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CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1918.
WHAT IS A PRO-GERMAN?
(By Herbert Quick, United
States Farm Loan Com
missioner.)
A pro-Herman is a man who,
by private or public utterances
stands in the way of a whole
hearted prosecution of this war
and the defeat of the German
will to conquer.
He may do it by finding
fault with the conduct of the
war. He may do it by imprac-|
ficable peace arguments Hoi
may do it through a mistaken
policy. Ho may do it because
lie is in the pay of the German
government. He may do it be
cause he has been befooted and
bamboozled by those who are
in Germany’s pay.
The German will to expan
sion by conquest must be brok-j
ven by defeat. If that rapacious
will be not broken, the war will
not give as peace. In all the
history of the world there nev
er existed a conquering nation
less fit to rule others than are
the Germans. This is true be
cause* the Herman policy is so
brutal, so cruel, so scientifical
. lv exterminating. In the streets
of every town in German Po
land children are falling and
dying of~Rtarvation. Children
8 to 12 years of age are being
carried through the streets by
their parents because they are
too weak to walk—because of
starvation. The Poles are be
ing exterminated as fast as
possible* by the Germans just
as the* Armenians—the oldest
Christian nation in the world—
are being exterminated by the
Germans and Tnrtsi
Because Germany wants the
property of the Poles for Ger
mans after the war; and be
cause they want the property
of the Armenians for the Turks
and Germans after the war.
Their will can and must be
broken by defeat. Tt is not the
will of the individual German.
If is flu* bloody, brutal, cruel,
devilish will of the German
government and the German
ruling class, miseducated in the
school which believes that war
is the summation of human
good.
A pro-German is anyone who
stands in the way of our suc
cessful prosecution of the war.
Every word that falls from the
tongue of any American or is
written by him carries with it
a responsibility greater than
ever existed in the history of
this Nation. Look well to what
you say or do.
Germany has in this country
hundreds of papers printed in
the German tongue. Whether
this ought to be or not is a
grave question. If any of these
papers are loyal, I do not know
of them. Some of them may
be, but I have not heard of
them.
These and other papers and
many individuals say they are
for America, but none or them
say they are against Germany.
He who is for us is against
Germany. He who is not
against Germany, tooth and
nail, in this war is not for Am
erica.
You can tell the pro-German
by another test: If he is
against France, or against It-j
I
alv, or against Russia, In* is
pro-German.
The armies and navies of
these powers are fighting our
fight. They are dying by thous-J
nnds every day to make the
world safe for democracy. If
wo win, we must win because1
they do most of the fighting
and dying, while A\*e only do
some ot it. |
The enemy of Great Britain
is pro-German.
The enemy of Russia is pro-'
German and anti-democratic. |
The enemy of Italy is against
America.
The enemy of France Is lost
to every claim of patriotism, j
Do not let these pro-Germans
poison the atmosphere in your
locality by slandering our al
lies Avithout challenge. It is
time to call down the man who
fights against our armies with
tongue or pen, no matter Avhat
flag those armies are fighting
under. i
Words are things. In such a
crisis they are dreadful things,
portentous things, things
Avhicli can not be alloAved to
pass as of no account.
Germany is penetrating oAr
ery country of the world with
her hired spies and traitors.
She disorganized the Russian
army through traitors after
the revolution. She kneAV the
plan of Russian battle before
hand through traitors. She has
filled this conntrv with sides
and traitors. She has financed
the I. W. W., without a doubt, j
She lias destroyed property
and debauched our citizens.
Is there any American who
does ndt long for peace? Not
one! Neither is there a Briton
or Frenchman or Italian or
Russian. But it must not be a
German peace, leaving the
great spider in the center of
his web waiting for another
chance. It must be a real peace.
It must be made with the Ger
man people or with a ruined
Hohenzollern-—one or the oth
er. But lie who talks peace as
if he only longs for it, as if he
only were commissioned to
make peace, must want a dif
ferent sort of peace from the
sort we must have. Distrust
him. He may be sincere, but.
he may not be.
The world has in the past
been conquered by traitors- -
oftener than it was ever con
quered by arms. The Mexican
people fought each other into
slavery to Spain. Let us not be
bought by German gold into
slavery to Germany.
-♦
COPPER AFTER THE WAR.
Norman Hapgood, whose let
ters from London and Paris,
have been a feature in the FiVe
ning Post, refers in a recent
communication to discussions
among French experts respect
ing industrial regeneration aft
er the war. They put the great
est emphasis upon the develop
ment of French iron-ore and
water power resources. Mr.
Hapgood wrote as follows:
“Germany, thus troubled by
the future, looks critically at
the resources of France, whose
strength she had planned to
shatter A German expert es
timates that France contains
t
three and a third times as
much iron as Germany, al
though the great beds of Nor
mandy are not yet fully
developed. The German seizure
of the iron manufacturing re
gion of northern France would
have ended the war and allow
ed Germany to annex that
whole region had not England
sent to France the steel that
enabled her to hold out; and it
has been freely admitted in
Germany that she could not I
have long continued the war
without the seizure of this re
gion.
“Germany, weak in iron,!
contains on the other hand far
more coal than France, and
there is a German proverb that
says ‘iron runs toward coal.’
In other words, great metal
works tend to be developed less
in iron districts than in coal
districts. Hence part of the'
bitterness of the fighting about
tin* Franeo-Germanv boundary,'
with its immense coal implica
tions. Thus here again wo
come around to the hero of this
article, water power. If France
is rich in iron and poor in real
coal, we see still more clearly
how her industrial future de
pends on the development of
her white coal.”
That there Avill be a greatly
increased use of hydro-electric
power immediately after the
war, not only in France but
also in every civilized country,
that possesses water falls, is a
plausible forecast. The short-!'
age of labor wherefrom we now.
suffer is bound to continue and.
the deficiency must be offset!
* I
by increased mechanicaliza-j
tion. Electrification, taking
the place of thousands of coal
miners and of railway cars, is
one of the major ways in which1
that may be done. Therefore;
we may reasonably expect that
it will be done. But electrifi
cation means the use of copper,]
whicli is of interest to the jfro-*
ducer of copper.
-— II
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