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EDITORIAL
"OLD'OLORV"
"America For Americans"
TOO EASY WITH THK EVEMY
t Washington Post. Thursday, Aug.
30, is>17.)
Congress and the administration
are -singularly easy-going and geu
crouo toward the eumies of the Un
I'etl States in two particulars. Al
tiie United States has been
at war since April «>, uo law has
I '.is,.1 prohibiting trading witbi
• he euemy. Germaus in neutral cou.*
tries jit. obtaining money from the
I'niteU States and sending it to
Germany. The other mistake is the
assumMiou that all enemy aliens in
llie tutted States are harmless un
less i hey attract attention by some
overt act.
I'entral and South. America have
many . iterprislng German residents^
some t»*' thein citizens of the repub
lic-, and others retaining their Ger
man allegiance. All of rhem are.
in fact, loyal to Germajiv, and the
German empire claims them, even
it thev have expatriated them
selves. These men are k«Jen trad
ers. usually leaders in business, and
resourceful financially and other
wise. Many of them h«ive estab
lished connections in the United
States through which they buy and
sell. 1 hey have strong credits her
and can obtain heavy advances.
The coffee interests of certain
republics are largely in German
hands, and tUo business i3 financed
from tl e United States. The Germans
concerned are now drawing upon
Aniu'ha lor gold or its equivalent
against the forthcoming crops, and
there :s nothing to prevent the dis
patch oi this money to Germany.
Congress is either utterly ignorant
of the situation or absolutely in
differei.r to it. The President's'
embargo asainsf gold exports means
notliing io long as American citi
zens a:<» permitted to trade with
the enemy in neutral countries.
As for alien enemies, all that the
I'nited Slates government needs to
<io is to study the Mare island ex
vlosion. This occurred in a govern
ment reservation, supposedly under
otrict guard. In a manner not yet
discovered, alien enemies or Am
erican traitors gained entrance and
placed explosives so that a powder
magazine was blown up.
Yet alien enemies are permitted
to violate the President's proclama
tion ordering them kept away from
navy yards, arsenals and other gov
jnent nroperty. Licenses are given
to alien enemies to remain within
the proscribed areas. The Depart-,
nient o» Justice seems to be seized
with 9 morbid fear that influential
Germans may be made angry if the
government dares to make itself
safe agaiust plotters and bomb
throwers.
Keenly intelligent enemies are
i>frmilted to remain in the District
of Columbia, where they can learn
many important government plana
and military secrets. Why is this?
Ja tht Department of Justice think
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Daily Points For
Citizen Soldiers
(Issued by tho War Department j
And all rigbts to reprint
Reserved).
WHY WE FIGHT
Evtrv American knows the causes
of our war with the Germau Gov
ernment. Vet this course would be
incomplete it it did not contain a
brief review of tha events that fin
ally forced us Into war, when at
last there remained "no other means
of defending our rights."
The soldier of an, autocratic Kais
er mav fight best when ha under
stands least Qf the true meaning of
the war. To tell him the facts
would t»g to> chill his enthusiasm.
But t*ie ciizen soldier of a de
mocracy is entitled to know for
what purposes he enters the strug
gle. He fights best when, he sees
most clearly why he fights.
(ieruian insults And Aggressions
In hi? Flag Day; address deliver
ed a« Washington on June 14,
1917, the President summed up tha
events that brought on war as fol
lows:
"It is plain enough how we were
forced into the war. The extra
ordinary insults and aggressions oC
the Imperial German govemmenC|
left us no self-respecting choice but
to take up arms in defense of our,
right3 as a free people and of our
honor as a sovereign, government.
The military masters of Germany
denied us the right to be neutraj.
They filled our unsuspecting com
munities with vicious spies and con
spirators and sought to corrupt the
opinion of our people in their own,
behalf. Whey they found that they
could not do that, their agents dili
gently spread sedition amongst ua
and sought to draw our own citi
zens from their allegiance — and>
some of those agents were men con
nected with the official embassy
of the German government itself
here in our Capital. They sought
by violence to destroy our industries
and arrest our commerce. They
tried to incite Mexico to take up
arms against us and to draw Japan
into a hostile alliance with her—
and that, not by indirection, but}
by suggestion from the foreign of
fice in Berlin. They irapudently
denied us the use of high seas and
repeatedly executed their threat
that they would send to their
death any of our people who ventuft
ed to approach the coasts of Eu
rope."
