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NO3US, ALASKA SATUROAV, APR!!;, 5, 1!)U).
SHUT TELLS HIS MOTHER.
By W. E. P. French, Captain U. S. Army
~i\ hat have i done to you. Brothers,—War-Lords and Land-Lords: and Priest
That my son should rot on the blood-smeared Earth where the Ravens an:
Buzzards feast?
3ie was my babe, my manchlld, that Soldier with shell torn breast,
Who was slain for your power and profit—aye, murdered at your behest.
' bore him, my boy and my manling, while the long months wore away;
.He was mine when the birth-pang tore me. Mine when he lay on my heari
When the sweet mouth mumbled my bosom and the milk-teeth made it smar
Babyhood, boyhood and manhood, and a glad mother proud of her son—
See the carrion birds, too gorged to fly, Ah! Brothers, what hare you done
You prate of duty and honor, of a patriots glorious death.
Of love of Country, Heroic deeds-—nay for shames sake, spare your breath
Pray, what have you done for your Country—Whose was the blood that wa
shed
In the hellish warfare that served your ends, my hoy was shot in your steac
And for what were our children butchered, men makers of cruel law?
By the Christ I am glad no woman made the Christless code of law.
•Shirks and schemers, why don’t you fell? Is the foul truth hard to tell?
Then a mother will tell it for yon of a deed that shames fiends in hell—
Our boys were killed that some faction or scoundrel might win mad race fc
goals of stained gold. Shamed homes and the sly self-seekers pla<
That moneys hold on our Country might be tighten V. and made more .••are:
That, the rich would inherit earth’s fulness and the r loot he quite secure:
That the world mart be wide opened for the product mulct from toil;
That th- Labor and land of our nel-, oor should" ' 'inoyi a- war-won spot
4 hat lie « ves of outraged people mi/f.u be turned from your graft and gre,
tn the misruled, plundered homelands by lure of war’s ghastly deed:
And the Priests of the waring nations could pray to the selfsame God
•■'ur-fcttTrt-luMi afulcraft of gamesters of cripple that trade might pay?
his quarrel was not the fighters—the cheated red pawns in your game—
You stay at homes garnered the plunder, but the pawns—wounds, death an
“Fame!”
You paid them a beggarly pittance, you’substituted prey-of-the-sword,
lint, ye canny beasts of prey, they paid in life and limb, for your board.
And, behold !you have other victims, a widow sobs by my side,
Who clasps to her breast a girl child. Men, she is my slain son’s bride!
I can smell the stench of the wounded; 1 can see the Brave lads die;
And across the heaped red trenches and the tortured bleeding rows,
1 cry out a mothers pity to mothers of dear, dead “Foes.”
tn love and common sorrow, I weap with them over our dead
And invoke my sister woman for a curse on each scheeming head.
IN'ay, why should we mothers curse you? Lo! flesh of our flesh are ye,
But by the soul of Mary who bore the Christ-man, murdered at Calvary,
Into our own shall the mothers come and the glad day speed apace
\\ hen the law of peace shall be the law of the women that bear the rare;
hen a man shall stand by bis mother for the world wide common good.
Xnd not bring her tears a :d heartbreaks nor make mock of her motherhood
The diversity of opinions regard
ing (he Russian Bolsheviks and their
herculean task of changing the whole
economic and political system in Rus
sia is really amusing.
Accordng to a sensational state
ment printed in the “New States
man,” on Dec. 24 which is far from
.being an organ of the extreme radical
element, but is regarded as rather
• sober with its large circulation among
the libeal intelectuals, the Bolshe
viks, supported now by many former
■opponents, are effecting a real restor
ation of order in Russia.
•“Order is more thoroughly re-es
rtablished in Russia than at any time
-•lure the fall of czardom”, says the
■New Statesman. “Food distribution
is better organized than at any time
•luring the war. Factories are rap
rfily starting up again. Management
►of the factories by committees failed
Uor obvious reasons. Management
l»y the Soviets with consultative com
mittees has been substituted with
growing success.
"‘The Bolsheviks tho hampered by
-undesirable tools are cleaning the
country of bribery and corruption.
“Terror has ceased. It has been
greatly exaggerated.
