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H. G. STEEL
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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THURSDAY, May 30
MEMORIAL DAY
In honor of the 2,000,000 men who
joined the colors in defense of the
Union half a century ago, this nation
is today strewing with flowers the
graves of the great army of the de
parted and paying its deep respects
to the few who survive. All over the
country there seems to have risen a
new spirit with reference to this day.
The duty of fittingly observing it has
been widely impressed.
The present generation knows alto
gether too little of the conflict, too lit
tie of its causes, too little of its re
suits. It made men free and rendered
durable the ties that bind a mighty
confederation of states.
The men who fought through the!
morasses of the Yazee and Missis
sip; i to Vicksburg, the tangles of the
Red river country, the precipitous
hills o) Chattanooga, the jungles of
'hickainaitga; through the maze of
Ntlanta’s great fortifications and the
'<e and mud of1 Nashville; and with
Rherman to the sea; to those who ven
tured again and again across the Rap
pahannock; to those who endured the
hell at Gettysburg; through the fire
‘"ei" Wilderness and the labyrin
thian battlefields from Spottsylvania
?<> Appomattox; to the men who bored
their way bravely and patiently into
f Ip- Heart oi the Southland where
'hey lought. we pay our tributes.
Not forgetting as we do so to place
flowers of admiration at the same time
‘M on the graves of those in gray wh
otigh with a heroism seldom equaled
>ii th annals of war, and who now
rally ound the old flag, satisfied that
righti ousness prevailed.
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MAKE A NEW LAW
The instructions ot Attorney-Gen
eral Gregory to the federal attorney]
os t iis division to stop proceedings!
lor obtaining an appeal in the so
called eight-hour law case, in which!
the act was declared unconstitution
al in the United States court of this
division, probably closes the matter
as far as the government is con
cerned. These instructions are clear
indications that the department of
justice lias found that the decision
handed down by Judge Bunnell is
well based upon the statutes and is
borne out by precedent.
In view of the fact that Alaska is
thus left without any eight-hour law
except the one applicable to mining,
and that the next legislature will
probably be called upon to enact ad
ditional eight-hour laws applicable to
other industries, it might he well for
both voters and legislators to review
carefully the opinion rendered by the
judge in this case so that mistakes
made in the drafting of this measure
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may he avoided in the future.
If there is the slightest doubt as
to the correctness of the recent de
cision lingering in the minds of
Alaskans, it should be removed by the
action of Mr. Gregory, who would un
doubtedly have ordered the appeal
perfected had there been the least
question as to the soundness of the
opinion. It is but natural that there
should be some disappointment con
nected with the failure of the act to
accomplish its purpose, but this does
not originate in the action of the
court, but from the defective manner
in which the measure was written
and passed, in utter disregard of the
plain provisions of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States.
The court in this case has ren
dered efficient service to the entire
territory and mode the error so plain
that it will hardly 1;° committed a
second time. It was the duty of
court to do this, and it was well per
formed. In our courts are safeguard
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ed all our liberties. They are fho
foundation of our political and econ
cti’ic liberties.
To say that our courts are perlor.t
that they guarantee exact mathem
atic justice to all, wou'd be an untrue
boast. No law or rule c-’o be devised
that will fit every Case. Neither can
any court be constituted from which
'.ability to err has been removed
No judge can be elected or appoint
j ed who has not some weakness of
judgment that makes him human. But.
the overwhelming majority of our
courts give substantial justice, and
by so doing constitute themselves
the bulwark of our nation.
The general eight-hour law enacted
at the last term of the territorial leg
islature is dead. Substitutes will in
evitably take its place and should do
so at the earliest possible moment.
We agree with Stroller White in his
comment upon the late law, in which
he said:
“if a better eight-hour law than the!
one passed by the late territorial leg
islature can not be framed and passed
then it will bo well to leave it as it
is. That eight hours should consti
tute a day’s work is conceded by all
fair-minded men, we believe, in Alas
ka. Those who do not concede it are
not fair-minded. But we do not be
lieve the present law is good enough
for the laboring classes of Alaska.
