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I SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1919.
l DEMOCRATIC 80UVENIR3
Some might be disposed to view
with sour disparagement the admin
istration’s plan to turn 15,000,000 hand
grenades into savings banks for
American school children.
We are for it.
Being naturally disposed to regard
the administration indulgently we do
not wish, in the first place, to disturb
it at its cute little games. It should
always have something to amuse it
and nothing could be more amusing
to the Democrats than to recall con
stantly the mad, glad days when they
spent the people’s money like intoxi
cated tars.
Each grenade will be provided with
a slot for the absorption of either
pennies or dimes and will be lettered
W. S. S.
Every child under the age of ten
who earns money during the summer
vacation to buy a war saving stamp
and submits to his teacher when
school reopens a story telling how
he or she earned the money will be en
titled to receive a bank.
Grand!
We are for that, too. We believe
that everything possible should be
done to push the war savings stamp
campaign. It is the best government
investment and the banks will adver
tise it. Moreover, the banks will be
a monument of enduring metal to the
Democratic party’s extravagance.
\<re have just one amendment to
offer. The hand grenades should have
dollar slots by way of preserving fond
memories of how the administration
squandered the dollars by billions.
The children should be invited to tell
the story of the golden age of Demoo
racy which never will come again.
REIGN OF UNREASON
Strikes by fire and police forces
have for their object the triumph of
a particular faction by violence. One
faction uses the police and the firemen
to overcome another faction.
In Winnipeg the policemen and fire
men abandoned their work to take
part in a sympathetic strike. We have
no doubt they acted in good faith,
thinking, perhaps, that a strike by
members of a firemen’s union or a
policemen’s union was as justifiable
as a strike by any other branch of or
ganized labor. But the very fact that
they acted in good taith shows to what
dark abysses of unreason economic
warfare sometimes leads.
The. police and firemen are not em
ployed by any faction; they are the
servants of the entire community,
pledged to protect the community from
crime and desruction. When they go on
strike they open the flood gates of
crime and destruction and by that act
become betrayers and despoilers of
those they are bound by law and moral
duty to protect.
It is not simply that their wages
are paid by the community that they
owe a duty to the coriimunity. If they
volunteered to protect the community
for a Certain period their moral re
sponsibility would be fixed during that
period even though they did not re
ceive a cent. What would we think
of a doctor who abandoned patients
In a railroad or mine disaster until he
should be given his fees?
The argument that policemen have
a right to forms unions and unions
have a right to strike Is no argument
at all. By the duty he assumes when
he joins a police or fire department a
man is debarred from striking. It is
not a question of wages or of the rights
of organised labor. It is a question of
moral responsibility. If a man does
not wish to abide by that responsibil
ity he ought not to be g fireman or a
policeman.
Not long ago a great strike was de
clared in Hamburg by the workmen.
As a counterstroke the professional
classes went on a strike, the doctors
among them. Presumably the doctors,
to win tor their faction or the public
generally, causes many deaths. Were
the doctors doing wrong? If so, how
much more culpable are firemen and
policemen who go on strikes. The doc
tor can contend with some degree of
validity that he Is not the servant of
the public, but simply of those who
hire him, but firemen and policemen
are paid by and pledged to serve the
entire community.
In Winnipeg, so far as we are aware,
they had no grievances. They went
out on a sympathetic strike to aid or
ganized labor in establishing the sys
tem of collective bargaining. They
thereby contended for the right to
abandon*the community to crime and
destruction that one faction might gain
an advantage over another. It was
tantamount to the use of violence. The
threat of murder, fire and rapine was
held over the head of the community
as a club by the strikers. ‘‘Either
bow to our will,” was their edict, "or
we shall let loose upon you the mur
derer and the firebrand.”
Organized labor cannot afford to
stand for revolution. In the United
it does not. In Canada organized labor
—if it really Is back of the strikes
by firemen and policemen—is inviting
the deluge.
Among the striking policemen and
firemen of Winnipeg are soldiers who
held back the Hun in France and
Flanders. Among those who are back
ing the firemen and policemen in the
sympathetic strike are soldiers who
fought to save Canada from the Hun.