“There have been no executions
in Moscow for two months. During
thre ‘Terror’ there were four hundred
executions, of which 6 0 per cent wen
corrupt Soviet officials.
Great masses of professional met
and petty bourgeoisie have gone ovei
to the Bolsheviks. In the larger town:
the workmen almost unanimouslj
support the Bolsheviks.
The peasants were hostile for a
long time, but the formation of ‘pov
erty committees1 and the administra
tion of the affairs of every village in
the interests of the peasants has re
sulted in a great majority now keenly
supporting Lenine.
According to the New Stattsman”
the invading British army, which six
monhs ago would have found many
friends, now find only a very few.
These are mostly property owners.
Where the White (anti-Bolshevik)
Guard says the New Statesman tent
porarily occupied districts they have
carried out “Terror” on a scale the
Bed Guard never dreamed of.
This is part of the opinions express
id by the editor of the “New States
man" regarding Bolshevikism.
On Jan 5th a British officer, who
recently escaped from Russia, ex
pressing his views of the Bolshevik
movement stated to a correspondent
of the. Associated Press in London
that “Russia, that is the Soviet Rus
sia will revert to absolute barbarism
within three years if assistance ic not
offered from the outsde.” |a
And horror upon horror. Men and. r
women of the BETTER CLASSES!
who have lived thru the first year of] t
Bolshevism are donning peasant garble
in self defense and dropping into the 1
dull, monotonous village life. '
“Russia will soon be as primitive
as the Congo if allowed to drift along ;
under Bolshevik control.” 1
It surely is a heartbreaking condi
tion, some of those butterflies of
fashion have been reduced to by the
rude Bolsheviks. No breakfast in
bed .afternoon teas, or evenings at
the opera. Some will even have to
stain their dainty hands with coarse
toil and revert to the level of the
LOWER CLASSES.
If the terrible straits the Russian
better classes, aa pictured by hte
British officer does not induce the
Allies to intervene, we don’t know
what would. The idea of this de
grading the Russian idler and para
site, forcing him to join the ranks of
toilers must surely be abhorrent to
the better classes of the countries
outside of Russia. Or are the idlers
of the world seeing the handwriting
on the wall, fearing that they may be
reduced to the same straits as the
Russian aristocracy?
Where we find one’ article in the
pres ■ giving a modicum of credit to
the Bolsheviks for the work they
have accomplished we will find a |
dozen condemning the efforts of the,
Bclsneviks to form a democratic gov
ernment. The work; is of this and all]
1 other countries who understand what'
l was spins on will not for a moment
be misled by the efforts of the capital-]
tstic press to discredit the Russian:
democracy.
From the time of the Brest Litor «y
■ treaty, imposed upon the Russian pi
• pie when they were entirely hf-lple «■
and unable R. resist, with no ha.c
■’ from the Entente Powo's the Bolshe
vik administration seem ; to have been
• under the !••'> of the Allies. ;in v
s the Bolshov! ^ denied the.,prii.c:’,* i*•
upon which they at first set out to
1 rule Russia and are they the monsters
the capitalistic press would have us
believe they are? '
It ought to bo clear that there Is
a nigger in tho woodpile, and the
r people would do well to pause before
e condemning the Bolsheviks, anyhow
t -»*st until their actions are cor
ectlj and impartially represented.
insinuations that labor in all coun
ries because of its demands for real
emocracy are like the Bolsheviks In
lu»3la is the straw that shows which
ray the wind is blowing.
Tit capitalist press as usual
s aJever ready as a paid agency
0 flimflam the people. It may soon
>e necessary for these mouth pieces
>f capitalistic propaganda to check
jp little on the ridiculous stories
oldlibout the Russ.an Bolsheviks and
heil still more stupid efforts to cou
ile the labor cause in general as an
ibettor of Bolshevism in its alleged
'rightfulness. The press is apparent
y determined to establish in the
Minds of some of its credulous read
ers a loathing of Bolshevism and the
labor Cause in general.
Does the capitalistic press imagine
that the bulk of the people can he so
sasilp fooled and that the reports of
the Bolshevik cruelties and murders
will be readily accepted as true.
