fWD Oooies rtecetv«< )Ci 1 1904 OLASs' C^ XXo. No. /COPY it il.. George Turner's Betrayal of His Country^ Bv GEORGE WILSON, Publicist, Formerly Judf^e in Dakota Territory- Senator in Wyoming Territory; Member Academy of Sciences, St. Louis; Late President Oldest Bank in Missouri, and Author of Financial Works. , [CopyriRht, 1904, George Wilson.] 1 authorize any one to reproduce this wiieuever Gborge Turner runs for office. Equally with Virginia, the obi ,;:^ation to hoiior Washington rests on his namesake state. Blots now, like scars on young trees, will stay for life. Elsewhere one hears regrets that any state was called Wash- ington. Every false step will especially condemn her in these jealous states : if serious, will retard her development. Patriots avoid dis- honorers of George Washington's name. A New York paper stated that Turner was preparing for the effort of his life, denouncing the Alaska Boundary Treaty, but when tendered a place on the commission he dropped it. Beginning as an Alabama carpetbagger, his name describes his character. England wanted to make Portland Channel the Gibralter of the Pacific and cut us off from Alaska in wars. Canada is one of England's unconsulted " niggers." Rothschild, the Jew, who owns and runs England, craftily claimed Lynn Channel, that he did not want and knew he could not get. Vancouver, the authority, says he went up the " broad arm of the sea" to its forks (Point Ramsden, about latitude 55,) thence up the easterly fork, left the vessels at Salmon Cove in it, naming it Observatory Inlet. Came back in small boats, rounded Point Rams- den, went up the westerly fork to its end, returned, and about latitude 55 entered the passage between the present Pearse Island and the westerly main shore : went down through that, so narrow, intricate and dangerous even for small boats that one was nearly lost. Con- tinuing he explored Boca de Quadra, Behm Channel, etc., and return- ing found himself before "the broad arm of the sea" again, and says there he named it Portland Channel in honor of the Bentick family (one of whom was Duke of Portland). He returned up it in the small boats as originally the ships had gone, and on up to Salmon Cove where the ships were. On leaving finally Vancouver compares the channels on the two sides of Pearse Island thus : " the route by which the vessels had advanced to Salmon Cove being infinitely better .... than the intricate channel through which I had passed in the boats, we weighed with the intention of directing our course thus," etc. In the Congressional Library, under Turner's nose, is British Admiralty Chart No. 2458, corrected to March, 1900, on which the passage between Pearse Island and the westerly mainland is named "Pearse Channel." Yet Turner consented that this "much narrower and practically unnavigable channel" (as Mr. Balch, the highest authority livirg, calls it in his book,) which the English themselves named Pearse Channel, is " the broad arn of the sea" up which Vancouver's ships went, and which he " named Portland Channel in honor of the Bentick family" ! "When Rothschild first ordered England to steal Portland Channel, an American tory manufactured the lie that Vancouver's map and narrative disagree. Thereupon England claimed that the name " Portland Channel" had been wrongly placed on the map. But Boca de Quadra, Behm Canal, Revilla Gigeda Channel or Clarence Strait is the only possible water whose name could have been erro- neously exchanged with Portland Channel, if any had. If, for instance, Behm Canal could have exchanged names with Portland, England would have made a much bigger steal. But these were accurately described and located in connection with their names, and this plan of the theft would not work. Thus the theatre of the theft was narrowed down to Portland Channel between its mouth and latitude 55. And the manner of the theft was to declare that the British map's "Pearse Channel" is Portland Channel. This Turner did. But in thus transferring t) iJ name of Portland Channel it leaves CK^^- /O70 urvreo'ci [N. B. — The name Pearse Cliannel on this map is from the British Admiralty Chart No. 2458. j 55 )CT. i J9CI4 017 297 630 the true Portland Channel without a name ! As bare-taced a theft as Turner helped to perpetrate against his country ought to make a convict blush. Besides Pearse Island and Portland Channel, Turner also helped to lose us on the main land a gold country as large as three New England States, that England never dared to claim from Russia. Had Turner defeated"" that robbery of his country he would have immortalized himself. The administration did not want a man where it put him. It knew what it wanted and got it. And Turner knew what he wanted and got it. Having betrayed his country Turner now, with brazen impudence that would shame a three-card-monte dealer, asks to be elected Governor of the State of Washington as a reward for that betrayal. If I were a Democrat I should rather elect a Republican traitor than a Democratic traitor Governor of Washington. When democracy came to mean Cleveland it ended my life membership in that party ; but have twice voted for the honest patriot, Bryan, and am against Roosevelt. We' must send the flags of the three remaining European monarchies ouf of the Western hemisphere as we did Spain's. British Columbia was stolen from us and must be recovered. Washington, the picket guard should not be commanded by a betrayer of his country. I have long wished to make Washington my home. To me it seems the best of the states. But it would be a sore affliction to live in a state that had once had a betrayer of his country as its governor. I have a special reason to plead with Washingtonians not to thus dishonor the name of the greatest figure in human history : my mother's ancestors and kin are connected with Washington's family by at least five intermarriages. LIBRAHY Uh UUNUHbbb 017 297 630 A