William New
man and M. H iliey:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that we, the undersigned, have expended
during the year nineteen hundred and
twelve I. 1912; one hundred dollars (4100
in labor and improvements upon the Bo
nanza association placer mining claim, eu
Lost creek, a tributary or Otter creek, in
Otter precinct, Fourth division. Territory of
Alaska, notice of location of which is found
in volume 1. at page 519, of the records of
said otter precinct, in order to hold said
claim under the provisions or section 23 2 4
or the Revised Statutes, and the amendment
thereto approved January 22, 1S80, con
cerning annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold saul
placer mining claim Tor the period ending
on the 31st day or December, 1912.
And ir within ninety days after the pub
lication of this notice you fail or refuse
to contribute your proportion <>f such ex
penditure as a co-owner, your and each and
every of your interests in the Bonanza as
sociation placer mining claim will become
the property of the subscribers, your co
owners, who have made the required ex
J pcnditurc. bv the terms of said section.
DAN HARTNETT.
C. HI RST.
First publication, Dec. 27. 19 13.
Last publication, March 28. 19 14.
Notice of Forfeiture
j To Bessie ISamus, Albert Hanes and Win.
Hanlon:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned has expended during
the year nineteen hundred and thirteen
i 1913, one hundred dollars (*100) in la
bor and Improvements upon the Minnie as
sociation placer mining claim, on Minnie
creek, a tributary of otter creek, in otter
precinct. Fourth division, Territory of
Alaska, notice of location of which is found
in volume 1, at page 507. or the records
of said otter precinct, in order to hold said
claim under ttie provisions of section 2324
or the Revised Statutes, and the amendment
thereto approved January 22, 1880, con
cerning annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold said
placer mining claim for the period ending
on the 31st day of December, 1913.
.'oi l if within ninety days after the pub
lication of tills notice you fail or reruse
to contribute your proportion or such ex
penditure as a co-owner, your and each
and every of your interests in the Minnie,
association placer mining claim will became
the property or the subscriber, your co
owner, who has made the required expen
diture, by the terms of said section.
CHAS. P. GERHART.
First publication, Jan. 3, 1914.
Last publication, April 4, 1914,
Forfeltura Notice
To Chas. Strong:
You are hereby notified that I, the un
dersigned, have expended during the year
nineteen hundred and thirteen (1913) ono
hundred dollars (*100) in labor and im
provements upon the New Moon Associa
tion placer mining claim, on otter creek, a
tributary of the lditarod river, in Otter
precinct. Fourth division, Territory of
Alaska, notice or location of which is round
in Volume 2, at page l, or ihe records of
said Otter precinct, in order to hold said
claim under the provisions of Section 2324
or ihe Revised Statutes, and the amend
ment thereto approved January 22, 1880,
concerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being tbc amount required to hold
said placer mining claim Tor the period
ending on the 31st day of December, 1913.
And ir within ninety days arter the pub
lication or this notice you fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of such expendl
turn as a "co-owner, your interest in the
New Moon Association placer mining claim
will become me property or the subscriber,
your co-owner, who has made Hie required
expenditure, by ttie terms of said, section.
JOHN KRUGER. "
First publication, Jan. 31, 1914.
Last publication, May 2, 1914. __i