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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1915.
A QUESTION OF FACT.
Count Apponyl, the leader of the
Liberal Party in Hungary, has this
to say of Great Britain:
"England had in its hands the
world’s peace and cannot present a
single motive for the war excepting
a jealousy of Germany’s power and
prosperity. In the action of England
there is not as much moral quality to
be discovered as even in the exag
gerated French nationalism or in the
half way idealistic lust of Russia for
world power.
“England’s attitude is in fact the
attitude of shopkeepers, an attitude
which has set the world on fire in
order to maintain its own monopoly
.—a monopoly not dependent on its
own excellence, but on naked jeal
ousy, naked envy.”
It would be far too much to say
that “jealousy of Germany’s pros
perity” does not exist in England.
The English are, in very truth, a na
tion of shopkeepers, miners, merch
ants, shippers, and bankers, and they
have steadily pushed their activities
until they cover the civilized and un
civilized globe. Among them there
are those who are not only jealous
but envious of the marvelous success
of their chief rivals, the Germans, in
the expansion of the varied business
in which previously the English had
long and easily taken the lead. For
a score of years there has been in
England a party—or an active fac
tion in one of the great parties—
which has sought to contend against
German progress by means of tariff
obstructions, and by special favors
to British Colonial Interests. Inci
dentally the spirit of this party was
that of the German fiscal party and,
like that, was bitterly opposed to
freedom of exchange and equality of
trade opportunities. It is undoubted
ly true that this narrow, greedy, and
unenlightened spirit has been inten
feified by the war, though there is
no evidence that it has spread among
the English people.
The significant fact, however, bear
ing on Count Apponyi’s opinion as to
the motives of the English in enter
ing on this war—jealousy and desire
for monopoly—is that the one cher
ished purpose of the protectionist fac
tion, tariff obstruction to German
competition, has completely failed.
The English people and, therefore,
the English government, have stead
ily rejected it. During the period in
which German expansion has been
going on, every port of the United
Kingdom and every market controlled
by the Parliament of Great Britain,
has remained open to German trade,
to German enterprise, and to Ger
mans themselves, who, by the hun
dreds of thousands, have pursued
their occupations under the equal pro
tection of English law. German ships,
subsidized by the government and
commanded by officers of the Ger
man navy, have freely entered Eng
lish harbors from Portsmouth to
Hongkong, and German enterprise,
commercial, banking, industrial, has
been absolutely unrestricted wher
ever the English flag flew. The pol
icy of the English government, sus
tained necessarily by the English peo
ple, has been completely and consist
ently the very reverse of what jeal
ousy or a hunger for monopoly would
have dictated.
The opinion announced by Count
Apponyi is not original with him, and
very likely he has never thought it
necessary, carefully and candidly, to
examine the foundation of it. It was
"made in Germany,” and its export
to all quarters of the globe has been
sedulously promoted by the kaiser
and by all his faithful agents, mili
tary, mercantile, scientific, and theo
logical. It is not only absolutely op
posed to facts as they exist and as
they had existed for years. It is al
so, in reality, the unconscious ex
pression of the motives of the ruling
class among the Germans themselves.
Their conception of trade expansion
has largely been that of special ad
vantages and partial or complete mo
nopoly. While Gre&t Britain has
maintained freedom of commerce, the
Germans have surrounded their ter
ritory with tariff barriers and have
extended to special interests all sorts
of favors in the way of government
controlled transportation rates and
the like. Their aim has been not
open competition such as the Eng
lish have offered, but exclusive trade
so far as they have been able to
obtain or enforce it. And they are
so obsessed by their own ideal tha*
they seem unable to understand that
another nation, particularly a rival
nation, can have a different one.
We are far from contending that
British foreign policy has always
been unselfish or free from mean mo
tives. History contradicts any such
assumption. But we are persuaded
that in the matter of commerce it,
has more and more nearly approach
ed the highest level of fairness, self
dependence, and faith in the final ef
ficacy of freedom and equality. It will
be a great blessing to the world, i*
will immensely strengthen the
chances of general and lasting peace
if, at the close of this war, the spirit
that has animated the English policy
of commerce can be made to pre
vail.—New York Times.
HINDENBERG HAS
TAKENOFFENSIVE
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speed of 21 knots; carried 12 13.4
inch gUns and 22 5.5-inch guns. She
cost $12,500,000 and carried a crew of
998 men.
Germans Would Reach Warsaw.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 12.— The Gel
man attacks against the Russian line
along the Rawka river have increas
ed and threaten to bring on a gen
eral engagement in Central Poland.
