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"OCTkDOVA,' ALASKA, THLKSDAY, DKCKMBKK HO, HUS.
OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE ENEMIES.
Richard Harding Davis says that within flic past year
the old feeling of friendship for the United States in France
lias changed to contempt, caused' in part by some American
contractors sending France some paper shoes and worthless
shells, but mostly because of our President’s proclamation of
neutrality and because we did not fight when the Lusitania
was sunk. n
Those impetuous people forgot that one of the causes of
their defeat by the Germans in the Franco-Prussian war was
the worthless ammunition supplied their army by their own
thieving contractors.
England, too, is sore toward us because we do not openly
espouse the cause of the allies and scribes our position to love
for the almighty dollar. Germany is disgruntled' because she
claims that we have favored the allies to her disadvantage.
This means that they are all fearfully wrecked by the war
and would, if they could, lay the blame for it on other shoul
ders than their own.
At such a time were it worth while the United States
might easily establish that in the past the United States has a
much higher and more honorable record than any of her trans- .
Atlantic accusers.
Except for the steadfast sense of justice of the English
queen and' the invention of the little Monitor, our republic
would have had to fight both Great Britain and France just (
when it was fighting for life the Southern Confederacy. In
11ns connection, too, tlie part that Kussia player! m preventing
England and France from precipitating that war must never
lie forgotten. As it was the story of the Alabama from the -
time she, an English ship, firmed with English guns and
manned by an English crew, went out to prey upon American
merchant ships, until the final rescue of her officers by an
English yacht, when tlit* pirate ship was sent, splintered and
rent to its ocean grave by the Kearsarge, ought to paralyze
everv English tongue when it prates about the lack of honor
on the part of onr government and people. When the news of
the sinking of the Maine reached Berlin and was read, every
officer of the army staff, save only the emperor, expressed the
belief that the sinking of the ship was by the Americans to
supply fin excuse for stealing Cuba.
' When our government declared war against Spain, Am
ericans were pushed from the sidewalks in both Paris and
Vienna and in other ways insulted, while the press of southern
and western Europe, in unison exulted over the anticipated
short work that Cervera’s fleet would make of the paper navy
of the Baited States. . t
As to the American love for the almighty dollar, during
the past thirty years American travelers must have spent
three and a half billion dollars in the resorts of Great Britain,
find on the continent—in Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria, Italy and Switzerland. During the past year they
have spent ten million dollars in charity in Belgium and
France and on every battle line in Europe and Asia. If the
record does not establish that the American people are a
higher and truer race than any of their accusers, then facts
prove nothing.
In the fifties if a matured horse five years old was driven ’
across the plains to California, turned' out poor and broken
spirited, then caught up the next spring, it was found that he
had grown half a hand in height. It was due to the pure air
of the table lands which he had been driven over and the soft
climate that received him in the Golden State. In the same
way millions of foreign-born men who would never have been
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and exalted' names on this side of the sea because on their
coming this land opened to them all opportunities and bade
them go and do any legitimate thing they pleased to.
From it all, taking in the experiences of the past year, our,
people and government should determine never to rest until
our coasts are fortified, our arsenals filled with war munitions;
our depots made ready with all needed railway connections,
invention, inerchanics and chemistry7 exhausted to produce new
instruments of death; our navy in all branches increased to
the point of real efficiency, our air ships increased and im- =
proved; our peopl%trained to arms, to be ready, in case some
alien power or combination of powers shall, when their peace
at home is made, try to recoup their empty treasuries by loot
ing our country, to be ready to meet the storm.
While this preparation is going on, we must with more zeal
carry on the works of peace, dealing frank and' fair with all
peoples, providing labor for those who need work; open new
charities for those who are helpless and need help; new schools
for the children of the poor who come to us; live without of
fense before men and nations, and do what good we can.
But if, despite our efforts, those beyond the sea, on some
pretext force a quarrel upon us and send their armies and
navies to wring tribute from us, let us be ready to “welcome
them with bloody hands to hospitable graves” in our soil, or
in the sea that breaks upon our coasts, and make clear that
liberty and justice exaltetli a nation and that while the flag
of our republic symbols peace, it also symbols irresistible
power. _ ._ ... —..I
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Fast and commodtuu* steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan. Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova. Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Hails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
December 21.NORTHWESTERN.December 29
December 30.ALAMEDA.January 8
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. I.atouche, 15th; 8. 8.
Cordova. 25th of each month.
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without notice.
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or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before t
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ADMIRAL EVANS.January 7
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.January 15
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla. Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
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Effective October 4th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and ig
j| Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making ig
^ connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving |i
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Mondays and Thursdays.
!| Leave Kennecott, Tuesdays and Fridays. ig
ig Leave Kennecott for Chitina, Wednesday and Saturdays, gi
p Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays.
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:g Dining Car Iti Connection With all Regular Peeaenger Train* Be- <g
tween Cordova and Chitina.
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ig Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ig.
ig Tickets on sale at Depot or up town office, Alaska ig
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