True, it does not require them to
work more than eight hours a day,
but it', after working and receiving
pay for that number of hours, they I
prefer to make Six bits or a dollar
more by putting in an hour over
time, we think that the law forbidding
such exercise of personal liberty to
tlie extent of putting the offender in
jail and fining him, is a hardship that
should be remedied. Eight hours’
work should constitue a day and
be remunerated with a day’s pay, but
:o presume to dictate to a man what
he shall do during the remaining six
teen hours of the twenty-four is in
he same class as were the Uonnecti
mt Blue Laws which made it an of
fense for a man to whistle Satur-j
lay night because it was only a few]
lours from Sunday. This is just the!
way the editor of this paper feels j
concerning the eight-hour proposition, j
xnd he is a candidate for the terri
:orial legislature at that. It is hu-j
nan slavery to force a man to toil 1
long hours for short pay and it isj
;he same class of slavery that die
tates to a man what he shall doj
.vith his own time. The working man
>f Alaska is entitled to a square deal
xnd the eight-hour law as it stands
now denies him that inalienable
right."
Mr. White has been nominated for
election as territorial representative.
Me will almost certainly be elected.
With the mistakes of the old measure
xs warnings how not to do, and the
ucid opinion of the court in this di
vision to guide it, the next legisla
ure should be able to enact workable
sight-hour laws which will stand the
icid test of every tribunal and give
justice to both employer and employe
No one asks more, nor will less b<
accepted.—Fairbanks Citizen.
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FIGHTING A REAL DANGER
The American Defense Society i:
i sending out literature these days deal
ing with the menace to American in
stitutions involved in the aettvitie:
of the German-American Alliance
which recently was the object of i
congressional investigation. The Na
tional German-American Alliance dis
solved while the investigation was it
progress, but there are numeroui
state organizations, and it is thi
breaking up of these that now occu
pies the attention of the Defense So
ciety. The national body, it says
was only a clearing house for th<
state bodies. It is urged that th<
charters of these various state organ
izations be revoked, as has alread;
been done in the state of New York
In a letter addressed to the governor:
of the various states the societ;
says:
“To the now aroused comprehen
sion of the nation the disintegrating
effect on American citizenship of the
binding together of immigrants of i
particular nationality, whereby raci
prejudices are intensified and eontin
tied, has become startlingly apparent
“The German-American Alliance
| armed with a special national charter
as it were accredited to the country
by congress itself, has been a power
fill engine of mischief and of Gcrmai
propaganda.
The appalling shortcomings of Ger
man ideals, founded as they are ot
; the murderous and bloody legends oi
German mythology, which have dom
inated the inspirational developmeni
of that country, have been now ex
hibited clearly before our eyes. Any
association intended to perpetuate
German ideals among the free people
of America is a menace to the life
of the Republic.
“The country welcomes all who de
sire to become Americans. The Ger
man-American Alliance welcomes ail
who desire to remain Germans. The
republic and its ideals and the Ger
man-American Alliance and its ideals
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cannot exist together within tin
United States of America.
"The German American Alliance i;
openly an alliance among Germans
as such, in America. Its actual ul
timate aim is to subordinate the wel
faro of the, republic to the ambition;
of :ho emperor of Germany.
‘‘The national body was only a soil
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Prussianism Cannot Be Tolerated in a
World Devoted to Liberty
By OTTO H. KAHN, Bank*. New York
I was born in Germany; T served in the German
army. I was closely connected with German business in
t terests until the outbreak of this war. I know Germany
'j and I know the real causes of this war. Thirty years ago
■ —almost to the day -Germany began laying her plans
for world conquest. The true German saw this war
coming and fought against it, hut there was no chance
against the system.
i 1 know of my personal knowledge that the stage was
set for it about seven years ago, in connection with the
Acradir enisode. I know that the nan-Germa'ns in 1!>11
meant to have a footing in South America and had prepared plans to
threaten this very country of ours. In 1918 Austria planned to conquer
Serbia and so informed Italy, then her alh.
