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NOME, ALASKA. MARCH 22, 1915
THE PEACE ARGUMENTS.
In a widely circulated address against
national armament Dr. Isaac Sharpless
of Haverford college, bases his argu
ment against further increase of our
national defense on the probability that
tin- nations now at war will not lie
ready to attack the United States for
several decades and winds up by
slating that "armaments mean war"
and "depemlance on justice means
peace." The article is a fair sample of
tlie vasty mass of peace literature with
which tin- country lias been flooded
since the outbreak of the Great War
While appreciating the animating spirit
it is difficult to understand tin appli
cation of some of the reasons advanced
for a discontinuance of tin- national ef
forts to safeguard the country from
armed aggression. As for instance the
statement that a depend;'!nee upon jus
tice means peace Admitting that the
sonorous sentence is ethically correct
and that we are willing to abide by the
principle contained tin-rein, where un
der high heaven are we to find a re
ciprocal feeling .’ Belgium, for instance,
was of necessity compelled to put le r
faith In the justice and brotherly spirit
of her neighbors because of her weak
ness and today that little nation has all
11ut vanished as a national entity . What
of the Boer nation and a dozen others
that one can recall at a moments no
tice’ And have we not ourselves been
the object of an attempted conquest by
a more powerful nation? The state
ment seems fallacious when the history
of nations is considered and yet tin
principal argument of some half dozer
peace circulars at hand are based upur
equally absurd grounds.
Good Hr. Sharpless also states wit!
grandiose eloquence that if tits stnmist
is correct us regards tin- probable in
ability of the larger European nation*
to attack this country for several de
cades it is absurd to further increast
our navy for the economical reason
that by the time the nations might hr
in a position to attack, such war ves
sels as we might build during the in
terval of their innocunusness, would lie
antiquated or worn out and therefore
would be a dead loss. Beautiful! Eot
us pin our faith lo the spirit of kind
ness and brotherly love which is tin
animating influence of nations thal
denounce treaties as scraps of papei
and invoke the favor of God on tin
Christian task of slaughtering millions!
Let us by all means follow the beauti
ful precept of turning the other cheek
and when we have been thoroughly
yvell thrashed by some nation we ear
salve our wounded feelings with the
thought that even if we had continued
to increase our navy it would have been
no use anyvvav and besides we have
saved an awful lot of mone>. Pt
Sharpless insists that the constant j
alarm at the Japanese snare is a false1
belief, a hugadon. a wordy trifle of the
sensation loving press, a mere fabrica
tion of words which Klbert Hubbard
would den<*un« e as persiflage and piffle.
There is no danger in Japan, the Doctor
says, "Rveryone who has felt the tem
per of the Japanese government and]
people is sure that neither interest not
desire exists for an Xmerican war. a
war which would have no prospect of
final success and would break them
down with financial burdens." This b
difficult to understand. If we have n<
navy and no adequate means of nation
al defense why, pray, cannot Japan
hope for final success poos the Doctor
consider that we may still their hostile
passions by telling them that we ar*
invulnerable In our dependance on .jus
tice and make them believe it * Or.
perhaps, we can hold them off as the
1 Doctor suggests hv cultivating ‘a iudi
ial attitude which will take the view
I ojnt of an alien nation and appreciate
ms reasonable demands” Good! And
f fla <e demands he not reasonable how
’hen' The Doctor also asserts that we
in find hi ineffable and everlasting
•e ire I limiting our "commercial lim
it ions and methods, both individual
lid national, to such an extent as t<
•eeognize the just rights and proper
h'sires of others.” While this proposi
ion is somewhat complicated we find
'hat it becomes quite clear if we “base
•nr moral ideas on the teachings of the
j Vow Testament and have faith that
'hey will carrv us through, oven when
! we cannot clearlv see the future wav."
We also find that tin* Doctor in orde’
o further holster his argument as t*
|'he terrible costs of maintaining a na
j ’ ional defense, is not adverse to jug
ling the facts a bit for we read that
two-thirds of our national expendi
1'r> s La* t" warlike purposes including
he pension list. This makes i mnnu
neptal sum and will do much to compel
la* sympathies of those who are In
lined to replace prudence with eron
niv as suggested by the Doctor, hut
• t the same time it is a misrepresent#
• ■ 'I* The facts are that the pension
ist of the Pnited States shows a total
:earlv equal to the total army and nan
ppropriatlons. The 1013-14 approprin
'ions for tin* army and navy were
jj.'iaap; 7w whb h included the costs of
maintaining the naval academy, the
■aval yards, and also the costs of con -
^-tria ting new ships, while the pension
I lists reached the total of $ 17‘i.08'.4r»l.
