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CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1915.
NEUTRAL RETALIATION
Inasmuch ns Germany has declared the sea for fifty miles
around the British islands a war zone and has closed the
English Channel, and' Great Britain has declared the whole
North Sea are unsafe for neutrals because of floating mines and
submurines, a writer in the east suggests that the neutral
nations make a league in self defense. lie suggests that Presi
dent Wilson call a conference of the neutral nations through
their ambassadors in Washington, and agree upon a program
something like this:
Lay down the rules and regulations governing the legal
conduct of the war, the rights of neutrajs- including poor
neutral Belgium—just what warning should be given ships, in
just what waters they may be attacked, etc. Supposing to this
conference came the United States of America, Holland, Den
mark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil, Argentine,
Chile, Peru, and the other Latin-American states, including
Cuba. Once again suppose those states bound themselves into
a confederation to enforce, in so far as they could, the program
above referred to, and supposing a disregard of it by any of
the combatants, to close their borders to all trade of all kinds
with tin* offender; to become hi smarkets, to sell him nothing,
buy from him nothing, pass him no supplies, to seize all his
ships, to intern his citizens, to confiscate their private property,
and make them outlaws in whichever land they were found.
Would this be a weapon?
If we get the balance of the neutral world to join where
would the offender lay his head? With the borders of Holland',
Denmark, Sweden, and the Balkan states, dosed to her, with
a sequestration of the immense wealth of her citizens in the
United States, Chile, Brazil, and the Argentine accomplished,
would this weapon not be as effective as 500 submarines and
4,000,000 trained soldiers? England, France, and Russia would
be held'to the same responsibility, and if by ill luck they should
choose to offend and defy to the same extent would also receive
their due.
It may come to that after a while, for nations are like
individuals,—when they get mad enough, they cease to heed
the rules that govern reasonable men. The ocean outside of the
league distant from land around a country, should be as free
as the air above it, and neutral nations cannot always be
deprived of their rights on the sea because of the unreasoning
anger of warring nations. Neutral nations need the lighting
nations far less than tin* belligerents need the neutrals and a
halt will have to be called sometime.
REAL HEROES AND HEROINES
There are no limits to brave officers and soldiers and
sailors in the present war. They are everywhere on land and
sea, and are contributed by a dozen nations. Hut they are gen
erally supported by dancing flags, martial music, roaring guns,
the excitement which comes of shouting armies and the love of
glory.
But there is another class which hover on the battle line,
which bends over the wounded' and sick, which keeps lonely
vigils.
No dancing flags, no martial music cheer them on, no
dream of making great names for themselves inspire them. We
mean the Red Cross societies, whose active members have their
ears open only.to the cries for help, whose only occupation is
to answer those cries with needed relief. In every battle
picture they are seen, in every hospital they are found, wher
ever the poor are pictured around the ruins of desolated homes
they are found. Their coming means help to the sufferers and
what makes their presence so impressive is the fact that they
are upborne by a sense of duty which makes them unconscious
or indifferent to what may happen them. Their guardian
angels are Love and Mercy, and the reflection of the smiles of
those unseen watchers gives them a holiness in the eyes of tin*
rudest men, and causes them to walk without fear through the
places where men are killing each other and where the
poisoned breath of the pestilence taints all the air.
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AT THE END OF THE CENTURY
Jim Hill predicts that this nation will have four hundred
and fifty millions of people at the end of the present century.
That prediction is open to doubt. Mr. Hill is a railroad veteran
and railroad men sometimes water their stocks. The force of
habit is strong.
But who can tell what will be at the end of the century!
Mill the young men from our agricultural and technical
schools go south and direct the industries of the continent over
all Spanish America until they and their children become the
most potent factors in the forward march of those states? This
is the kind of conquest that our educators should be planning.
At home will the same work be going on until on the same area
now being cultivated twice as much food and textiles will he
raised as are raised now! Will our merchant flags by that time
become known on the sea? Will Mexico grow quiet through
exhaustion by that time and thus make further watchful
waiting unnecessary?
Will our coast shipping be still paying tolls when they
pass through the Panama Canal ?
Will the world be bristling with arms on sea and land, or
will the reign of peace have been ushered in?
Will passenger trains have disappeared from the railroads
and all the traveling be in the air, every man having his own
aeroplane? Will the advertisement read: “The airships of the
world round navigation company leaving New York City every
morning at 9 a. m., touching London, Paris, Berlin, Constanti
nople, Calcutta, Shanghai, Yokohama, San Francisco and
Chicago, making the journey in five days and seven hours. For
freight and passage apply, etc?” Will Europe have recovered
from the present war? Will her thrones all have melted and
will she be a mighty confederacy of free states?
Will the horse have disappeared! Will the churches have
all come together and only the love of God' be preached!
Wdl the long distance wireless he extended and will men
,1(>re he talking as face to face with the residents in Mars and
Mercury and the cold-blooded old chaps in Saturn and Jupiter!
Will the worship of the golden calf have finally closed,
and God’s own working agent, electricity, be doubling the
products of the soil, cooking the food and warming the homes
of men! And will man, with more intelligence be repeating:
“What am I then! Naught,
Naught, but the effluence of thy light divine,
Pervading worlds, has reached my spirit, too,
And thy spirit, in my spirit shines,
As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew.”
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FATE OR INEFFICIENCY
It is related, by the official war office in Paris, that French
aeroplanes dropped 1/S shells and several thousand darts upon
the headquarters of the Imperial Crown Prince of Germany.
But nobody was hurt; more especially, the Crown Prince ate his
breakfast undisturbed.
This demonstration took place, as reported, between 4 and
f> o’clock in the morning, when its intended victims were
snuggling under their blankets and could not be expected' to
get out of the way of plummets from tin* skies. And the Crown
Prince did not even wake up.
1 here were 2!) French aeroplanes engaged in this invasion
of the royal establishment. They got away safely, as reported
“unscathed” by the fire directed against them. But was it the
protection of the fates, or siinpl ythe inefficiency of aerial men
of war, that brought to such an absurd end this assault?
England is bravely going about tin* business of sp(‘nding
$1 ;>,(MM),()(M) a day for war. \\ hen tin* cost of the American
Civil war reached a million dollars a dav there was great fear
in administration circles that serious uprisings might he the
expression of northern protests. That was 50 years ago. We
have “advanced,” you can see.
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When Hannibal crossed the Alps, rocks were thrown
down upon his men; tin* Austrians are now turning avalanches
loose upon the Italians, using dynamite to start the slides.
Hannibal’s enemies had no more “modem conveniences” than
main strength and awkwardness.
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“Bryan plans to end the war,” says a headline. Verily,
like the story of a man who told how to catch an alligator: You
bait an anchor with a mule; the braying will attract the ’gator
ashore; then you catch him by the scruff of the neck and talk
him to death.
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The experiment station at Pullman college has issued a
bulletin on the stewing of meats. If advises the selection of
tough cuts. The matter is mentioned merely to give the Star
Boarder a new subject for bis witticisms at the table this
evening.
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British soldiers are said to he singing, “Onward,
Christian Soldiers,” regardless of what happened to the bull
moose.
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