Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-13
RANDoM TALKING

We alr talk 500 much :: and especially do we talk too nucf- ae random.
 While our country is gt var, and we havs all kinds among us-Germans. pro- Germans, and citizens who are in- finiteir worse than either-it stands us in hand to guard our speecfh
 And this applies to all--the German, who must Keep his mouth shut or get into serious, trouble. tho pro-Gernan, whose ungusrdsd utterances will surely lead to~ prison, and the dis}oyal citizen, whe oughu to be hanged-and possibly may be iG tha tension gets tight enough,
 The German or Austrian subject, those who are technically our enemies, should be very careful to- give no just cause for ofsense, by their language or conduct; and reciproeaHy there is the duty which every true American owes not to impose upon an enemy who Is helpless: Remember thSt the man " ho today isyoer technical enemy may have been gocd neighbor ~nd your best friend ia the past-and may be again. Use l!Ttle reason com1cn- sense, and ferbearanee. Ef the bulie tin shows German victory, don't go round and try te pick s fuss with an
 
 excited if "Frit8' seems cheerful over tho nsws.
 Suppose ttut you and I, and s few more of the rabid YankeeDoodle boys were detained in Berliny would Eos we light up spiritually at the news of big Anseriean victory; and if the oppor- tunity came, might we not even get spirituously lit up2
 Bear in niud tkas for aN tfmes and conditions vhere has never been found guide for cne's conduct equal to- the Golden Ruls-~
 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should dc to you, do ye even 80 10 them.'
 Of course if you aad in Berlin, or 8 German here, should be foolish enough to get too gay, and to taunt our na- tionalistn in public, then Satare is bound to take it's eourse-and is nothing worse happens than that our faces re- semble 8 war map Of Europe we gre greatly in luck.
 AS to the pro-Germans. thsrs arc many kinds, and we are all too ar to assums that because man was once 8 pronouneed pro-German that he still IS SO, which may do an injustice. Before the United States went into this war anyone who 30 chose had the same right legally and laorallyr to be pro- German that yea and bad 10 be pro-Ally, True, we may have thought poorly of their judgment or their tastey but their right cannot be denied, That one of German blood should be favorably inclined toward the father land was only natural, and in some degree also, those who, for ono reason or another, looked askance at the advance of any of the Allied countries; but upon the coming of war to this country all is instantly changed. A German 1t still German, and rightly so; the so-called neutral aliens arc just as betore-all kinds-but now bound to keep their mouth shut, and are with- out the excuse which German has, and m American owes them small con- sideration. For tho one who is citi. zen but is 6 German at heart, no mat ter what his original nationality, :, whether a native-born German or na- tive born American, equally he must be for this country or there is but one proper place for him-with back to the wall, and facing the firing squad.
 And just in proportion to the gravity of the situation should we all be care full of our language, and not unlustly accuse nor be too ready to listen to un- founded yarns against any man.
 GEO. W. ALBRIGHT,
 President Alaska Loyal League. April l3. 1918.