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FAILURE OF THE SUBMARINE
Eight full months have passed since the German gov-:
eminent entered on its policy of unrestricted submarine
warfare. It announced the U-boat as its most powerful
weapon; indeed, its only remaining effective weapon. Its
braggarts asserted tluft England would be brought to her
knees within two months; the most conservative among
the militarists fixed the time as six months at the very
farthest. j
What now is the German view of the effectiveness of
the submarine? Let a German legislator make reply.
George Goethin, progressive member of the reichstag, is
quoted in a Berlin dispatch as having said at a meeting
of the central committee of his party:' -
“As for the submarine campaign, 7,000,000 tons oi
shipping has been sunk, but no disposition toward peace
on the part of England was discernible. A rationing sys
tem for foodstuffs had not been even introduced, and no;
one was able to say when the U-boat would make England
more inclined for peace."
What does America say concerning the efficiency ol
the submarine? In official circles nothing is said directly, j
but there can he no mistaking the following announce
men from Washington:
“The Secretary of the Treasury today announced j
that the bureau of war risk insurance lias reduced its rates
on all American steamers and cargoes traversing the war
zone from 61 •> per cent to 5 per cent. This reduction is
made because of the corresponding decrease in the risks.’
While the destructiveness of the lT-boat has been al
most inconceivably large, it has not been complete. Dur-;
ing the time that millions of tons of shipping went to the
bottom of the ocean, nearly as many millions of new ship
ping was launched. America has engaged in shipbuilding
on an enormous scale within the last four months. A j
statement from the committee of public information at
Washington, given out, carries the information that there
is now building and in contemplation 11,000,000 tons of
shipping.
It is not to be expected that Germany will abandon
submarine warfare, nor that its activities in that direc
tion will be lessened, but it is certain that U-boats will not
be able to sink ships faster than America and other allied j
countries and neutrals can build them. Still, the need to
push our shipbuilding industry to the highest possible
limit is perfectly clear.
President Wilson, chief executive of the United;
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— Harding in Brooklyn Eagla.
States, and now, Gov. J. F. A. Strong, chief executive o
the Territory of Alaska, have made their proclamation
setting aside the afternoon of Wednesday, Octobei 21th,
as “Liberty Day.” How strange, or rather what a coinci
dence, that the governor’s proclamation should be receiv -
ed in Seward on Alaska Day. While Alaskans weie ie
membering the fif tieth anniversary, comes something else,
a reminder that we are in the land of liberty and that a
special day has been designated for the general celebrat
ing of a liberty day. It is now up to the citizens of the
United States, the Territories, every little hamlet, to prop
erly observe liberty day in helping maintain libeity.
One week ago a certain tract of mining property not
so many miles from Seward was bonded. Now comes the
announcement that thirty-three claims nearer Seward
have been bonded tor $250,000 and that woik developing
the property will be started by tbe first of next June. The
district, as before said, can’t be downed. It s a comet.
With wheat above $2 and every other product in the
same proportion, a multitude of farmers arc now joining
the hosts of income taxpayers.
It was our first $10,000,000,000 congress but it repre
sented a $200,000,000,000 nation. _
C.W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
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