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NOME, ALASKA. MAY 11, 1915.
AN ILL ADVISED COURSE
It can hardly lip doubted that in J
causing the sinking of the Lusitania,
the German nation, although acting
strieth within the letter of the so
called rules of war. has brought upon
itself the censure of tie world for the
reason, that though it lie argued to
tlie contrary from now until doomsday,
a deliberate attack on the innocent and
helpless is not conceded b\ the world
as justified under any conditions writ
ten or otherwise. Mad the present ease
been one in which tile citizens and pro
perty of England, or other of the bel
ligerent nations, were alone involved,
while the world would undoubtedly
have shuddered at (lie enormity of tlie
sacrifice offered to the demands of war,
it is doubtful if there would have been
a single protest arisi from any peoples
other than those upon whom the blow
had fallen or their sympathizers. If
it were a ease of England or France or
Russia alone who had thus suffered,
the world could not in justice hold that
the wholesale destruction of non-com
batants was other than a deplorable
circumstance which the citizens of a
belligerent nation must unfortunately
expect. Me who raises the sword to
strike must expect to feel a counter
stroke. Had it been English men and
women whom Germany attac ked hardly
a murmur of censure would arise
against the art. Such was her right
and none could, in justice*, blame her
for enforcing it. Hut to war on the
inoffensive citizens of outside nations
is to enforce in a too literal degree that
brutally savage rending of (lie Mosaic
law which reads that the innocent shall
suffer with the guilty and also places
the matter in an entirely different
light. It is well enough to say that
warning was given and that lie who
knowingly ventures in the path of
danger assumes his own liability. True
enough, yet withal, it must be conceded
that it betrays, to say the least, a most
damnable coldness of heart to delib
erately send nearly two thousand in
nocent men and women to death with
out sounding one final note of warn
ing. And, it is because of this aspect
that the world is heaping scorn upon
the head of Germany. Xot »i much
because of the act ilself but rather
because of the all too evident spirit of
heartless brutality and utter disregard
of the rights of others which lies be
hind. To war on non-combatants is
to war on civilization and this, regard
less of circumstances or conditions,
civilization will not condone. Thus in
striking a blow at England. Germany
has brought upon herself an even
greater blow. Regardless if she come
forth from the mighty eontliet wearing
the laurels of the world's most gigantic
victory or not she lias yyoti the scorn
and censure of humanity and even vic
tory must lie embittered by tlie thought
that in the eyes of tile world she is
bey ond the pale of civilized regard.
AMERICANS FOR AMERICA.
After a half year of war in Europe,
tlu> Enited States as well as other
neutrals finds it extremely difficult to
avoid controversies. Each controversy
has the element of danger in it which
can ho minimized or eliminated hy pru
dence. coolness, wisdom, and a desire
to lie just Each controversy also has
the element of danger which can he
■ mphasized and made weightier.
We rely upon our government to he
governed hy prudence and a desire to
he just. We have reason to rely upon
tile men in charge, knowing instinc
tively that no American administration
yyill convict itself of partisanship in
meeting such issues as are now aris
ing.
President Wilson and his advisers
ire not error-proof, hut in handling
tlic questions of momentous conse
quciice which come before them wc
know that they arc guided by wisli and
intent to have American conduct
square with honor and justice.
What they do is the act of tlie na
tion and now is the time for Ameri
cans to he for America. A wise de
mocracy docs not carry partisanship
into foreign affairs It says over again'
the words of Decatur which stand at
the head of the editorial columns It
prays for wisdom and stands united.
We may hope that several disaster
oils consequences, apart from parti
cipation in tlie war. which is unthink
able. mm not he our inheritance from
it We may hope that time and sober
thinking may justify the American
course so that no belligerent will em
erge yvith a conviction that the Ameri
can attitude was hostile
Americans came out of the war with
Spain with the feeling that the German
j intent was not friendly. Difficulties
which were easily composed had an !
effect on national sentiment which was
had. We may hope to avoid a conse- j
quern e of this nature at this time We1
inn trust that American policies will]
lie so founded upon equity and guided)
I by wisdom that there will lie no hodv.
! "f hostile opinion in Germany or in.
I any other nation now at war
We may also hope that our own lack
"f unity may not lie revealed. Our
greatest national disaster would lie to
have it shown as a fact that we arc
1 not building a nation hut merely a poli
tical and governing organization of dis
associated peoples, irreconcillshle.
without common traditions, with vary
ing ideals and divergent sympathies.
I <'in- greatest national disaster would lie
in discover that we were not fusing the
elements winch go into the composition
of the nation but were preserving each
part.
Therefore, the present need is in
sistence upon the thought that Ameri
can citizens are first for America. We
need an evangelistic patriotism, a con
siderate, thoughtful, proud, hut not
vainglorious patriotism, a patriotism
founded upon the ideal of national
unity and dignity .
“See America first” should take on
a new significance. National con
sciousness and national idealism are
so importantly parts of the spiritual
life of men that disregard of them is
fatal.