Had these soldiers gone on a strike
while in the army the kaiser probably
would be ruling Winnipeg today.
THREE EXCLUSIONS
In framing the Constitution of (the
United States, the founders of our gov
ernment took negative as well as posi
tive views. They declared that cer
tain things were to be and that others
were not to be.
There were three things which they
barred out, which they did not intend
to permit. Old World persecutions and
tyrannies w'ere still vividly remember
ed, and they decreed that no religious
test should ever be required of can
didates for office under the federal
government. We of today have cause
to be thankful for their action.
Puritan and Cavalier, Tory and
Whig, Stuart and Hanoverian had
taken deadly revenge on the losing
side, and our constitution mercifully
enacted that “no attainder of treason
shall work corruption of blood, or for
feiture, except during the life .‘of the
person attained.” We are glad now
that nobody lost his lands-because his
father sat in the Hartford convention
or because he was the son of a mem
ber of the cabinet of Jeffson Davis.
During the eighteeenth century, yes,
during the boyhood of George Wash
ington, the heads of Jacobites had
been nailed over Carlisle gate and
their children had been driven from
home.
The men who rejected religious
tests and political persecutions were
not ignorant of commercial history.
Well did they know that the partial
ity of a king, or a premier or a court
clique, or a sovereign’s mistress, had
gained undue favors for'this ^Dr that
port. Looking backward to a past
full of such conditions and to a future
that was to be free from them they
ordered “That no preference shall be
given by any regulation of commerce
or reveriue to the ports of one state
over those of another.”
Gladstone said that our Constitution
was the most wonderful document ever
struck off at a given time by the mind
of man. The advocates of Free Ports
may well consider three exclusions.
Eagle dance tonight in Eagle’s hall.
Empress Orchestra.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed proposals will be received at
the office of the town clerk up to 6
p. m. Wednesday, June 25, 1919, for
the repair of the bulkhead and side
walk on the west side of First Street
between B and C strets, town of Cor
dova.
Plans and specifications may be seen
by applying to J. E. Currier, chairman
of the street commitee. ,
The city reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
A. J. ADAMS, Mayor.
Attest: K. G. ROBINSON,
Town Clerk. l»-«t
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Bogart & Robinson
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We also Do Painting, Decorating and Paper-Hanging. Eatlmatea
cheerfully furnlahed for the beat of work by experienced workmen.
We Will Have a Shipment of
SWEET MILK PASTEURIZED
Also Whipping Cream, Buttermilk and Bul
garian Buttermilk on the Alameda.
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MR8. J. W. KENNEDY
Chitina, Alaska
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The City of Goodrich—>Akron. Ohio
EASTMAN KODAK
AGENCY
Let us equip you with a Kodak at catalogue
price from our big stock of various styles and
sizes; we will show you how to make good
pictures with any machine you buy.
FREE DEVELOPING
To encourage the Amateur Photographer,
any size roll of film bought from us will be de
veloped free if prints are ordered; this work will
be done by our expert photographer Mr. Scar
borough, samples of whose work may be seen
on display in our Kodak window.
Cordova Drug Co.
TAe Store
SERVICE WITH A SMILE
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CITY BAKERY LUNCH ROOM
Special Carefully-Prepared Lunch served from 11:30 a. m. Our Fine
French Rolls with every meal
Big Variety of Pastries Cnfeos. Always Fresh
Sanitary Machinery of Latest Model. Patent Brick Ovep. Best Ma
terials used by Expert Workmen, producing our Famous Cream Loaf
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Best Coffee in Town
French Bread Rye Bread
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Auto Stage Line
Fairbanks and Way Points
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Competent Drivers Licensed Cars
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BURGESS-KARSTENS AUTO LINE
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NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton
and Provisions
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Particular Attention and Prompt 8ervice Given to Orders from
Mining Camps, Roadhouses and Interior Points. Halibut and other
Fresh Fish of all kinds will be kept In stock when available.
SMITH & GLASSBRENNER, Props.
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FRANK A. DOUGLAS. Proprietor
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Men's Shoes helf-soled and
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Radies' Shoes halt-soled.S.SO
Heels, rubber and leather.It
Hen's hat-soles .AH
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