IDSTAROB PIONEER1
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BY GEORGE M. ARBUOKLE
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NATURALIZED ALIENS
'i'lie government of the United States j
has the power to revoke the naturalize-j
lion papers heretofore granted aliens.]
The fact that naturalization has been 1
extended to a foreigner, does not mean
that he can forever be a citizen regard
less of his conduct. Congress has the
right to pass a law any day drawing
from the aliens all naturalization
rights that have been extended, and it
is believed that, such a law will he.
passed. Certainly it ought lobe passed, j
We have in this country a number of j
naturalized aliens who have forfeited
all rights to the protection of the j
American ilag. They can not ho ]
treated at this time as alien enemies. |
They enjoy ail the rights of citizenship,
and must, be dealt with in the same !
manner that we deal with native-born
Americans. If we had a law withdraw-I
jin’- their naturalization rights we could I
at once treat them as alien enemies,
and it. is ah nit time we were protecting
ourselves against them.
France and Great Britan have found j
it necessary to do so. In fact. Great
Britain lias withdrawn naturalization!
eights from all aliens naturalized with- J
in the past ten year-, without exeep-1
lion. In that way she hopes to get. at |
the troublesome ones. No such far-•
reaching proposition is proposed in this;
country, but there are many who be-j
lieve it would be well to have a law j
upon tho subject as the easiest and |
most just way of reaching those who!
have become citizens and who are dis
loyal to this nation.
We have been very lenient in this
country so far. We have hardly felt |
that we are at war. We have allowed j
aliens to go about their way. with, the j
result that mills and factories and!
warehouses have been destroyed. We j
have allowed naturalized citizens to
openly criticise our preparations for
war. because they were citizens. We
must draw ttie line more closely about J
every person suspected of disloyalty: j
we must pay more attention to curj
alien enemies, and we must protect
ourselves against persons we have uat- j
uralized if they show the least evidence
of disloyalty. Every day that the war
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THE KING OF THE HUNS
BEVENTEEN years ago when German 1 roops were about
to depart from Bieroorhavon to help suppress the Box
V A_y ers’ rebellion in China and secure revenge for what had
been done to Germans, Kaiser Wilhelm said among
other tilings:
'‘If you meet the enemy, you will defeat him, give no
quarter, make no prisoners; let whoever falls in your
hands be doomed. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns,
under their king, Etzol, made for themselves a name that
to this day is a mighty one in tradition, so may your ap
pearance make the name German be feared for a thousand
years in China, so never again will a Chinaman dare to
loolc askance at any German.”
Substitute for the word ‘‘Chinaman” the word ‘'Allies” and
the speech might have been made at the beginning of this war.
The spirit of ruthlessness, or Hnnnish savagery, of utter
disregard for restraint which breathed in the words of the
Kaiser in l'JOO is just as alive in his heart today and in the
hearts of his men.
The (Hermans have not made war as civilized human beings
make war. They have made war as it was made a thousand
years ago. They have made war as their ancestors made it
long before that, before the religion of the (Hod of Hove had
been preached to them.
The God to whom the Kaiser is always appealing and of
whose aid he is always so cocksure, is not the God of the Chris
tian world. It is the Cod of his Hnnnish ancestors, a God of
battles, a Cod that rejoices in blood.
No man, not even the emperor of the Huns, could dare ap
peal to the God we worship, when Ids hands, are dripping with
the blood of the innocent. His minions have outraged women
and mutilated children, carried olT the helpless into slavery, as
sassinated civilians upon the high seas.
In no way, as a brute and a barbarian, is King Elzel the
superior of Kaiser Wilhelm. They are from the same mould.
Just as King Etzel made for himself a name, so has the Hohen
zollcrn a name of infamy which will be exec rated by genera
tions yet unborn. Just as he desired the name of G nun an
should be feared for a thousand years in China, so the name of
German will be hated a thousand years throughout the world.
.! t will not bo necessary, after the war, to form an economic
union of the free nations against G unn iny. The union is al
ready formed. It, is a union of hearts and of spirits.
To mark an article “Made in Germany” will be to put on it
the mark of the beast. People will pass it by.