One can easily see th animus In
spire,! in those who are reported to he
Ihe eve witnesses of these alleged
misdeeds of the Bolsheviks.
i.-Variably they arc former heads of
rrcaWcapitalistic undertakings, float
'd by foreign capital or escaped mem
bers />[ the Russian nobility or bur
eaucracy.
T!|m they from their standpoint
have a kick coining is easily under
standable and that they are putting
on the lurid colors rather thick when
th<=y wail about Bolshevik misrule
^ '• Ik i■ teil.
At tame future time we may know
1’neTfuth providing the antagonists
of Bojshevikism do r.ot. in the mean
time! uceeod in strangling a system
s', ifjerly opposed to casual ism.
"nfii c 'hangr, is ili-■ vit:i 1 >;<• and
Ilia!) the nations can not go back tc
thepld pre-war system of capitalistic
'.•r.piitaiion has becor.:,' nppa'grant
evert to some of the; worst reaction
ariei among the statesmen. The
cbeige may be delayed but striv
as lie exponent.- of the; capitalistic
j.yaum nay, capitalism has seen its
- br delays and we dare say that when
1 crel it goe3 down and out, as fev
j teal, wll bo shed at its demise a;
L; i . <; ;u'. ' sy =t;-m of chattc
(From The Saturday Evening Post
We hear many compliments for tin
new chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee. lie is said to b<
comparatively'free from entanglinj
a bright, open-minded young man
alliances with any side or faction ii
the regrettable family squables tha
have constituted a large part of th<
history of the party since Theodort
Roosevelt sailed for darkest Afric.
and left its nominal leadership in tin
amiable hands of "Dear Will.”
We hope tho new chairman wil
rise to the opportunity that thosf
happy circumstances present. Hit
first move, in our friendly opinion
should be to address the chairiuar
of the Democratic National Commit
tee in a spirit of candid statesman
ship substantially as follows:
“We look out. upon a world tossed
and riven by such a storm as man has
never before experienced. For three
and a half years moldy ideas and
rotten timber have been going like
an unstable, straw-thatched old cow
shed in a hurricane. A prodigious
organization is in progress. We know
i well enough that neither of tin
parties we represent has had a liv
prineipJe to its name for twent;
1 years. We have both been fishinj
; for irotes with bait that died befon
milllbtns of these voters were born
Let us frankly chuck out the Jatl
nworjs, pastel,oard shields, moth
eateri banners nui ail the rest of Lit
theatrical paraphanalia of o.:r shan
bat* 14 In thv world of death-thro •
ai ;! »irth-throi-1 ,> we canno: tier
anything morj . sal to Aim> 'n an lif,
th-ir fcur old p ug.ain >; me dy criL
• ins fhe tr.-'.pique of each other'
gamed, let. us candidly anno’nc: thm
our respectivi parties are ultorlj
I bankrupt in mind and spirit art
! ought to disband. For an idea ter
J o'.illlonfinon have died,
j “If ve cannot dig up a real Idea
to put before a hundred million pro
foundly stirred fellow-citizens, let m
at least dig a hole deep enough tc
bury both our organizations. If they
can find no repl priuciples and ideas
at this juncture a couple of feet will
answer.”
—>■ “ •
ALLIED HOPS
'Tho Soviet republic, of which
Lenine and Trotsky are the leaders.
Is the logical and historical move
ment and best able to bring order in
Russia,” said Frank KedcMe, a
Scotchman who for the past three
years has been in Russia and who
passed thru Seattle this week on his
way to New York, where he will sail
for his home. "The chief trouble
in Russfia now is due to the pres
ence of Allied troops, Czecho-Slovaks
and the Cossacks. There has been
considrable violence, but the Cos
sacks and Czecho-Slovaks are far
worse than the Bolshevlki. I am
greatly in sympathy with the Bol
sheviki.”
Nearly three years ago Mr Keddie
went into Russia as a Red Cross
worker and has seen service in Pet
rograd, Moscow, the Ural Mountains
Harbin and other places in both Rus
sia, proper and in Siberia. The cen
ter of his work for a good part of the
time was at Buzuduk, about two
days' journey from Moscow. Thru
his connection with people prominent
in affairs in Great Britan. Mr Keddie
was enabled to gain close touch with
officials in Russia, visited at the
homes of the younger Tolstoys, thru
his know.edge of the Russian lan
guage wa( enabled to get much val
uable firsi-hand information regard
ing the lif
ers, theii
of the peasants and work
Inis, hopes and ambitions.
