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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-07
GOING OFF TO WAR.

Going off to war these days lacks the romantic glamour of the days of our fore fathers. Today it is strictly matter of business Today about 5Oa of our young men go forth to war without brass bands and os- tentation, but with the highest purpose that ever filled the hearts of fighting men. They go that we who stay at home may dwell in peace and security. They give their all that our country may continue to be the "land of the free and the home of the brave" And as they go forth, they should feel that their home town is solidly behind them; that we at home will keep them there wherever they may be called upon to go in behalf of the right.
 And as they go our hearts go out to them in farewell. We wish them the best of every thing that may come their way. We wish them courage to keep up the fight when it seems almost more than man can bear. We wish them the utmost of strength and for bearance in the trying times.
 They leave hole in our midst that will never be filled until they return. But we are proud of then-every one of them. They are credit to Fairbanks and we have no fears for their future. We know that when ever they go they will be a credit to Fair banks and Alaska and in that knowledge we pledge ourselves to give them the support they deserve
 We wish them God speed and good luck, and hope that they may come back to us right speedily, safe and sound, the same boys who go out of our community today fired with the purpose that will make it hot for any Huns who get in their way.
 IF "It takes two to make a quarrel" 1t is equally true that it takes the good will of both to preserve an active friendness be- tween two great nations. Not so very long ago the United States and Canada quietly celebrated a peace maintained without fort or gun on either side of the 3,5OO-mil bor- der More recently, the state department at Washington has called attention to the fact that there has been completed similar hun dred years peace between Argentina and the United States It thus seems evident that when two nations wish to do so, it is fairly easy to preserve between them harmony and good faith.
 As an appropriate beginning fora .eague of Nations writer in an American magazine has proposed Marine Union between Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy and Japan. The union is to lay down rules which will guarantee international security and good conduct in the use of the worlds domain of the seas. Germany, for instance, is not to| use them for commercial purposes unless she has made herself acceptable to the union This proposal is undoubtedly more generous than would result if victorious Germany were able to dictate to the allies. ike PhilipI of Spain, she might cry Ships offv or scoopI lp the lot under her own flag.
 
 The kaiser should congratulate himself that the Yankees haven't had more time for military training. If they had couple of weeks more they'd be in Berlin right now-I Detroit Free Press.)
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-07

The kaiser should congratulate himself that the Yankees haven't had more time for military training. If they had couple of weeks more they'd be in Berlin right now (Detroit Free Press.)
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cringer or one "ho at command goes TO
heel" However, at this hour | stand here
to say that Congress can make no greater
mistake, the Senate can make no more
tragic blunder. than to give the country to
unders and that Woodrow Wilson proposes
to fritter away the fruits OF this war. | DO
not believe it. ! can find nothing in my
heart can find nothing in his conduct. to
warrant such an opinion.
Mr.. WILLIAMS: I do not think any one
believes it,
MIR. REED: hone nobody really believes
it. 1t is inconceivable, sir. that such thing
should be in his breast These kilograms
that have been read voice a latent fear OF
the people: they also voice Americas hearts
desire.
Why should the people not demand that
there shall be stern justice meted out ?
Fifty years Germany has contemplated this
war. Fifty years of criminal preparedness.
Fifty years of reconciliation. Fifty years
Of cold deliberation. Fifty years of malice
aforethousiit. tiftv yeals Of secret plan
ming and unlawful conspiracy to commit the
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native land luthleaalv and criminally In
aided: murder o. unnamed and uroAendine
men; murder o. helpless women Who stood
crying for mercy: murder of innocent babes
who smiled into the faces OF their sssas-
SINS murder OF The national spirit OF irec
people; murder OF human liberty.
Such was the crime contemplated. Sucn
Was the crime prepared. Such is the crime
consummated. -Four million men have been
stretched dead uDon the earth. Countless
cripples endure The ceaseless torture Of
wounds. Innumerable women have suffered
dclilement and then death at the hands o.
their ravishcls. Babes b. the thousards
have been slaughtered or lett 30 die OF ex-
poaure or starvation. Myriads OF children
have been carried into captivity. Soldiers,
prisoners OF war, forced by starvation. have
been compelled TO dig trenches for their
enemy. and a. the point OF the bavonet TO
bring forward suns 10 slaughter their com
rades.