The present duty of American citizens
is devotion to the American policy, it
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will not tolerate division or exception.
If our government protests to Great
Britain against the use of the Ameri
can flag, against the interruption of
American commerce, against the seiz
ure of American vessels. American
'pinion must support the government
if ilii> American government protests
to Germam against the violation of
conventions, against unwarrantable In
terference with trade, again practices
dangerous to neutrals. American opin
ion must sustain the government.
We must put new emphasis on the
word unltv We hope to lie right but
we’ll stand behind an honest grror.
We’ll trust tile government not to err
in the direction of dishonesty.
This is a nation and shall lie conduct -
eil as such, relying upon its elected
mlhoritics for the exercise of the wis
dom with which they are endowed and
sustaining them right or wrong when
matters of international policy in
emerge!"' are considered.
We exercise no supervision over the j
secondare sympathies of citizens Thev
may lie pro this and anti that but. for
American citizens. America first.
We do not care to hear the eagle
scream and we want no hyprbolism in
l patriotism. We want a considerate
honest, dignified patriotism which re
gards nationals' as devotion to tin
finest ideals which enter and elevate
human life, which is regardful of oilier j
rights and considerate of other na
tional sentiments, hut which considers!
that its purposes are served by devo- I
tion to its own national lining
Germany for the Germans. Great
Britain far the British. France for the
French, etc . etc . but t’nited States of
\meriea for people who claim and
exercise American citizenship. With
out forfeiting the moral if not the ma
terial right to claim that citizenship
they may put no other country first.—
Chicago Tribune.
ALASKA
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A Washington dispatch says that ac
cording to a report just made to the
department of commerce twenty-one
uncharted rocks have recently been;
discovered by the Alaskan coast sur- j
vey party within forty-two miles -if
territory along the inside passage i me,
six hundred feet high, eomes within 17 '
feet "f the surface. The pinnacles were 1
discovered and locnted bv the use of
d rag-nets.
August and Alex Hanot, of Fairbanks
are working on a new invention in (
scrapers that is commanding the clos
est attention of meehnnies and mining
operators in the Tatiana valley. The ,
invention of the two brothers gives |
every indication of becoming of great ,
importance to the northern mining in
dustry, as. in fact, to all kinds of
mining where scraping is an essential
operation.
A petition to the Alaska road com
mission is being circulated in Peters
burg and Scow Bay, asking for the
building of a road between the two
places, a distance of three miles. It is
claimed that a road along the beach
could bo opened at small cost. The
Scow Rnv settlement gets its mall at
Petersburg, and, on account of the
tides, it is not feasible to make the trip
by boat at all times. The road would
also make available numerous good
locations far building homes and sites
for warehouses.
K. K. Kuney, of tile Alaska railway
commission is at present engaged In
studying snow conditions along the
line of the Popper River & Northwest
ern railway and in obtaining data for
use of the commission in connection
with the proposed government opera
tion of that road, lie was one of the
locating engineers of the Milwaukee
line, and had charge of the location
and construction of snowsheds along
tiie Pi rent Northern lie was also last
summer a member of the railway com
mission, with headquarters at Ship
creek, and had charge of the survey
from that point to the Mntanuskn coni
fields, lie will go on font over tile P. R.
& N W railroad between Cordova and
Phitina in order to make a personal in
vestigation of the road and its opera
tion under llie most adverse circum
stances during tiie winter months
In i prophetic vein, the Seward fiato
} wav say s The last real stampede to
i Alaska will probably come before the
j snow goes off the ground this time It
1 will la* a big stampede probably big
ger than the people seem to realize. It
will probably be a coming of a differ
ent sort of people, though, and that Is
■something in lie remembered. Most of
those coming to work in the coal j
[mines will he different from the people;
who came to Alaska In the past. The
old timers eanic just because il was
something new to come to something
out of the ordinary rut. They could!
have made just as good, or better.!
money on the average somewhere else
The probability is that the majority of
1 people who came to Alaska in (lie early |
days Inst money and spent the best!
years of their lives without matrial
profit. In the next stampede will he'
people of money who want to make
more, but for the greater part It will
he composed of crowds to whom the
word money means something like two I
dollars a day. The latter are the ones
that will open the coal fields and the!
only ones that could open any coal
fields, or for the matter of that, (lie
only ones that would open any coal
fields.
During tile trial of a case in the Fair- i
banks commissioner’s court, in which I
Katie Pinchette was accused of taking)
a $20 gold piece from the pocket of I! I
U Milton, the question came up as to)
"when is a man drunk?" The witnesses)
examined as to their opinion on Hits
question seemed to think that a man
was intoxicated “when lie couldn’t nav
igate.” The court held that the ques-;
tion was one that, in all probability.1
would not lie answered in the same j
way by two persons. Tie said that)
drunkenness was simply a. matter of)
degree in a man's condition, and il was |
as hard to say when lie became intoxi
cated as it is to tell when warm water
becomes hot. Ho concluded that a man
started to get intoxicated when lie took
his first drink, and from that time on
it was simply a matter of degree.
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