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CORDOVA, ALASKA. \VK1)X KKDAY, .lAXTARY liMH.
Bolsheviki Party.
An Associated Press corres
pondent who lias just returned
from Russia sketches the com
position of the Bolsheviki par
tv as first composed of innuni-j
erahle German paid agitators
and propagandists, whose sole
purpose is to reduce the coun
try to complete anarchy. The
second class is composed of
fanatics, escaped criminals, re
leased political prisoners, and
expatriated Russians whom po
litical amnesty brought back to
the country. These the sense
of accumulated wrongs, real
and imaginary, of half a cen
tury has driven into a frenzy
of anarchistic revolt, and with
out sharing the motives of
their German leaders, they find
their doctrines quite congenial.
The third and largest class is a
tremendous body of ignorant
workmen and soldiers with
nebulous notions of democracy,
who have been taught by their
leaders that freedom is a de
bauch of idleness. This brief
ly is the Bolsheviki, maximal
ist or extreme socialist faction
in Russia. i
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The Kaiser as America’s Ruler
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The board of temperance of
•the Methodist Episcopal
church is responsible for the
finding, in the archieves of the
British government, a secret
report of a speech made by the'
kaiser ;it a war council in Pots
dam in 100*, at which this mad
monarch declared himself the.
ruler of the United States of
America. Here are William's
own words as they were report
ed to the British foreign office:
“Even now I rule supreme
in the United States, where al
most one-half of the population
is (‘ither of German birth or
German descent, and where 3,
000.000 voters do my bidding
■"t f.«;dentinl elections.
“No American administra
tion could remain in power
against the will of the German
voters, who, through their or
gani'/ation. the German Ameri
can National League of the
United States of America, con
trol the destinies of the vast re
public beyond the sea.
“If a man was ever worthy
of a high decoration at my
hands, it was Dr. Herr Hexam
er, president of the league, who
may justly be termed to he, by
mv grace, the acting ruler of
all the Germans in the United
States.”
The temperance hoard draws
attention to the fact that Dr.
Hexane r was president of the
German-American alliance and
a member of the executive com
mittee of I In* National Associa
tion of Commerce and Labor.
Dr. Hex finer was decorated by
the kaiser with the Order of
the Bed Eagle.
Then> fjin be little doubt but
the kaiser believed that,
throvdi the 3,000,000 German
Ameriean voters in the United
States he held the balance of
power and was able to control
the presidential elections in
this country. Events of the
oust three years have demon
strated that the kaiser was so
firmlv convinced of this con
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rol, that he believed it was pos
sible to keep the United States
from entering the war on the'
side of the allies, and that he
was free to do as he chose with'
Americans and American ship
ping He was satisfied that
when the time came for settle
ment h<‘ could, through his cm-'
issaries in this country, select'
the man or men through whom
the settlement, must be made'
and who would be properly j
sympathetic to the German
cause.
There may be some yet who
are unwilling to believe that
the kaiser had covetous eyes
on America. If there are any
such, tin* above quotation from
the speech of William IT at the'
war council in Potsdam in 1908
should ho convincing evidence.'
Had the kaiser been able to
win the war in France within
a year, as he fully expected to
do, it is altogether probable
that he might, in his own mind
at least, have continued to rule
supreme in the United States.
I nfortunately for him, the war
was prolonged too long and the
high-handed methods with
which it was conducted served
to turn the attention of the on-’
tire American-born population
toward the German atrocities
and to build up a sentiment in
this country so overwhelming1,
as to drown the 3,000,000 Ger- ^
man-made votes with which
the kaiser hoped to continue
his control.
Seeking the Spot Light.
It is strange to what depths
ol triviality men of supposed
common sense will stoop to get
tlieir names into the newspa
pers and tlieir foibles talked
about. i I
The thought is aptly illus
trated in the aid and comfort
afforded the Germans by a sen.
ile member of tin* senate from
North Carolina. The old man
has heard whisperings that of
ficers of the army are not tip
mug their hats to privates and
he waxes wroth—all for the
purpose of attracting to him
self some of the glitter of the
spot light which has been more
or less monopolized by the j
army or navy since the United
States got into the war.
What matters it to Overman \
that he helps his German {
friends to destroy discipline in I
the army? Hasn’t he and his {
kind been privileged to en joy
the calcium glare uncontested
and unshared these many
years? Why shouldn’t lie seek
to destroy this thing—the
army—that has conn* between
him and his precious privilege? •
Overman’s resolution of in ^
<iuiry is utterly puerile. Tt had ‘
two purposes: first, to meddle.;
and second, to get Overman’s
name back into the public :
prints. Tf he reallv desired in- '
formation concerning the armv
regulations, all that was neees-1
sarv was for him to call ids ;
clerk and instruct him to se-j ;
cure a copy. A resolution was :
unnecessary—except to divert '
ravs of the spot light in his di- ;
rection.
Secretary of War Baker and !
the commanding generals at 1
the various cantonments are re- J
peatedly on record against
snobbishness on the part of the
officers of the new national
army or any other branch of
the service. At private social
gatherings the officers and
men meet on equal terms In
public they are what their uni
forms denote them to be—offi
cers and men—and they con
duct themselves accordingly.
The snobbery is on the other
side. Only the private who is
at heart a snob can take offense
at the observance of ordinary
military intercourse and meth
ods. The complainants respon
sible for Overman’s foolish res
olution should be sought outj
and punished.
Members of the I'nited
States senate should be too pa
triotic to lend themselves to
such pettiness; to permit them
selves to be used to injure the
service.
NOTICE.
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All persons using the lock boxes in!
the safe in the city hall are hereby
requested to immediately remove their
property therefrom as the lock boxes
are to be opened and taken out of the
safe.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY,
Town Clerk 8-3t
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NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the firm
of Gottschalk and Clonniger conduct-1
ing the Alaskan hotel at Cordova, Al- .
iska, and the Alaskan bar, McCarthy,
Alaska, has this day been dissolved
by mutual consent and all bills owing
he firm are payable to R. L. Gotts-|
■halk, who will also pay all outstand
ng indebtedness, as Art lonniger has
■etired front the firm, j
R. L. GOTfSCHALK,
AR TCLOAN1GER
Cordova, Alaska, Jan. |, 1918
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