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Yol. 9 No. 0
WAR REVENUES
l*e just before you are generous.
At this time and under the present cir
cumstances tliis means that you should
pay your war taxes—the income tax
-before unduly loosening up for mis
cellaneous purposes.
Uncle Sam needs the money and
must have it. Pay promptly and cheer
fully, without trying to see how far j
down you can scale the amount you j
have to pay. All Americans have been j
lucky in the matter of taxes, and we. of j
Alaska, especially >o. Compared with
the European nations we know nothing -
of taxes, even with.the present extras J
for war purposes, and to prevent the
possibility of the people of this country
ever coming to a like pass with those
of Europe let. us all dig down—and dig
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Every dollar paid into the treasury i
of the United States now is a dollar j
paid for the insurance of Freedom, and
and every dollar any of us justly owe in
taxation and which we succeed in evad
ing is a dollar which we have stolen
from our neighbors, for the money
must come.
Exact official information is not yet
plentiful, but is on the road in the
mails. In the meantime any one who
wishes such information as may be had
will please apply to C. R. Peck, Flat,
who is chairman of the Committee on
War Revenues, or to any member of
the Executive Board of tha Loyal
League.
If you are u single man and have
earned over one thousand dollars
within the past year you owe some
thing; and if married you owe on what
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ever you have earned above two thou
sand. Carelessness will mean penal
ties, a deliberate attempt to defraud
the Government will mean the pen
itentiary. _
AFTER THE WAR: WATCH
US GROW
One often hears the remark by poo j
pie living hero to the effect that it is u i
wonder mure people with capital do no .
come to this portion of Alaska for in- |
vest men is.
Patience is one of the greatest of vir
tores, and if these same people will
only take time to consider the difficul
ties that heretofore had to be encoun
tered in order to look our country over
carefully, in the manner that capital
will require it to be gone over, little
wonder can be expressed at our not ad
vancing faster. Then to add to all other
natural handicaps, along comes this
World's war and our entry into it,
which could not have been avoided, ami
the concommitant abnormal conditions
with their b'g demand on both labor
and capital, to further delay our devel
opment. j
However, us the railroad comes!
nearer and neater to completion day 1
by day the. big things get closer to us. |
When the war is over, when the
railway is completed, when times and
conditions have again gotten them-!
solves into normal state, when freight
rates are at a price that they were be
fore the Kaiser and his outlaws started
on their parade, and it will be possible
for a person, at reasonable cost, to take
a steamer at San Francisco and be in
Cook Inlet waters inside of five days,
the big things will come to long wait
ing Alaska.
Then our coal fields our oil fields,
our agriculture lands, our mines, out
timber, our fisheries and our unsur
passable scenery will all be at a pre
mium aud money will be coming in on
every boat for investment in tha po
tential resources of the richert land on
earth today—Alaska.—Anchorage Dem
ocrat.
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In his proclamation to the Army of
the East in 1014, early in the present,
war, Kaiser William makes it clear
to all who ho represents. Following
are typical sentences of God's right
hand man:
Remember that you are the |
chosen' people. The spirit of the !
Lord has descended upon me be- j
cause I am the Emperor of the Ger
mans. f am the instrument of the
Almighty. I am His sword, His
agent.* Let them perish, all the
enemies of t he German people!
God demands their destruction;
God who, by my mouth, bids you to
do His will.
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Allies can stand another Verdun, but
can Germany?- Wall Street Journal.
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capita!, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Draffs Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT. SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITARY
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OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
CLAUDE BAKER, Vice-President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
FINNEGAN & CAMERON
Agency for Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs and Records
TOBACCO CIGARS STATIONERY
CONFECTIONERY AND BILLIARDS
C. R. Cameron Jas. F. Finnegan
FLAT CITY
EAT LESS
Wheat, Sugar and Meat
To the end that Our Soldiers at the front
may always have plenty.
THOs7McMAHON
FLAT, ALASKA
HOOVER S GOIN’ TO GF.T YOU
The darned old Hoover pledge has come to our house to stay;
To frown our breakfast bacon down, and take our steak away;
It. cans our morning wadies, and our sausage, too, it seems,
And dilates on the succulence of corn, and spuds, and beans.
So skimp the sugar in your cake and leave the butter out, j
Or Hoover’s goin’ to get you if you |
Don’t
Watch |
Out ' |
Oh. gone now tire the good old days of hot. cakes thickly spread;
And meatless, wheat loss, hopeless days are reigning in their stead;
And gone the days of fat rib roasts, and two-inch T-bone steaks,
And doughnuts plumpand golden brown, the kind that, toother makes,
And when it comes to pic and cake, just learn to cut it out,
Or Hoover’s gain’ to get you if you
Don’t
Watch
Out!
Ho spread your buckwheats sparingly, and peel your taters thin,
And tighten up your belt a notch and don’t, forget to grin.
