! THE IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Saturday Morning at Iditarod, Alaska
Vol. 7 CHARLES A. DERRY. Editor and Publisher No. B
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A REPETITION?
The request made in his last message by the President that in
li e .shape of more stringent laws congress place in his hands in
struments by which he might more readily protect the country
from the pernicious activities of those of our citizens arid of
strangers within our gates who, by reason of their sympathy with
cither side in the present war, offend against the peace and dig
nity of the United States, recalls the somewhat similar disturb
ances caused by emigrants and emissaries from the country
which, for not the tirst time in her checkered career of the past
hundred years, is making today strenuous calls upon our grati
tude for past favors.
The year 1789 saw both the inauguration of our present form
of government and the beginning of the French revolution. Two
years later came the war between France and the rest of Europe,
which was to last practically without intermission until “the
scum of the earth" lie at back the Old Guard at Waterloo, and
during wheih the young republic in the West was to go to war
first with one and then with the other of the two chief contenders.
For a short time after the tirst eruption in France there existed
the best of feeling between the two young governments, ha
Fayette sent Washington the key of the Bastile, and on this side
there was no lack of expressions of good will toward those who
were advancing the cause of liberty on the continent. But the
French revolutionists wanted, needed, more than passive expres
sions of good will, and they were not backward in sending and
asking for active assistance. Washington, however, saw the dan
ger, and stood firmly for aloofness from entangling alliances.
Though for a short time the French agent persisted in publicly
opposing the President, the latter’s policy prevailed, and in 1794
Washington demanded Genet's recall. The trouble did not cm'
there.
Ill the latter part of Washingtons administration the reueral |
IMS and Anti-Federalists began to tight for the control of the gov- j
eminent. Federalist Adams followed W ashington, and his admin- j
iMration and his party in general were annoyed and hampered b\ j
enthusiasts from France who docked to the side of the Anti-Ted- j
oralists ami for reasons quite their own fought the administration j
on the stump and in the press. The climax came in 179S, when. |
with the Federalists in the majority in both houses, congress passed ;
ili(. alien and sedition laws. To them may be traced the birth of I
die American, or “Know-Nothing,” party, and from their misuse
or abuse in political squabbles resulted the impeachment, trial and
acquittal of Samuel Chase, associate justice of the supreme court
of the United States. As a matter of fact, and quite contrary to
the probable expectation of their framers, the laws reacted princi
pally upon the country's internal affairs.
' The alien laws were three in number, and they respectively |
•lengthened the period of residence requisite for citizenship, rm! j
made other minor but more stringent changes in the naturalize
• ion laws; gave the President power for two years to order out of
he country all aliens whom he considered dangerous or to be en- ;
gaged in conspiracies; and empowered the President to apprehend
.and deport all alien enemies, upon the declaration of war. upon
invasion or predatory incursion perpetrated, attempted or threat
ened against the territory of the United States. This last act ha.
never been repealed.
Tiie sedition law prohibited and penalized the publishing or
printing of false, scandalous or malicious writings to bring the
government, congress or President into contempt or disrepute, to
r-xcite popular hostility to them, or to incite resistance to the
United States laws, or encourage hostile designs against the
United States. Political jockeying drew the act so that it would
expire of its own force on March 4. 1801, which day eventually
marked the accession of the Anti-Federalists to power.
These laws were bitterly opposed. The arguments against them
were voiced in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, drafted by
Jefferson and Madison, and the legislature of the Blue Grass state
in 1799 went so far as to declare by formal resolution that nulli
fication was the proper method of avoiding them. They were j
repugnant to the Anti-Federalists for reasons going directly to \
conceptions or misconceptions of what was the purpose of and
what had been secured by the federal constitution. It was claimed
that these acts destroyed rights and liberties expressly guaranteed
by that instrument trial by jury, freedom of speech and of the
.press, and the p >wers of the states over those who lived within
their Ivird-rs. The point, however, was not whether the laws
u, re ju.-t or unjust, or whether the occasion warranted congress
in pa-sing such drastic measures, but rather whether the federal
g')\eminent hail not usurped powers the exercise of which was
. afeguarded by the constitution to the individual, signatory, sov
ereign states. State rights was the kernel of the quarrel. But
' "iher times, other manners/’ and if in his message the President
implied a resurrection or revival of these laws, those who fight
him i n the issue will have to find a new weapon for their opposi
tion. The old one was buried for keeps at Appomattox.
“DEFECTIVE” BABIES
In contrast with the story recently sent out front Chicago to
the effect that a “defective" baby had been allowed to die by the
parents and physicians, when an operation would have prolonged
its life, the following front the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of Seattle
is given:
“The West has a defective baby that has been allowed to live.
