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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. IROY - ■ Editor and Manager
Published every even It •» . xcept R • nday by the
BMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY, at Second and Main
Streets, Juneau, Alask
Entered as second class matter November 7, 1912
at the postoftice at Juneau, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
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y notify the Lusiness office of any failure or irregu
a.-ity in the delivery of their papers.
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Peabody; Perseverance, R. 0. Egeland.
Telephone for Editorial and business Offices, 374
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the
use for republication of all news dispatthes credited
to It or not otherwire credited in this paper and also
the local news published herein.
CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE MORE THAN
DOUBLE THAT OF ANY OTHER ALASKA
NEWSPAPER.
GERMANY'S REPLY
On its face the reply of Germany to President
Wilson’s questions is a complete acceptance of the
principles the President has laid down as a basis for
a just peace among the the nations engaged in war,
principles which have met with the favor of our hu
ropean Allies. But that does not mean that peace
is at hand now, though it may mean that peace is
not far off. Germany made promises to the United
StateB ’in connection wiih her submarine warfare,
and she broke them as soon as she was prepared to
do so and believed thai she could do it with im
punity. She occupies Belgium now because she
regarded her signed and sealed national word as no
more than a "scrap ol paper,” when it was to her
interest in a military sense so to consider it. Her
reply and all her peace corresponds nee would quick
ly become a part of her peculiar war strategy if she
could make it so. Let Ld many gain the advantage
that is now with the \ilies and her piesent profes
sion would be forgotien in an%instant.
The Allies cannot afford to and /we may rest
assured that President Wilson will not take any
thing for granted in the dealings with the treacherous
Hun government. It is not likely that the President will
grant Germany an armistice unless it be on a basis
that will permit the Allies to retain the advantages,
that are theirs by virtue of the circumstances of war,
in the event that further negotiations may fail to
result in peace.
But the chtnces are that if such guaranties are
asked for they will be forthcoming. Germany is de
feated and she knows it. She knows that further
lighting will result in greater disaster to her arms.
She knows that great losses—losses that will greatly
reduce her military strength—will be the price of
a retreat of hep am s from France and Belgium.
Her accomplices are already defeated. Bulgaria may
now be classed as pro-Ally. Turkey is lost to her,
and will be pro-Ally if wanted. Russia can help
her in no way. She is facing a war with famine—
fightintg to live. Therefore, Germany stands alone,
and she is surrounded by a cordon of steel. The
circle is growing smaller daily. The end must be
surrender or destruction, sooner or later. Germany
has probably determined that it will be surrender,
and that soon.
In the meantime, the American pepni.> may rest
with the assurance that the interest of this coun
try and her Allies and the cause of civilization are
in the keeping of safe and patriotic hands. No
man understands the situation better than the Pres
ident, and none is more capable of dealing with it.
The war is still on, and it is the duty of Americans
to oversubscribe the Liberty Bond issue.
The Kaiser is on his knees bogging. The best way
to keep him there is to oversubscribe the Liberty
Iatan. Let th^t be oversubscribed and the Kaiser will
go as far for peam as i, .s asked to go.
WILSON'S TRIBUTE 10 THE NEGRO.
In commuting the i ten< of 10 of 16 negro
soldiers convicted in Hie courts martial grow ing
out of the Houston riots, President Wilson said:
I desire the clemency here ordered to be a
recognition of the splendid loyalty of the
race to which these soldiers belong and an
inspiration to the people of that race to
further zeal and service to the country of
which they are citizens, and for the liberties
of which so many of them are now bravely
bearing arms at the very front of great fields
of ^ittle.
No fine? or more deserve ! tribute has been paid
fhc valor of the negro soldier or the patriotism and
loyalty of the negro civilian in this war.
It was the appearance of American soldiers in
France and their participation in the fighting that
^ut heart into the Allied armies. It was that which
put that sinking feeling into the Hun stomachs. An
I
oversubscription of the Fourth Liberty Loan will
give more courage to the Allies and add weight tc
the German gloom.
A RED LETTER DAY.
