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CORDOVA, ALASKA, NOVEMBER 24, 1917.
^ Prussian Profanation.
The rumor comes from reli
able sources that each German
soldier is given as a token an
iron coin. This coin is said
to show a German portrait of
Deity with these words under
neath: “The Good Old Ger
man God.” The Deity is hold
ing a weapon in his right hand
and the following significant
sentiment is expressed on the
token: “Smite your enemy
dead. The day of judgment
will not.ask you for your rea
sons. ’ ’
Now we can comprehend
what Goethe had in mind when
he said: “The Prussian is na
turally ciutM; civilization will
intensify that cruelty and
make him a savage.” Also,
the kaiser’s boasted “partner
ship with God” will now ap
pear to us in a new light. It
was utterly impossible to rec
oncile the studied atrocities of
the German war lord with the
work of a just and merciful
God, but one can readily be
lieve that “The Good Old Ger
man God ” can heartily endorse
the blood-curdling brutalities
that are to furnish sport for a
German holiday.
No wonder the soldiers who
carry these tokens can freely
lend themselves to the reign of
terror, and perpetrate murder
and mutilation on innocents in
a manner that can only be des
cribed by men whispering
among themselves. Some day
the truth will come out; the
atrocities committed by these
men who carry the iron cross
will be laid, bare in all their
frightfulness. Then the retri
bution that will be exacted of
those who now scoff tlie judg
ment day is awful to contem
plate.
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Legislation Against Loafers.
It is beginning to look as
though the loafers will have a
hard row to hoe during the
period of the war. State after
state is enacting measures that
will compel the.drones to go to
work. West Virginia requires
every able-bodied male resi
dent to be habitually and perm
anently employed during the
period of the war and charges
the sheriff with the responsi
bility of seeing that this law is
observed. Maryland has a sim
ilar law and requires every
man to show good cause if he
is not at work. Kansas jails
men who do not quickly find
“visible means of support.”
New Hampshire will not toler
ate within her borders those
who influence workers to
leave their 'employment, and
Idaho and Minnesota have en
acted drastic legislation direct
ed against sabotage.
This is as it should be and
all the other states should fol
low suit. But this legislation
against loafers is not altogeth
er an innovation. As far back
as the Colonial days, it was the
custom for many of the settle
ments to prescribe the follow
ing medicine for the indolent
inhabitants: “Those who will
not work shall not eat.” The
cure as a rule Avorked exceed
ingly well, for early settlers
mastered the problem of food
conservation hv establishing
the community storehouse. In
a limited sense, a similar
Scheme might he resorted to
with good effect in such
troublesome times as these.
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The Spotlight on the South
An ugly rumor has been go
ing the rounds recently to the
effect that the cotton growers
of the South are being encour
aged to' hold their crops for
higher prices. Also, that while
the Northern bankers v. ere
straining every effort to float
the Liberty Bond issue, the
Southern bankers were lending
money to the cotton grower to
enable him to hold hack his
product for an exorbitant
price.
How far this movement ac
tually extended, we do not
know, hut the big eastern pa
per openly cliargfe the Federal
Reserve banks of the South
with being a party to the
scheme and make the claim
that there is more money in the
South today than ever before;
jWe do know, however, as
everybody else knows, that
the reported Liberty Bond
shies irt the South are nothing
| to he proud of. The South is
in the saddle all right, and it
seems to be riding with all the
characteristic abandon of the
old days.
The Birth of Democracy.
It is just two hundred and
ninety-seven years ago that the
first formal declaration of
democracy was chronicled. In
view of the remarkable revolu
tion in the theory and practice
of government since that mem
orable document was signed,
and that the great free peoples
of the earth are again in arms
to contest the ancient claim of
the divine right of kings, it is
interesting to note the clmraet
er of the original declaration
and the conditions which
prompted its adoption.
Had it not been for the re
ligious intolerance of the Eng
lish sovereigns, the probabili
ties are that the advent of dem
ocracy would have been longer
delayed. The Puritans after a
long period of persecution fin
ally refused to longer conform
to the requirements of the Es
tablished Church. Although
small in numbers, they possess
ed the moral power which as
serts and defends the rights of
man. In propounding the doc
trine that every human being
was endowed with the natural
privilege of worshipping God
in his own manner, the belief
that they had the right to the
enjoyment of political freedom
as well came as a logical se
quence. So it was the Puritan
pulpits became the tribunes of
the common people and it was
not long before their preachers
were promulgating the doc
trine that “the sovereign was
amenable to public opinion
when fairly expressed.”
King James was on the
throne and he evidenced an in
tolerance strangely similar to
that manifested by Kaiser Wil
helm today. He would have
none of this dangerous doc
trine inside his realm and his
answer to the* petitions of the
Puritans was this warning: “I
will make you conform or T
will harry ye out of the land.”!
These determined men finally j
took the pompous sovereign at
his word and emigrated to IIol-!
land. There they were, unmol- j
ested but their circumstances
were not congenial. For sever
al years they considered the ad- j
Visability of emigrating to Am
erica. They pondered and
prayed and at last, in 1860, set I
sail for the new world. After|
a stormy voyage of sixty-three j
days, they hove in sight of the
New England coast and came
to anchor in Cape Cod bay on
November 11th. To prevent
the possibility of anarchy when
they should land and form a
settlement, they drew up the
famous “Mayflower Agree
ment” while still on board the
ship. This significant instru
ment stipulated in part:
“We whose names are here
underwritten * * * do, by
these presents, solenly and
mutally, in the presence of
God and of one another, coven
ant and combine ourselves to
gether in a civil body politic,
for our better ordering and
preservation, and furtherance
of the ends aforesaid; and by
virtue hereof to enact, consti
tute, and frame such laws, or
dinances, acts, constitutions,
and offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meet
and convenient for the general
good of the colony; unto which
we promise all due submission
and obedience.”
1 he document was signed by
the entire company of forty
one adult male members of the
; expedition. This was the first
j constitution of civil govern
| ment ever signed by a who*
people. Its application to tliei r
affairs and subsequent revi
sion from time to time to meet
the neds of the colony, and the
manner in which it was pat
terned after by the other col
onies, is a matter of common
knowledge to the average stu
dent of American history.
Great as was the deed at the
time, little did those sturdy
Pilgrim Fathers dream that it
was the forerunner of tremend
ous events—events that were
to turn the world upside down,
tear sovereigns from their
thrones, and reshape the des
tinies of all the civilized peo
ples of the earth. It is indeed,
an event worth observing.
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Opinions of the German mili
tary staff to the effect that tin*
United States may not be
counted on as being able to put
an effective army in the field,
simply acts as stimulants to
put us more on our mettle.
The owners of the Juneau dairy,
W. L. Altemueler and L. H. Smith
made a statement to the Juneau Em
pire recently in regard to the accu
sation that they were Germans be
cause they refused to sign the food
pledge. They stated that they had
signed the food pledge and that they
were Americans and for the United
States only. They said they, were prac
ticing economy rigidly in order to
make both ends meet.
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a box at the Blum, O’Neill store.
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