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H. G. STEEL. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
rommVA, ALASKA. FRIDAY, MARCH 17. 1916.
VALOR AND SELF-ABNEGATION.
The recent speech made by President Wilson tit the Grid
iron Club banquet makes us wonder why lie, with his surplus of
valor, did not in bis youth elect to be a soldier. \\ e can further
from that speech gain a glimpse of why lie ever became willing
to accept the presidency.
It was just for the good of the country that he voluntarily
accepted’ the self-sacrifice needed to fill the duties of that
position, and why lie is willing to hold down the job for four
years more.
Evidently we do not yet half comprehend the self-abnega
tion on bis part that led him to cheerfully make the sacrifice.
CANADA AND AUSTRALIA.
Canada and Australia an* showing splendidly in the pres
ent war. Their soldiers at the front are keeping up tin* best
traditions of their race, while Canada has determined' to have
no election this year lest her present plan of procedure might
he interfered with l»y a new parliament. The present plan is
to support the mother country with all her might, and at the
same time to keep secure her own home possessions.
Australia is governed by the same ideas. Her people en
dorse compulsory enlistment, and the Southern Cross shines
down upon a perfectly united people, united for home defence
and in superb loyalty to motherland. The thing they most
conceal is sorrow for their dead, the thing most in evidence
with them is loyalty to home and to motherland.
REFUNDING THE MONEY.
Tin* refunding by the government of $.>0,000 tor sundry
and divers coal land claims in the Bering river field, this being
1he amount paid for coal lands at $10 an acre, was a simple act
of justice and nothing more. These claimants were tried on
• charges of having fraudulently located the lands, but the gov
ernment was unable to make out a case, and the defendants
were acquitted, as they should have been. But the government
refused to return the money that had been paid to it for acre
age, following the recommendations of the special investigat
ors in the days of < J la vis, of unsavory memory, who had
branded the claimants as public land thieves. The return of
this money will lx* some small consolation to these men,.but it
will represent but a small part of what they spent in develop
ing their holdings and defending themselves from govern
mental prosecutions.
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NO SIGNS OF PEACE.
The tone of the British parliament seems to be that the
war must be fought through to a triumphant finish, even if it
involves the bankruptcy of the realm. Russia seems equally
determined. The czar lias gone to the southern front. More
than a century ago it was proclaimed in Russia that eventually
Constantinople was to be Russia’s winter capital, and Russia
clings to those old traditions and works to make them ma
terialize.
In the meantime France, with inconceivable valor, is
fighting to keep the Germans from occupying any more of her
territory, while Germany seems to be renewing her first plan
of the war and trying to force her way through France to the
western ocean.
She, too, is showing ever increasing activity on the sea.
Shi1 is discounting on the ocean what Semmes in the old Ala
bama did in our great war until she was finally rounded up and
sunk by the Kearsarge.
Germany is likewise pursuing her submarine warfare with
increasing energy, and also increasing the destructive forces!
of her aircraft. Her purpose seems to be to deliver a blow at!
some point so crushing that the allies will be forced to consider
some terms of peace, while on the part of all the allies save
Russia, the determination seems to be to hold Germany in
blockade until she will be forced to collapse. To outsiders the
prospect for peace seems to be as remote as it did a year ago.
Meanwhile, probably three millions of soldiers have been killed
or hopclesslv crippled'. The operations of the Germans daring
the past twelve days indicate that they are trying to win on
the line first tried in the war—to first take Paris and the
northwest coast cities and defences of France, and with France
prostrated, to try final conclusions with England. The appal
ling losses of life in hurling vast masses of men against almost
impregnable forts indicate that Germany is desperate and has
decided to win in that direction, if victory can be won through j
more terrible fighting than was ever seen before. It has been
whispered for months that Germany has been replacing, on
her blockaded fleet, the guns for vastly more destructive ones,
and also multiplying her submarine fleet. Could she crush
France, then the next drive would be upon England, with all
the soldiers she could concentrate in France, and her fleet
would at last try conclusions with the British fleet. These
must be most anxious days in England, France and Germany.
The lives of whole nations are hanging in the balance. As
Clemenceau says: “We are today undergoing the climax of
desperate effort.”
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ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
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Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
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!| Copper River &
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Effective October 4th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and If a
fi Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making g 4
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