October 12, 1918, was a red letter day. It was
Liberty day in the United States, the 426th anni
versary of the discovery of America; it was the day
that the Kaiser humbled himself, permitted the ad
mission that the people of Germany are entitled to
voice in determining the fate of Germany, and con
sented that peoples everywhere should be permitted
to settled the questons of their nationality for them
selves, and many other things.
The day was appropriately observed throughout
the United States, including Juneau.
UNDOING WICK-MADE DAMAGE.
It is illustrative of the Wickersham idea of polities
that Delegate Sulzcr has had to intercede with the
Interior Department to undo positive injury to the
Territory resulting from Judge Wiekorsham’s cam
paign of misrepresentation. Judge Wickersham
alarmed prospectors and miners and others by his
oft repeated declaration that the resolution dominat
ing the nAessity of assessment work on mining claims
for 1917 and 1918 was void. Delegate Sulzer was
appealed to by those interested, and he wired to the
Interior Department and got a reply from Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Vogelsang which quickly
and effectively demonstrated that Wickersham was
simply talking for votes and was careless of the
injury he was doing.
SERBIA HAS HER CAPITAL.
No item of news that has been received in a long
time is more pleasing than the announcement that
the Allies have occupied Nish, the capital of Serbia.
Dittle Serbia is again coming into her own. She has
fought a long battle, and one that will do down in
history among the stories of heroism. No people
ever showed a willingness to fight and die for their
faith, their country and their honor more clearly and
with less flinching. No people ever deserved victory
more.* None ever had to pay more for it. And none
ever gained sweeter success.
The stories of Serbia and Belgium in this great
war of wars will be an inspiration to men as long as
civilization continues on the face of the earth.
Austria and Turkey have notified Germany that
(hey will accept President's Wilson's peace terms
w'hethc-r Germany does or not. Which means that
Germany has fought for more than four years only
finally to stand alone and friendless among all the
nations of the world.
If the German people are worthy of freedom, the
Kaiser is done for. Me can never account to them
ior more than four years of death and destruction
and the certainty of as many decades of burdensome
taxes.
At least the Kaiser has been compelled to give
approval lo a declaration by his Chancellor that he
speaks for the people of Germany rather than for his
Emperor, who so often has declared, “I am the
State.’ ’
It is a question whether Belgians or Serbians are
getting most enjoyment out of the recent turn of
events.
The Sulzer Game Bill.
(Valdez Miner.)
Delegate Sulzer for the past year has been attempt
ing to get the game laws changed so as to allow
the miner and prospector to use game killed in sea
son out of season. As the law now stands a party
having game in their possession during the closed
season is liable to arrest and imprisonment. A man
killing two or three moose or caribou the first of the
season must dispose of the meat by the time the sea
son cuds. To remedy this was our Delegate’s endeav
or. James Wickersham, Dr. Hornaday and Theodore
Roosevelt blocked this legislation by telling the com
mittee it was only a subterfuge to slaughter game
by pot hunters. Mr. Wickersham even went so far
as to state to the committee that there were less than
5,000 caribou left in the Territory, which, of course,
made Messrs. Roosevelt and Hornaday, who are heads
of the game preservation (for tourists) League, froth
at the mouth with sympathy fbf the slaughtered
game. With the tremendous opposition to the bill
coming from these influential game hogs. Alaska’s
Delegate was forced to abandon the attempt to pass the
bill for the time being.
Mr. Roosevelt has killed tons of meat to where
the average Alaskan has killed pounds. The ex-Fres
ident has been in the van of the big game hunters
from the days of the bison down to the present time.