The German people are in for a penance and a punishment
which will last for generations, thanks to the Kaiser and his
Huns. Juneau Dispatch.
is prolonged, every time that anything;
isdoue to prevent our winning it, some!
of our boys will loso their lives, j
-George F. Burba.
WHAT THE* 0. S.
One meatless meal each day.
One wheatless meal each day.
A wheatless Monday.
A meatless Tuesday each week.
A wheatless Wednesday.
A porkless Saturday each week.
(Meatless means without beef, mutton ;
or pork.)
(Wheatless moans without bread, 1
cracker or cakes made of wheat flour I
alone.)
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BIDS FOR NEXT WINTER’S HAIL
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Seward Gateway: Bids have been!
filed with the Postoffice department, at ;
Washington for carrying the mail be-j
tween Seward and Fiat City next win- '
ter by Sport Smith, who asks $-iO,0'iO j
for the service, A. A. Shonbeck, who !
wants ?2h,3(>~>, and George W. Adams, j
whose figure is $28,240. The bids are |
made on a basis of carrying <>00 pounds j
of mail per week between The two ter
tninals.
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Mother—Oh, Mary, why do you wipe
vour mouth with the back of your :
handV Mary- -’Cos it’s so much cleaner ;
than the front.-—London Punch. j
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Tub and steam baths at all hours.
Snyder House, Flat, j
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Front Street, Flat City Formerly the Bagoy Premises
Flat City Hotel j
Mrs. J. E. Panning, Prop._Special Rates by the Week and Month |
Open at All Hours The Old Reliable Place
Discovery Cafe
HENRY DURAND, PROP._Front Street, Flat
Gold St., Flat City
Mrs. Geo. Mutchler, Prop.
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
[PioneerSheet Meta! Works!
I GENERAL HARDWARE j
: Sieves and Graniteware Gasoline. Goal Gil, Eto, i
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J The ©rsiy First-Class Dog Harness in Alaska
Flat, Alaska, March 5. 1918.
Iditarod Pioneer: Some of the women
here have been after me two or three
times and want to know why ! did not
write something more, as I said f
would, and some wanted to know what
1 would write next. I told them 1
didn’t know, and I didn’t. So f thought
1 would write something more Iasi
night. Mrs. Q-told a lady that ar
ticle was fire 1 wrote. Mrs. Q-is a
good woman: f delivered her water all
last winter. You use your own judg
ment about this article: I don’t know
your business any more than you would
mine. Yours truly,
Women on tho Battlefield
There never was a better illustration
given of how weli women can help in
tlie camp, if she tries, than during thc
present world's war. Men will forge
the cannon. Men will fashion tho mus
ketry. Men will man Jhe guns. Men
will unlimber the batteries. Men will
lift the wounded into tlie ambulances,
but women will scrape the lint. Women
will administer tlie cordials. Women
will watch the dying pillow. Women
will write the last message of love to
the home circle. Women will be the
mourners—the only mourners at many
a burial.
Heroism of Women
They followed our Lord to Calvary
with tears; they were last at the cross,
and first at the sepulchre. Where mar
tyrs’ fires were fiercely burning,
and scaffolds flowed with blood, and
prisons overflowed with captives:
women have not showed themselves to
be the weaker sex.
I could relate many circumstances,
from early history to the present time.
We can see a woman on a sinking ship,
where her life was not at stake. They
begged her to get into a lifeboat. She
said: “No,” to her husband and officers,
“we have lived together, and we will
die together.” So much as to say:
“We will stay with the ship, and when
she gets to her last port we will leave
our material bodies with the marital
ship, and with unflinching faith in God
will soar through regions yet un
known.”
Women tilling the soil, working in
nearly all stages of men’s places. The
warring nations are calling the men to
the battlefields—so it’s
Take your gun and go, John,
Take your gun and go;
The boys will drive the oxen, John,
And I will use the hoe.
We see them to the handles of the
plow, and we see them making the
seed bed. Plow, plant, rear and reap,
you amateurs of the soil, for those
brown acres are pregnant with nobler
fruitage than that which hung in Eden.
A woman broke the record as a long
distance air-wiDged bird. She stepped
from her ship with an air of satisfac
tion as much as to say: “J have won a
long race, and now I am champion of
champion flyers.”