The spirit which brought about this war was expressed by Nietzsche, a
German who wrote years before the war Started, the following:
“You shall love peace as a means to prepare for new war. You say
that a good cause may hallow even war, but 1 say to you that it is a good
war which hallows every cause.”
And the newspaper Yorwaerts before the war started declared: “The
Camarilla of war lords is working with absolute, unscrupulous means to
carry out their fearful designs to precipitate a world war.”
Americans of German blood know that it was not the old Germany—
of which we are proud—that brought about war, hut the German system.
The world has been hurt within these past three years as it was never
hurt before. In the gloomy and accusing procession of infinite sorrow and
pain which was started on that thrice accursed day of July, 1914, the hurt
inflicted on Americans of German descent takes its tragically rightful
place. The iron has entered our souls.
\\ e have been wantonly robbed of invaluable possessions which have
come down to us through the centuries; we have been rendered ashamed
of that in which we took pride; we have been made the enemies of those of
our own blood; our very names carry the sound of a challenge to the
world. Surely we have all too valid a title to rank amongst those most bit
terly aggrieved by Prussian ism, and to align ourselves in the very fore
front of those who in word and deed are fighting to rid the world forever
of that malignant growth.
j Of clearing house of the slate bod
ies. The latter are the real agen
!jCies of pro-German propaganda. They
. brought pressure on state and city
| school administrations for the ex
ploitation of the German language.
1 j They encourage all efforts to keep j
I alive political as well as cultural loy-!
, alty to Germany. They were day in j
and day out crusaders for Deutsch-j
thum.”
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USE MORE POTATOES
It is said that a pound of baked
potatoes is equal in nutritive value
to seven ounces of bread. Join the
“Wheat Savers’ League." Use the
perishable potato as a wheat and
bread substitute.
Eat potatoes. It cuts down the use
of wheat. Potatoes are cheaper than \
usual and are of good quality. They :
may be prepared in many ways. The
increased use of potatoes may be the
final solution of the wheat problem.!
just, as the wheat problem seems to i
be the final solution of the battle
in France.
PIANO FOR SALE—Price $250. Write
Mrs. J. C. Martin, Valdez, Alaska,
for further particulars.
WANTED—Boat builders and ship car
penters. Apply to Ohm Fish & Pack
ing Co. H-tf
LOST—Key ring, with three Keys
return to Times office
LOST—Bunch of keys; one pass key,
two trunk keys, two safety deposit
keys and beer opener on small ring
Finder return to Alaskan hotel.
FOR RENT—Six unfurnished cot
tages. Cordova Abstract & Realty
Co., Adams building.
WEDNESDAY
ALL MEALS
WHEATLESS
USE NO BJVEAU CHXCKYJUZ,
V&m Ctl BIULAK1AST IOUP5
CONTAINING V.11EAT
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING.
WAITRESS WANTED—Apply at
Schiller's restaurant.
FOR SALE—Box couch Apply Man
hattan Hotel.
IFOR SALE—1 4 H.P. Vulcan Marine
Engine complete. Inquire Blum
O'Neill Co. 9-16
FOR SALE—Gas boat "B. F. M., forty
two foot, twelve-foot beam, ten tons
net, thirty-six horse-power, Kahlen-;
berg engine, full equipment Ad
dress W. R. Millard, Valdez. 5-4-2w !
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FOR SALE—A piano. Apply to Thos.
S. Scott 17-tf !
FOR RENT—Cabins. See Oooley.
OVER $100,000.00 IN DEPOSITS
On May 15th deposits were over $102,000.00.
The BANK OF ALASKA has reached its first
objective in less than nine months from the
date of opening in Cordova.
We wish to thank our patrons for their loyal
support and to invite those who are not now
depositors to become associated with the
Bank of Alaska
THE THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
BONDS RECEIVED
The first consignment of full paid Bearer
Bonds have been received. All those who paid
during the earley part of the campaign may
call and receive their bonds.
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