The German effort to reach Warsaw
has been blocked, but it has been
necessary tc bring op more reserve
troops. It may be necessary for the
Galicia campaign to be stopped
again and more troops brought to
Warsaw for the protection of that
city.
German Offensive In Alsace.
BERLIN, Jan. 12.—Reinforcements
have been sent to the Germans hold
ing the positions at Steinbach, in Al
sace, where the French have taken
an advanced position. The assaults
at Cernay continue and it is report
ed that the German forces have
■made remarkable progress against
the Allies.
French Advanced Too Soon.
The French advance into Alsace
was premature, as the Allies dare not
use the recruits and new troops
against the regular German army
and in consequence while greatly su
perior in numbers the morale of the
enemy is inferior to that of the Ger
man soldiers and the French have
failed to hold the positions taken and
are slowly falling back towards the
border.
German Cruiser Damaged.
LONDON, Jan. 12.—The German
cruiser Bremen was seriously damag
ed from striking a German mine in
the North Sea. Some of the crew
were lost as a result of the explosion.
The cruisers, however, reached port.
The information comes from a re
liable source in Holland.
(NOTE: The German cruiser
Bremen is not listed among the Ger
man boats of the first or second line
and is probably an old and obsolete
ship used for patrol duty.—Ed.)
Six Killed By Aviators.
LONDON, Jan. 12.—In spite of ex
plosives dropped upon Dunkirk by the
German aviators last Sunday when
the raid upon England was attempt
ed only six persons were killed and
several score injured. The small loss
of life is due to the fact that many
of the people have fled south to
avoid the danger from bombs.
No General Engagement Until Spring.
In spite of the oft-repeated state
ment in the press that the Anglo
French war offices were ready to
launch the general engagement all
along the line in Belgium and north
ern France no such plan is under ad
visement The general offensive for
ward movement will not take place
until spring unless the situation in
Russia should require it to save Rus
sia from defeat. Were it not for the
possibility that this may be necessai y
Lord Kitchener would keep most of
the new British army in England, but
as it may be necessary to attack the
German line to relieve the pressure
on the army commanded by Grand
Duke Nicholas the troops are being
sent to reserve camps in France.
Months Needed To Prepare.
Four months is needed to prepare
the recruits, gather sufficient sup
plies and have everything in readt
ness for an effective blow at the
Germans, who are In strongly forti
fied positions which must be taken
at terrible cost of life. Unless the
Allies are ready to follow up any ad-'
vantage gained the loss will be a
needless one, as the enemy will have
time to retrench and the same pro
cess must be followed again and
again.
Hard Fighting Along Aisne.
PARIS, Jan. 12.—Hard fighting is
in progress along the Aisne river
from Soissons to Reims. The French
troops are endeavoring to break
through the German line and reach
the line of communication through
Belgium to the German base. The
'success of the attacks are not known.
The hammering at the German lines
■continue day and night in an effort
to wear out the resistance.
French Offensive Beaten.
BERLIN, Jan. 12—The French .of
fensive directed towards Perthes has
been repulsed. Attack followed at
tack but in vain as the troops held
the positions in spite of stubborn as
saults.
German Gains In Argonne.
"In the Argonne district our offen
sive has been successful and the line
has been pushed farther south and
we now occupy several French posi
tions," state the official reports.
Russians Checked At Nida.
VIENNA, Jan. 12.—The Russians
have renewed the forward movement
towards Cracow. This movement,
however, has been checked at the
Nida river near its junction with the
upper Vistula.
ROTH FREES COMPANY
FROM TAX PAYMENTS
Before quitting office District At
torney Crossley, or the Fourth divis
ion, notified the Pacific Cold Storage
Company that unless it paid a li
cense tax of $500 within ten days he
would begin criminal proceedings. Be
fore the ten days were up Crossley
had been removed from office and
his successor, Roth, installed. After
investigation Roth finds that inas
much as the company sells meat'to
/dealers that it need not pay the tax
as the sales do not take place in
Fairbanks, but in Tacoma.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Superintendent L. L. Middlekamp
of the Ellamar mine came up today
on a business trip to Valdez.
Fifty-one people enjoyed the big
feed at the Big Place last night. The
dinner served by AI. White & Co,
the proprietors, was enjoyed by all
the men. Mr. William Buffin, the
chef, made a hit. Dinner will be
served at 9 every night.