And if, sometimes, your whole sou! yearns for shortcake high and wide.
And biscuits drenched with honey and chicken butter-fried,
Remember then that Kaiser Bill is short on saurkraut,
And Hoover’s goin’ to get him if we’il
All
Help
Out ! --Mabel L. Clapp.
DEMONIACAL OBSESSION OF PRUSSIANiSM
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Otto Kalin, a New York banker of German birth and educa
tion, in a recent speech thus characterizes the present-day i
rulers of Germany:
‘‘I speak as one who has seen the spirit of the Prussian gov
erning class at work from dose by, having at its disposal, and
using to the full, practically every agency for molding the pub
lic mind. I have watched it proceed with relentless persistency
and profound cunning to instill into the nation the demoniacal
obsession of power-worship and world-dominion, to modify and
pervert the mentality —indeed the very fibre and moral sub
stance—of the German people, a people,'which until misled,
corrupted and symtematicafly poisoned by the Prussian ruling
caste, was and deserved to be an honored, valued, and welcome
member of the family of nations.
“I have hated and loathed that spirit ever since it came
within my ken many years ago; hated it all the more as I saw
it ruthlessly pulling down a thing that was dear to me—the old
Germany to which I was linked by ties of blood, by fond memo- i
ries. and cherished sentiments. i
“The difference in the degree of guilt as between the Ger- 1
man people and their Prussian or Prussianized rulers and lead
ers for the monstrous crime of this war and the atrocious bar j
barisin of its conduct is the difference between the man who,
acting under the influence of a poisonous drug, runs amuck in
mad frenzy, and the unspeakable malefactor who administered
that drug, well knowing and fully intending the ghastly conse
quences which were bound to follow.
“The world fervently longs for peace- But there can be no
peace answering to the true meaning of the word —no peace
permitting the nations of the earth, great and small, to walk
unarmed and unafraid —until the teaching and the leadership of
the apostles of an outlaw creed shall have become discredited
and hateful in the sight of the German people; until that peo
ple shall have awakened to a consciousness of the unfathom
able guilt of those whom they have followed into calamity and
shame; until a mood of penitence and of a decent respect for i
the opinions of mankind shall have supplanted the sway of !
what President Wilson has so trenchantly termed ‘truculence
and treachery.’”
j BETTER TO PAY MORE
The stricter rules of the United
States postoffice department are not al
ways lived up to punctiliously by em
ployes of the smaller and more remote
oostofflces as that when a window clerk
m a western city was instructed by his
superior to write and hang a notice
concerning a certain war advance, this
is what he produced:
Don’t kick on postage; better
pay a little more than have the
Kaiser’s picture on your stamps.
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Chinese Proverbs
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Think twice and do not speak at all.
At 70 a man is a candle in the wind.
A thousand soldiers are easily' ob
tained; a general is hard to find. j
Do not lace your shoes in a melon
! patch. I
Easy to open a shop! hard to keep it
open.
Of all important things, the first is
not to cheat conscience.
All pursuits are mean in comparison
with learning.
In a united family happiness springs
up of itself.
He bought a dried fish to spare its
life.
Win your law suit, lose your money. '
Better do kindness near home than
go far to burn incense.
If you suspect a man, don’t employ
him; if you employ a man, don’t sus
pect him.
Unskilled fools quarrel with their
tools.
It’s a little thing to starve to death;
it’s a serious thing to lose one’s vir
tue.
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In the gloaming last Monday E. Coke
Hill started for Ruby. 1
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An Encouraging Sign
There is an encouraging sign in the j
growing discontent, among the German j
women. Overworked, underfed, and in j
a bad temper, they aro ceasing to wor
ship the autocracy that made the war.
They rail at the kaiser. They ridicule
the crown prince. They jeer at the
military cast. Soldiers home on fur
lough hear strange sentiments ex
pressed by the German hausfrau. She
is no longer interested solely in
“kirche, kuche, kinder.” She' has
opinions Subtly contagious opinions
tbay are, and subversive of faith in the
divine right of Wilhelm.—Chicago
Tribune.
“WHITE DOG” SMITH
BROUGHT GOOD WEATHER
“White Dog” Smith, the ruaii carrier,
arrived last Monday afternoon after
fighting a blizzard for about eight
hours between this place and the Half’
way roadhouse. Just as it happened
the week before with him, no sooner
had lie unloaded his cargo at the local
postoffico than the wether became
calm and mild.
Job Printing at Pioneer dice.
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Alaska, 1910
George Woodruff Albrecht
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
ID1TAROD, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney of Idltarod
CM AS. E. TAYLOR
Attorney at Law
BANK BLOCK
First Avenue Iditarod
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J. WILSON REEt*, Afi.D.
Physician and S-irgcon
Flat Hospital, Flat, Alaska
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Surgeon
Dentistry In Connection
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Behla Hospital
Flat, Alaska
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