Belgium, that lav smiling in the sun, mas
been destroyed. Her proud people are en-
shaved. Hen treaties have been broken: her
cities Ievelled to the earth
Serbia has been transformed mo desert
EiNS%S IoCh Ol pcL UiOUlltalHs Is SDl1SnGu
With the blood Of her slaughtered people
Russia. corrupted b. loathsome bribery,
has been turned over TO the merciiess do
minon Of anarchists and the even bassr
scoundrels who sold Russian honor for
German gold.
Rnanania Is PROSTATE. Inc iron heel Of
the brutal conQaeror is upon her breast. his
knife at her throat.
Itay's battle line was broken by eorrup-
ton, not By valor; thus were some OF ne,
rich provinces crushed beneath the German
Jugcernaut her people have been slaugb-
tered BY the tens OF thousands; in every
home candles OF death bum before the
cruc;fX
he northern mali OF France has been
harried until its beautiful fields have been
transformed into cemeteries. lis wonder
full cities are charnel houses ailled with the
bones Of the dead: its affairs have been
decorated; its churches destroyed; its
homes violated; It's families broken M.
By thc hundreds of thousands children
wander in the streets or are turned over 70
tic care OF strangers, or have been carried
inco slavery BY their oppreseors
To-day the retreat OF the German army is
massef By line of smoke and flame -Four
hundred miles it stretches from the North
Sea to the Swiss mountains II is the fires
or French homes set blazing by the torch
of Germans Infatuated by defeat Villages
500 years old are given to the flames. In
the iurid light OF their ruins stand women
and children. their lips frozen dumb by fear
Inc glare Of the fiery furnaces lights ND the
hendish faces Of the retreatinc Huns
Above the conAagration hovers the snirit
o. Attils the curze of Cod
At such time as this. with torches blsz
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but we cen diaa,m her and leave Mcl help
less and harmless.
1t is to be hoped chat armaments every
where may be reduced. but Germany should
have none. Her army must be disbanded,
her navy must be distributed among the
Allies, her rortifcatons dismantled and her
munitions factories destroyed. Not only
so, but there must be no resurrection OF her
military system until the Allied nations are
fully convinced that it is safe to free her
from these restrictions. Until that time
comes she must be dependent nation. at
liberty TO engage in commerce. but poworless
to make war.
Viewed from the ordinary standpoint
these terms are severe beyond precedent,
but the situation itself has no parallel III
history. I understand perfectly that these
conditions mean the degradation possibly
the disintegratior, of once mighty nation,
but If we are to be safe, if the world is to
be secure, they must be imposed
My proposal is capital punishment for a
nation, and am keenly conscious that many
innocent German people will suffer, but why
shrink from the inevitable? Either they
must suffer or the millions who have laid
down their lives upon the battlefields Of
Belgium, France, Italy and the Far East
will have died for mere truce with brutal
ty. Either some innocent Germans must
suffer in national pride, property and prog
ress or the hellish atrocities which have
shocked and benumbed all Christian lands
will be perpetrated again upon an unoffend-
ing world. Which alternative will you
adopt?
Mr.. REED: Is it possible under these cir
cumstances and conditions that the Presi-
dent contemplates the throwing away OF the
advantage we now possess? l do not think
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through the break up of the Russian
state The capture OF the capital by
gang of international adventurers and
the rapid dissolution of all authority
put Russia out of the war.
The situation had el.1irely changed
Inc numbers were and aways would
remain in favor of the besicged, who
were now but partly contained upon the
west, for the eastern restriction had dis
appeared.
Advantage was taken Of this new su-
perlorlty in numbers to withdraw great
numbers from the fronts, to give them
special training and create a new tacti-
cal instrument which should break per-
liously the western siege and the wall in
the west before the arrival Of the Amer
ican reintorcements.
we know how nearly successful this
new phase Of the besicged-one due ulti-
mately to his new superiority in num-
bers-proved. The new instrument first
came into play against the Italian sec
tor at Caporetto. 1t came within an ace Of
breaking that front altogether and rails
ing the siege. The great sortie only
Just failed to accomplish it's purpose. 1t
was checked at last upon the uncertain
lines of the Pave.