Dr. Hornaday is a learned ignoramus who is about
as well acquainted with condltioi s in Alaska as lie
is with a workingman’s Sunday dinner. Both, look
at the question purely from the standpoint of the
sportsman, which is inimical to the interests of the
settlers of a country. Rather than see a game ani
mal suffer the Colonel would pickle its body for pos
terity/ The. prospector who kills for food is a law
breaker because he has none o* the finer instincts
of the sportsman in his nature and may knock a
"loose in the head with an axe or bite it in the heel,
if lie can secure it for his depleted larder
The difference between the hunter and the sports
man has caused these gentlemen to become obssessed
with the idea that their special mission in life is to
tel) Alaskans how to save the big game in the coun
try, or at least to save it until it can be killed by
licensed sportsmen from the big sporting centers of
the l.'ast,
W (> do not believe there is an Alaskan today who
would kill more game than he could use, or would
kill lor the mere sake of killing. After a man has
roamed the wilds of this great commonwealth for
several years he realizes the necessity of preserving
his food supply, and is careful to see that it is not
driven out of his district by indiscriminate shooting.
The only object to be attained by blocking Delegate
•Sulzcr’s bill by the opposition created, was to prevent
Mr. Sulzer from being instrumetal In bringing up leg
islation beneficial to the Territory and Its citizens.
A dispatch received the past week from Dawson esti
mate the caribou herds in that vicinity at 35,1.110.
This is bht a small portion of the district rovered by
'h”Bt noble animals. In the vicinity of Circle there
ate equally as many. The only fresh meat to be ob
tained in many camps Ir the interior is game, it
dorr not matter how the animal is killed or who kills
it, the meat serve*'Its purpose in feeding the men
who are developing the country; the trail blazers
and t ne pioneers of the Territory.
An) millionaire in the liait can come to Alaska and
kill more game in a month than an Alaskan could get
in a year, because the latter has little time to hunt
and hunting in this country is expensive. The mil
lionaire kills for trophies, the Alaukau fo; meat.
Which man’s opinion on the subject cf game prei
ervaiiou should receive the most consideration?
llindenburg's advice to the German people—“Be
lard"—will not feed them or furnish new reser.’t-s
for their armies.—(New York World.)
Fuller Sunk Says’
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BITS OF BY - PLAY
By Luke McLuke
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Copyright by Cincinnati
Enquirer
Bless Her Heart
She weaVs tier waist so very low,
We wonder how far she will go.
At that, the dead girl wouldn't vex
us,
If she displayed her solar plexus.
OhI
"It says here that the amount of.
conscience money returned to the
Government is not one tenth what
it used to be,” said the Old Fogey,
as he looked up from the newspaper.
“This shows that there is less steal
ing, doesn’t it?”
“Not necessarily,” replied the Old
Grouch. "It may merely show that
there is less conscience.”
Nothing To Do
He gets to work at nine or ten.
And takes a little snooze;
Or goes out for a paper, then
He reads the daily news.
He plays a game of solitaire
He's always killing' time.
Unless, perchance, some maiden fair
Comes in and spends a dime.
But customers are mighty few,
Say five or six a day;
He hasn’t got a thing to do
But pass the time away.
So all day long he’ll sit and fan,
Or snore, with ballltiioscd eyas;
yor he is clerking for a man
Who doesn’t advertise.
Paw Knoks Everything
Willie—Paw, what is the irreducible
minimum?
Paw—The pork in a can of pork
and beans, my 8on.f,
In the Trenches
The British Tommy never runs,
He's loyal to his duties;
When he’s not busy killing Huns,
He’s busy killing cooties.
A Wonder
A funny man is Mr. Whizz.
And he deserves a crown;
He never brags that his dog is
The smartest dog in town.
Mean Brute!
"I read somewhere the other day
that there is enough phosphorus in
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THE FOURTH
LIBERTY LOAN
For the fourth time our Government asks the public for
funds with which to prosecute the war. The amount is
larger than any previous loan, because of the growing cost
of the war. Our overseas army approximates one million
seven hundred thousand men. Food, guns munitions, trans
portation and the necessary attendant costs mount into the
billions. The strain of war is upon us. We now have a
realizing sense of the present and impending loss In men and
money, the necessity for service and sacrifice, for economy and
patriotic devotion. In order that the lives of our army
abroad may be saved, the suffering of the sick and wounded
ameliorated, there must be an unbroken flow of guns, mu
nitions and army equipment, of food, medicine and hospital
supplies. To insure this uninterrupted flow in sufficient
volume the Government needs the funds it asks for.
