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H. G. STEEL. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
( (>i;in>\ \. ALASKA, Till I,‘SPAY, MAW’ll 2!), 1!>I7.
PENDING HORRORS.
We have for months been urging the wisdom of inviting
the neutral nations to send delegates to a peace congress to con
sider the changes necessary in the international laws which are
supposed to govern all civilized nations. This, in the hope that
something might be accomplished that would be acceptable to
the warring nations of the world as a basis of settlement, and a
guarantee of lasting peace among all the nations.
We have expressed the belief that, as our’s is the greatest
of the neutral powers, the proposition should come from Presi
dent Wilson, offering a place for the meeting but not insisting
that it should be held on our soil. Moreover, that such invita
tion should be likewise extended to the Pope, inasmuch as so
many millions of his faith are involved in the death struggle
now going on in the old world.
What such a congress might have accomplished by this
time is hard to estimate, but that its united action would have
made a profound impression upon the belligerents there can be
no doubt. It would at least have consolidated the opinions of
all the powers not directly involved in the war, and the people
in the warring countries would have heard of the deliberations
and millions of them would have accepted the findings of the
congress as the right thing to do.
But what we have been urging as a wise expedient has now
become, as we see things, a necessity. It is clear from the cables
that Russia, Great Britain (or at least England), France and
Germany are even now almost upon the brink of starvation.
We do not count upon the spring campaigns accomplishing any
decisive results, and when they shall have spent their force and
another winter falls, what then?
What can prevent a break down, a universal crash, and
then a cry for bread from millions of starving men, women and'
little children ?
The horrors of the battlefields have shocked the world.
What is imminent now, if realized, will intensify those horrors
until those experienced to date will seem but trifles by compari
son with those to be realized later. For if they come—and
they surely are imminent—it will mean almost utter chaos.
The warning from the neutral nations should point out this
situation, and in stern tones demand of the maddened men who
are pursuing the war a halt and a swift endeavor to ward off
what is threatened' by the unspeakable situation.
Meanwhile, the neutral nations should plant all their avail
able lands to whatever crops will produce the greatest quanti
ties of substantial foodstuffs, and so far as possible perfect their
transportation facilities, in order to mitigate to the greatest
possible extent the horrors approaching when the final cry for
bread from the starving nations shall be heard.
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IMS1 JLWAKBHIlia OP ®IIE BEAR
It lias always been predicted that the time would come
when Russia would awaken from her sleep of centuries, shake
off the shackles of ignorance and superstition, and take up the
mug-contemplated march for a “place in the sun.”
That time has come. The bear is wide awake, but the situ
ation is vastly different from what men anticipated. Think of
it : An imperial ukase ignored by the duma at a time when the
whole nation was under arms and the czar at the head of his
army. Then in swift succession came the revolution, the mutiny
of the soldiers, the flight of the royal family, the abdication of
the czar, and the reorganization of the government—all this
happened within the short space of a few days. It is too early
In discuss the details involved with any degree of accuracy.
The available dispatches simply tell of the bare facts surround
ing tin1 overthrow of the bureaucracy.
Does this sliakeup mean that Russia has finally liberated
herself for all time to come? Who knows but what she has at
last found her “place in the sun,” not by having her hordes
overrun her neighboring nations on an expedition of conquest,
but by providing within her own vast domain for the complete
emancipation of her millions of down-trodden people?
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Of doubtful consolation to the anthracite coal users of the
eastern states is the learned and exhaustive report of the fed
eral trade commission that there is no reason based on cost of
production for the boost in the price he is being forced to pay
for this sort of fuel.
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Grand Duke Nicholas may be in a measure a benevolent
despot, but his iron hand in ruling the army before showed that
he is in every sense a czar. Even if Grand Duke Michael is
weak, as some seem to think, tiie army will be under a strong
man.
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In Germany they have provided premiums for babies. Sub
sidizing the stork may not be amiss in this country, where the
high cost of babies is getting higher all the time.
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Poland’s predicament in being “rescued” from what has
become democratic Russia only to be made a vassal of imperial
Germ any look sdik e the-irony of fate,___ __
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House servants in Petrograd are demanding an eight-hour
day and time off to see their policemen friends. The world
doesn’t just move; it gallops.
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It develops that the late monk Rasputin was the power be
hind the throne after all. Without this wily intriguer the czar
was easily overthrown.
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Now they are making doughnut-shaped lifeboats. This
threatens to send a favorite slang expression into the discard.
Of course, America feels friendly toward the Russian re
volution. America is the inspiration for world liberty.
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Fortunately, for the sake of our conscience, we do not have
to go to war on this side of the despotic czar.
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The spirit of awakened Russia is seen in the brilliant
achievements of the army in Asia Minor.
E F. MEDLEY.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
WM. A. HESSE
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