Formal filing of adoption papers in the county clerk's office at
Portland, Ore., revealed how the baby, born near Portland, will
be cured of its ills because of the love and interest taken in it by
a trained nurse. The baby is a girl born in Gladstone, Ore., on
June 15, 1914. The day after its birth the child was taken to
Portland and given, by the consent of its parents, to the Pacific
Rescue and Protection Association, the parents saying they ‘didn't
want the child.’
“Until five months ago the child was kept at the Albertina
Kerr baby nursery. Then Miss Helen A. Kielblock, a trained
nurse, saw it. Pity for the little defective first touched Miss Kiel
bicck. She asked for the privilege of trying her skill as a nurse
•in an effort to cure it. This was given, and Miss Kielblock de
voted many hours to treating the youngster. Gradually the child
had become better, healthier. Today it is on the road toward com
plete recovery. But as Miss Kielblock skillfully massaged health
into the baby’s limbs, her pity turned to affection, later to deep
love. Finally she decided to adopt her tiny patient. Today At
torney Roscoe P. Hurst filed the papers making the baby the legal
daughter of Miss Kielblock. Relinquishment of the child was
signed by the Rev. John McLaren of the Portland Commons, who
gained legal custody when the baby’s parents turned it over to
the rescue society.
“ 'Miss Kielblock did wonderfully,’ said Attorney Hurst, ‘In
five months she has changed the child a great deal. Three more
months of her treatment will make the baby perfect.”
HOW LONG, 0 LORD? HOW LONG?
An indignant reader of this newspaper complains that al
though explanations, appeals and complaints have been made to
the postoffice authorities, past, and present, about the conditions
of the mail service to this comniunity, no improvement is noticed,
fie gives vent to “exasperation at the futility and fatuousness—
yes, fat-headedness—of certain officials, and feels tempted to ask
Divine intercession. Somewhere in this great, broad land of ours,”
he continues, “there must be gray matter enough to relieve this
community from the muddling, inefficient, careless, slovenly, bone
headed management which, on the 24th day of January, in the
year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and sixteen, will land in Idita
rod newspapers and magazines published early in September of
the preceding year.” He respectfully calls this condition of af
fairs to the attention of the management of the Outlook, Collier's
Weekly and New York World, stating that it costs them many
subscriptions. “But for heaven’s sake,” he concludes, “if you can
not deliver our papers within a reasonable time of their publica
tion, please, please do not clutter up our scanty winter mail al
lowance with antediluvian issues.”
After relieving his mind of the above effusion, the writer is re
ported to have regained his usual cheerfulness.
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INTIMIDATING JUDGES
“There has been more or less trouble over franchise and track
age . ights between the municipal, and the private street railroad
fines in San Francisco. This trouble culminated in July when the j
private company, after a full hearing, obtained an injunction ;
against the use of certain tracks by the municipal lines. Through j
this injunction the municipal lines would lose a goodly share of
their exposition business and, in consequence, would have to dis
charge conductors and motormen. Twenty-four hours after the
decision the labor union of the municipal railway employes began
recall proceedings against the judge who had granted the decision.
So loud grew the clamor against the decision that the presiding
judge of the superior court took the case out of the hands of the
trial judge and practically without a hearing set the injunction
aside. A second San Francisco juilge to whom the case was to be
assigned refused to accept the assignment. Is it more reprehensible
to intimidate judges by political than by financial or social pres
sure? This question is asked without regard to the legal merits of
the case.”- Sunset Magazine.
The opinion generally will be he’d that the intimidation of
judges is rcpresenhible no matter what means are employed. The
fact that the intimidation was open and above-board seems to be
the only thing that called forth comment in this instance. Where
men whose bread and butter was at stake threatened to use
lawful weapon the recall it is called intimidation. Political,
financial and social pressure might be applied to judges in scores
of instances without attracting attention. But the fact that the
“intimidation" was done within the bounds of the* law, ami that
judges were not encountered willing to stand by tin* obnoxious
decision in the face of recall proceedings will gi\e the opponents
of the recall of judges plenty of material for discussion.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has so persistently urged
the repeal of the Lafollette seamen’s act, stating that it already
has driven American shipping from the Pacific, should take the
Seattle capitalists and business men to task for proceeding to do
things which it says are impossible. These live wires, despite the
earnest agitation of the big Seattle newspaper, are determined to
go to their destruction if there is any truth in a dispatch from
that city dated December 29, which says; "A strong group of
Seattle financiers and business men have launched a plan for the
formation of a steamship line of the first importance on the Pa
cific. The line will consist at the start of three modern steamships
of the first class, each one to cost a million and a quarter. The
line will operate between Seattle and the Antipodes, which, gener
ally speaking, means a direct line between Seattle and New Zea
land, touching at important ports of Australia and other points on
the route. This trade has grown rapidly in the past few years, and
up to date has been practically monopolized by steamer lines from
Pan Francisco and from Vancouver, B. 0."
