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Harry V. Hoben. President Frank L* na,,alne> Spp
1 Elmer A. Friend. Editor
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C HEAP NEWSPAPER THING OF PAST
Prediction that the day of the cheap newspaper, both
in price and quality, has passed and that the public must
pay more for its news medium, was made in Salt bake ( it\
the other day at the quarterly meeting of the advisorary
board of the Associated Press. People in Seward have no
idea how the cost of producing a paper has advanced with
in the past year. Paper is fifty per cent higher, ink has
aiso doubled in price and many colors cannot be purchas
ed at any price; metal has taken jumps by leaps and
l>ounds and now the war tax has also added its advance in
the cost of production. For instance, there is a five-cent
war tax on every message that the Gateway receives. 1 his
is only five cents but it means an added expense ot about
.*27 a month. Then again, the postage rate has gone up
and few people realize the constant changes that add here
and there until the newspaper publisher has his worries
increasing daily because he must get out an entirely new
issue every day. It isn’t like a merchant, filling his shelves
on every boat or adding to them, but the publisher must
refill his columns every day with new matter and the
cost goes up.
NO SECURITY ON THE BOND
Another peace balloon has been sent out. It comes
from a Stockholm committee. Whom the committee rep
resents is not made clear. The proposed plans do not vary
widely from the Pope’s proposals, and they declare in la
vor of compulsory arbitration, general disarmament, the
suppressing of any kind of economic warfare and the ex
tension of parliamentary control over foreign policy.
On their face, the plans indicate that they were in
spired in Berlin, but granting that they reflect the views
of one of Germany’s neutral neighbors, the one great big
vital question interposes itself, as it did in the Pope’s peace
note, “Is it safe to enter into an agreement—a peace treaty
—with a government which regards a treaty as a scrap of
paper?”
The allies are unanimously agreed upon one point,
namely, that the Prussian military autocracy must be de
stroyed. It is within the power of the German people to
do this by peaceful means. If they fail, then the menace
to the world’s peace must be removed by force. The ques
tion is no longer debatable. For any peace proposals
which lead to the establishment of the status quo ante l>el
lum, Germany is unable to furnish security; she is bank
rupt in international honor.
Doubtless, the allies would lie willing to receive in
good faith a promise from Emperor William that he would
RINGING UP HIS NUMBER.
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1 never engage in war again. He lias had enough of war to
satisfy him for the remainder of his life, but how about
his oldest son who will become the emperor of Germany
and the governing head of the military autocracy unless
the autocracy is destroyed before he shall ascend the
throne? Herein lies the danger to the world’s peace in
tlie near future.
As compared with his sire, the son is more strongly
attached to the Prussian doctrine of military absolutism,
therefore when peace terms come to be arranged, there
must be a guaranty that the future emperor will never
imitate his father’s attempt at mastery of the world with
biood and iron. The house of Hohenzollern must lie strip
ped of its autocratic-power in order to insure the safety
of the world. No living Hohenzollern is able to furnish
a bondsman. Because of this, all peace proposals which
do not include the disestablishment of military autocracy
must fail.
In the German view the only difference between an
American munitions plant and an American grain eleva
tor is that one is to b? blown up and the other burned
down.
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Three Americans killed in the first clash, and by Ger
mans, is the first real significance brought home that we
are really at war in earnest. We must be prepared for
many such bits of news, for we are fighting fighters.
C.W. PALMER
IKNIK, ALASKA
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