The next use OF the new instrument
was even more formidable 1t struck
on March 81, Of this year, between Arras
and ST. Quentin against the British
army with the object of separating it
from the French and breaking the siege
wall here for good. Once more it all
but succeeded. On March % there was
clear break through and rapid re-
tlrement, involving the loss of over 10O.-
600 prisoners, 1000 guns and the de-
struction of the whole army to the left
OF the gap between the French and Brit
ish, which was closed only at the very
last moment by the arrival of fresh re-
serves, and on April I the action in
which the Germans failed showed that
their line had rejoined This was by
far the most critical moment Of the war.
When the full breakdown Of the last
German attack came on July Is, and
Fochs counter attack on July Is, the face
of the war numbers changed. but they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20
ny Political Bunder by Allies Can Save Germany Now
There Is No Military Ground
Whatsoever for
Compromise
Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc
Special Gable Dispatch to The Tribune
Compromise

2ad material Of this kind in on a great
scale 1t works the other way round. l.
is not they who are digested, but They
who lower the value of the whole.
The classical instance is that OF Ma
poleon in 1S14-15. Napoleon was also
defeated by exhaustion in recruitment.
and the poor material on which he had
to fall back poured in in such numbers
that the whole texture of the army SUI
fered
Now, surprising this German class o.
1920 should count in electives not NOR
than 100000, that is, more than a third
o. the infantry actually fighting on the
Western front and quite quarter OF
the total forces in the western wsr zone
of the Germans? The proportions are
far too high. You cannot use such ma
terra, on such scale. and it is this
perjury in recruitment, this absolutely
inexorable condition, that is dominatine
the whole near future OF the war, vhict
is compelling Germany TO surrender.
These words will be printed, perhaps.
after The political decisions have beer
taken; at any rate, many days after they
are written. But there may still b
time for enc out OF so many ephemeral
writer's upon this war 10 point OFT The
extreme gravity attaching to envy no;
Judgment ii the situation.
Prussia mas brought herself 10 con
dition Were she must inevitably SUITE
total defeat unless there is politics
blunder On the part OF the Allies. 1t j.
absolutely. inevitable. hort OF such =.
blunder. that the Pluasian military ~
chine. The curse Of Europe and the vorl
will be destroyed; not weakened. buc d.
strcyed, pu1 out CT action altogether
The only cause that could possibly teso
to is salvation wo6ld lie a'isuDdee
standing ol the complete bsaakdo7
which he machine has already suffer j
Only too great dependence aron the
tncnory Of the immeGiGte past and CO
scqueni exaggeration O. Prus5ia's prs
emit power could make any civilian poll
tician % fooIish = - ADVISE 4 con-
promise. For =ucn compromise thers
Is no military ero1n4 .,,hatsoeNsa r.
Geieac IS absolute airs4Gy 1a s'es .an-r
md It viii appear eTcn 10 thc mo>' eu-
pcr.icia in vary hriei timc.
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to the Areonne. Where that retreat Is
to end neither we nor the enemy can
tell. He cannot retire indefinitely for
this reason: At very few miles behind
bis present positions-twelve miles be-
hind his front posts--~is Solesmcs, and
twenty miles from his advanced posts
on his left front in front of Dun-sur-
Mouse runs his great lateral railway
communication system, linking Metz and
Lille by way of Sedan, Mezeres and
Nalencennes. If he were to retire be-
You'd that line, or, rather, beyond
the line which fully covers it from
fire, he would have his armies separated
into two groups, with the left hand or
southern group dependent upon Lorraine
and the right hand or northern group de-
pendent on Belgium. His centre, in front
of the Ardennes. would be deprived Of
supplies. for the Ardennes country is
such that no considers supplies can
come across il.
But il the German armies were thu.
divided in to they would be easy pre-
for an attack which had behind it
whole network Of good communications,
which could move men from left to right
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greatest CRIME In SIC history OF The world
3lr. OWEN: Mr. President
The NICE-PREsIDENF: Does the Senate,
rom Missouri yield?
