“WHY DO WE FIGHT GERMANY?”
ANSWERED BY SECRETARY LANE
IN ADDRESS AT WASHINGTON
Following is the address delivered
by Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the
Interior Department, Washington,
D. C., before the Home club of the in
terior department on June 4:
Tomorrow is registration day. It
is the duty of all. their legal as well
as their patriotic duty, to register if
within the class called. There are
some who have not clearly seen the
reason for that call. To these 1
would speak a word.
Why are we fighting Germany?
The brief answer is that ours is a war
of self-defense. We did not wish to
light Germany. She made the at
tack upon us; not on our shores, but
on our ships, our lives, our rights,
our future. For two years and more
we held to a neutrality that made us
apologists for things which outraged
man’s common sense of fair play and
humanity. At each new offense—the
invasion of Belgium, the killing of
civilian Belgians, the attack on
Scarborough and other defenseless
towns, the laying of mines in neutral
waters, the fencing off of the seas—
and on and on through the months
we said: “This is war,—archaic,
uncivilized war, but war! All rules
have been thrown away; all nobility;
man has come down to the primitive
brute. And while we can not justify
we will not intervene. It is not our
war!”
i • A fI _
I non wny are we iti . "t
could not keep out. The invasion of
Helgium, which opened the war. led
to the invasion of the United States
by slow, steady, topical steps. Our
sympathies evolved into a conviction
of self-interest Our love of fair play
ripened into alarm at our own peril.
We talked in the lanpuape and in
the spirit of pood faith and sincerity,
as honest men should talk, until we
discovered that our talk was const ru
ed as cowardice. And Mexico was
called upon to cow us. We talked
as men would talk who cared alone
for peace and the advancement of
their own material interests, until
we discovered that we were thoupht
to be a nation of mere money makers,
devoid of all character,—until indeed
we were told that we could not walk
the highways of the world without
permission of a Prussian soldier,
that our ships might not sail with
out wearing a striped uniform of
humiliation upon a narrow path of
national subservience. We talked as
men talk who hope for honest agree
ment, not for war. until we found
that the treaty* torn to pieces at Liepe
was the symbol of a policy that made
apreements worthless against a pur
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We have been here 10 years.
poso that knew no word but success,
selves. It is a war to save America -
to preserve self-respect, to justify
our right to live as we have lived,
not as some one else wishes us to li\e.
In the name of Freedom we chal
lenge with ships and men. money and
an undaunted spirit, that word “Ver
boten’’ which Germany has written
upon the sea and upon the land. For
, America is not the name of so much
territory. It is a living spirit, born
in travail, grown in the rough school
of bitter experiences, a living spirit
I which has purpose and pride and con
science—known why it wishes to
live and to what end, knows how it
comes to be respected of the world,
and hopes to retain that respect by
living on with the light of Lincoln’s
love of man as its old and new testa
ment. It is more precious that this
America should live than that we
Americans should live. And this
America as we now see has been
challenged from the first of this war
by the strong arm of a power that
has no sympathy with our purpose,
and will not hesitate to destroy us
if the law that we respect, the
rights that are to us sacred, or tlie
< spirit that we have, stand across
her set will to make this world bow
before her policies, backed by her
organized and scientific military
system. The world of Christ— a
neglected but not a rejected Christ—
has come again face to face with the
world of Mahomet, who willed to win
by Force.
With this background of history
ami in this sen^e, then, we light tier
many. Because of Belgium—invad
ed, outraged, enslaved, impoverished
Belgium. We can not forget Liege,
Louvain and Cardinal Mercier. Trans
lated into terms of American his
tory these names stand for Bunker
Hill, Lexington and Patrick Henry.
Because of France—invaded, dese
crated France, a million of whose
heroic sons have died to save the
land of Lafayette, (ilorious golden
France, the preserver of the arts,
the land of noble spirit. The first
land to follow our lead into Republi
can liberty. Because of England—
from whom came the laws, traditions,
standards of life and inherent love
of liberty which we call Anglo-Saxon
Civilization. We defeated her once
upon the land and once upon the sea.
Rut Australia, New Zealand, Africa
and Canada are free because of what
; we did. And they are with us in the
light for the freedom of the seas.
; Because of Russia—New Russia. She
' must not be overwhelmed now! Not
; now, surely, when she is just born
| into freedom. Her peasants must
1 have their chance; they must go to
school to Washington, to Jefferson
and to Loncoln, until they know their
way about in this new, strange world, i
of Government by the Popular Will.
Because of other People, with their
rising hope that the world may lx*
freed from Government by the
soldiers. We arc lighting Germany
I because she sought to terrorize us and 1
j then to fool us. vVe could not believe
! that Germany would do what she
said si ( would uo upon *:•%. seas.
We still hear the piteous cries of
children coming up out of the sea
! where the Lusitania went down. And
, Germany has asked forgiveness of
I the world!
We believed Germany’s promise
that she would respect the neutral,
flag : u: the rights of neulais, an*1
we l*id our anger and outrage in
c^cek. but now we see that sue was
hold eg us ofl* with fad* promises un
til she could build her huge fleet of
submarines. For when spring came
■ she blew her promise into tin* air, just
’ as at the beginning she had to*n up
| that “scrap of paper." Then we
saw clearly that there was but one
law for Germany, her will to rule.