We see women at the lathe turning
bars of steel to their orders. Cut away,
j thou sturdy women, at that, bar of iron,
; for thou art bravely forging thine own
j destiny.
1 We see them in munition factories
| handling explosives, tilling and fitiish
j ing up the messengers of death; women
j as writers and inventors. Space is up.
Dan Haktnktt.
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SEWARD BOOTLEGGER
GOES INTO RETIREMENT
Seward Gateway, Jan. 7: One man
has been arrested and charged with
bootlegging, and a large liquor cache
has been discovered and seized by the
officials.
John Olson, who recently returned
from Anchorage, is the man now in
jail and he was arrested by United
States Deputy Marshal Tsaac Evans,
i Chief of Police Guest and Night Patrol
t man Charles Eimswiier.
i For several days the three officers
! worked on the case and last night they
j swooped down on Olson’s cabin near
| i he A. B. hall. Several bottles were
j found in handy places but the main
j cache was buried underneath the floo:
j of the cabin.
| The cache as taken by the three of
I fleers consisted of one f> gallon keg o!
] whiskey, 37 bottles of whiskey, and
j several other bottles, partly filled.
Olson was taken before United States
j Commissioner Whittlesey this after
j noon and given one year in prison and
i als i fined $100.00.
! Joe Loranger, of Willow creek, after
j spending the winter in the States, re
| turned to camp last Sunday
' Frank Dawson and “Big Lars” O.st.
! ness started for Tolstoi last Sunday.
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j Job Printing at Pioneer office.
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! Notice is hereby given that, at the
hour of If) o'clock on the 22d day of
March. 1918, the registration books
will be open at the office of the munici
pal clerk, at his office on First avenue
in the town of Iditarod, Alaska, for the
purpose of registering ail male and
female persons, of twenty-one years of
[ago, who are citizens of the United
j States or who have declared their
j intention to become such, and who
j have resided continuously one year
j next preceding the date of election in
the territory of Alaska, and six months
I next, preceding the date of election
within the town of Iditarod- All per
sons desiring to vote at said election
must, before voting, register their
names and qualifications with the town
register of the town of Iditarod.
Registration books will be kept open
every day, except Sundays, beginning
March 22, 1918, during the hours of 10
o’clock a. m. and 4 p. tn. The said reg
istration will close on March 30. 1918.
The said election will be held on the
first Tuesday in April, 1918, for the pur
pose of electing seven (7) councilmen
and one(l) member of the school board.
Chas E. Tayi-OR. Municipal Clerk.
P r o fe s s i o 1 a 1
Michigan, 1 SB I Kentucky, 180 1
Alaska, 1910
George Woodruff / : drecht
COUNSELOR AND LAY/YER
ID1TAROD, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney or Wlitarod
CM AS. £'. TAYLOR
Attorney at Law
BANK BLOCK
First Avenue Iditarod
DR. MOORE
PHYSICIAN AND SUR.1E0N
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Flat Hospital, Flat, Alaska
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Physician ^
Surgeon
Dentistry in Connection
RES I DENT PH YSIt IA N
Fiat, Alaska
iOig Slocks of Free', Goods
Everything for the Mirer and
Prospector
MAX SSMEL™
j Stores at Cripple City and Mo 'Vi of Toiatol
Fresh Bread for Sale Daily
Arcade Cafe
FLAT CITY
Open Day and Nifiht
FLAT GETV
RESTAURANT™ BAKERY
Front St., Opp. Flat C iy Hots!
Oar Coffee Is Unsurpassed
All Kina's of Pastries, Piss, Cakes and Bread
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| Cleaning and Pressing. Miss Isaacson, Flat
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§ Watch Repairingar.d |
| Jewelry Work to order. |
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IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought ad Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT, SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITARY
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
CLAUDE BAKER, Vice-President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
^FINNEGAN & CAMERON
f Agency for Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs and Records
| TOBACCO CIGARS STATIONERY
l CONFECTIONERY AND BILLIARDS
> C. R. Cameron Jas. F. Finnegan
» FLAT CITY
THOS. McMAHON
DEALER IN
General Merchandp
FLAT, ALASKA j