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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1915
THE HYPHENATED PERIL.
If among the questions of the hour
there is one of more importance to the
government and people of the United
States, than that of amending the im
migration laws, promptly and amply,
so that the status and obligations of
the immigrant resident shall be defi
nitely and permanently fixed, that fact
has not been established in current
public discussion. The country has
for the last thirteen months been
treated repeatedly to the spectacle of
departing ships laden heavily with
men of military age responding to
the service call of other nations. They
have gone by tens of thousands, these
conscripts, utterly forgetful, appar
ently, of the conditions which they
issumed when they landed on the
shores of this great republic, the land
>f their heart’s desire; utterly un
nindful, apparently, in perhaps a ma
jority of cases, of their voluntary re
lunciation of all previous allegiance
is a condition precedent to the grant
>f American citizenship.
Farcical, however, as this uncere
nonious exodus has made the immi
iration and naturalization laws of the
Jnited States appear to the observ
mt and thoughtful onlooker, his
ense of the eternal fitness of things
ias been less shocked by the depart
ire of the men who dropped allegi
nce to their adopted country as read
ly as they might have divested them
elves of a coat or a shoe, than by
he continued presence in the coun
ry of others, who while boasting of
itizenship. have been no less respen
ive in their way, to orders from the
overnments they have renounced >
han were their compatriots, who
rom the day of their departure were
sldom out of touch with their con
ulates. These people have never
een citizens of the United States, al
rough they have taken the oath of
llegiance, become naturalized per
irers, and in many cases helped run
le economic and political affairs of
jr nation. Th% have been at the
jck and call of their consuls, ready
• sever all ties, leaving families and
datives in many cases, to become
larges of our charitable institu
ons. while they returned to take up
■ms for the land of their preference,
ney have never been safe residents,
ley have attempted in some in
ances, honestly perhaps, to divide
eir allegiance between two coun
ies, only to find themselves inevi
bly in the position of those who nn
rtake to serve two masters of any
nd, and who end by clinging to one
d despising and probably betraying
e other.
Dual allegiance, dual loyalty, dual
izenship are things repugnant to
e single-minded and the true. They
p things utterly incompatible with
2 essence of American citizenship,
ey involve conditions, adjustments,
mpromises that have nothing in j
jimon with frank, free and unques-j
ning devotion to the country and (
2 flag. There are times when the j
al citizen must be for or against j
3 things for which one or another
the countries sharing his alleg'- j
ce stands. There are times when
must make his choice, and well
4 him if he shall make his choice
anly, for an ugly name and a last
: stigma atiach to one who at such
ime chooses secretly.
Patriotic, thoughtful papers all
sr the country are realizing the
•il existing under the present im
?ration laws. The fact that the
intry has been flooded with cheap
or, which at a nod from its coun
deliberately turns its back upon
country which has succored and
altered, and oftentimes protected
from extradition by a tyrannical
iion, causes the person who is real
nterested in the country’s welfare,
stand aghast. The Christian Sci
e monitor, in discussing the mat
i from a patriotic standpoint says
ft responsibility does not lie alto
her with the individual. In the
sent instance it must be sheered by
' government which has thrown its
rs over to all comers through
ay years, asking few questions,
as a rule, paying little attention
he answers received. The con
pts who have gone out, it should
remembered, have also come in. by
tens of thousands. In more than
sense the Immigrants crowding
iugh the open doors have been re
lsts. They have in many cases,
vered all questions with reserva
s; they made declarations and
I
signed sworn statements with reser
vations. There has evidently always
been in their thought a contingen
cy in which they might reserve for
another country than the United
States the loyalty which the terms of
their admission to citizenship in the
United States demanded. And,
thanks to a political system which is
an abuse rather than an expression
of democracy, entrance in the coun
try and entrance into citizenship
have been cheapened in the sight of
i these people, and the more ignorant
■they have been of the country’s ideals
Ithe cheaper have the privileges be
jtwed with citizenship seemed to them.
Chicago, Omaha and Denver pa
pers are clamoring for amendments to
our Immigration laws. They claim
that within the last few weeks cir
cumstances have combined to bring
the people of the United States
around sharply to sober and serious
contemplation of what might be
termed the nation’s personnel. They
have found other nations issuing or
ders to their fellow citizens of alien
nativity, and they have found these
fellow citizens in thousands of in
stances, responding to those orders
with alacrity. They have found am
bassadors dictating to United States
residents and citizens the lines upon
which they should shape their con
duct toward the United States. They
have become cognizant of threats,
open and covert, made against resi
dents and citizens of this country
who have failed to respond to every
demand of the governments whose
authority they had long since sup
posed to abjure. They have had it
rubbed in upon them in a variety of
ways that, under the present system
of receiving immigrants, and granting
I citizenships, the United States has
had no control over the hordes that j
under normal conditions scramble j
through the gates as heedless of the [
hospitality extended to them as they
are of the obligations that go with it.