Our I liberty aiul Safety Involved
Yet even this list of "extraor
dinary insults and aggressions" does
not tell the whole story. Our mo
tives for war go even deeper. Not
wily cur rights and self-respect,
but our liberty and safety, are in
volved. Speaking on July 29, 1917,
at the officers' training camp at
Madistn Barracks. N. Y.. the Sec-j
retarv of State said:
"Tlie evil character of t&e Ger
man Government is laid bare be
fore the world. We know now that
that Government is inspired with,
ambitions which, menace human lib
erty, and that to gain, its end it
does not hesitate to break faith, to
violate the most sacred rights, or
to perpetrate intolerable acts of
inhumanity » * *. I<et us under
stand once for all that this is no
war to establish a;u abstract prin
ciple 11 right. It is a war in
which the future of the United
States is at stake."
Not Hostile To German People
One thought which you should
keep always in mind is thq clear
distinction between our attitude to
wards the Imperial German Govern
ment and our attitude toward the
German people. The President said
in his speech of June 14, 1917:
"We are *w»t the enemies of the
German people and they are not ouC
ing more of the German vote than
the German bomb? Why are the of
ficial representatives Of Bulgaria
permitted to come and go freely
through the United States, gather
ing any information that may be de
sired 1 y their masters in Berlin.?
Does 'he Department of Justice re
pose full confidence in the good
faith *nd forbearance of the enemy?
If so, the American people will no
longer have faith in the Department
of Justice.
Musf. Americans be burted or
Mown to atoms in some horrible
railroad wreck or factory explosion,
before the authorities awake to the
fact that the enemy must be watch
ed? What better yarning is need
ed than the Mare Island explo
sion? '
The people do not care to have
their safety depend upon the gener
osity of the enemy. They would
rather see some proog that their
cwn protector^ were In the Job,
btePAKTiMEN"f oi-" run ixTbiiiOk
United States Land Office
J uno»u, Alaska.
August 23, 1917
Notice is hereby g'ven that
Joseph Jolin Franklin Ward of
*skagway, Alaska, has filed in this
office notice of his intention to
jnake final five year proof to es
tablish his homestead claim under
the provision of th*< Act of May 14,
1898. as amended by the Act of
March 3, 1903 (32 Stat. 1028) to
the land embraced in U. S. Sur
rey 865, situate in front of l>ayid
son Glacier on Chilkat inlet, Lat.
69" 05' N., Long. 135° 22' W-, and
more particularly described as fol
lows:
"Beginning at Cor. No. 1 M. C.,
on Hue of ordinary high. tide,
Chiltat inlet, whence U. S. L.
II. No. 783 bears N. 4° 05" E.
43.32 chs. »nd W. C. due W.
9.50 chs., thence meandering on
line of ordinary high tide (1)
S. 23° 15* E. 4.80 chs. 12) S.
34° 45' W. 3.70 chs. (3) S.
2° 30' \V. 10.80 chs. (4) S. 33°
30' E. 1.50 chs. *.5) S. 12° 15'
W. 12.80 chs. (6) S. 46° 30'
W. 3.60 chs. 17) S. 33° 15'
W. 2.80 chs. to Cor. No. 2, M.
C., whence W. C. bears W. 3:00
chs., thence W. 37.68 chs. to
Cor No. 3, thence N. 36.82 chs.
to Cor. No. 4, thence E. 44.50
chs. to Cor. No. 1, M. C., the
place of beginning,, containing
an area of 159.96 acres, Mag.
Var. 32° E .
Said proof will be established by
the testimony of Baid Joseph John
Franklin Ward before the U. S.
Commissioner, J. J. Kennedy, at
his otfice at Haines, Alaska, on
the loth day of December 1917,
at ten o'clock a, m., and by the
testimony of two of the following
witnesses, viz: C. A. Lindholm, Mar
tin Madsen, Jo3eoh Curry and M.
Moore, all of Haines, Alaska.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
First Publication Sept. 14.
Final Publication November 14.
An important strike of B°ld ore
ha*s been found in the vicinity of
the Kashwitna river, causing con
siderable excitement to the west
ward. 500 pounds of the ore was
brought to Anchorage, and assayed,
and was found to contain a high
percentage of copper, gold and sil
ver.
enemies. They did not originate
or desii ° this hideous war or wish
that va should be drawn into It;
and We are vaguely conscious that
we are fighting their cause, as
they will some day see it, as
well as our own. They are them
selves in the grip of the same sin
ister Dower that has now at last
drawn its ugly talons out and drawn
blood from us."
Every American soldier in this
war fights for objects dearer to
all of Ui than life itself—for free
dom and democracy, for the safe
ty of our Qwn homes anil families,
for 'he honor of our country. You
will think often of these objects
during your period of training and
after you actually enter the trench
es. The more you will think about
them, the greater will be your pride
that you are one of those first
chosen to defend them.
| "The world mu»t be made safe
for democracy."
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