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EDITORIAL
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THE MENACE OP SECRECY
Danger of th^ miscarriage of the
neace conference meets us at the
very threshold. The meuace lies in
'he secrecy of th® proceedings.
I' well may be that certain phases
o-" the preliminary conferences in
volve-* a-n exchange of views con
cerning which it was not thought
best -o give worldwide publicity, be
cause of the needles? and embarrass
in-; misunderstanding that mighj
arise. But having done with the pre
liminary conversation and being en
rei»d upon the actual business of
tormulating peace terms, secrecy is
a srocS. to the faith of the world's
democracy. , j ■
A« to the aims and ambitions of
auy of the signatory powers to the
pe^ce terms to be formulated, there
can be no secrecy nor any demand
for it unless those aims and ambi
tions are such, as will not stand dis
closure in the light olf day. The
Uiu'ed- State has absolutely clean
hands in that respect and therefore
ras a fortified right to insist upon
cahdo.- and tbe fullest and freest
Knowledge of the terms involved- in
the actual peace discussion.
Unless as a result of this war the
forma and substance of the old w3r
hr«-ei*ing policies are to be abolished
democracy's force# have battled in
vain. Secret diplomacy is one of
these, and one of the most danger
ous. President "Wilson has declared
for its abolishment in the Proceed
ings now going forward, the United
SUte3 senate supports the president
lu that declaration, and the people
of the United States with strong,
deep and powerful voice will suppoit
the oresident and the senate.—Port-I
lau' Telegram, J
Stopping your advertising to
save money is like stopping the
clock to save time.
THE 14TH INFANTRY
A letter, written at Camp G^nt,
HI., Dy W. G. F^rwell "C" company.
14 :b Infy., wa3 received ia t&©
last mail, together "with several
newspaper clippings from paper* in
tbe vicinity of Camp Grant. The fol
lowing editorial wag on® of the
cliDpings enclosed, and shows that
the Fourteenth is enjoying tlie same
high esteem in which it wag held
here by reason of the high, charac
ter which It maintained while
et-tioned at Fort W. H. Seward1
When the quarantine is lifted
from the Fourteenth infantry at
Cams Grant, Rockford la to have
a privilege of seeing one of the
oldest and best disciplined regiments
in the entire U. S. army service.
Th- regiment is now in command of
Colonel ATmand' I. Easseigne' and
came here from Camp Dodge with
ceSrl/ 2,000 men. Those who take
pride in the records of our army or
ganisations will find much in the
history of the "14th" to Interest
them. It was organized in 1812 and
has been disbanded twice- It was
reorganized in 1S4S for the Mexican
war and la 1861 for the Civil war,
and has been steadily in th© service
eve»- since. The regiment has made
'nree trips to the Philippines, was
!u ;he Boxer revolution in China in
1800 aud might claim the honor of
bo'ng first to scale the walls at Pe
kin 'n that memorable fight wnie«i
! brought the present allies Into touch
with each other, and gave to mili
; t«ry men of the world the first true
aense of fellowship which has cul
' initiated in the present campaign. In
cideutally, it might be noted that it
was in the Boxer campiagn that
the U. S. and English armv men
saw in the future that day when
those armies would; be brought to
gether in conflict with the auto
cratic power <)f Germany. Not mac
was said then, outside army circles,
hut the mention o£ the 14th infan
try brings up an interesitng and
instructive chapter in the light of
present events. Thig regiment spent
eijht years in Alaska, went to the
Mexican border in 1916. Three cap
tains from the 14th infantry have
*een overseas, one of them, Cap
tain Roderick, has won the Croix
do ?uerr® three times. The 14th
infantry ba&d has a record «s one
o£ the best bands in the service, so
a rare treat is in store for Rock
ford neople. Xaturally, the offi
cers and men of the regiment are
very proud of the record of this or
ganization, and' its coming to Camp
Gran«, af*er its service on the Pa
cific coast, will give our poeple an
ooportunity to see a well seasoned,
perfectly disciplinedd organization
at its best. It is to be hoped that
wm occasion may he Provided, neaj
, Christmas day( when this reglmnet
may be reviewed down town. Its
arrival here is one of the big mili
tary events in the history of Camp
Ciart.
WH Y! IS THE FREEDOM OF THE
SEAS? f
fnere has been so much question
at to just wh^t is meant by "The
Freedom of the Seas" that we be*
lieve that the following definitions
taken from the Was Cyclopedia,
which was issued by the Committee
or Public Information, which con
I
sist=>d of The Secretary of State,
The Secretary of War, The Secre
tary of the Navy and George Creel,
should, therefore, be authentic.
Frwdora of the Seas.