One of the amusing things in connection with newspaper work
in Alaska is the credit that many of the publications take unto
themselves in connection with the finding of missing persons adver
tised for. Very frequently some person is reported as missing, and
every newspaper in the territory publishes a notice to that effect,
giving the name and address of the person interested in locating
the person sought. When the advertisement is answered and the
relatives and friends are brought into communication, some self
satisfied sheet promptly announces that through its efforts the
missing person has been found, and usually concludes with re
marks such as: "It speaks well for the wide circulation which we
enjoy in all parts of the territory and elsewhere.” And perhaps
they imagine that a gullible public "falls” for this stuff.
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A statement made by Delegate James Wickcrsham to the Cor
dova Times fluring his recent visit to that city seems to indicate
that he will carry his fight against C L ncl Richardson of the
Alaska road commission onto the Hour of the house of representa
tives. The Times says: “The appropriation for roads and traits
should, in the opinion of Mr. Wickcrsham, be handled through the
’ nitorial legislature, the same as the forestry fund was usetl !•;.
that body. He believes that by the appointment of the proper per
'iis as superintendents or overseers better results can be obtained,
and in a wav satisfactory to the residents of the territory.
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Mr. Rt o-evclt put the matter of “preparedness rather sir >njrly
in a recent interview, but there are many who will agree with the
militant ex-president when he says: "Mr. Bryan’s position as to
the duty of this country not to prepare itself to defend its vital
honor and interest by force of arms can be accepted as sincere and
honest only if he is willing to announce that he believes that in
private life a man should not forcibly try to prevent his wife’s
face being -lapped or his daughter from being outraged. To take
,-urh a oi sitit-n 1 hold to he an abhorrent piece of wickedness and
f, llv.”
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Probably owing to the fact that the great European war has ,
brought the Christian religion to shame by the general ignoring
i f its teachings, a member of the British parliament evidently .
thinks that the occupation of the minister of the gospel is gone, j
Recently Robert L. Outhwaite. Liberal member for Hanley, asked
Harold J. Tennant, parliamentary under secretary for war, "As
there is nothing doing in Christianity at present, isn t it important
that clergymen should enlist V” Mr. Tennant refused to be drawn
into discussion.
No. !, Volume 1. of the ‘'Forty-ninth Star,” published at Val- j
(|pz by John W. Frame, former publisher of the C mintoner of that :
city, has reached our exchange table. The publication is bright
and pugnacious, as was to bp expected.
HUMAN HELPFULNESS
(Philadelphia Public Ledger)
The lnno band, the lone mind, the lone soul, is a thing quite
impossible it always was impossible. Men may asphyxiate or 1
__: f.. __U .»«.! u-till tb«*rponnnt bint nil* ib?> of hli
human brotherhood, if it means anything, must mean no vague
philosophizing, no essay delivered at a distance, but an active
ameliorative effort on the spot. The head is not poulticed for a
wound in the foot; the arm is not put in splints when the leg.is
broken. We are ever more ready to minister to another’s afflic
tion by absent treatment at long range than we are to go and to
do in person. The vague sentiment, the impulse unfulfilled, is ;
very easy. The wireless telephony of pious platitudes is cheaper
than travel.
f5() far nothing of importance has developed with regard to the
new diggings on Horsefly creek. While the indications are such
as to encourage prospecting on an extensive scale, no authoritative
information that “pay” has been uncovered has been given out.
It is worthy of note in connection with this latest flurry in this
district that no serious attempt was made to create an unwar
ranted stampede. As a consequence there are no disappointed and
destitute prospectors from distant points to berate the country and
its citizens for their unfortunae pight. It is possible that^ on
Horsefly, as well as on other creeks in this vicinity, pay will be
found; and when it lJ The Pioneer wilt do its part in letting the j
world know the good Hews.
CAVOUR’S TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND QUOTED IN. ITALY,
(London Special to the Christian Science Monitor)
The Corriere della Sera published recently an article by Signor
Ruffini in which he quoted Cavour’s speech, advocating the send- j
ing of an expeditionary force to join the British in the Crimea, ,
delivered at a sitting of the Piedmontese parliament in February,
1855. The passage in the Italian statesman’s speech was as fcl- }
lows: . j
“The history of all wars in which England has been involved ,
shows that at the beginning she always missed success, that she
always began by efforts not proportionate to her power, but that
the defeats she suffered, the disasters that befel her, instead of dis
heartening her, had the effect of stimulating her to greater efforts
and sacrifices, and that while her enemies, having gained some
success, gradually lost courage and force, she, as the war pro- 1
gressed, found new reserves of strength and means of attack.