The European war has revealed
discrepancies in our immigration laws
far more serious than any hitherto
known. If the United States is to
build up a defensible nation, her bul
wark must be her citizens; her whole
strength must lie in the fact that
they stand by her to the end; a di
vided allegiance brings a divided na
tion. With the close of the present
war this country will again be flooded
with aliens, seeking to escape the
enormous war taxes of European na
tions, and fleeing to escape further
[military exactions. It will be for the
United States to say upon what terms
they shall come in, and how they shall
comport themselves after their en
trance. Whether or no the veteran
| conscript, who has once turned Ms
back upon our shores, shall be'allow
ed to again take the place of an I
American in the mines and factories
rests with our government. Shallj
we open the gates wide to the horde j
of Europeans who clamor at our
threshold, or shall we close them
tightly? Or shall we allow entrance
upon the condition that they over-1
throw all allegiance to their native
country and become bona flde citi- j
zens? This seems the better way.
We have not importuned them to j
make their homes here, and if they
insist upon the privilege, let them
pay the price.
The dual hyphenated citizenship is
our gravest peril.
GIVE US MORE SAFEGUARDS.
Thirty-five boats wrecked in ten
years upon the Alaskan coast; mil
|lions of dollars in property destroyed;
j hundreds of lives lost; inconvenience
land embarrassment to the merchant
jand the traveler—this is the great
j roster of our marine disasters. And
in nine cases out of ten it could have
been prevented by a fog horn here,
|a lighthouse there, a rock buoyed, or
other safeguards those who travel are
! entitled to. In no case has it been
proven that the officer of the ship
was negligent in his duty, or taking
foolhardy chances. In all cases it has
been demonstrated that our coastal
line will never be safe for travel,
summer or winter, until several mil
lion dollars are spent in surveying,
buoys, lighthouses, fog horns and
marine bells. Forty per cent of our
steamers have gone to the bottom; in
the past month one-fourth of the lin
ers plying between Anchorage and
Seattle have found a watery grave,
and that the loss of life was not enor
mous is to be credited to the seaman
ship of the officers and crews of these
vessels rather than to any appliances
granted them by a careless govern
ment. Isn’t is about time that our
people send in a remonstrance large
enough that will cause our National
lawmakers to set up and take notice?
With the millions and millions of dol
lars spent in pork barrel appropria
tions, doesn’t it seem that the lives
of our people could be better protect
ed? If two or three lives lost on a
passenger steamer in the war zones
cause such a wave of sentiment, why
does not the loss of hundreds of lives
in ocean travel cause a gfeator up
heaval of popular sentiment? Had a
foreign nation sunk the Eastland the
people of the United States would
have enlisted to a man to revenge the
wrong done. Is it any lesser wrong
to consider the hundreds lost by an
indifferent congress? We must have
more coastal safeguards. The coun
try is growing so rapidly It is fifty
years ahead of our lawmakers.
If Santa Claus asked the editor
what he would like for a Christmas
present we would unhesitatingly say
a new cable.
And now that the baseball champ
ionship games are over, our citizens
are prepared to lay back and enjoy a
winter of blissful repose.
The price of butter has gone up
three cents a pound in the States*
while talcum powder has dropped a
|cent. Use less butter and more tal
jcum powder.
An exchange says that a miner was
badly crushed in the Iditarod by a
bank caving in. We never did be
lieve in these Latin names for our
anatomy.
Owing to the war, prices on dia
monds have fallen tremendously. The
rajah of Merryhoot has just sold one
of his crown Jewels for $500,000, less
than half price. The purchaser wa«
not a newspaper man.
The tax on kangaroos has been set
at $10 per head, but the treasury de
partment intends to raise the tax to
$25 the first of the year. This is pub
lished so the citizens of Valdez can
lay in their supply of kangaroos early.
We have received a letter signed
“Booster,” which we would have been
glad to publish, but no signature was
attached. We cannot publish com
munications unless they are signed
with the name of the writer. This is
for our own protection, as the name
will be withheld if desired.
The fact that the Stanton auto
stage line went through to Copper
Center shows that the trail is either
very good for this time of year, or
that Mr. Stanton is an experienced
winter chauffeur, or both. During
the joyous times of ’98 it would have
puzzled a snowshoe rabbit to have
gotton through at this time of the
year.
Valdez is to be congratulated upon
having the only bank io the territory
that went out of business and still
paid its depositors dollar for dollar.
The officers of the defunct bank have
done much to ectablish a reputation
for square dealing in this city, and
should they ever go into the banking
business again, the fact that they
quit square with everyone, and with
no stigma attached to the business
will be a valuable asset.
