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MONDAY. MARCH. 31st. 1919
A DEBT OF HONOR
Paris reports imleate that the Allies intend to make Germany pay to
ti.e last farthing for her wanton destruction <>f the fair districts of France and
Belgium invaded by the ruthless Huns. Restoration and repatriation in the
de\astaied countries are duties which nations professing humanitarian ideals
could not in any case evade. They are dt Ids of honor which should be paid
with the least possible delay. The populations of Belgium and Serbia have
been scattered to the ends of the earth. Ten million people were driven out
of tli*- populous agircultural and manufacturing districts of Eastern France.
The peoples of Russian Poland, save for a pitiful remonant. are scattered and
dead.
The gratitude of freemen everywhere demands that the recompense of
France shall be the rebuilding of lver devastated districts with the least pos
sible delay in order that the present generation may enjoy the fruits of victory.
I>. is possible that Americans as individuals may have an opportunity
to assist in this great and beneficent work. Germany will pay for the damage
she lias committed but the French and Belgians will need more aid than the
mere return of the values they have lost through Germany’s war acts. Amer
ica can aid in this both nationally and socially. Bonds will probably lie is
-■:ed by the various devastated districts, securities hearing a fiar rate of int
erest which will be desirable investments. Patriotic Americans can render
a much merited assistance bv purchasing these bonds and at the same time
assist iti discharging the duty humanity owes to those who have borne the
brunt of Germany’s blow at human freedom.
HAS THE WORM TURNED?
■iui.. . • reports relative to tin* legislative session suggest that the?
preset i session i« lik* ly to witness a severe s t-baek to the Domociaiic ma
chine's efforts to loot the territory by creating unnecessary and useless offices
in the interest of its lu nch-men. Senator Sutherland’s hold attack on the so
i-.dled Alaska Bureau of Publicity, with its platitudinous placards and peurile
circulars which are admitted by the head official of the Bureau himself in a
recent circular letter to have attracted no attention from even the Alaskans
whom they were supposedly designed to benefit, appears to have raised a vol
ume of senatorial opposition which bodes no good to the machine.
WJhether the Sutherland effort to secure the abolition of the publicity
Virenu is successful or not, the effort itself, as well as the favor in which it
'• as received by tlie upper house, indicates that the. plunderbund and its pie
counter jackals must look to their fences or find themselves out in the cold,
cold, world, sans power, sans pie, sans everything but the opprobrium of the
people whom they have outraged.
The effort, tho it brings not this desiiable fruitition during the present
cession, is the opening wedge between the te rritory and the slimy tenacles of
graft which the machine has so insiduously fastened around it while the good
people slept on in the false security of innocence.
Tho fact that the governor of the territory is himself, innocently or
otherwise, associated with the grafting predilections of the machine gang,
makes the situation of the plunderbund still more difficult by awakening the
people to the fact t^iat they can trust not even the most exalted officials as
long as the machine exerts its present dominance over political affairs. The
display of graft in connection with the maintenance of the governor’s mansion
and the inclination to upheld tlie derelictions of machine appointees displayed
in the governor’s telegrams regarding Nome political affairs appears to con
tied the present gubernatorial incumbent with the gang in such a way as to
leave little doubt in the mind of honest people that he is at least in sympathy
with the machine organization, either as at tool or accomplee.
The telegram interceding for Nome officials while they were undergoing
an offleal investigation, which was at least presumed to be honest,was cither the
creation of a thoughtless man or the work of a designing partizan, who
sought to influence the strict justice which should be tho dominant feature of
such proceedings. In either case it places the governor in a most unenviable
position with respect to the machine.
The Sutherland exposure displays to the, public beyond the peradven
.ure of a doubt that the machine is grafting on the territory in every manner
possible. Filching the price of coal and oil and tho petty costs of personal
telegrams is surely as convincing evidence as could be provided that the ma
chine bunch are of the stamp who would steal the pennies from the eyes of the
dead and are out for everything in sight.
If Sutherland and his supporters can rid the territory of this reprohen -
il h bunch <-f petty grafters they will ho performing a public service
, mu para hie ii» n<> other possible to Alaska legislators. If they can do no more
than to fully awaken the sleeping people to the realization that the territory
is being made the prey of as unscrupulous a bunch of political grafters and
s. oundrcls as over sought dishonest shekels, they will he entitled to the highest
rated of praise.
That the senatorial delegation from the Second Division is lending its
full support to Senator Sutherland in his effort to clean out the political
snakes of the territory, is a matter in witch we may takp just pride. Our
delegation, perhaps more than any other, lias had an opportunity to learn the
true caliber of the machine supporters and measure the results of the machine
machinations firsl hand. And. to their credit be it said, they are expressing
the effect of their observations in a manner which leaves no doubt that what
they have personally witnessed has convinced them that they would be I
• •faming their positions and disregarding manly honor if they failed to doj
all in their power to rid the territory of the machine incubus.
Whatever the results, they will at least win the thanks of all Ala-,
who believe in honest politics.
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COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
It is no longer • question of licking the Hun, but of keeping him licked j
Washington Herald.
Tf Uncle S. in decides to finish up that Mexican job, he has the tools |
all handy—Newark News.
We dare Black Jack Pershing to come home and take what is coming
to him like, a man.—New York Sun.
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