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THE BRITISH OUTLOOK.
(Boston Record.)
Britain’s unionists command the
world’s conception by their curiously
inept conception of their duties and
ttieir interests just now. In the Ad
vertiser George W. Smalley, an ex
ceptionally well-informed and fair
writer on British affairs, sends from
London the disturbing forecast of an
industrial revolution in the event of
conscription. "The cabinet and the
conscription plot” is the headline
across the front page of one radical
paper; and the impression is reported
by Mr. Smalley as general that if
conscription is tried, British labor
unionism will have to be reckoned
with. And it may be a difficult reck
oning
There is manifested a weakness in
the British nationality, of ominous
import. If this setting forth of the
situation is correct, it displays those
British unionists, in a melancholy and
tragic light.
Every man in every country must
recognize his duties to his country.
He must be ready to serve his coun
try in any way tha.t his country needs
him. at any time. If conscription be
comes necessary, it becomes so quite
as much to save the home and to pro
tect the welfare of the union man, as
of any other man. Conscription In
Britain would come not as an an
tagonism to union labor, but in the
press of national self-preservation;
and in that the unionist, ns every
other person, is intimately and in
evitably concerned. 1
II is the greater homogenellt. the
wider recognition of the mutual in
terest of all men and women in the
country, which have given Germany
its tremendous force and military au
thority. It is not merely a perfected
m'litnrism, but an accented nation
ality, which pushes Germany into the
world’s light as a mighty power in the
extremities of these days.
The British unionist must see with
a wider vision. Wise labor leaders will
work to that end.
THE PEOPLE SHOULD AID.
(Seward Gateway.)
The people of Alaska ought to be
able to offer some aid to Secretary
Lane In securing a big approporlatlon
for railroad work at the coming ses
sion of congress. How would It be to
get together: find every man who
knows a senator or a 'congressmen
and get them to write a personal letter
asking their votes for the appropria
tion. Secretary Lane is going to ask
for eight or ten millions, according to
the confirmed dispatch to the Gate
way. and he would probably appre
ciate the aid and endorsement of the
people of the territory for which he
has labored with such magnificent
fortitude. Are we going to let Frank-,
lyn K. Lane fight for us single-hand
ed? Is the territory of Alaska, and
particularly Seward, going to stand
by without raising its voice to the
highest possible pitch and let congress
know that Alaskans are behind the
secretary of the interior to a man?
FLOWER GARDENS
ADVERTISE ALASKA
(Valdez Miner.)
The flower nnd vegetable gardens of
Alaska did more to advertise this
grant northland as a place where hu
man beings can make themselves
fairly comfortable and enjoy at least
a modicum of the pleasures of life
than has all the gold produced In this
territory* This fact is evidenced by
copies of papers published in the mid
dle and eastern states, which have
reached Valdez people from tourists
who made the trip to Alaska during
the past summer.
The wonderful flower gardens of
Alaska made a lasting Impression
upon the strangers who believed they
were coming to a land, the greater
portion of which would be covered
with snow and ice, even in the sum
mer time. They were all fortified with
cameras nnd lost no opportunity of
securing pictures which would serve
rs pleasant reminders of their trip.
To meet with familiar flowers and
•tables, the kind they had left
growing in their own yards, appealed
to them more than the finest speci
mens of quartz or the sight of gold
dust. They realized that Alaska was
capable of producing wonderful flow
ers and could not be possessed of such
an Inhospitable climate as they had
believed.
Many of the tourists who visited
Alaska during the past summer made
the trip through the interior and
around the coaat and have a*reed
I that the honor of having the finest
garden in Alaska belonged to a Val
dez lady, Mrs. Wm M. Conley. Her
garden was one of the attractions for
tourists and many pictures, some of
them occupying three or four col
umns, have been printed in eastern
papers In proof of the tourists asser
tions that instead of finding Alaska
a land of snow and Ice, they found it
a land of sunshine and flowers.
The mining and fishing industries
received mighty little attention from
the tourists in comparison with the
attention bestowed on the flower gar
dens.
THE CASE OF NICARAGUA.
(Boston Record.)
Our international relations have
been much enlivened by the war. The
leading article In the new Century by
Lincoln Valentine, an American busi
ness man, intimates In Its title that
we are "Meddling with our Neigh
bors,” the neighbor being specifically
Nicaragua:
Let us consider what Nicaragua
wants. The people demand emphatical
ly to eercise their constitutional right
of sovereignty. This Is being In
fringed by the presence of our marines.
Why are they there? Ostensibly for
the protection of American life and
property. But American life and
property are safe, as conservatives
and liberals alike offer ample guar
antees in this respect Hence our ma
rines are no longer needed, and there
is no further excuse for their remain
ing. They should be removed without
delay.
Our most famous ex-president ex
presses some very emphatic and un
qualified personal opinions on “Inter
national Duty and Hyphenated Am
-'ricanlsm” In the Metropolitan:
Selling arms to a belligerent may be
morally either very right, or very
vrong. This depends absolutely upon
fhe Justice of the cause in which the
prms are to be used. I believe that
‘he United States should adopt as the
policy: First, the duty of being amply
•eady to guard its own rights: and
second, the duty to show sympathy
with, and so far as possible, to make
’(fectlvely evident, this sympathy
with every nation which by its con- <
duct deserves such sympathy, and to
j dnnd against every nation in every
specific case where It Is guilty of mis
conduct. In 1878, for Instance, our
sympathies should have been against
England, and for Russia and Bul
garia. In the ’80’s, our sympathies
anent Egypt and the Soudan, should
have been with England and against
France. In 1914 our sympathies should
have been against Germany • • •
etc.
In nn editorial on "The Duty of
America, the Outlook says:
The American nation is maintaining
an attitude of neutrality In the pres
ent European conflict. It does not
follow that it is the duty of every in
dividual American to maintain an at
•P ide of neutrality.
Fc long as this nation remains neu
tral. the advocates of non-resistance
have no more right to forbid the
friends of one of the belligerents from
furnishing It money or munitions than
those who believe In the rlgheous
ness of the belligerent’s cause to com
pel the non-resident to furnish monev
or munitions. The liberty to decide
for himself is one of the liberties
which the constitution has secured for
all American citizens.
An article by Aleister Crowley is
-opied from an English Journal by
Mr. Vlereck, editor of the Fatherland
'n his monthly organ, The Interna
tional.
The attitude of the real American
ftoward the war) Is very concise
This is the placard which hangs in
thousands of business offices all over
America: “If you want to fight, go to
Europe.
“If you want to talk war. go to
hell.
“This place Is neutral.”
There was never so clear and em
phatic a definition of a mental at
titude. It says everything, and not a
word wasted. When the Lusitania
sank, he (the American) saw the
German side of the case instantly. He
"ouldn’t see why the hell the durned
fools couldn't keep out of the war
zone. Go to W'ar? oNt he. He might
sell munitions to the allies: that was
his business. The Germans might sink
the ships: all the better: it meant a
repeat order. Hard as nails, you bet
your life.
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