The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-05-15

uult uluFG kuAu NuAE oAAlNs ANA navy entered actively into the personal, so- clal and business life Of the city. In fact, you have become and arc now a citizen of Skagway In spite of that prominence of the law which declares that no person shall either acquire or lose citizenship by reason of his service ln the military or naval forces of the United States. You did not wrap your self in a mantle of exclusiveness and from the height of power which was yours look down with condescension upon poor civilians, thanking God that you were not as other men were. You did not draw around your form some awful circle within whose confines no ordinary mortal dared venture; you did not pass with an air of conscious superb ority as if to say, CT am Sir Oracle and when ope my lirs let DO dog bark. On the contrary, you became one Of us; you mingled with our citizens: you en- tered into our sports, our joys, our cares; you joined our lodges; you even passed the hat around 10 church. And yet you lost none of the dignity that at- tlched to your position nor forfeited one whit Of the respect that was due to you. Though kind, you were not soft; though friendly, you were not familiar; though powerful you were not odicious.
 Stationed as you were far from the seat Of government with DO speedy communication with the powers that be. it was yours, had you SO chosen, to excel the military above the civil power, ,o 30 conduct yourself and to 80 direct those under your command as to make that portion of the army an en- zine of oppression; but instead Of sol doing you have uniformly and consist ently refused Co use your company eN- cept as an aid to the civil authorities when requested bv them. We soon came to feel that you believe that it was glorious tO have the strength ot a giant put that it was tyrannus to use it as a giant We soon came to believed that you felt that "the voice of the law was the harmony of the world; that all things ln heaven and earth did her homage very least as feeling her clre aud the greatest as no; exempt from her power" We saw oy your every action that before the presidents commission had made you a captain great nature had made you man and a citizen. Though it is a maxim Of the law that among arms the laws are silent, you have acted on the principle that amorg the laws arms arc silent, Not one oflcious act have you performed; not one false step have you taken, and your men, inspired by your example, have followed in your footsteps. There has been DO complaint that by virtue Of your position or their arms a republics true dividing line between the civil and the military has at any time been over stepped or even iniringed upon. Did one of your men violate the city ordi- nances or the general laws of Alaska be was promptly and without eavil handed over to the civil authorities, to be dealt with as the statute requires.
 Captain, you arc quite Q decent man. We have no doubt that 10 all your et- forts you have been ably seconded by Capt. Jenks, Lieut.. Raines and Dr. Bailey, and we have no anxiety but the policy which you have adopted will not be continued under the gallant officers who win succeed you.
 We know not in what quarter of the country or of the world the exigencies ot the service may call you. It may be your lot to be stationed on the wind- swept plains of Kansas or Nebraska, or the torrid mesas of Arizona or New l Mexico, or near some great city where social diversions will vary the monotony . Ql A aolAAgN AAAg iA tAAAAN NA F~a~es ANN may go down among the Mormons and from the heights of Fort Douglas muse upon that wonderful temple. Or you may be called upon to fight the lusty natives in tho jungles of the Philip pines. or the heather Chinese under the walls of Pekin; or among the palms and pines, the oranges and bananas, the cocoanuts and citron groves and white magnolias of Porto Rico, lulled by the mocking birds heavenly strain and famed by the zephyrs of eternal summer to fall asleep dreaming that ', life Is beauty.
 Wherever 1t be, wherever you go you win carry with YOU the best wishes Oi the citizens of Skagway. None, moro than they, will rejoice in the advance ment of rank which is soon and sure to come. We feel certain that the blade which has been stainless here will be
 unstained forever. Accept, then, this our tribute. Our hoard is but little but our hearts are great.