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NOME, ALASKA, APRIL 18, 1917.
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Tho world does glow Ixtti i but I
slowly and wretchedly.
Take a microscope of tho gi.-atestl
power, examine a grain of sand.
Suppose you find it inhabited by j
intelligent beings, learn that they lived :
upon that sand grain for thousands of
centuries, and see them butchering
sach other now, as in ages past—
what will you think of the wretched ,
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atoms?
How do you suppose this miserable,
fighting, bloody, hellish little planet of
ours looks to our ancient neighbors in ,
space, and to divine intelligence, as I
they look down upon us, after thou- 1
sands of centudics, following kings j
that lead us to murder, following vile |
passions that lead us to aggression, 1
lying, lighting and horrible cruelty?
Our earth is not one-tenth poptt- j
luted.
All of tho human beings upon the
planet could stand on Staten island, !
in New York harbor.
All of the human beings on earth
and twice as many could live well pro
vided for within the borders of Texas,
with proper cutlivation and manu
factures.
Yet wc arc murdering each other
in the quarrel for land, when we have
too much.
Wc are slaughtering each other in
a craze of murder based on ambition,
when there is no real ambition except
in peace and ’intellectual achievement.
If you saw two men on a raft,
floating on the ocean, drew nearer
and found them busy with knives,
slashing each other, bathed In blood,
fuM of hatred, what horror would fill
your mind!
Yet such a raft is this earth, and the
men upon it, traveling through the
stream of eternity, ncoss the ocean of
infinite space and time, knowing not
whither they are going, living here but
for a moment, yet busy with knives,
cannon and swords.
This is the trouble with the human
race.
Wc arc still, as a race, savage beasts
1hat fight in packs.
Our civilization, onr Intellectual as
pirations, our progress, and all that
Is good, come to us as Individuals.
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When we unite in packs, like tho
wolves, we become ferocious, destruc
tive wild beasts.
And the most vicious beast among
us is chosen for leader. And all ideals
are lost and sunk in the ambition to kill
the others.
Nations at war are vile, murderous,
lynching mobs.
Each as it proceeds to murder be
lieves itself in the right and blas
phemously prays to God to help in the
killing.
The dreadful, discouraging part of
this war is proof of the fact that every
kind of human activity may lead to
wholesale murder.
We used to have horrible murders,
and tortures, wholesale and retail,
based upon superstition, bigotry and
religious hatred.
The race hoped that with supersti
tion and religious ignorance dead,
murder and torture would die out also.
We had wars and wholesale killngs
based upon brutal ’individual ambi
tion, ruling over ignorance and stu
pidity.
Men hoped that growing intelligence
would suppress murderous vanity.
Competition between the noblemen,
kings and emperors, one craving the
land of anlother, one resenting the
'insult of another, caused wars that
lasted seven years, thirty years, or
one hundred years.
It was hoped that democracy, mak
ing the people rule in place of kings
and harons, would end war.
Commerce and money came to rule
the earth in place of Individuals, In
place of ambition, vanity and super
stition.
Commerce and money appareatly
required peace; the merchant, big or
little, wanted his shop—the nation—
quiet.
But now we find that commerce
itself, the love of money .and the crea
tive trade, drive to war and brutaf
bloodshed as eagerly as did the ruler's
ambition, or the religious bigots' de
sire to force his faith upon others.
Wo have the Germans telling ns
that the English forced this war
through jealousy of German commer
cial growth—and there is no doubt
that that Jealousy did exist in Its
most bitter form in England.
We have the English telling us that |
the war was forced by Germany, be- i
cause Germany was determined to get !
English colonies, English trade and 1
English money.
We are hound in this country of
neutrality to refrain from taking
s'des. But, what side is there to take?
We see the nations of the world
vying with each other in destroying
life.
We know and they know that no j
good can come of it.
We know that the nation which
wins in the end, or tho group of na
tions that win, will he hopeless!?
bankrupt, despondent, bled half to
death and discouraged when the waf
ends.
We have seen the old story of mur
der and conquest repeated over and
over.
We saw the day, long centuries ago,
when "kings, dressed in furs, sat op
posite each other on the thrones ot
Carthage and of rtonie."
And those Mngs. coining from bar
barian ambition, thought, of course^
that they would sit upon those thrones
forever.
Soon they were swept away.
We have seen the world divided and
tt divided.
We read now of the plan of np»
lighter for division of the earth when
victory comes.
We used to read as children the
Plans and boasts of Attila and others
that thought brutal power could con
quer tho m'ind.
And we have seen and know that
no lace can he made to stay In s'av
ery; that no conquest based upon bru
tal force can endure.
Over and over, the world has been
divided, and sub-divided, and re-dl
vided.
Civilization, intelligence, study, have
concentrated power In the br.Tin, tak
'g it from the muscles.
Wealth accumulated has made men
"effeminate." That is to say, it has
taken their attention from brutal con
quest,
Then brute power has come In and
conquered the "effeminate" Intelligent,
to be again conquered in 'its turn by
intelligence.
So It has gone eenlury after cen
tury, and so it goes on, shamefully,
today.
Fortunately, ridiculous as It may
seem to you who read of wholesale
murder hitherto unknown on this earth
—fortunately, we say—"the world
does Improve.”
