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CORDOVA, ALASKA. MONDAY^ JANUARY 3, 1916.
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THE YEAR’S DEAD.
Tlio Now Year joy bells have a harsh tone in many a homo
in our land. The brother of sleep, which is called Death, en
tered many a home during the year just closed. It stole into
the first home of the land, stopped the pulses of the wife and
mother and left a ghastly object lesson of the helplessness of
station and the vanity of price of power. It smote the fore
most of financiers and revealed the impotency of wealth to turn
aside the inevitable. It entered' all the professions for victims,
soldiers with many stars, admirals who had fought the storms
and the seas exultingly for years; great industrial captains,
and down through all the grades to babies in their cribs, until
mothers by thousands, like Rachael, are weeping for their
children and will not be comforted because they are not.
It smote many homes in Cordova and throughout Alaska.
Some of the best and’ truest, some whose heartstrings were so
int >rwoven with the heartstrings of those they loved, that the
rending has left them aching from a cureless wound.
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Don’t overlook the fact that it is now 1916.
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Tsu’t it about time that an effort was made to have all
the sidewalks cleared of snow.
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The public schools reopened this morning after the holi
day vacation.
TIME FOR REASON TO BE CALLED IN.
There was never any decisive result to any war excepl
when one nation either utterly crushed another, or took from
it its offensive or defensive power.
Our fathers did not crush Great Britain, but did take Irorr
her the power to make further war upon them, fighting as she
was three thousand miles from her base.
We believe that now, after sixteen months of unparellelec
warfare, the chief powers ot Europe are all convinced tliai
nothing like a decisive victory can be won by either side; thai
the final settlement cannot be brought around by furthei
wholesale murders.
If this is true, then it is time for the law of might to give
way for reason to be called’ in.
And we believe it is time for a calling in session by the
neutral nations of The Hague tribunal, and for those power;
to assert their authority in demanding of the belligerent na
tions a cessation of present horrors.
We believe the call would he listened to, for the presen
suffering and the apprehensions of far more sufferings in tin
near future have become almost intolerable, from the Englisl
Channel to the Baltic and Aegean Eeas. We believe that it if
time for our government to take the lead, to call the congress
and to issue to the warring nations an invitation to brinj
their differences there for settlement, at the same time remind
ing them that brute force is not an agent that appeals to any
thing high or holy, but that it has been the reliance of all tin
dark passions of men from the beginning. The cities of Eu
l-oue, not in the war zone are filled with maimed men, cripples
refugees and prisoners; there* are millions of delicate womer
and helpless children that are hungry; the debt is overwhelm
ing, the sorrow unspeakable; surely it is time for the men win
are directing the awful tragedy to he willing to listen; to b(
willing to admit that the war was a failure from every stand
point.
A new international code is needed, a code that will b<
binding and so fenced around that for any one power to vio
late it will bring down upon the offender the vengeance of al
the others. Such a code if accepted would by indirection set
tle present differences, which those directly interested can
not settle by themselves.
We know of no other way by which they can be settled.
All the belligerents are making claims which can nevoi
be realized. Indeed, we see no chance for any settlemen
among themselves. There must bo an outside arbiter, and Tin
Hague tribunal seems to be the court the decisions of whici
might be accepted.
It should be tried at least. Humapity demands it. Then
is danger that as tilings are going half of Europe will b<
peopled by lunatics in a few months more, for there is a limil
to human endurance.
Those races will be stunted physically for sixty years t»
come through what has already been suffered; the presenl
program will in a little while longer stunt the brains of th<
people.
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One trouble about hiring a spy is that possibly somebody
hired him first.
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The Juneau newspapers continue to publish yards of
slush about “full territorial government” and “statehood for
Alaska,” while each day brings to the general public confir
mation of the belief that the limited powers already conferred
on the territory are not being used for the benefit of its resi
dents. Let us have a demonstration of the proper use of ex
isting powers before asking an extension of them.—Iditarod
Pioneer.
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