Th^. doctrine of "freedom of the
sea^" was first propounded by Gro*
tius in his Mare Liberum, which
took, for its text the sentence from
the Roma® Institutes, "The air,
running water, the sea—are com
mon to all." Selden answered w-ith
his Mare Clausum, which, defended
t>« pretensions of England* over
th waters surrounding the British
Isles. The issue between Grotius
and ielden may be regarded as set
tled by the present doctrine regard
ing the marine league, i. e., that
'he jurisdiction of a State extends
'hree miles oeyond the coast line,
and no further. The n-ext stage
In the development of this concept
took place In the eighteenth century
»hen continental antagonism to
British sea power produced the doc
trine t&at "free ships maky free
^oods." This doctrine was back
ed by the armed neutralities of
1780 and 1800, and* wag finally in
terpolated, in great part, into in
ternational la* by the Declaration
of Paris, 1856, which also abolish
ed Brivaveering. Meantime a third
meaning bad come to be fastened to
"freedom of the seas," the idea that
private property should be immune
from capture on the high seas in
war time unless it wa.j contraband
or lntehd<ed for a blockaded Rort.!
Of this notion the United States has
always been the peculiar champion,
the last time being at the second |
Hagup conference, where our views j
were oacked by Auatrla-pungary,
Germauy, and Italy, and opposed! by
Great Britain, France, Russia, and
Japan. But see th© following ar
ticles; '
Freedom of tho fcieus, Ajiueriu n. j
"oo far as practicable every great I
peopie should be assured a direct j
outle* to the great highways of the
seas. Where this can not be done I
oy the cession of treritory, it can j
no aoubt be done by neutralisation
of direc* rights of way under the
general guarantee which will as
sure 'hfi peace of itself. . . . And
the patft of the sea must alike in
law and In fact be fjee. The free-J
dom of the seas is the sine quo non !
of pe'ce, equality, and cooperation.
... It is a problem closely con
nected with the limitation of naval
armaments and the cooperation of j
tQe navies of the world in keeping
the sea* at once free and' safs. And
the question of limiting navai arma-|
men«s ooens the wider and perhaps
more difficult question o£ the limi
tation of armies and of all programs
of military preparation. . . . There '
can be no sense of safety and equal*
i*y it great preponderating arma
ments are aenceforth to continue
bere and there to b^ built up atid
maintained1." (President Wilson, to
rfce Senate, Jan. 22, 1917.) >
| iwdom oaf t e Seas, Rritlsli. I
la the course of the nineteenth
century. Great Britain t" *™de
notable concessions to this
She has abandoned' nonbelligerent
Visit aud search; she has sacrific
ed the old doctrine or indelible
lcgi'uce—"One an Englishman. »1"
wavg an Englishman"—which *up
cortec! her earlier policy of Weee
meet; she his accepted the prlncttt®
oi "free ships, free goods' ; she h
placed her commercial policy on a
free-trade basis; she claims,
w t i^q aneci.Nl
the most PHrt, no spen t
in the ports of her colonies. Again,
itwas she who ^ued the invitation
for the London naval conference of
1908-09, 1-er delegates to which pur
sued * course of action which for
bids the idea that she then Re
signed an offensive use of her
power. During the Present war
England has widely extended the
belligerent rights of blocJta e,
this is in retaliation for Germany a
inhuman use of the submarine. In
general. England's position ma>
stated in this way: Belngso
the Continent she can not afford to
regard the problem of sea PO'« "
separable from the Problem of land
power. To decrease the striking
I power of her navy without^ corr^
pondin- limitation of the fag
'standing armies of the Continent
j would be merely to surrender con
tiuental independence and
ately her own-to the most powerful
an-i ruthless State
Modern of the S**s, Ge.uian.
Germany has sought to represent
herself in'the Present
champion of "freedom of ke «a._
Her contention is that England s n
val supremacy enables her always to
hold over the head of a ^ th«
threat of wiping out its
Germany's effort has o
,potc,m.«; W' u>
Of power on the seas IInf0r.
that which exists on land. Unf r
tunately. the net result of her
f 0rt "efore the war was to Stim
„ th* •Drincloal nation*
ul'.-te among the Princip«
0, the world, a most expensive a
wasteful contest in the bUfdtng°J
war vessels, while »in0° .tb* °Ut
hrealf o£ the war her endeavor to
L01d uer
water has led to the grosw
nianltv on her part, and to «en*£
a„»rchy on the ocean. The <*»
cept ot a ^a°cVfv/°Wm SI
is, In fact, unworkable On <*
land, oower is attended by the re
sponsibillty for good order oyer
definite areas; but the eea can not
oe thus appropriated. The oar
sensible alternative to BrUtah c«m
trol of the seas, which after «»
ias been for a hundred years a An
gularly oeuign control, is interna
tionalization of the _
Freedom of the Seas, German
Illustrated.
