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SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT
Shall seed potatoes be cut with one eye to the seed
and planted two pieces to the hill or two eyes to the piece,
one seed to the hill? Spud agriculturists disagree and in
view of the war fanning at hand it becomes a subject for
serious thought.
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MUST MAKE ALLOWANCES
An authority on the bone dry law says that Alaskans
should not expect too much during the first year as those
who are determined to drink themselves to death will lay
in a sufficient supply to accomplish the desired end, and
those bent on going to the penitentiary for bootlegging
cannot be cajoled into staying outside.
POSSIBILITIES OF TREASON
Normal Americans do not need to be reminded not
to give aid and comfort to the enemy, or even cautioned
that in time of war treason is punishable by death, but we
are not all normal and again a very small percentage of a
hundred million means quite a number.
Statements in regard to reasonable actions by Amer
icans along the border during the extended warfare
against Villa are rather startling in that they show the
minds of many of us to be dulled in regard to points of
honor. George Patullo, an expert on affairs Mexican,
goes to the heart of the thing in a recent issue of the Sat
urday Evening Post, telling how Americans formed com
panies to buy cattle stolen by Villa. In summing up the
matter he says:
“It would take a strong man nine hours to call the
tally of American citizens down there who have been guil
ty of smuggling ammunition, of aiding hostile Mexican
factions; of stirring up trouble for the United States by
inciting raids; of setting filibusters on foot against Mex
ico in order to grab a profit. * ' For every attack
and outrage the border has suffered from Mexicans, poor,
\> ar-ridden Mexico has suffered three launched from
our side.”
These statements and a mass of detail regarding trea
son and misprision of treason he recounts, based on re
ports in the hands of the department of justice, as a result
of which a small percentage of the traitors are doing time.
With this situation existing in a small uproar, the
danger of similar treason in the war against Germany
has led the president to issue the following proclamation
defining treason and misprision of treason:
Whereas, all persons in the United States, citizens as well as aliens,
should be informed of the penalties which they will incur for any failure to
bear^rue allegiance to the United States;
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, here
b> issue this proclamation to call especial attention to the following provi
sions of the constitution and the laws of the United States:
Section 3 of Article III of the constitution provides in part:
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war
against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
The criminal code of the United States provides:
Section 1. Whoever, owing allegia nee to the United States, levies war
against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort
within the United States or elsewhere is guilty of treason.
Section 2. Whoever is convicted of treason shall suffer death; or, at
the discretion of the court, shall be imprisoned not less than five years and
fined not less than ten thousand dollars, to be levied on and collected out of
any or all of his property, real and personal, of which he was the owner at
the time of committing such treason, any sale or conveyance to the con
trary notwithstanding; and every person so convicted of treason shall, more
over, be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Section 3. "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having
knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does
not, as soon as may be, disclose and make know n the same to the president
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or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge
or justice of a particular state, is guilty of misprision or treason and shall
bo imprisoned not more than seven years and fined not more than one thous
and dollars.
Section 6. If two or more persons in any state or territory, or in any
place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow',
put down, or to destroy by force the government of the United States, or
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to levy war against them or to oppose by force the authority thereof, 01 bj
force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the L nited
States, or by force to seize, take/or possess any property of the L nited
States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined not more
than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.
The courts of the United States have stated the following acts to be
treasonable:
The use or attempted use of any force or violence against the govern
ment of the United States, or its military or naval forces;
The acquisition, use, or disposal of any property with knowledge that
it is to be, or with intent that it shall be, of assistance to the enemy in their
hostilities against the United States.
The performance of any act or the publication of statements or infor
mation which will give or supply, in any way, aid and comfort to the enemies
of the United States.
The direction, aiding, counseling, or countenancing of any of the fore
going acts.
Such acts are held to be treasonable whether committed within the
United States or elsewhere; whether committed by a citizen of the United
States or by an alien domiciled, or residing in the United States, inasmuch
as resident aliens, as well as citizens ,owe allegiance to the United States
and its laws.
Any such citizen or alien who has knowledge of the commission of such
acts and conceals and does not make known the facts to the officials named
in Section 3 of the penal code is guilty of misprision of treason.
And I hereby proclaim and warn all citizens of the United States, and
all aliens owing allegiance to the government of the United States to abstain
from committing any and all acts which would constitute a violation of any
of the laws herein set forth; and I further proclaim and warn all persons
who may commit such acts that they will be vigorously prosecuted therefor.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this sixteenth day of April in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-first.
(SEAL* WOODROW WILSON.
By the President: ROBERT fiXNSING, Secretary of State.
THE RED CROSS
The campaign for a greatly increased Red Cross mem
bership in Juneau is under way. There are indications
that the groundwork laid carefully during the past will be
fruitful of large accessions to the local chapter. There
should be no hesitancy upon the part of any one, man,
woman or child, to enroll in this agency for humanity.
The Red Cross is not an instrument of war, not a concom
itant of strife, but a great loving panacea for the ills
and disasters to human kind that proceed out of war. It
is the agency, world-wide in its activity, that binds to
gether the parts of shattered humanity and brings to its
parched lips the cup of cool water.
There will be greatly inci’eased need for the services
of the Red Cross. It would be folly to disguise the fact
that we are engaged in real war, and that as the conflict
proceeds this nation is going to contribute of her blood.
The maimed and the blind and the dead, speak it softly, all
will need the tender ministration of the grave, white
garbed angels of mercy bearing the crimson cross as their
insignia. - t. .
Every one can render a sendee. Becoming a mem
ber does not necessarily imply field duty. The classes are:
1. Those who are willing to go anywhere in the world.
2. Those who are willing to go anywhere in the United
States.
3. Those who are willing to do anything at home.
If you do more, be a contributing member, and with
your help those who can will cany relief and succor where
it is certain to be needed.—(Juneau Empire.)
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ALASKA vr ®
Sailings from Seattle:
1 Alameda .May 10
Alaska.May 15
Mariposa .May 21
Northwestern .May 27
Alameda.June 2
All ships go through to Anchorage.
Sailing of May 10th from Seattle, connects with Dora to Westward.
Beginning with the Northwestern sailing of May 4th, all passenger
ships will touch at Skagway northbound. The Alameda and Mariposa
will be the only ships to call at Skagway southbound.
For further particulars of service, rates,apply to Agent.
A. H. McDONALD, Agent.
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The Gateway of
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Big Game Paradise of all Alaska
Future Fishing Center of Alaska
Gateway and Distributing Point for Central Alaska
Completely endowed and equipped with Public
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SEWARD is the inevitable metropolis of Alaska; has a first class
Public School System; is the principal city on the Kenai Penin
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Gateway to all of Interior Alaska; has the finest harbor on the
coast—bar none; the most advantageously located townsite in
Alaska; a fishing industry that alone will make a wealthy town;
a modern and complete cold storage plant and cannery; will have
one of the finest Radio Stations in the North Pacific.
SEWARD has a first-class gravity water system, modem electric
light and power plant, has twosolid financial institutions and is
the selected site for the North Coast Government Coaling Station,
the SALT WATER TERMINUS of the Government-built railroad,
the nearest port to the GREATEST HALIBUT BANKS in Alaska
and is tributary to the great mining districts of Alaska.
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