Taxes, in as great volume as is deemed prudent, are Im
posed upon all men and all industries with uniformity and
fairness. By the selective draft the personal military bur
den is imposed upon all of military age and fitness with
uniformity Md impartiality. When it comes to the placing
of Government bonds, the matter of subscription is volun
tary. Subscription, however, is a privilege as well as a
patriotic duty and involves making a safe investment at a
fair rate of interest.
It is our duty as citizens to make this loan a success
and it is our pleasure to offer you, gratuitously, the facili
ties of The B. M. Behrends Bank in making subscriptions and
to pledge you our very best service in carrying out your in
structions.
TERMS OF PAYMENT
10% Cash with Application.
20% November 21st, 1918.
20% December 19th, 1918.
20% January 16th, 1919.
30% January 30th, 1919, with accrued
interest to date of payment.
THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK
JCNEAU, ALASKA
a woman’s bady to make eight thou
sand boxes of matches,” remarked
Mrs. Gabb.
“Huh,” replied Mr. Gabb, “no won
der you are always flaring up.”
Names Is Names
M. T. Leggs lives at Mt. Lock
hart, Tennessee.
Our Dally Special
A Square Man Never Gets Cor
nered.
Luke McLuke Says
Women wear pretty clothes to
please the men. Hut they seldom
wear them to pleaRe the men who
have to pay for them.
Every man is a good deal of a
liar when he starts to tell his sons
about the hard times he had when
he was a boy.
Every time you hand a man Borne
free advice he has someone to cuss
out and blame his failures on.
In every small town there is a
tough old backslider who likes to
point with pride to the fact that
Tommy Brown was the worst boy in
town. Is now a preacher; and that
Willie Green, who was the best boy
in Sunday school, is now in the Pen.
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
(Ic t)ue on Advertised eLtters)
Letters remaining uncalled for
in the Post Office at Juneau, Alaska,
Oct. 11, 1918. Parties wishing same
should call for “advertised letters”
and give date of list.
Bishop .James G. (postal), Nils
Brodesen, Berdie Gateway, Tony
F'lengus, Geo. Grubick, Ruth Hayes,
Sarah Jackson, John McClung (3),
Monrcw and McClatment, John Mit
chell, Ben Myer, Hieronymus Nero,
A. C. Oas (postal), Mrs. Anna Roy,
J. Sutherland, Henry Schneider,
F’loyd Wright (postal).
BILLS OF SALE RECORDED
Bills of sale have been received
at the Customs House for the follow
ing boats:
The "Hiawatha" to William Brooks
by Charles Knapp at Ketchikan.
The “Regis” from Nooksack Pack
ing Company to the Alaska Sanitary
Packing Company.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr, L, 0, Sloant
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Dr. P. J. Mahon*
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JINIAI ... ALASKA !
Capt. Hairy C. DeVighn*
M. C.
144th Field Artillery
American Expeditionary ForcM
.Via New York, N. Y.
Dr. Leonard P. Dawes
HMION AND PHYSICIAN
Offloa 1st Nafl Bank Bits.
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OffiM attr-PHONES—Rea. Mtt
Valentine Bldg. Phone 176
Drs. White and Jenne
Dentiats
Juneau, Alaska
Drs. Kaser & Freeborger
Bentiiti
1 and I Ooldataln Olda
PHONO II
Maura I a. m. ta I a. at.
Miss Albrecht
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In all cases requiring massage,
diet and mechanical therapeutics.
Room 804, Zynda Hotel, Juneau
PHONE 128
Learn This
Tailorgram
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as you want—but don’t deny
yourself the benefits that come
from having us make your
clothes — benefits that mean
better appearance, longer
wear and real economy.
THE
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Give your order to our local
representative
JAMES MOON
The "Argosy” to Mora and Robert
Jones by Louise Amundsen, at Ket
chikan.
For a little cnat ano a bite to ea
there’s no place like TUB QA.STI
NEAU — ANY TIME, ALL THJ
TIME, ANY TIME.
Headquarters for Ladysmith coal
Juneau Transfer Co., phone 48.