This happened in the great war of the French revolution. In 1792 .
and 1793 England experienced nothing but defeats; her means!
were much more restricted than those of her allies; but while}
these latter soon wearied, England became stronger as the war
went on, and ended in 1814 in having, if I am not much mis
taken, no less than 400,000 men under her banners.
“What befel England in Europe also happened many times ir> I
India. The first attempts made by Englishmen in India proved }
failure in almost every case; and it was only after a serious defeat
and a great disaster that the India Company employed sufficient
means to attain the purpose. * * * What has happened in j
’.he past century during the wars of the French revolution, what |
las happened even more recently in Kabul, will also happen, I |
relieve, in the Crimea. I am therefore convinced that we can feel i
'ertain that on the battlefield we shall find our allies stronger and j
more powerful than ever.”
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Considering the effectiveness of the relief expeditions to Bel- 1
gium and Servia, nobody could blame Greece and Roumania for
demanding the relief first.—New York Evening Sun.
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The British are not alone responsible for the failure of the
Dardanelles—the Turks had at least something to do with it. j
San Francisco Chronicle.
INCIDENT REFERRED TO
BY GERMANY’S CHANCELLORj
In the course of the German chancellor’s i
speech in the reichstag on Decnieber 9 last, j
in which he answered the Socialist interroga- J
tories as to the empire’s attitude toward ]
peace, he mentioned an instance of alleged !
barbarism on the part of a British war ves- |
sel. The instance referred to probably is j
that contained in a Berlin dispatch received
via wireless to Sayville on December 7, and j
is as follows:
“Berlin, Dec. 7 (By Wireless to Sayville,
Dec. 7). -Among the items given out for j
publication today by the Overseas News |
Agency was the following concerning the al- j
legeil attack on the crew of a German sub- !
marine by members of the crew of the Brit- I
ish patrol boat Baratong, which sank the j
submarine:
" 'The German government has drawn up !
a memorial which gives expression to the j
firm expectation that the British govern j
men! will without delay call the commander j
and crew of the auxiliary cruiser Baratong j
to account for the assassinations. Early in j
October several muleteers of the British |
steamship Nicosian arriving at New Orleans |
reported that marines from the Baratong
kiiied the captain and ten men of the crew
of a German submarine after the submarine
had been sunk. The Nicosian, according
to the story, was being shelled by the sub
marine when the Baratong, which the
muleteers alleged was flying the American :
flag, came up and sank the submarine. The
captain and four men of the submarine
climbed aboard the Nicosian, the muleteers
said, but were killed by the British marines,
who also shot six of the submarine’s crew
struggling in the water."
The incident was reported by the Asso
ciated Press from New Orleans at the time
of the arrial of the Nicosian, but was de
scribed different by the American news
agency, it being declared that the sub
marine was cantured and the crew lined up
on the decks of their own vessel and exe
cuted by a firing sov°d from the warship.
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GENERAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG
WHO SUCCEEDS FRENCH
Major General Sir Douglas Haig, K C.
V. ()., who recently succeeded Sir John
French in command of the British forces
iti France and Belgium, is the youngest son
of John Haig, J. P., of Cameronbridge,
Fife, and Rachel, the fourth daughter of
Hugh Veitch of Stewart field, Midlothian.
He was born June 19. 1891. In 1905 he
married Dorothy Vivian, daughter of the
third Lord Vivian. They have one daugh-,
ter.
Sir Doughs-- was educated at Oxford. He
joined the Seventh Hussars in 1885, and
served in the Soudan, being engaged in
tiie operations ut Atbara and Khartoum.
He received the medal with two elope for
bravery in these campaigns.
lie served in the South African war. and
was deputy assistant adjutant general at
Natal, later serving on the staff of General
French in the Cole-burg operations. He
was assistant adjutant general of the cav
alry division in 1900. for his work :n
South Africa he received the queen’s medal
with seven clasps and the king’s medal.
He was inspector general of the cavalry
in India from 1903 to 1908, and was made
a major general in 1904. From 1908 to
1907 he was director of miliatry training.
From 1907 to 1909 he was director of the
staff duties at army headquarters.
REALISTIC ACTING
An advance agent for a theatrical pro
duct i. n due shortly i:i Sen Francisco wa-t
speaking to a newspaper man with reference
to tiie wonderful powers of the leading
woman.
“Do you know," he sai l, enthusiastically,
“that in New York, when she appeared as
the dying mother in the last act, an in
surance ntan who had. not a week before,
written her a policy for $10,000, actually
fainted in the theater! Argonaut.
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A DEFINITION
Debate—An argument or word battle of a
formal nature, engaged in by two or more
persons, in which each tries to convince the
other that he is wrong but only succeeds
in convincing himself more firmly that he
is right. Life. _
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