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THE JINGOES ARE SUBSIDING.
The controversy between the United States and England
has reached the level of an “academic discussion,” and little
will be heard of it hereafter, but after the war there will be a
cash settlement, maybe. The controversy with Germany over
similiar questions likewise is reaching an “academic-discus
scion” basis, with the prospects of a similar cash negotiation
after the war. In neither case is there ground for any bellig
erent action. The jingoes are subsiding. One-sided cerebra
tion is on the wane. We got terribly excited for a time, and
we are now beginning to see that it was not without its nonsense,
and certainly we have recognized the futility of declaring war
on anybody.
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SHERMAN TRUTHFULLY DESCRIBED WAR.
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Well, of all things! The United States has lost the friend
ship of many, many Germans because American ammunition
makers have supplied England with the bullets to kill the sons
of Teuton mothers. Now, England uses the increase in Ameri
can business thus created as an argument to justify British in
terference with the fredom of Uncle Sam’s traffic in other direc
tions. American commerce is held to have profitted by more
than enough to atone for the loss of Germans and Austrian
trade. “Et tu, Brute!” was never declaimed with better ex
cuse than this by the thousands of schoolboy orators who have
followed Caesar.
WILLIAM JENNINGSC OUT OF HARMONY.
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Willing to give Mr. Bryan credit for sincerity absolute,
still we must insist that he is pounding the boiler without rea
son if he savs'this nation should not be reasonably well prepared
for war. That does not mean an enormous army and' armament.
The wide seas are barriers to enemies to a large extent. But
we must take reasonable precautions, keeping in mind always
that we are arming only in self-defense. There is no particular
haste about making ready. We need not do so with the expecta
tion of having to meet a European enemy. The European war
will be over before it would be possible to build and equip an
army. Perhaps the finish of it may see such a disarming as
will eliminate the need of some of the elaborate preparations
now discussed. It may be that British navalism and Prussian
militarism both will cease to be menaces to world peace. Let us
proceed in an orderly manner to toughen our mueles and put on
a “fighting face.”
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CENSORING THE “MOVIE.”
It is meritorious in tin* colored people or any other to de
fend itself against libeling plays or any unfair criticism, and if
they think “The Birth of a Nation” is injurious to them as a
people they should object to its exhibition. But they may be
mistaken about the effects of this film. They may be super
sensitive. Civilized man of all colors and creeds is lampooned
every day in the year in the moving picture theatres. The vil
lain of the play “gets his” at every run. Usually he is a white
man—in color. But that does not make the white race indig
aant.
“The Birth of a Nation” is a film of intense patrotic interest,
which the writer had the pleasure of seeing during a recent trip
to Seattle. Thousands of people were attracted to the theatre
which produced this “movie” for several weeks. Probably not
one of them ever would have thought it to be prejudicial to the
black brethren. It does purport to picture conditions of some
50 years ago—not to the discredit of the blacks, but to the dis
, credit of the whites. For most of the ill deeds of blacks of that
time are attributable to some lesson on the part of the whites.
And we believe that all thinking whites will reach that con
clusion upon seeing this “movie.” The negro’s wonderful
progress in 50 years and his continued endeavors to fit himself
for sound citizenship are shining high lights in American de
velopment; the contrast between the negro of the ’60s and the
negro of the 20th century is a credit to his race.
In some cities the black race are objecting to the exhibition
of this film and want an ordinance passed forbidding its being
thrown on the screen. Where, indeed, should such an ordin
ance’s operations end? Does it protect red-headed men from
the lampooning which the playwrights delight in giving that
good-humored gentry ? Does it save the bald-headed man from
the raps of Jhe fun-makers? The fat lady, what of her? And
will not some engage the ordinance in an attempt to protect the
freaks which are presented as Irish; to stop exhibitions of
Dutchmen made comical beyond the facts? And shall the
mother-in-law’s fussiness and froomings be cast into outer
darkness? Shall we be compelled to do without the filmed
parson, precise, so pious, over drawn and ridiculously exagger
ated ?
Humanity has its frailties. Every good play and book
hinges on the frailties of men; otherwise no book or play could
have a moral worth while.
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East and commodious steamsrs sailing between Seattle, Ketch
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SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
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Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
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or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
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Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
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