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OUR FLAG
EDITORIAL
THE MAN WHO PAYS AND THE
MAN WHO PROFITS
By Theodore Roosevelt.
The men who do th© fightin* at
'he front and their mothers and
liives back here are those who in
this great and terrible crisis are pa>"
i s the blood of the men and the
to: rs of the women, and with the
suffering of men, women and* chil
dren—for our failure to prepare
outing th© two and a half years be
fore we entered the waj-. For tl»is
:".iilure to prepare, in spite of the
raoft vivid warning ever given a
nation, the warning that befell the
r;"*t of the world during those two
;iad a half years, the professed
::"iyts and the politicians who j^n
i'.er\l to them ar© more respons
ible than any one else, except the
; ro-Germans.
1 . w hen th® war broke out, or
."'t latest, when the Lusitania was
sunk, we had done our plain duty,
<ve would have then begun to Diuld
.-I'i')®. fie!d< cannon and airplanes
ajrf to train men exactly as we
'•ave been doing the last year and
quarter, except that we should
have done the work on a large scale
-.th more efficiency and with much
I''Hjt waste and extravagance..
Remember that failure to provide
^reat numbers o* cannon and air
p.aties means that the infantry has
d:iv lor ll wj;n a nuge mcre"*
11." of slaughter. All the guns and
i-irplares we left unbuilt during the
first three years of the war ha«
iueaut so much mora bloodshed, sc
many more Americans killed and
(ripple-^ not to speak of the tre
Rijndous loss of life to our allies.
Moreover, when m^n in small
numbers are put in battle, when
or.'y a few hundred thousand are
"reed to suffer heavy loss in do
i:.s work which two or three
million men could have accomplish
ed speedily and thoroughly and
with very little loss, the responsibili
ty rests on those yvho prevented' the
i reparation in advance. If we had
t quantities of ships aud trained
lar^e numbers of men in advance
tb.T world war would have ended al
most as soon as we entered, and an
i '.finite amount of bloodshed' w-ould
h"'vc been prevented.
The best roll of our army oversea
is th» American roll of honr. These
iiion have paid with their bodies for
the safety of this nation in the
present and the future. They have
d.ed and by their death have earn
ed for the rest of us the right to
hold our heads high with prid'e. It
is no less true, however, that their
blood has been shed, and their sai
ls at lives have been spent because
we did not prepare in advance.
Wti did not prepare because our
people were misled. For this mis
leading of the people the profes
sional profiteers share the responsi
i>ilitv with pro-German, with sham
sentimentals, with th® sordid', short
sighted materialists, and with all
the politicians, publicists and Pri*
v9t- citizens, rich and poor, whose
vanity or folly or self-interest pro
fited thereby.
Scrapped by the Allied
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HELP JUNK THEM WITH FOURTH LiF.EflTY BONDS
FEDERAL PRiSONEBS Iffi MO
CUT WOOD 10 REOUGEEXPENSES
Marshal Tanner of the First Di
vision has almost succeeded in
i>l3Cing his prisoners upon a self
sustaining basis through, cutting
cord wood and raising garden truck.
During the past year the oris- j
ci>6rs in Sk&gway hava been kept
busy either at cutting oord wood ;
i* tte region of Sturgill's wood j
camp, or they have been working
in th€ garden, tract commonly know
as the White Pass truck, garden,
just north of the Seeman ranch.
With the wood that has already
Deee brought to town and that
which is all ready to bring up from
down the canal, about 75 cords
will be the net result of this portion
of *he prisoners labors.
In the agricultural field, about
six acres have been under cultiva-1
tion and c»re of the prisoners, and
» large amount of spuds, carrots,
tanips and other root vegetables
for fall and winter use, besides
green stuff for the consumption of
the prisoners during the summer,
raised.
This thrift on the Part of Marshal
Tanner's Skagway deputies should
greatly reduce the expenses to the
government for feed and fuel for th
coming year, and it has, no doubt
caused a reduction in the ye&r Past
wnich saw the inauguration of this
urnDloymenf of prisoners.
We ought not to remember this in
any spirit of revenge, but most cer*
ta'uly, unless we are worse than
foolish, we shall remember it and
other warnings to teach us how to
cehave in the future and aa a. very
stern warning against again trust
ing to the leadership of men thus
responsible for the deaths of so
many fin© and fearless young A
mericans.
Most of the men who are mis
led .and some of the men who mis
led them have come frankly forward
to admit their error. What is even
more important, most of them have
made the real atonement of deeds.
They have, if young themselves, gone
inic the army, and if not young ha«,a
spu' their sons or permitted them to
go into the army and fight in free
dom's Delated battle. All these
men are paying their share of the
joint payment in blood- of the na
tion. Thev are to be heartily re
spected. They are not seeking to
profit by the valor and blood of
others.—Kansas City S(ar.
