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CORDOVA. ALASKA. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1915.
HAPPENING AND ABOUT TO HAPPEN
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lli!iry A. Wise Wood, functionary in the Defense league,
steps into remark that the administration’s big army and navy
program is “wholly insufficient” and won’t do. He desires the
nation to lift itself at once from the position of a second rater
and take first place among the armed nations of the world.
The army crew in eastern centers and elsewhere is oppos
ing the program because the purpose of the administration’s
idea seems to be that an army and navy can, and should be,
organized for some other purpose than fighting.
Bryan and his many followers are lambasting tbe whole
business on moral grounds, and with considerable effect.
Washington city is filling up with buccaneers who hope to
be sitting in when the pap begins to drip in golden glonbles
from the United States treasury
The armament gentlemen along the east coast are flagellat
ing themselves with fear, hoping by brave precept and example
to get everybody else in a state of panic. The tumbling of war
shares is not a heartening view to them.
The politicians will take hold of the matter with great
earnestness when congress meets, fervid oratory will din in the
nation’s ear and franked foolishness will flood the complaining
mails at our expense.
Now, if out of this compilation of rancor, dissension,
indefiniteness and, to some extent, folloy, the nation finally
emerges with a preparedness program worthy to be called
sueh, we should be able once more to thank that divinity which
eases the tumbles of drunken man and children.
A WORLD’S CONCERNMENT.
When Christanity was first proclaimed in Rome it was
with a fury which has made a dark page in history ever since.
But it gained headway under persecution and within five cen
turies paganism was formerly banished- Even the terrible
Goth, Alaric, accepted Christianity. Its growth since has
taken in tin* civilized world. Its central stations have been in
Europe and in wonderful sermons and books learned writers
anti speakers have drawn glorified pictures of its progress and
made estimates of the near coming of the time when all the
world would accept it; when universal peace would be ushered
in and nations would learn, war no wore. Lovingly devout
men and women have repeated the prophecy:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given; and
the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall
be called ‘Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God; the Ever
lasting Father; the Prince of Peace.’ ”
Especial emphasis has been laid upon the last four words—
“The Prince of Peace” as especially describing the character of
Him whom all men were expected' soon to bow before.
But, just now, in Europe, in the very center of enlighten
ment, a war is raging in its second year, before the horrors of
which the iron legions that Scipio and the great Julius led to
victory would have recoiled in fear
Has Christianity spent its forces and failed?
Was its mission merely to enlighten men to invent new and
more fearful means of destruction, and to so chill their sensi
bilities that they, instead of being shocked at war’s atrocities,
would .exult in them, and gloat over their accomplishments in
perfect in g the science of wholesale murder?
lias it not that look in Belgium, in Poland, in the bloody
trenches all the way from France to Byzantium; in the deep sea
beneath unsuspecting ships; over fearful cities where are con
gregated millions of helpless women and little children?
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are striking for power; for the rule of the land and the sen, to
gain more territory and the control of the world’s commerce
and trade; hut as yet we cannot, through the bloody spray
which fills the air, see wha the other plan is, that which desig
nates unseen hands to set the stage and unheard voices to call
the acts of tli eunparrulled tragedy.
But let us hope that in its scope the purpose is to awaken
the higher attributes of the masses; to impress upon them the
truth that inasmuch as when wars come their lives have to pay
the utmost penalties, of right they should have a voice in de
ciding whether a war is or is not necessary; and to impress
upon the world’s history is little more than a history of the
world’s wars, most of which have been utterly unnecessary,
there must be a better way than through war to settle the dif
ferences between nations; that the old prophecy may be finally
fulfilled through the reign of “The Brinee of Peace.’’
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While the auto trucks used on Chitina trail, for trans
porting passengers and mail, are all powerful the stage com
pany is not taking any chances of a tie-up this winter of its ser.
vice and horses are bing placed at all relay stations, to be used
in case of an emergency
.John Ballaine, of Seward, has again burst forth in print to
air an imaginary plot of a great scheme afoot to discredit the
work of the Alaska Engineering Commission and the further
construction of a government railroad from the westward.
John has these “pipe dreams” periodically and he is not taken
very seriously by those who know him well.
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