“The Bclsheviki are strong in the
country districts,” said Mr Keddie.
“The peasants are illiterate, but they
are doing a lot of thinking and are
the keenest politicians In the world.
The co-opaatlve societies of Russia
are very strong and are a source of
hope for the future. Every village
governs itself. The peasants do not n
want to fight anybody. The Bol- t
sheviki are standing for temperance o
and I saw more drinking among the V
Allied troops at Vladivostok than any- c
where else. s
“Allied capital is the chief reason i
for the presence of Allied troops. No s
matter what troops do they can never f
stamp out Socialism in Russia, they
can never police Russia, for the i
troops will become converted to Bol- i
shevism. *1 am very hopeful of Rus
sia if the Allied troops will clear 1
out—then could come a temperate ]
government—but if they do not clear I
out there is a long and dreary road <
ahead.
“Lenine certainly did a brave thing i
when he cut off all the lands of the
church. There were 400,000,000
acres taken trom the church in one
slice. When he took away the land :
I was in Moscow and saw a great
procession of church dignitaries and a
multitude of followers protesting
against the action. That same n>ght
there was posted on the billboards all
over the city these words: ‘The
church protests when her land is tak
en away but did not protest when
,000,000 of her children were killed.’
“The Russians love freedom in
tensely. They ' are idealistic, have
iittle regard for precedent and pity
people who keep their eyes so much
on wages. Marriage fs civil. Anyone
may have any extra cerentor. _s, such
as that of the church, if h - wishes.
The marriage laws are quite simple,
but proper . The expense of getting
married, is reduced to 20 or 25 cents!
which is a grand relier to the peasant.
“I think the Bolshevik! failed when
they began to use forefe, although it
seemed necessary whan Korniloff and
Kerensky threatened to evict Lenine
and Trotsky. Nevertheless 1 am con-!
fident that considering all the eon-]
ditions that hope for Russia lies ini
the Bolshevfki. It is true they have
confiscated lauds and houses, but not |
generally for themselves. Some ofj
the leaders are living on a mere pit
tance. I remember for instance, that
the very finest house n Buzuluk was
taken over, but it was converted in
to a home for babies."
Asked regarding Mme. Breshkov
sky, “grandmother of the Russian
revolution,” who arrived in Seattle
from Siberia recently, Mr Keddle con
firmed the statement made by mem
bers of the local Russian colony by
saving that she belonged to the old
revolutionary days and was not in
step with present-day conditions.
in Edinboro early in March.
Record.
-Union
BORAH OPPOSES
NAVVY PROOIMM
By ],. C. MARTIN’
WASH 1NGTON,—Attaching Sec:
tary Uaniels’ “biggest navy" progrt
Senator Borah warned that “tl
shameless orgy of expenditure m
force the people to cry out with t
voice ol’ revolution against the ms
in.*ss ’hat is grinding them to powdei
He charges lha* vh*le in thee
the government has great plans i
universal peace and brotherhoc
“nevertheless, in practice, it still a
| pareutly is fooll. \v;.;g ihc ruins
I kings and auto. urts — to -lighten t
; people Mol rob .hem t ,;u taxation.
The nolitlcal tMlue.ua” now e]
j it'ii:ic ui Russia may i,iiecf Aincri
if more attention is not paid to tho
] who must pay. tho taxes, Borah sai
“I serve notice now that those w
! undertake to put thru this nav
j program will have to fight eve
step of the way,” said Borah. ‘ I ca
not understand the demand for wa
| ships at this lime. They are instr
j ments of war. Are we challenging .
throwing doubt upon the friendsh
of France or England? Japan
powerful, but our relations are frien
Her than for a decade.
“After the war is over, with oi
enemies defeated and all the gre:
naval powers friedlier than ever b
fore, we propose to spend $(>00,000
000 in the next three years on a po\
grful fighting machine.
Is this not a direct challenge I
the good faith of our allies, or dot
it not throw doubt on the sincerity t
our own professions?
