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Entered a* aecond-cla** matter Feb.
2tl, 1907, at the pcrtotllce at Nome,
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NOME, ALASKA, MAR. 7, 1916
Another '‘preparedness’’ issue
which will probably be dodged by
our corporation collared legisla
tors back in Washington is the
preparedness for both war and
peace involved in the upbuilding
of an adequate merchant marine
for the transportation of our com
merce to the markets of the earth.
As the president suggested in his
address to the joint session at the
opening of congress: "if we are to
provide for the supreme matter
of national self sufficiency and
self security in all its aspects
. it is necessary for
many weighty reasons of national
efficiency and development that
we should have a great merchant
marine.” At the present time we
are bound and crippled both in
and peace by the necessity of de
pending upon some other nation
for the carriage of our products
to practically all foreign markets
of the world. We cannot handle
our own commerce on the hign
seas. If other nations go to war
or choose to divert their com
merce carriers to other avenues
we are compelled to stand idly
waiting while calling markets re
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main unsupplied or seek other
sources of supply. If England,
for instance, should choose for any
reason to cripple our commerce
through the withdrawal of her
vast mercantile fleet from foreign
carriage, where would we be?
England, be it remembered, car
ries practically one half of every
pound of commodities exported
from the United States to foreign
markets. The greater portion of
the balance is carried in the ships
ol t rance, Norway, Sweden and
other nations. Previous to the
commencement of the war Ger
many and England alone carried
there-fourths of everything Am
erican shipped beyond the boun
daries of tne United States- Should
those two nations undertake to
cripple American commerce un
lit i normal conditions, they could
<’-• al us a blow more disastrous in
its results than the worst effects
produced by the war, merely by
withdrawing their ships from Am
erican trade, if Europe wanted
to paralyze the United States in
dustrially and commercially, it
needs but an agreement between
the principal carried nations, to
id} tne export trade of this coun
try prostrate. What will be the
esint of this condition at the end
of the present conflict is, of
course, hard to conjecture but it
s practically certain that we will
not ue permitted to use their ves
sels on tne scale intnerto allowed.
. v" c tne beuigerent* will uouot
less liuiKC ircmciiuous enoi is to
wiest away tne loreign traue ac
ciumg to me unueu States, owing
to me iauuie ot meir own utili
ties ana manuiactuies uunng tne
war period and, by wnat easier
ineuiod can me necessary object
oi tnrotmng competition be
achieveu man by rousing to lend
mor commerce carriers to tlteir
puncpai tiaue nvai i /uso it must
oe cunsiuered that with the re
el uuescence of manufacturing and
industrial growth in the countries
now at war, the capacities of their
marine carriers will probably be
taxed to handle their own trade.
Hither way the outlook for the
fore gn trade of the United States
is poor. If we are to consider our
selves independent at all we must
be commercially independent,
itherwise we are completely at
the mercy of the European coun
tries and therefore subject to
.heir convenience. Such a situa
tion is not to be endured. Without
ships of our own we must forever
be in a limited sense the vassels
of Europe, through being bound
and lettered by the lack of means
to carry on our own business. The
task of building up an American
merchant marine is one that pri
vate capital should undertake but
as the tendency of late has been
directly against the needs in this
direction, because of alleged gov
ernmental inhibitions, it is as
suredly the duty of the govern
ment to provide the producers of
the nation with means to place
their products wherever there may
be demand without let or hind
rance from those who will always
be our commercial enemies.
As the president also intimates
in the address referred to, we can
develop no true or effective Am
erican policy without ships of oui
own. When we review the sit
uation in this country just after
the commencement of the Euro
pean conflict we cannot be real
ize that America is completely at
the mercy of the carrier nations
of Europe. Good in countless tons
lay for months piled up our ports,
trade and industry were paralyz
ed and the entire commercial fa
brie of the nation subjected to a
strain that threatened disaster—all
because we are forced to depend
upon the permission of foreign
ship owners and foreign govern
ments for transportation of our
products beyond our own borders.
Even today the task of supplying
the demands of foreign markets
is carried on with difficulty and
there will doubtless be little re
lief from this condition until we
shall be again be as independent
commercial1}- as we were thirty
years agoi
Ships of prrace are needed by the
United States almost as much
as ships of war if we are to retain
our independence nationally and
industrially.
RICH BOY HAS
NO CHANCE
Chicago Tribune.
A little spindling boy, listless,
indifferent, convoyed by his nurse
as carefully as a troop ship by de
stroyers. The little boy is not ill.
He is merely fcich, and for him in
this case it iswworse to be rich
than to be ill.J^or there are doc
tors to cure His physical ills,
whereas, every person and influ
ence surrounding him is in an
unconscious conspiracy to make
his riches a moral illness and a
mental blight.
Reformers talk of the loss to!
the average man of freedom of
opportunity which the increase!
and organization of wealth in
America have brought about. The
loss is not confined to the poor |
and struggling. It is shared by
the rich and unstruggling. The
little spindling rich boy is losing
his opportunity to grow and to
live richly. His mamma and his
papa and his nurse and the so
cial machinery C.f-«vtoich he is a
pathetic little cog are all deter-!
mined to keep him from experi-i
;nce, from being like other little!
3oys, from stubbing his toe and
earning to keep his feet from get
:ing lost and learning to find his
"ay. _
NOTICE TO PUBLIC.
On and after March first a deposit
>f ten cents per bottle will be required
it all customers purchasing milk at
:he local business houses. Money will
’>e refunded upon return of bottles.
CONSUMERS MILK CO.,
J. A. Llchthlll.
There's one rubber
boot that has
made good” in I
Alaska and that’s the !
Goodrich
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“With the Red-Line
'round the Top”
You know that when a Boot
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like “HIPRESS’’ has done, it’s GOT to
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The reason for this unusual service is that HJPRESS” are constructed by
an entirely new process—fifty years ahead of the old-fashioned boot. They
are made of the same tough rubber that goes into Goodrich Auto Tires—
welded together under enormous pressure INTO ONE SOLID PIECE!
There’s nothing to come apart—they can’t leak, peel, crack or split! 1
They’re comfortable, too—shaped to the foot while its working. We
promise that once you start wearing W'hite HIPRESS” you’ll never be
Satisfied with anything else. j
^ And remember—there is but ONE “HJPRESS” Boot—it has
a Red-Line ’round the Top.
DEALERS: If not already stocked on “HIPRESS" write at once for samples and price*.
This U the best selling, best wearing Boot ever put into Alaska.
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Branches and Dealers Everywhere
SEATTLE BRANCH: The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., 113-15 King St.
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