There is no room in the world for
a failure. This is illustrated in the
case of Lord Grey, fore'ign secretary
of England. A few months ago Lord
Grey was lauded to the skies for his
diplomatic skill in persuading Italy
to forsake her Teutonic allies and go
over to the side of England and
France. Today the same people are
demanding his resignation because
he was unable to keep the Balkans
neutral. Lord Grey is one of En
gland’s greatest men, and his coun
sels have always been for peace. The
English populace forced him into the
war and now they are roundly scor
ing him for his one failure. England
has produced the greatest diplomats
the world has ever seen, and Lord
Grey ranks among the highest. His
counsel, at first, was against war, but
when the excited populace forced him
to vote for it, he put his shoulder to
the wheel and has produced wonder
ful results. As a brainy, conscien
tious statesman, Lord Grey stands
without a peer.
Thursday and Friday.
“The Vice Trust” will be shown
only two shows, Thursday and Fri
day nights; 6000 feet of film based
on real facts and happenings in New
York City. At the Liberty Theatre,
tonight. 3t-13
The Vice Trust
Visit the Liberty Theatre Thurs
day or Friday night and see that co
lossal spectacle, “The Vice Trust,”
in which Governor Whitman, a can
didate for president of the United
States appears as the district attor
ney. 3t-lS
LOST—At Moose Hall, Saturday
evening, silk umbrella. Party who
took same by mistake please return
to Mrs. A. E. Grigsby.
Get a can of Melba Peaches FREE
at S. Blum & Company's store. tf.
If you are going east travel via
Great Northern Ry. For rates see D.
F. Millard, Agent, Copper Block. tf
Valdez Drug Company nave a fine
line of School Stationery. tf
Don’t forget the.Eagles’ oldtime ’98
Hallowe’en dance, Saturday, October
30 th. tf
Wells-Fargo Money Orders and
Traveler’s checks are paya'ble any
where in the United States or Cana
da. D. F. Millard, Copper Blk. tf
DelMonte
The 1915 pack of the famous Del Monte Fruits
and Vegetables is now in the market and we
take, pleasure in showing the entire line.
All New Coods-AII This Year’s Pack
The quality of the Dei Monte brand has been clearly
shown by being awarded the only
First Grand Prize
at the San Francisco and San Diego Fairs against all
competition.
To further introduce this line we will give away twenty dozen
of the famous Melba Peaches—one can free with every dollar
purchase of Del Monte Fruits and Vegetables—one only to a
customer.
All Del Monte Fruits, 25c per can, $2.75 per doz.
All Del Monte Vegetables, 20c per can, $2.25 per doz.
Del Monte Solid Pack Tomatoes, 15c per can.
Del Monte Standard Tomatoes, 10c per can.
S. BLUM & CO.
GOOD GOODS
Governor Whitman
At the Liberty Theatre Thursday
and Friday nights only, in "The Vice
Trust,” in six acts; showing District
Attorney Whitman, who is now Gov
ernor of New York, and a candidate
for president of the United States, in
action against the Vice Trust. 3t-13
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the talloi. Telephone 198. tf
Mrs'. Merchant, Milliner.
Hats remodeled and made to or
der. At Emporium. tf
“Pure, fresh Milk, Cream, Butter
and Cheese. Phone 32.” tf
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
WANTED: Position as steno
grapher, secretary or general office
assistant on newspaper, by American
woman of twenty-five. Have had
three years’ experience. References.
MISS RUTH M. HEATH,
3002 4th Ave. West, Seattle, Wash.
EAGLE HALL
SUNDAY EVE
One Show 8 P. M.
Empress Program
+ + *
Selection - Empress Trio
Pathe Weekly No. 56.
Private Officer, in two reels.
Francis Bushman plays a
double role in this drama.
Si’s Mineral Spring—Comedy.
ADMISSION 25 CENTS
Children 15 Cents
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Gradaate Narses—Privste Rosas for Patients
For Terssis^and Particulars'Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge,
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University.
Wnnhlngrton, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valilez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phone » THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 31 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW
Offices In Whaling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
NO. _168
Free a oil Accepted Maaona.
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday in each month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
Red Cross Hospital
Keystone and£Hobart Sts.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Rooms for Patients.
Phone 144 MRS. C. H WILCOX. Matron
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SfXTON.PROP
SiRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
LM Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company's Dock.
Por Ellamar, Land lock Bay,
and Pidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
The Best Place in Valdez ta
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Warm, Light Room*-The Home of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratei|By the IK oath
t
PHONE 133 MRS SYRING, Pram
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Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
ROBERT:SHAFFER, President.
Granite Min#
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Valdez, Alaska.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
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The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
' nuts.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office In Pinzon Cigar Store: ^
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE..
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Uik
less Paid for in Advance