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Deter ed aa second class matter Feb
26, 1907, at the post office at Nome,
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NOME. ALASKA, APRIL 4, 1917.
We are a hundred millions of Am
11 leans. There art only fifty-four mil
ieu of Jnpanes . And they are sep
arated from us by several thousand
miles o* salt water. Nevertheless,
we think and worry- about them -
and with cause. We know that they
envy our fertile lands of California,
that they resent the closing of our
ports against Asiatics, including
themselves. We know that they
would come here and conquer us if
they could. They are in our minds a
gieat deal, and our thoughts concern
ing, them is represented in our big
naval appropriations.
How would it be if, instead of hav
ing fifty-four millions of Japanese,
we had one hundred and sixty mil- ]
lions of Japanese right beside us'.’
Suppose that in Canada or in Mex
ico there lived one hundred and six
iy million Japanese, powerful, obe
dient to their rulers, and suppose that
ilia: lace was increasing at the rate
>f five ei six million a year?
'then, indi'd, we shoutd worry aid
with cau-'e.
If e .a imagine how we would
feel in the United States with a Jap
anese nation of one hundred and
sixty millions to the north of us, or
to the south of us in Mexico, you can
realize how the Gormans feel in re
gard to Russia, and why it is that
Germany absolutely demands tbe es
tablishment of a “buffer state” be
iween eastern Germany and the great
Russian power.
Russia is at the door of Germany.
When war was declared the Russians
had only to march across an imag
inary line on to German soil—just as
the Mexicans have only to cross a
line to be on United States soil.
Almost as soon as the war began
i'russia was invaded, towns, villages
a nd farms destroyed.
This helps you to realize that while
Germany offers to restore Belgian
territory and French territory con
quered in this war, she demands the
right to take territory from Russia,
to make and restore a X’olish king
dom between Germany and Russia.
TXiis kingdom, a so-called “buffer
state,” is the protection that Ger
many demands from what it believes
:o be tiic Russian menace.
Ten years from now the population
of Xtussia will be two hundred and
twenty-five millions at least. When
Emperor William’s latest grandson is
of age Russia will have a popula
tion sufficient to overwhelm western
Europe—unless western Europe is
well defended.
That must be borne in mind by
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those who talk of peace and disarm
ament and "taking not a foot of ter
ritory from anybody."
Western Europe, which means the
civilization of Europe, has needed in
the past and still may need protec
tion from Russia, that great half
civilized western power to ttie north
cast.
Made up of Cossacks, Mongolians,
Tartars, Asiatics of different kinds,
so-called "Russians" of forty different
kinds, all held and directed by one
powerful autocratic hand—Russia is
a real menace to the western part of
Europe, not to Germnay alone, but to
France, Italy, Austria and England.
l,et readers remember that the fol
lowers of Mahomet very nearly over
ran the whole of Russia and nearly
destroyed all of European eivlization.
But for the great victory of Charles
the Hammer in the south of France,
as a great historian truly says, the
religion of Mahomet might be taught
in l’aris. Berlin and t Oxford today.
What the French did when they
held back and threw back the Ma
homednn hordes, what the Hungarians
tint at Festh when they held and de
feated the Turks, what Fiance and
England did when united they fought
Russia in the Crimean war, Germany
nun have to do again and alone.
And in the successful doing of it, i
the whole of civilized western Europe |
is interested,
liiless you think that you as an
American citizen would be calmly in
different to the presence of one hun
dred and sixty million Japanese to
the south of you in Mexico or to the
north of you in Canada, do not ex
pect the people of Germany to be
indifferent to the presence of one
hundred and sixty millions controlled
by one autocall on their very bolder.
This particular Russia autocrat j
may bo as gentle as and as niuch 1
of a lover of peace as he and his
friends declare him to be.
But who will answer for the next
autocrat or the next, or for the mixed
Mongolian Tartar upstarts that may
seize the Russian throne and use the
Russian people?
This peace discussion is eomplieai- I
r-d, and not the least complicated part '
'it it lies in the fact that Germany
night as well tight to the bitter end •
low if she cannot tie protected against |
lussia by the establishment of a buf- !
'er state. To let Russian conditions!
remain unchanged would mean inevi- i
table war later on, and war with a I
digger Itussia.- New York Journal. |
POLAR EXPLORATION.