Wfr are informed that some of the
fc»ntlemeii on the other side of the
creek took exception to a recent
editorial in these columns which
df»lt with subjects of alien count
ries, and especially subjects of the
Scandinavian countries. Nothing
ha« «uoeared to these columns, or
ever will appear here, to which
anv loyal citizen, whether natural
ized or native-born, can with justice
tak* exception. We expect the
native-oorn to be loyal. We take it
s a matter of course. Those who
come from other lands, become citi
izents of their own free will and ac
J cord, rather than through accident
' o* Mrth. All honor to them, When
they take out their final capers *n(l
hecoma full-fledged citizeis, they
oecomu a part of us. They stand
Oil an equality with the naitve-born.
Biit when they initiate their citi*
zenship by taking out ther first pa
pers, and' then when the country
setg into trouble, renounce their
i action and put forth the claim that
they ar» subjects of an ajien coun
try, *o escape responsibility and lia
hil'tv to military service, We con*
Jiess that their sincerity ia open to
j suspicion, and it ia but right and
I proper that thereafter citizenship
j forever be denied them. —An
j chorBge Timep.
WE HAVE TO Ql'lT
With this issue the Rceord-Citi
'zeu will discontinue puDlication for
'the aresent at least. The popula
tion of this district has decreased'
until there Is not sufficient support
I to warrant the continuation Qt the
paper at least as long as the publi
cation would have to be continued
uuder the estate of J. J. Filbln, de
ceased.
Like brother Arbuckle in his
Iditarod Pioneer swan Bong we have
ro explanations or apologies to
make. As we look back over our
short stay in Ruby we feel that we
have done some good. When the
Record-Citizen resumed publication
lu March Pro-Germanism and I. W.
Wism were so common On the
streets of Ruby that a stranger
might have been justified in thinking
ho was in little Berlin.
Now things have changed in
stead of having a bunch of anar
chistic I. W. W. brainstorms, and
senseless, weak kneed, soft brained
socialism crammed down your neck
whetner you liked it or not, the
American citizens of Ruby can walk
the streets and enter the different
places of recreation without hav
ing either themselves or their flag
insulted.
W« mention these things in pass
ing for the fact that Bhould any be
so simple as to think that we re*
i<ret for one minute the part wo
have taken in cleaning up Ruby,
• hey will Do enlightened on the
subject, for although many good
sud hffehly respected citizenp of
this town and country have for busi
npss reasons moved away and we
fee' their loss, still we ar© proud of
'he part we have played In putting
the skids und*er Dr. Good, Hilleary,
Mother Sexton, and each and every
one of the square headed, disloyal,
loud smelling, shame faced, I WONT
WORKS who voted the German tick
et last April.
We leave Ruby in the war on the
side of the Allies and America.
Good Night.
SLATE CREEK TO HAVE
BIG SEASON CLEAN UP
A big clean-up is expected this
season on Slate creek, accordnig to
Howard Barnes, who arrived on
the <rain yesterday from Gulkana.
H1 states there is considerable ac
ivity in the district notwithstanding
th° serious shortage of labor. The
properties of J. M. Elmer and Chas. .
Kraemer at Slat© creek are produc
irtg and full shifts are being work" i
ed. Valdez creek also is oactive, he
asserts. The Valdez Placer Min
ing company is employing a large
number of men and exipects a good
seasoi, and there are several other
smallei companies that are prOfimc*
ice, ! |'j ; 111
Mr. Barnes has been in charge of
the Gulkana roadhousg owned by
Mrs. E. Griffiths since March. He
Is now Douid for a trip to the,
spates.—Cordova Herald, *► * ,
Volney Richmond, superintendent!
of the N. C., who is in Dawson, en.
route to San Francosco after haviug
toured the lower Yukon camps for
several weeks, gives the following
estimates of the gold* yield of the
various gold-producing localities of
,ve Alaska Yukon valley for the
present season:
Idltarod $1,500,000
Fairbanks 1,000,000
Toloyana 900,000 j
Ruoy 260,0001
Marshall 400,000
Ho» Springs 150.000
Koyukuk 140,000
Clrcla 100,000
Rampart : 30,0001
i $4,270,000
"1 estimate," gays Mr. Richmond,
"that the figures Bhown in the fore
goin? show a yield of 50 per cent i
on »»«e average for each camp men-]
tioned. I gathered the figures from f
interior operators, bank men and
others in close touch. The faillnc
o'f is due largely to men being
caUel away to war and" to conse-'
quent labor shortage, and to the
fact the ground is low grade, and
will not pay to work during the
period of high costs. Many no
doubt will come North after the
war> and I look for great activity
then in Yukon and Alaska, it will
be found that a vast number of j
young men who have been taken
from eh ops and stores and ma^e
soldiers and thus learned to like
the outdoorlife never will be satis
fied to go back and tie themselves
down to the indoors life. They will j
want to keep close to nature and
to ->e under the blue skies and to
experience adventure and' the op-J
portunity of making fortunes for
themselves. For such a type the|
North will open a vast and fas
ciuaung neia, ana tney win ram.