150 FRENCH SOLDIERS
HIDE AMONG GERMANS
PARIS.—So far as known, a party
of 150 French soldiers who failed io
hear the order to retreat during the
fighting in the forests of Belgian Lux
emburg as far back as Aug. 23 are
still roaming about from one hiding
place to another in the woods, resist
ing the enemy. This surpasses the
record of the Twelfth company of
the 140th French Infantry, which re
cently passed fifty-eight days within
the enemy’s lines.
The party has now been cut ort
from the French lines for nearly four
months. It is a motley force made
up of stragglers who. instead of sur
rendering when they found the return
to their lines blocked by the Ger
mans, escaped to the woods and lived
off the country as best they could,
picking up ammunition from the bat
tlefields at night. Aided in this by
women and children, it is said they
got together 17,000 cartridges, which
they deposited in various caverns for
safety. For shelter they built huts
and dug trenches, from which they
frequently emerged to harass the
Germans.
The latter finally decided to beat
the entire forest country of about 2,
500 acres. Columns of 1,000 men took
part in the hunt, but were unable
to discover the hiding place of the
stragglers. Despairing of succeeding
by any other means, they resorted
to persuasion and pqsted the follow
ing notice in the villages in the south
of Namur ahd Luxemburg:
"French soldiers: We know where
you are and the strength of your
force. In your interest It will oe
better that you surrender, and we
promise in that case that you shall
be accorded the honors of war. You
must know, however, that you ex
pose the population of the country
to reprisals. We have forbidden all
farmers, all millers, and all peasants
to furnish you with provisions and
in case of infraction they will be
shot.”
The following morning another no
tice was posted In Beaurain, signed
by the ofTJcer commanding the French
detachment:
"Since you know so well where we
are come and take us.”
The Germans have not yet reported
taking them, however, and they are
supposed to be still rambling fron
forest to forest between Glvet and
Bastogne.
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REVERSIBLE SENTENCES.
Read Backward or Forward They Tell
Same Story.
Scandalous society and life make
gossips frantic. This reads backward.
Frantic gossips make life and society
scandalous. Apply the same rule to the
others given below:
Solomon had vast treasures—silver
and gold, things precious. Happy and
rich and wise was he. Faithful served
he God.
She sits lamenting sadly, often too
much alone.
Dear Harry—Devotedly yours remain
I. Have you forgotten twenty dollar
check? Reply immediately, please, and
hand to yours, Grace Darling.
Man is noble and generous often, but
sometimes vain and cowardly.
Carefully boiled eggs are good and
palatable.
Love is heaven, and heaven is love,
youth says. All beware, says age. Try
ing is poverty and fleeting is love.
Exercise take; excess beware.
Rise early and breathe free air.
Eat slowly; trouble drive away.
Feet warmish keep: blend work with
play.
Adieu, darling! Time flies fast; sails
are set. boats are ready. Farewell!
Matter and mind are mysteries. Nev
er mind. What is matter? Matter is—
uever mind. What is mind? Mind is—
never matter.
Honesty and truth are good and ad
mirable qualities, as sympathy and love
are endearing traits.
Politics and religion avoid arguing in.
Here is good and sound advice.—Phila
delphia Inquirer.
SPEECH AND THE CHIN.
Maybe at One Time the Tongue Proved
Mightier Than the Teeth.
In man the chin seems to project
more and more as be progresses to
ward bis modern civilized condition.
This most imply that immediately the
huge lower canines degenerated the
part took on some other function of
vital importance to the race and that
the need has Increased with bis intel
lectual and social advancement
My theory, then, is that the chin is
essentially a part of the mechanism of
articulate speech.
It is tempting to theorize a little fur
ther and to suggest that the human
chin perhaps bears testimony to a pre
historic change from carnal weapons
to others which, if not exactly spirit
ual. were such as appealed to the
part of us where spiritual forces work,
for apparently long ago before the pen
proved mightier than the sword the
tongue proved mightier than the teeth.
If one could only prove this one
might show that even before the gla
cial epoch parliamentary institutions
(using the terms in its widest sense)
began to take the place of lethal weap
ons in settling disagreements and that
the substitution of arbitration for war
is not merely a doctrine of latter day
moralists, but is a part of the ordered
march of cosmic progress as inevitable
as the other evolutionary changes
which have brought us up from among
the brutes. - Dr. Louis Robinson in
North American Review.
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STATION Above Below Snow, In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 1 2 Cloudy, calm, no trail.
Paxson’s . 20 13 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Hogan . 0 12 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Gulkana . 20 12 Clear, calm, trail good.
Copper Center .... 18 9 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonslna . 15 20 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Telkhell . 6 18 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam . 0 27 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Summit .. 8 40 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Wortman’s . 24 27 Cloudy, calm, trail partly drifted.