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With th ■ north and south poles dis
covered thr nigh the hasty visits of
1 hairy at it.e north and Amundsen;
at the south, to say nothing of Dr.
Rooks -'Sploits, one nrght presume!
that all polar aspirations have been
reasonably satisfied, but the lure is
not so easily disposed of. A more
leisurely trip to the nuith pole la
proposed. Admiral Peary's exploit
was too much of a touch-and-go af
fair.
It is now proposed (o drift across
the north pole in the lee. Cap!, lloald
Amundsen is building a ship in Nor
way for this purpose, and a ship is
also to he sent from America in the
.same advantage. Amundsen is to
start from some island of the Spits
bergen group and drift north across
■ the pole. (.’apt. Robert A. Bratlett
who accompanied Peary in his dash
to the pole, will start from the Am
erican coast and attempt the polar
drift from this direction. The idea is
to let the ships freeze in the polar
id- and drift with the pack. Provis
ion is to be made, of course, for a
long stay.
Stefansson, now in the north, lias
proved his ability to subsist on the
country. lie is the first explorer
who has been able to stay in the
north indefinitely- without provisions
for regular supplies from civilization,
it appears that Bartlett and Amund
sen have been impressed with this
possibility, and are to place some re
liance on their ability to provide food
from polar life. They are to provis
ion their ships amply, perhaps for
three or four years, but if it becomes
necessary they feel confident of all
utility to live off the country in the
Stefansson fashion.
Peary and Bartlett have been ar
ranging the details of the expedition,
while Amundsen prepares his ship,
and the plans are well along toward
completion. If these explorers win
through we shall probably have, in
the next four or live yeasr, intimate
details of north pole life from men
who have passed a winter or two in
11s frigid onvironnmot.
The new railroad town of Nenana
Has a popua It ion of 600 people, with
twenty children of school age or tin
ier.
In the absence of Mayor Stewart
if Juneau, the city council recently
elected Claude Erickson ns mayor pro
tom.
At a recent meeting of the Juneau
,'it.v found it was voted to pur
■I’. se an American LaFrance Junior
Fire engine for the Juneau fire de
partment.
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Gold shipments from the Iditurod
for the year of 1916 show a slight
decrease from the 1915 shipments.
The total for the year of 1916 was
$2,506,171,09.
< iwing to the deep snow fall moose
are reported to have hard pickings
on the Kenai peninsula. The animals
are in poor condition and are hardly
tit for food.
William Under, a brakeman on the
White Pass road, had the thumb and
forefinger so badly crushed while he
was coupling cars on that road that
they had to bo amputated.
The Bullnine-Sauers bungalow at
Woodrow, outside of Seward, collaps
ed last week, owing to the weight of
accumulated snow on the roof, on
tailing a loss to the owners of about
$800.
Representative-Elect Thomas C.
Price, of Anchoraeg, states that he is
contemplating the calling of a meet
ing of his constituents for the purpose
of finding out their wishes in respect
to legislation.
After hanging on to his claims for
four years Ranson Alguiro is report
ed to have struck high grade ore on
the Sandon copper claim, lying be
tween the Pueblo and War Eagle
mines in the Whitehorse district.
J. M. Baxter .better known as
'.Moose' Baxter, was indicted by the
grand jury at Juneau on the charge
of grand larceny. Baxter is alleged
to have taken the sum of $201 from
the person of one Chris Brown last
Novembe r.
The l . S. Civl Service Commission
announces that it will hold an exam
ination at Ketchikan on February 10
to establish a registar from which to
•select a second officer for the light
house tender Kukui. The position
carries a salary of $1,020 per annum.
Frank Cotter ami Harry Buldcrslo*
while making an overland trip from
Seward to Anchorage recently, picked
up a man on the trail nearly dead
from cold and exposure. They took
him to the roadhouse a*. Mile 54 where
he is reported to lie recovering.
Fox farming promises to lie one of
the leading industries along the Val
dez-Fairbanks trail. Many ranchers
have turned their attention to this
lucrative business and are meeting with
great success. The foxes arc easily
raised and their furs are higher in I
price this season th n ever Lefore.
A trapper near Saleha recently
caught 22 lynxes in one week. He
reports the animals unusually numer
ous this year.
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