Old northerners will come oack
and will bring many other people
"•ith them. The best days of Yukon
"nd Alaska are in the future.
"I estimate that the Tanana
valley this winter will have 3,500
people; the Iditarod, 400; Rupy,.
250; Koyukuk, 150; Marshall,;
100. I have not heard much re
specting Nome, but possibly there
will be 1,000 on the Seward pen
insula. All these figures are Prob
ably 50 per cent below the normal.
Nome was hard hit early in thej
season by reason of the f^ct, I
am told, that the forty dredgeB
of that country shut down just at
at the beginning of the season.
It soems that the employes there i
struck for more wages just at the
opening of the season, and the op
erators, knowing they could not Pay
more wages when costs of food and
material are so high and gold has
lost its purchasing power, refused'
to grant the desired increase. The
operators simply shut down ands
remained Bhufc down.
"At Nenan» about 700 men are
working for the government railwayj
and 700 more people are in the
town and vicinity. The railway is
extended out forty miles from the
town, and construction ip continuing
under direction of Mr. Brown, who
soems to be making a good record.
Work also is under way on the
FairDanks-Nenana section.
"One of the best producing pro
perties in the Iditarod this year
was that owned by Jerry Ford and
Al Walsh, and worked on a lay by
Walsh and Tom Aitken. It pro
duced $84,000. The property is
on a high hill, as high and dry aB
the big hills surrounding Dawson."
—Dawson News.
INTERNED IN DAWSON
CAPTURED IN RUBY
A presidential warrant has been
received by District Attorney George
Mundy at Nome, authorizing the
arrest of Ernest Miller, of Ruby, Al
aska, a German alien enemy, who
.vas taken into custody by Deputy
Marshal Little at Michaels on June
24 Ho is said to have escaped
from internment at Dawson aDout
♦wo years ago and hag since been
located at various points in the
Yukon section ot the interior. Ac
cording to advices reaching the
District Attorney, a search of Mil
ler's effects disclosed that he has
studied wireless telegraphy, ag books
on wireless communication, and
sheets of papers with figures which
believed to be some kind of code,
and also several U. 3. army books,
were found. Miller admits his
German citizenship and claims to
have been a lieutenant in the Ger
man army. He will either be re
lumed 'o the Canadian authorities
as an escaped Intern© or Interned
for t&e duration of the war.
#0.431(MN
H0N0H_TABLET
At the meeting of Skagway Lodge
No. 4'31, B. P. O. Elks last Thurs
day night there wajj a presentation
to *he lodge which, came as quite
a surprise and which, shows the pa
triotism o I the members °f that
loyaj order.
The presentation wag made by
Secretary F. J. Vandewali in the
name and In behalf of Charles
Birchler who ia now living in San
Francisco and who Is well known
throughout Yukon territory and*
Alaska as he wag an. officer on one
of the B. Y. N fleet that plies the
lower river. Brother Birchler is
now connected with a big oil com
pany but says hig heart stjll longs
for the Northland.
The present consisted of a bronze
tablet with a beautifully polished
bac,r ground of mahogany. On the
bronze tablet in raised letters is
the inscription, "We are PrQud of
the men from this organization who
are defending the caause of God,
Humanity and) America." Accom
panying this is another tablet ingen
iously arranged so ag to add names
aa the occasions require in future.
This is enclosed in a mahogany
frame and the two pieces will he
hunjp; in the reception room of the
Elk< Home. On this tablet are the
names of the members of skagway
Lod£e No. 431, who have already
joined the colors and a star placed
after each name indicates whether
or not he is in training camp. Over
seas, or has made the supreme sacri
fice. This is indicated by the col
or of the star.
The names which are °r will be
placed on this Roll of Honor are:
0. J_ Ask, Rufus Bailey, C- C.
Babbage, J. C. Blanchard_ A. C.
Bonebrake, Wm. Brooke, John Cle
cak, L. H. Cogswell, Johii "Griffith,
Fred Helser, George Kennedy, H.
W. Kirby, G. D. Magee, B. F. Mar
oni, Waiter McBrien, \V. K.
Schwechten, J. T. Westermann.
This makes a total of seventeen,
which number will be largely aug
merted-ia the near future. Suit
able resolutions were passed and
m*ny good wishes attended the
votes as given.
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