Mr. REED: would rather rot yield at
ths moment.
Mn OWEN: merely want to call tine
Senator's attention to the fact that ninety
six wears ago these very powers entered
into i written agreement to destroy every
democracy on earth, and they never have de-
parted from it hairs breadth.
Mr. REED: | accept that, but | am talk
.nG Of the later preparation. Ii so back 10
The first German atrocities I shall be forced
10 antodate the birth Of Christ.
Behind tic veil OF Christianity they con-
cea!ed the soul Of barbarism. At the foot
OF the Cross they summoned the gods Of
cruelty and lust Within the temples OF re
lision thev plotted the atrocities OF Tanner
lane and the brutalities Of Nero They IN
,oked the spirits of At;iia and Thor ard
pictured them with flaming sword leading
the armies Of Germany to pilage, murder
and victory.
Peaceful Europe was TO be transformed
into am inferno of passion. Lust was TO
k'''' JUS appetite ny the raVlShment o1 VII
gins thieves plumber with the sanction OF
authority incendiaries burn cities by corn
mand of the government, and aasassins
thrive by order OF the King
Murderers were to ply their bloody trade
under the protection Of the imperial houses
of Hapsburg and Hohenzollen. Murder III
discriminate; murder by towns, by cities, by
countries, BY individuals, by millions Muir
der eoolly planned and deliberately done;
murder unrelieved by passion. without pal
lation of hatred or mitigation Of anger;
murder in self-interest; murder Of aold;ers
guilty Of no crime save the defence Of their
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The Senate and Unconditional Surrender

them to do at the end oil the four most ter
rible years of all recorded history at much
greater speed than they would employ if
left TO without being hindered. North
eastern France is ablaze and the whole Of
Belgium smou!dering waste at this very
moment. Fifty thousand American boys
have died suffered wounds in driving the
despoilexs back beyond the Rhine do not
believe that the people of this country
allies will be even momentariiy content
to barter with the Hun. Nothing short OF
absolute, complete, and unconditional suY-
render, carrying with it full reparaticn FOR
the damage wrought, will be accepted OK toll
Grated, and it is my belief that anything
that has even the appearance Of Willingness
to accept anything less will be taken as
failure TO carry out the purposes for which
VIC entered this war and will be resented
with a unanimity and an emphasis that will
permit Of no msundcrstan ding. | think
have not misjudged msrepresented the
attitude OF mind of the American people in
making this statement
If the Allies stop fighting, Mr.. President,
and the war is transferred from the battle
field to the council chamber, the Allies 3'ill
resume lighting. The imperial Ger
man Army, even if it rctres behind the
Rhine if peace should then be established
and Germany surrenders all the territory
which she has invaded, the imperial Ger
man Army, then standing in Germany,
would face upon her east PROSTATE Rus
STA, out of which great imperial Germany
could be built Bulgaria, as soon as the
army of the Allies had withdrawn and dis
banded would again fall like ripe plum
into the Lap Of Germany.
Mr.. CUMMINS: Mr. President, We are
drifting into an exceedingly unfortunate
and dangerous position with respect to
peace terms with Germany. Consciously or
unconsciously, we are permitting general
homilies upon the reorganization and ref
ormation of the world, and everybody in it,
to obscure the one specific object we should
hold constantly in view.
There IS but one answer that will meet
the demands of justice and satisfy the
claims of an outraged world There must
be reparation for the past and security for
the future
First, Germany must pay. pay TO the last
farthng of her capacity to pay, pay until
the generations yet to come will RENE mber
and curse the insane ambition which we'll
nigh destroyed civilization itself, and so she
will repair in some small measure the de-
struction she has wrought
Second, Germany is menace to mankind
because she has cruel, wicked malicious
intent toward the remainder Of the world
and because che has powerful army and
navy to execute her murderous designs.