The man who destroys temples of
ai t and science today must apologize
and blame the other. A few cen
turies ago he would have boasted that
ho had destroyed the church off his
enemes, or the great libraries con
taining knowledge that he desplsd.
Today the man whose bombshells,
dropping from the sky, destroyed help
less women and children finds that he
I must apologize and explain that it is
I the enemy and not he who forces the
1 inurder. He would be only too glad
| to spare the women and children if
| the enemy would submit.
Today on both sides, on all sides, you
have the murders apologizing.
A few years ago every murderer was
a boaster, lie was proud as he felt
the hoofs of his horse sink into the
faces of dead women and children.
He was proud as he gave the order
to spare no life, proud as he ordered
the plows to pass over the place where
the city stood, and salt to be scat
tered #that no grass might ever grow
there.
e do improve.
We arc a nation of bloodthirsty
lioters.
The most intelligent of us are car
ried away by the mob spirit, and be
come as brutal, as blind to right and
justice, as the wolves that attack the
enemy turn to eat their wounded fel
lows:
Brutal we are, bloody, murderous.
What our spirit tells us is right
we do not do.
What we know to be wrong is the
task of nearly all the great nations
Disgraceful to our race, disgraceful
to the men of thougth and power, Is
the rule of the brute, the thug, the
murderer, whose ambition and brutal
di niand the submission of tho superior
to the inferior.
But still it may be said the world
does improve.
l.et the cynic sneer and say that war
will last forever. He Is wrong.
Let the good man in despair bow
his head and say that the world gets
no hotter. He is wrong.
We kill the women and children,
but at least we do not delight in the
killing.
We destroy that which is most
ancient and precious, but at least we
are ashamed of our destruction.
We know that brutality may tem
porarily rule Europe, or the whole
world.
But we know and arc determined ,
that brutal rule shall not endure.
We are led away by the mob spirit,
the ferocity of battle, but we recover
from the drunkenness of crimes as we
did not use to do.
You haV read of tho taking of cities
in Europe, the kllltr.g of men, women
and children, destruction of works of
art.
It seems horrible and is horrible.
But if you doubt that the world Is
better, let your mind consider the
thousands and hundreds of thousands
at least left alive and permitted to
seek safety. Consider the cities that
stand, although they have been con
quered, and then consider conditions
in the old days.
You cannot doubt that, slow as pro
gress is, we have come many miles
from the bottom of the chasm of
horror, and are destined to reach the
top, where war will he no more and
civilization will commence.
There are great powers and great
cities that hate each other today, as
Home and Carthage hated each other.
And one of the great forces at war
will win. But the horrors of old will
not he repented.
Not long ago the remains of the
city walls of Carthage were dug up.
They were covered with ashes five feet
deep. Through the centuries the site
of that great city had lain dead, a
field of blood and forgotton horror.
When that city was taken that was
not the end, as when a city Is taken
today.
For six days after the Homans en
tered the city they carried on their
work of murder, singing and shouting
as they cut down the half-starved,
miserable Inhabitants.
At night they set flre to houses
that "they might see to kill." When
j the work of killing was done the last
|of the resisting force gathered In the
temple on the hill, dedicated to the god
of healing, and destroyed themselves
by fire.
Then, for seventeen days, Carthage
burned.
“The plow was passed over the soil
to put an end In legal form to the
existence of tho city. Houses might
never again he built, corn might never
again be sown upon the ground
where it had stood.”
Of those that were not murdered
in the taking of a city In the old
days, some died in prison, the others
died as slaves.
There was no mercy, no pity.
AVe do not kill os men used to kill.
Excepting a few wild beasts in high
places, we no longer delight in blood
or plan for the extermination of mil
lions.
The world is better, and eventually
it will be good.
But today It is a nest of horror, a
corner of hell floating around the sun.
Let us hope that to the older planets,
where decent spirit dwell, we are In
visible, or at least that we are Ignored
by them, as we Ignore the rats that
live and fight in the filthy sewer.
There must come an end to this
war. fortunately. The fields will be
green from the blood and the bodies
, of men. The wealth of a century will
I have been wiped out In a few months.
Every human being on earth will
have stiffen'd and will continue to
suffer.
After this horrible lesson we can
talk no more of "the last war." We
cannot hope that we have seen the
last of the wild beasts coming to the
top and having his day.
But wo can at least hope that a
great lesson will have been learned;
that a great number of people Will
come over to the side of peace and
protest.
We may hope that this will be the
last riot of blood and murder for
many years at least, and that wc shall
be nearer the end of the horror, and
more than ever determined to achieve
that end.—New York Journal.
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MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION,
ETC., REQUIRED BY ACT OF
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of Nome Daily Nugget published daily
at Nome, Alaska, for April, 1917.
Publishers, Divine A- Maynard
Nome, Alaska.
Editor, George Kilrny, Nome, Al
aska.
Business manager, Edvv'n C. Divine
Nome, Alaska.
Publishers, E. C. Divine and Geo. S.
Maynard, Nome, Alaska.
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April 2 . 0 18
April 3 . 0 24
April 4 . S 21
April 5.30 12
April 8. 28 8
April 7. 30 10
April 9 . 10 4
April 10. B 2
April 11 . 7 —1
April 12. 15 —12
April 13. 2 —9
April 14.—6 1®
April 15.B 20
April 16 .* 25
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