| The German ambassador, whose |
country professes to be fighting for
the 'freedom of the seas," inform
ed fhe State Department on January"
31, 1917, that American passenger
steamers would be permitted to
continue sailing to England) there
after on the following conditions:
"(a) The port of destination ifl
Falmouth. (b) Sailing to or com
ing from that port, course to be tak*
en via the Scilly Islands and & point
50° N. to 20° W. (c) The ateam
ers are marked in the following way«
which must not he allowed to other
vessels in American ports: On
shio's hull and superstructure three
vertical stripes, 1 meter wide, each
to be painted alternately white
and- red. Each inast should phow
a large flag checkered white ^ astd
OIL LANDS IN
NORTH HfLO OP
During the past year, the Gateway
lias made editorial comment about
hur^Pucracy at Washington being
th« greatest drawback Alaska has
a» t^e present day. SPecil ref?r*
euet has been madg regarding thp
oil land leasing bill. Finally the
Cordbra Times has awakeneft to
the importance of oil lands In Alas
ka and the following two editorials
have recently appeared in that pro
gressive paper:
JUGGLING WITH OFL LANDS
Al* kinds of reasons have been
given for delay in passing legisla
tiou which would permit develop
ment oi great areas of oil lands in
tha United' States now vihtdrawn
fronr entry or tied up in litigation
with the government.
Think of it, playing politics with
an industry on which the very life
of iiie nation depends. It seems
Inconceivable, but industry and the
safety of the nation apparently are
placed seoond to political ambi
tlon.
STRANGLING OIL INDUSTRY
A» a time when the highest au
thorities agree that it is absolute'
ly necessary to increase the produc
tion of oil in the United States, in
order to satisfy the consumption,
w» have the administration in Wash
iuetou blocking the oil and land
leasing bill. Practical horse senw
aa.i ^ood business judgment wants
American initiative, entreprise and
capital turned1 loose to unlook the
natural treasurers of the United
S*ates, but the theoretical conserva
tiouiqts and the Socialist orese have
used the national criBis to force
their pet theories of federal owner
shin and operation of these vast in
dUBtrits. For some years there
haB been an oil land leasing bill
Kicking around the capitol build*
l»i«» at Washington, from one com
mittee to another, and to such a
condition have things come that in
vestment in new oil land territory
is practically stopped. This P8rt ot
Alaska is suffering severely, and
now long this condition is going to
continue, it is hard to predict
Meantime the production of oil, so
essential to the nation's welfare, is
on the down-arade, and new produc
Hon is stopped at the behest ot
soma fanatical statesman (?) in
Wasnington.
f ew persons in Seward perhaps
are aware of the fact that there
aif oil lands at the very doors ot
this city—but bureaucracy «t Wash
ington, refuse, for eome niggardly
reason, to allow us to "open up."
In fact, ono bureau chief at Wash
ington In » wire to the Chamber of
Commerce, as much as told1 the peo
ple of Seward to mind their own
business, and aJthough it was knowi
tha oil was in thia vicinity, tc
shut up and do nothing.
Uat Alaskans are not made oj
that kind of stuff, bluffs must be a
regular show down, and the best
haud wins. Seward went ahead
experts o&pie here, including & gov
ernment expert, and they pronounc
ed the oil near her© ag o. K. from
test*.
Seward wants oil for the fishing
\ll"o* and other commercial neede
buf bHroacracy and peanut politi
cians from oil states, protest 01
something and Delegate Sulzer and
otn0r Alaskans are helpless until
the people take things in hand and
m»ke the action felt hack in the
wee corner of the U. S. where the
bal* of Alaaka. laws are made. —
3ew»rd Gateway.
red and the stern the American na
tional flag. Care should be taken
that, during dark, national flag and
sainted marks are esily recognizably
from a distance, and that the boats
are well lighted throughout, (d)
One steamer a week sails in each
direction with arrival at Falmouth
on Wednesday. (e) The United
States Government guarantees that
no contraband (according to Germai
contraband fist) is carried by; those
iteamers." ( ^
State of Ohio, City of TolxJo,
Lucas County, a*.
Frank J. Cheney make# oath that ll«
Is senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney A Co.. doing business In the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and that aold firm win pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH
MEDICINE. PRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this Cth day of Decomber,
A. D. 1886. A. W. QLEASON,
(Seal) Notary Publle.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken in
ternally and acts through the Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Send
for testimonials, free.
P. J. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo. O.
Sold by all druggists. 75c.
Ball's Family nils for constipation.
—•AdTWtiagaieat,
Shelter Cabins
All In Readiness
i
The shelter cabins on the Cfois
ftna trail are almost completed. The
Woodsmans, Johnson and Hover
were stormbound for a weuk in one
of them recently, losing; two dogs
and were without food four days.