We cannot change her intent, for it is the
result Of years and years OF training and
teaching in false and selfish philosophy,
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and from right to left at will in num-
bers far greater and increasingly
greater than those of the defence. and
which would have the power of striking
either half OF an isolated portion Of the
defence at win, concentrating upon
whichever fraction was the most vul-
Merable
While we watch this situation with its
rapid development in our favor we
should do we'll to appreciate its in1me-
date causes, for it is only thus that we
can appreciate the possible future The
inst great cause Of the deplorablc situa-
ton in which the German armies now
find themselves is exhaustion, and on
that exhaustion ultimately depends their
policy during the great offensive of the
spring and early summer. The enemy
@ambled upon obtaining a decision be-
fore American aid could become ettica-
cious. He spent men like water from
March II to July Is, and, what is more,
even after he had clearly lost on July
"a. he hesitated, probably from political
reasons, to retire. He lost rlultitudes
more III .rying to stand on The two grc:lc
-al'cnts Of Auiens and the Marine and
IN trying to hold the iorcficld. as he
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in,. WITH payoners we 'r.rh tie blond u.
women and VI babe. tnes. rfcsanr se'. d.
poclitca appeal for ii cesa-tsgl t.. AIMS.
or nescc ~ negotiation. Nm Li-
prayer new upon fne.r l;psc ~ r. becsr~e
rhe sword 4 ii their nesr,s Tic in,ac;h
sword q iroonen. hstti.rp 90 nc aigh.
INC stubborn sword 81 Enciand. lhss - ~-
Yields; he gallant sword o. France. tlaf
knows 40 sheath: 4hc resisfle.; word %
America that. having been drawn N Dc
fence al humanity. viii not be returned u
its scabbard until the liberty o. TIC 'vorld
has been etrained
In f&ce OF such conditions do nor Iear
thet our President VIII uicekIy y;eld.
believe. sirs, that when The peace council
shall have assembled it Will be in the rnids,
OF CONQUERED Germany & may be amid
the flames md smoke OF roined Germany
tell you, sirs. when she conditions Of peace
will not be, il cannot be. subscribed 30 any
Treaty that does moi compel Germany 70
tread the winspress OF repentance, TO psy
bscR--to pay back 10 the world, as Far a..
she can, in her suffering for the asun-
les that she has wrought, Cor the desclstion
she has brought upon the earth
Mr.. WILLIAMS: Mr.. President
upon This good day. and for sev.ral day.
gone. whatever the physical w-athsr may
hare been, there has been sunshiny weather
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calls it, Of the Hindenburg line. and,
above all, in strenuously clinging to the
great hill pivot of st. Gobain.
1t is not always appreciated that has
total casualties since the beginning CT
the year amount to approximately q
900, 600 men, and Of this enormous total
a good deal more than 100000 are
what is called definite losses" that is,
losses that never return, dead, mutliated
and prisoners. 1t was upon this situa-
ton of already far advanced cxhaus-
ton that the counter offensive fell on
July IS, when the attack was delivered
by the French and Americans between
Chateau Thierry and SCISSORS. There
was not only an immediate prospect OF
superior numbers on the Allied side, but
also the acute problem OF recruitment.
The enemy had for recruiting the enor-
NOUS gaps in his electives only two
sources left. one the returns from the
hospitals and the other the young class
Of 1920.
Now, this young class Of 1920 is =
poor standby Let us explain its weak
ness. The class of 1920 means boys
who attain their eighteenth year in the
course of the present year. Not all OF
them, therefore, are even eighteen years
Of age, and though on paper the full
quota excluding those who will have to
he put back on account Of imlmaturity,
IS $4,000 men," yet in practice the
>taount one can draft into the combat
AMI units is very much less The eX
Ference OF all the other belligerents III
this regard is most significant.
G~eat Britain at one critical moment
Wa; sending out boys rather over eigil-
teen and one-half years old. It vas
ought doubtful expedicnt and vas
discontinued the moment the worst Crisis
E@l passed. No one thought OF sending
out boys younger than eighteen. Tke
fes tl1er total lit for service is not large.
France has always refused 70 SEM
any one into the field under nineteen.
Her corresponding class or 1920 is 10
where near active service yet Thc>e i
anor},r extremely important point IN
This connection. When your Youngest
classes are drafted in small amounts
trey az. so to SPEAK. dieestet by tha
rlnss = the amy. Bat Wneu You send