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NOME, ALASKA, JULY 12, 1917.
WHAT COULD WE DO?
Alhough the causes and contribut
ing reasons for the entry of the Uni
ted States into the war are generally
well known, we werp much surprised
a few days ago to hear a well in
formed render remark that he be
lieved the United States should have
followed the advice of Washington
and kept out of the war by avoiding |
foreign entanglements which would
place us fn such position that we
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would have to tight. He then went i
on to state that the primary reason !
for the United States entry 1'ies In ]
the fact that we had loaned millions 1
on millions of dollars to the allied i
governments and when the situation !
”7 became such that there was a pros- !
poet that they would not he able to 1
pay we were forced to go to their <
assistance in order to secure the re- !
turn of what wo had loaned. In other j
words, the moneys we had loaned the *
F.uropean governments constituted, <
in his opinion, 'an entangling al- ■
liance" which had forced us into the ‘
war when the downfall of the im
perial Russian government made it
seem extremely probable that the Ger- I
mans might In the absence of a ne
cessity for maintaining a large part
of their armies on the eastern front,
be able to overcome the opposition of
the western allies and possibly se
cure a victory.
Now, th'is man is wot a pro-Orman,
neither is he one of those individuals
who are opposed to preparedness or,
when he believes there is a justifiable
reason for fighting, to war. Right
down at the bottom of him we believe
he is a thorough patriot and we do
not question his loyalty In the slight
est degree. Doubtless, like many an
other, he either does nof understand
the true situation or is a victim of a
one-sided point of view which will not
prrmit him to see that It was not
money, nor trade, nor any other mer
cenary thing, that forced us into the
struggle. Neither was 'it because ilie
so-called "plutocrats” wanted war so
that they would be able to make
money out of It, as we have heard
many persons suggest.
AVc believe that no nation in the
history of the world ever entered into
war with a cleaner conscience or a
more Just cause than the United
States. The United States simply
HAD TO FIGHT. Not alone because
it was a moral duty to go in and
assist in bringing the bloody slaugh
ter of the past two years and more
to a close, but also to preserve our
self-respect and to vindicate the legal
and moral right of free men of a free
nation to travel the open highways
of the world without let or restric
tion, save m such cases as those high
ways should he closed by methods
which are universally regarded as
Just and lawful.
Neighbor; if a man living in the
vicinity of your home should arm his
house until the doors and windows
bristled with guns, and if this man
should suddenly lhvnde the yards of
his next door neighbors and take their
I goods, and kill some of their children,
at»d take some of them away with
him as slaves and then should an
nounce to you that if he caught any
of your sons or daughters upon the
streets he would kill them; nnd if he
should actually kill some of your
children while they were going along
the streets on lawful and peaceful
errands, would you not think that
you had a good reason for .arming and
going forth to slay that man?
Wouldn't you think that you were
justified in fighting him?
Well that is the situation in which
the United States and Germany stand
today. The German autocracy is the
murderous neighbor and the United
States is the peaceful citizen whose
sons nnd daughters have been slain.
It is as necessary for nations ns *it
is for individuals to go abroad upon
the highways In the conduct of their
business. The highway of the indi
vidual is the street and sidewalk but
, the highways of nations are the seas.
Without trade, including in the term
only such things as are considered
necessities of life, our shops and fac
tories nnd mines would be idle, many
of our farms would he untilled and
thousands of our wage earners would
be idle and hungry.
To pursue our trade abroad is there
fore a duty we owe ourselves and
our people. And to do so we must
use the seas. Before the war all na
tions used the ocean highways. Then
came the war and Germany and her
allies found themselves unable to
contend with the navy of England
and the entente allies and were un
able to send out their ships Germany
i then ordered a land blockade by for
bidding the shipment of iron and all
other products across the continent of
Europe between the entente allies
and she made that land blockade ef
fective by military force. England
then established a blockade about the
German coasts with her powderful
navy aad forbade the shipment of
food and iron and other products to
Germany and her allies. And she
made that blockade effective Both
blockades were within the meaning ^
of the laws governing international I
procedure and. therefore, legal. Then
Germany did something that had
never been done before, in all the
shameful and bloody history of the
world. She served notice that all
ships found wlth'in certain areas of
the oceans would he sunk without
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notice, without giving their passen
gers an opportunity to escape, feho
did not define the ships to be sunk
as belligerent ships or ships carrying
munitions, or armed ships. She said
she would sink Aid. ships. This
meant nothing less than that Ameri
cans who ventured on the age free
highways of the sea should be killed,
in the event of their being discovered.
| Only one exception was made. One
I boat a week could sail from the Uni
ted States on a day designated by
Germany, provided it wore painted
a color and in a pattern designated
! by Germany, and flying a flag which
would also be of German designation.
Not the American flag, mirul you but a
flag invented for the purpose. On our
failure to agree to his humiliating and
illegal restriction, Germany carried
out her threat. American min and
women and children wore killed; ves
sels were sunk without warning and
their life boats filled with unarmed,
helpless, fleeing victims, were fired
upon by the German submarines.
And then, when America, stung to
the quick by such indefensible ac
tions commenced to show signs of
a'helated wrath, Germany endeavored
to rouse Mexico and Japan against
her arul attempted to persuade them
to invade the I’nited States under the
hope of jbeijng granted irewards of
United States soil—by Germany1
Would anyone with red blood in
their veins want more to make them
tight?
Just as you would feel that you
were doing jhst and right in going
forth to battle with the murderous
man who killed your children and
the children of your neighbors, so
did we as a nation go forth to do
battle with that murderous monarchy
which had slpin our ichf ldren—our
citizens—w hile they wore going about
on their peaceful errands over the
ocean highways. We are lighting, as
we said before, not for money not for
trade, nor any other mercenary thing.
We are fighting for our right to live
as a free and independant people
whose citizens are legally and moral
ly entitled to come and go as they
will on the high seas without danger
of outrage and destruction. —
And, above all we have entered (he
war with the high resolve to make
sure that never again will a blood
thirsty and ambitious autocracy de
luge tlie world with blood to sat
isfy its ambitions.
PIANO TURNER.
George Anderson, piano expert and
factory representtive for high grade
pianos and player pianos will be in
Nome this summer at the Golden Gate
hotel.
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