Th« caoing will require bracing to
stand the Btorms of the Russel gla
cier. The second cabin on the
FrederlcJca will be finished iu a few
d»ys. Taylor, Brown and McGet"
tlngan have built cabins on Plati
num creek tip scene of the last
•gol..' strike. While they are non
committal as to their findings it is
Jjnown that an Indian got two
ounces of coarse gold there last
Ml. Grub is very low in Chisana.
This shortage wag responsible for
the small number of votes polled
at the election, a number of men
ftavlrg been forced to go hunting.
A *est run on molybdenum ore
will be made at the bureau of mines
Its Fairbanks to ascertain the val
ues contained in a mine discovered'
by John Stephen of Dry Delta. The
di'tricr from which the ore comes
is well mineralized and several
iar<rp bodies of ore are known to
exist there.
Sore Throat, Colds
Quickly Relieved By Hamlin's
Wizard Oil
Hamlin's Wizard Oil is a simpl#
and effective treatment for «ora
throat and chest colds. Used as a
gargle for sore throat it brings quick
relief. Rubbed on the chest it will
often loosen up a hard, deep seated
cold in one night.
How often sprains, bruises, cuts
and burns occur in every family, as
well as little troubles like earache,
toothache, cold sores, canker sores,
stiff neck, and tired aching feet
Soothing, healing Wizard Oil will al
ways bring quick relief.
Get it from druggists far 30 cents.
If not satisfied return the bottle and
get your money back.
Ever constipated or have sick
headache? Just try Wizard Liver
Whips, pleasant little pink pills, 30
cents. Guaranteed.
NATURE SPARES
Tha Stricken Itone From Gtlof.
What a. fortunate provision o' o.iS"r-»
It is. that deprives the rose of ttnai
Buffering; for how poignant would' . 1
Ptrief to discover, in tlio height of .:J
! looming L'lory. that a canlvcr fotl at i'.-j
heart, and that ltd beauty and fragraii t
Tve:£ duuned forever. Nature n!wu.-i
tp.iie.-j the suffering; she Is a v»htal\»
'.ore-house of pieaslns rewards, :or
ihoso who seek her aid. In the yeferl
Ing hair and grayness hai s
l: st n gloom over the lives of thou»a&.'i
oi young women, but tharks to the lr.
rettiffltlost of (scientist; the true eau >
of hair destruction Is now known to '• *
Germ or parasite that burrows
:l • hair follicles. Nowbro'a Herpicl«V»
r-'isolutely destroys tills germ, t! -it
l-n*:.i;"t!njr the hair to grow a* n*
• r intended. Sold by leading dn: •
i i . t>nd 10c. in stamps for
iu '..:a iiurpicide Co.. Detroit. MltL.
On* Dollar Dottle, gunrautwd.
A* all Drug Stocse. Ajhr.
WHAT CANDY IS
"CAN'DV as a FOOD has won—
Tlie Government buys it by the ton."
Candy is good food, pure and wholoacme It is the universal rood;
1* s'.^Ks all languages; it dries tht> tL-irs in the eyea of llttla chil
dren; and wreathes the faces of °ld aut in smiles. It is the unspok
en message from the lover to liis sweptl eart; ouo of the first tok
ens sent to the absent cue; it Drivigg jo;- to the home; it is the ad
vance a.;ent of happinecs in every cliLie. It makes regular visits to
thp bome, thQ church, the hospital, tho orison, the battlefield and trench.
Its constant associates are love, joy, t.<.uce, happiness, smiles and
laughter. Can as much b0 s;iid o£ any other food?
IN THE UNITED STATES, THE S liCAP. CONSUMPTION PER CAPI
TA PER ANNUM IS S4 LBS.
Candy Manufacturers use S ner cent or 8.72 lbe.
Other Manufacturers use IT n-rcent or 14.28 lb*.
Tab'e Usage 75 percent or 63.00 lbs.
100 percent 84.00 lb*
6.72 lbs. Der capita per annum— .29 cz. per capita per day.
14.28 los. per capita -er annum — .t>3 oz. per capita per day.
63.00 lb9. per capita per annum—2.76 oz, uer capita per day .
84 lt>9 per capita pe^ annum—3.OS cz. per capita per day.
20 per cent restriction iu use of su".ii- oy Confectioners is 20 percent
Of .29 oz. ,05s oz.
The savlng accomplished by tliig measure pp . capita ner day Is repre
sented by about 1_17 oz.
As 1 oz. of 6-Ugar is about three te-st-oonsful, th esaving per capita
per day can alscr ^ measured at about i-C of a tepasoonful.
Another way of putting It:
6.72 lbs. at 7%k cent3 (average price.)—23c uer annum, or lc per weok;
1. e.. the public, by saving 1 c worth of sugar per capita, per week
can keen every caody factory j-unning, furnishing employment to at
leas4 one hundred thousand prople
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