“Above all, is it not a signal act c
injustice to the people of this cour
try, who have paid taxes and bough
Liberty bonds and saved, stinted an
denied themselves in the war crisis
‘Is the American taxpayer to hav
no more place in this program tba:
a coddled, ppon?
‘Are we going on with this shame
less orgy of expenditure until th.
people are forced to cry out with th.
voice of revolution against the mad
ness that s grinding them to powder'
“The next war will not be betweei
governments nor nations, but be
tween the governments and the peoph
The French and Russian revolution!
»re the legitimate outgrowth of in
justice and oppression.
“There has not been a crime com
litted in Russia in the last six months
lat did not have Us parent in the
ppresson of the bloody Romanoffs.
ire cannot shoot up or kill that kind
f movement. You have to feed Rus
ia on something besides bullets. That
i what he Romanoffs fed the Rus
ians. America should adopt a dif
erent plan.
“I know we are a very strong, well
oised, liberty-loving people, but we
re not immune.
"The people have patiently borne
he burdens of the war. But the ex
mnditures from now on must be
>ased on reason and istributed with
iconomy."
Borah quoted reports of children
itarving in New York. Half the story
vas not told, he said, adding he had
•eports from another city, showing
100,000 children to be underclothed
tnd underfed.
“These are the seeds of Bolshe
vism,” said Borah. “How quickly
:his political influenza will spread
tvhen once hatched in hives of misery
tnd starvatoin no one can tell. Now
t is time to take notice, to consider
he people who have to pay the taxes.”
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court of lvoyuk Pre
cinct, Second Division, Territory of
Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of ERIt.
JACKSON, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed
Administrator of the estate of Eric
Jackson, deceased: Notice is further
given that all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased,
are required to present them, with
proper vouchers, within six months
from the date of this notice, to the
undersigned Administrator, at his of
fice at Dime Landing, Koyuk River,
in said Precinct. Territory of Alaska.
Dated, March 22, 1919.
JOHN LAMONTAGNE
Administrator of the estate of Eric
Jackson, deceased.
Pub.—Mar.22, 29. Apr. 5, 12. 19.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Felix Brown, your heirs, legal
representatives, or assigns:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended in labor and improvements
Unring each of the years of 1906 1907,
1908, 1909. 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913.
1914, 1915 and 1916 the sum of oa
huiulred dollars ($1001 on Placer
claim No. 1 above on Newton Gulch
.. .. -—«. 7 u/ i/1 y cv„.k mo
Cape Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska: notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 105 page
379 of the records of said Recording
Precinct. Said labor and improve
ments having been done on said claim
for the purpose ot holding same under
the provisions of Section 232 4 Revised
Statutes of the United States.
You are hereby required to con
tribute your proportion of said ex
penditure, as co-owner to the under
signed within ninety (lays from the
final publication of this notice or your
interest in said mining claim will be
forfeited and become the property of
(be undersigned, your co-owner, as
provided by said section of the Re
vised Statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, February
15, 1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGER
Co-owner.
Published-—Feb. 22. Mar. 1, 8, 12,
22, 29. Apr. 5. 12, 19. 26. May. 3, 10.
17, 24, 1919.
NOTICE OF
FORFEITURE,
To Joseph Kramer, Herman Piper,
John Brennan Max Anger, C. N.
Brown and D. M. Brogan, your heirs,
legal representatives, or assigns:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended in labor
and mprovements during each of tha
years of 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910,
1911. 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, and
1916 the sum of one hundred dollars
($100) on the St Anthony Associa
tion Placer Mining Claim, situated
on the loft limit of Newton Gulch No.
1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
Pape Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 111 page
108 of the records of said Recording
Precinct. Said labor and improve
nents having been done on said claim
'or the purpose ol holding same under
he provisions <if Section 2324 Revised
Statutes of the United States.
You and each of you are hereby
equired to contribute your proper
ion of said expenditure as co-owner
o the undersigned within ninety
ays from the final publication of
his notice or your interest u said
lining claim will be forfeited and be
oiue the property of the undersigned,
our co-owner, as provided by said
action of the Revised Statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, February
5, 1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGER
Co-owner.
ublished—Feb. IS, 22. Mar. 1, 8, IS,
2. 29. Apr. S, 12, 19, 26. May, 3, 19,
7, 1919.