We are lighting Germany because
j she violated our confidence. Paid
i German spies filled our cities. Of
ficials of her government, received as
the guests of this nation, lived with
us to bribe and terTorize, defying our
i law and the law of nations. We arc
lighting Germany because while wo
were yet her friends—the only great
power that still held hands-of—she
sent the Zimmerman note, calling to
her aid Mexico, our southern neigh
bor, and hoping to lure Japan, our
western neighbor, into war against
this nation of Peace
The nation that would do these
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To M. IMHOFF, C. J. IMHOFf, A.
M. IMHOFF, HARRY V. MILLER, H.
I). THIELE, ESTATE OF H. I).
'THIELE, Deceased, and AUGUST
MELHORN, your respective heirs and
assigns:
You are hereby notified and will
take notice that we, the subscribers,
II. I*. Salisbury and A. A. Hein, have
expended, during the year 1914, tin*
sum of Three thousand, forty-six dol
lars and twenty ($3,046.20) cents,
during the year 1915, the sum of
Six hundred ($600.00) dollars, during
the year 1916, the sum of Two thou
sand, five hundred and sixteen dollars
and seventy (2,516.70) cents in labor
and improvements upon each of the
following described mining claims, to
wit: OPHIR QUARTZ MINING
CLAIM, COLUMBIA QUARTZ MIX
ING CLAIM, BESSY PLACER MIX
ING CLAIM, MILL SITE and WA
TER SITE OR LOCATION, all of
which said claims are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kcnai Recording District, Third .Ju
dicial Division, Territory of Alaska,
The notices of location thereof are of
record in the office of the United
States Commissioner and District Re
corder for Kenai Recording Precinct
and District, at the Town of Seward,
Territtory of Alaska, to which office
reference is hereby made for a more
particular description of said mining
properties. Said expenditures were
made for the purpose of holding pos
sessory rights and title to said min
ing claims under the provisions of
section twenty- three hundred and
twenty-four of the Revised Statutes
of the United States and the amend
ments thereto, section one hundred
and thiry-six of the Compiled Laws of
Alaska, 1913, and the Session Laws of
the Territory of Alaska, providing for
the annual labor upon mining claims.
If you fail and refuse or fail or re
fuse within ninety (90) days from the
personal service of this notice, if per
sonal service be had, or within ninety
(90) days after the publication of this
notice, to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure as a co-ownor,
your respectice interest in and to said
mining claims, and each and every
one of them, will become the property
of the subscribers, who are your co
owners, and who have made the ex
penditures and improvements as
above-mentioned on said mining
claims, and each and every one of
them, pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute, Compiled Laws and
Sessions Laws.
A. A. HEIN
H. P. SALISBURY.
First publication, March 21, 1917.
Last publication, May 23, 1917.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION.
The town of Seward, Alaska, Plaintiff
vs.
George Turner, 0. G. Labaree and
Alexander H. Bradford, Defendants.
Cause No. S-104
Summons by publication.
IN THE NAME OP THE PRESI
DENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
To the defendants in the above en
titled cause, Geore Turner, 0. G. Lab
aree and Alexander Bradford,
GREETING:
You, and each of you, are hereby
summoned and required to appear in
the District Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Third Judicial Division, with
in thirty days after the completion of
the period of publication of this sum
mons, to-wit: within thirty days after
the fourth day of May A. D. 1917, and
answer the complaint of the above
named plaintiff, which has been filed
in the above entitled court, by which
plaintiff seeks an order and judgment
of the court for the condemnation ofi
Lots numbered One (1), Two (2),
Three (3), Four (4), Five (5), Six
(G), and Seven (7), in Block Six (G),
in the Town of Seward, in Kcnai Re
cording District, Third Judicial Divi
sion of the Territory of Alaska, as
shown by and according to the map
and plat of the Frank L. Ballaine
Townsite of the Town of Seward, Al
aska, and appropriate said Lots to a
public use, as a public park with
street and drive-way therein, for the
town of Seward, and to continue Rail
road Avenue from its intersection
' ith the south end of the Alley in said
Block Six, in a northeasterly direction
to intersect with Adams Street in said
Town of Seward at the East end of |
said Street;
That unless you so appear and an
swer the complaint of plaintiff, with
in the time above stated and show
cause why such order should not be
made, plaintifT will take judgment
against you, and apply to the court
for an order of the court, condemning
the above named lots to be appropri
ated by the plaintiff for the uses and
purposes above stated, and for a
further order of the court, ap
pointing three appraisers, as is
provided by law, to appraise,
the said lots, and each of them,
and to assess the benefits and dam
ages, to each of you and report to the
court their findings, and that upon the
payment of the amount or amounts
found to be due each of you by said l
appraisers, into the above entitled!
court to be paid to you and each of
you as therein provided that an order
be made by the court directing you
and each of you to execute to plaintiff
a deed conveying any and all interest
you and each of you or any one of you
may have in any one or more or all of
said lots, as the case may be, and will
apply to the court for such other and
further order or orders in the prem
ises as to the court may seem meet
and proper.
Witness the Honorable FRED M.
BROWN, Juct^e of the above entitled
court, this, the ?6th da> of February,
A. D. 1917.
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk.
By ROBERT L. WEVER,
Deputy.
Date of first publication, March F\
1917.
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