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NOME, ALASKA, JUNE 6, 1917.
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WAR AND THE DUEL.
War is a fight between the men of
one nation and the men of another—
or nations.
The duel Is a fight between indi
vidual men.
This individual fight is of plain an
cestry. Wherever two stags lock
antlers, two bulls charge thunderously,
two cocks leap stabbing, two stallions
rear and bite, two tomcats roll and
scratch, entangled—there is the duel.
It Is the old, old fight between males
—originally for the favor of the fe
male, and later devloped to a sort of
universal chip on the shoulder. It
has been refined and modified, hallow
ed by the light of that vague later pro
duct, honor; but under It all the fight
ing male remains.
War is a larger form of the same
thing, with the addition of the pre
daceous Instinct—the long-establish
ed process of taking what is wanted
by force.
To this have been added certain
social Instincts, higher, nobler, more
useful; the rising sense of comrade
ship; thepursuanee of abstract “duty;”
ideal generalizations of service, glory
and honor; and, best of all, the large
recognition of social unity, with our,
so far, fullest height of human devo
tion—to be willing to give all—life
Itself—for one's country.
Those feelings are good, wholly
good, but they are by no means de
pendent on war.
The duel, meanwhile. In spite of all
Its glamor and romance, has remain
ed on a low t lane because of Its in •
divlduallsm. Even the "honor” at
tached to It Is a silly abstraction, and
has become rtdtculous In the eyes of
most civilized people.
We have, to a great extent, out
grown the duel.
We have not, to any great extent,
outgrown war.
The proud superiority of America is
more geographical than social. We
share the same black record In regard
to our weaker neighbors that we con
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demn In other nations.
Our treatment of our savage pre
decessors Is not so much beyond that
of other white conquerors that wt
reed feel self-righteous over it; ;and
our great southwest was not given tc
us by any means.
War is still the constant resource
of nations whose honor is offended, 01
who need the money; but the duel
whether In the form of a hold-up, 01
of defending the honor of a gentleman
is out of date.
How is it that we have learned tc
ridicule the duel, and still honor war'.
Some there are who boast of all the
fine qualities war develops In us. Wh>
are they not equally developed In the
duel? It fighting is so much noblei
than working, why not turn all oui
prunlng-hooks into swords, perma
nently?
The only nobler qualities developed
In war are those social ones above
mentioned, and they can be developed
by working togethr for a common In
terest much better than by fighting.
Apart from these social qualities
war brings out not the best, hut worst
In us. It is reversion, social reversion
ns horrible as when starving men drop
down the centuries and eat one an
other like their brute ancestors.
Those who defend war, and even
some who deprecate it, consider it a
"social necessity”—like that other
man-made horror, prostitution. War
is no more a necessity than cannibal
ismm. It Is a hideous habit of the
|>ast, and not only hideous, but ridi
culous.
If in a "civilized" city we found
men personally fighting on every
street corner, in every office—bankers,
lawyers, floorwalkers, gasfitters—any
any everybody settling their private
differences, increasing their property,
or defending their "honor," in sweat
and blood and powder-smoke, what
should we think of that civilization?
If they were naked savages we
might be shocked, but would not be
surpised. If they were modern edu
cated people, and “Christians" at
that—we should laugh.
Greater than all the horrors of war
is Its absurdity, its pathetic, conspicu
ous, out-of-date absudity.
Talk of “mossbacks!” Men in war
fare are sealebacks—they revert to the
glyptodon and its armored compeers.
The armament of nations belong to
the reptile period—the strongest teeth
and claws against the thickest scales.
ENLIGHTENMENT FOR THE DARK
AGES.
In the middle ages the tranactions
af all merchants, factors and vendors
were severely regulated by statute.
Traffic In necessaries was conducted
under rigorous supervision. Food,
drink and clothes could he marketed
only at fixed prices. No one person
could sell more than a certain quantity
of such products within a given pe
riod. Competition, of course was
thereby handcuffed, but everybody had
a chance to do business only on a
limited scale and cost of living was
kept proportionate to community in
comes. Manipulators had no chance
to corner crops and create shortage In
needahlos, as any citizen of this free
and enlightened republic may do at
will.
Generally speaking, we don't hanker
for "the good oid days," but when we
glance over last months’ Mils and com
pare them with the oxpedltures that
father used to make, It does seem os
though the past can teach us a few
things about government which the
twentieth century has neglected to
learn.
BEING A REAL CITIZEN.
Beause you observe the law, pay
your taxes, meet your debts, contribute
occasionally to charity, and vote the
"regular ticket,” you esteem yourself
a good citizen and quite the peer of
any neighbor.
But the trouble is, your neighbor
l isn’t the peer to his own traditions.
Tlie neighborhood itself is indifferent.
The state is too apathetic and the
nation, in many ways, is found want
ing.
No man is a good American be
cause he is orderly—that's taken for
granted- ha hasn’t fulfilled his respon
si', ill ties intil he has made it a mis
sion and an ohllgaticto help im
prove the standards he found waiting
for him.
To strive for betterment, to advance
progress and decency—these are basic
duties of patriotism.
Nobody is truly a good citizen unti
lie has benefited his time by his work
BUND MAN'S VISION.
Some day we’ll give deformed moi
and women a fairer chance to nsser
their competence in practical pursuits
Lots of ’em deserve their opportunt
ites. We’re losing the notion that suel
can't make good.
The governments of Europe hav
decided that they can’t underwrite th
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future operating expenses of the mil
lion men who will have emerged from
the war minus various vital belong
igns. They’re eduacting them to
piece out with near-human substi
tutes for absent portions. Experi
ments of trades and crafts. With a
little thoughtfulness we might have
broadened life for them, these many
years.
The past is bright with the achieve
ments of the maimed. Milton saw the
gates of Paradise. Helen Keller had
so much will that she didn’t miss her
absent sense. Tulitzer and Pearson
refused to accept eternal darkness as
a hopeless estate—they went on see
ing things. Imagination lent its sight
to them. Tli(tv became greater in
misfortune. Pig works can be plan
ned behind closed lids. The undone
must always be visualized before it
can be reduced to tangible form. The
truly blind are those who look with
out beholding and the most hopeless
of all arc those who live with all am
bition asleep.
FIRST MORO SENATOR.
That the Philippine islands are
swinging surely Into the -American
civilization pace Is evident through
many channels. Put nowhere is it
more emphasized than In the recent
appointment to the insular senate of
a full-blood Moro,. who will in future,
help to make the laws for his race.
This man is no less a personage than
the former prime minister of the sul
ton of Sulu, ruler of the wild people
who inhabited the group of small Isl
ands forming the far southern portion
of the Philippines. Everybody has
heard of the “sultan of Sulu.” George
_ _ _I
Ade made him a world figure In his
musical comedy some fifteen years
ago. Ills prime minister was Hadjil
Butu, a man of native force and ready
adaptability.
This Is the man whom Governor
General Burton Harrison has chosen
as the first of his race to set In the
senate of the island lawmakers. Har
rison has watched the persistent ef
forts of Iladjll Butu to establish and
maintain order in the realm of the
former sultan, efforts that showed he
had the instinct of good citizenship.
His appointment marks a real epoch
in tire history of the Moros, and also
is proof of tlie desire of the United
States to teach those far east people
self-government that will fit them for
independence.—Mphi ff Commercial
Appeal.
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