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THE CASE AGAINST GERARD
Having established the case against Bernstorff, and
received his confession that he not only aided the war
plot but considered it justified, it is good sportsmanship!
to now consider the case of Germany against Gerard.
In the last issue of Viereck's weekly, formerly The
American Weekly, and before that the Fatherland, the
most pro-German paper in America, this case is set forth
in most pronounced terms, to-wit:
Count Reventlow lays the betrayal of Sir -Roger
Casement and the overthrow of the Irish revolt at the
door of the American embassy at Berlin, declaring the un
controlled letter and cable service of the embassy to Wash- j
ington, also being an uncontrolled method of communica
tion to France and England: in other words he charges
the American ambassador with being a spy for England.
To clinch the charge he says:
“American Ambassador Gerard and his personnel de
livered the honorable Irishman to the hangman.
It is charged by Colonel Emerson, American war cor
respondent that: First—Certain blank passports disap-I
peared from the American embassy in Berlin, early in |
the war and reappeared later in the hands of English
spies. Second—That the American ambassador tried to,
persuade Emerson to send secret information to the em
bassy from the front in a prearranged code. Third—That
when he, Emerson, refused, Gerard tried to deprive him
of his passport by trickery, and finally accused Emerson,
a veteran of the Spanish-Ameriean war, with not being
an American citizen.
It is also charged that Gerard deliberately turned over
to the French, one Oscar Pflug. an American of German
parentage, who was attached to the American embassy
in Berlin, in a minor capacity, for engaging in conversa
tion with the German officer in charge of the ambassador
ial train, thereby putting Pflug in danger of death for a
slight indiscretion.
It is further charged that early in the war Gerard
wrote a private letter to New ork, grossly insulting the
German government, which the recipients showed and
used to strengthen the anti-German feeling in metropli
tan circles.
This apparently completes the case.
So far as known the ambassador, formerly a New
York City politician, well acquainted with Tammany Hall
and its environs, he stood pat and vouchsafed no reply.
Should all these charges be true the imperial Ger
man government overlooked a card, when it did not hand
Mr. Gerard his passports some time back. It will be re
membered that the United States did not hesitate to hand
passports to Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papen, foi
encouraging bomb conspiracies, and financing Mexican
revolts, nor did it hesitate to bid farewell to the Austrian
ambassador for interfering with American business bj
instigating strikes, and even put Consul General Bopp and
associates in jail for scheming to incite wholesale murder
and arson.
BE WISE AND STAY NORTH
The wage-earner of any kind who leaves Alaska to
seek work outside makes the mistake of his life. The
truth of thn does not apply to any particular brand of
worker. It is iust as true of the newspaper reporter,
clerk, mucker, bookkeeper, miner, engineer or anyone i
else.
You see. Alaska is fortunately remote from the]
hungry crowd. When you have a job outside you always]
have the feeling that three hundred and fifty others, 01 j
thereabouts, are looking for it and feeling not the least]
broken-hearted by the prospect of your possible early i
demist. You know that if the boss put an advertisement |
in a newspaper for a man to fill your place he would find it
necessary to employ a corps of policemen to keep the i
crowds of applicants from bursting in the door of the of- j
fice. You never have the feeling of independence engend
ered the thought that you are wanted. You know you:
are not indispensable even in the slightest sense and the |
result is that you have to work your head off or quit.
There is another important advantage for the wage
earner in Alaska: He can quit any time if he finds it im
perative and go out into the hills and not be arrested as
a hobo. Socially the workingman of Alaska is a butterfly
of fashion compared to his confrere in so-called civiliza-:
tion. High wages are the first institution imaginable and
they cannot he too high to be objectionable to the man re
ceiving them, but who would choose a high-waged job that
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THE HAND ACROSS THE SEA.
—Weed in Philadelphia Public Ledger.
human nature could stand only for a week before choos
ing a job with a little less wages that he * aid hold in
definitely?
Alaska is the poor man’s paradise, as is, indeed, any
new and remote country. No one ever heard women cry
ing for bread in Alaska, or ever saw a man worth his
salt up here that couldn’t get out and live if there was
never a job on earth. For instance, in the cities outside
thousands are looking for the price to buy a fish; in Al
aska you couldn’t catch a fish and offer it to a friend with
out embarrassing him or her. In this fortunate territory
a woman would not want to pluck the feathers off a grouse
to cook it, but outside there is many and many a poor man
or woman who would gladly skin a whale to get a piece of
its liver.—(Juneau Dispatch.)
Ireland for ever and ever, Amen!
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