1*1 ico such a huge sum with the
army and navv appropriations swells
tla total to enormous proportions and
will unilouhtclv cause the economical
minded ones to go into hysterics.
This is undoubtedly what the Doctor
desires, though how lie conceives that
such sum is a true statement of the
costs of the. national armament is
rather puzzling and indicates a ten
I deucy in pile a little more straw upon
jtlm fife for the purpose of making more
Miiokc With all deference to the vvis
dow of the good Doctor, it is difficult
to reconcile his. and manv others, con
tentions for .! cessation of our defen
sive activities. The one under discus*
mon is but a fair sample of all the rest
| but has an added weight because of
the pmminenc- of its author. All have
their principal arguments based on
| speculative or ethical principles and
make hut little allowance for the facts,
li,tr <ln consider the natural ten
donoiea or Inc limit ion sfe-jf the world’s1
nations as Indicated in both the past
and present. The fallae\ of a discon
tinuance of defensive measures is up
parent through all time The weaker
nation has ever fallen a prey to the i
stronger and so It will prohahlv eon-;
tiuue through all time. There is no I
safet\ save ill the powers of defense |
possessed and no amount of maudlin i
peace arguments can controvert the;
testimonies
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(From cur Exchwiges.)
A recent document from the depart
ment at Washington gives the distance
between Matanuska and Seward, Val
dez and Cordova. Seward Is is? miles, |
Valdez is 32X and Cordova is T.i.'i
Silka subordinate lodge of the Alaska
1 trotlierhood raised n fund (if $!»0 for
the relief of the war ridden Helgians.
\ draft for this was sent to Gov .1 F.
' A. Strong which he received yesterday.
Oscar Ashby, who recently sold a
portion of the townsite of Seward, ha?
jumped into the oil game down in
Washington and taken a lease on al
tract of land near Teniriu where lie!
will sink a well
Three carloads of ore front the
Mother I -ode mine, the first shipment
d tlte season, arrived on the train from
he interior recently Two more are
xpected "tt tomorrow's trtiin and the
•ntire lot will he shipped to the Ta- I
■oma smelter on the steamer Mariposa.
I
Sanak Island Is as free from trees as
I he face "f a lady is of beard and when
| Mis. Hammond the school teacher o>
hat lace, gave tlte children their first
i
Christmas tree she found it necessary
to tie a lot of willows together The;
result was as successful as it was re
markable.
The natives of Auk village, in South
astern Alaska, became interested in
the llelgian relief fund and raised
six.73. which was forwarded to ihe
iiensurer in Juneau. The natives are*
hit hardest bv the European war, as
i he price of furs have dropped to a1
very low figure.
Spruce crock in the .vttin district |
has taken on a new lease of life, anti is
busier now than ever before, as there |
are more men working and more de
velopment work being done Ibis winter
than for many years Ground that lias
been abandoned lias been taken tip ami I
new ground is being opened tip all
along the creek.
Attracted by the promising (level-1
opment of the past few seasons in the!
Kuskokwim district, the E. J Undue!
Steamship Company, operators of the j
lug fleet of coasters, will inaugurate
the first regular steamship service to:
this vast but isolated section *»f the
North in May, 1313, with Seattle 113
its operating heart]turners.
Kalusha Nelson, a native whose
home is at .Mile 34, lias been missing
for more than a week, since lie left |
rordnva with the intention of walking
home, it is believed that he perished
in till' storm of Iasi week. Tie was
intoxicated when he let! the home ot
tiusi Wilson, did not reach ids own
home and has not been seen or heard
from.
The government will contest the
mineral locations of a large tract of
land in the vicinity of Ketchikan that
is claimed b> James A. I)n\ is, and on
which application lias been made for
patent as lode mining claims. The
government charges t In11 the land in
question is non-mineral in character,
that suiilcient work has not been done
to entitle the claimant to patent and
that the locations were not made for
their value ns mineral properties but
for townsite purposes. There are 80
mining claims al told in the tract.
The town of Craig, on Bergman Is
land, in Southeastern Alaska, has munx
distinctive features of Its own. Ac
cording to some of the Juneau resi
dents who claim to lie posted, it is the
• mix town ill the t’nlted States which
is presided oxer and ruled entirely by
forest officials, t'laig is in the toresl
reserve created hi Alaska. It xvas laid
out hx tlic forest officials anil the siile
waIks and other improvements were
made under the direction of the forest
officials. < iceupnnts of a lot pax an
nuallx to tin1 local forest agent $■• for
a resident lot and $10 for a lot occu
pled hx a store. The occupants make
all of their improvements So far as
known. The forest service government
works smoothly. There are ho elections
no local politics and nothing to quarrel
about concerning municipal matters
The occupants know iti advance just
what they have to do to remain and
there is no appeal. The forest agent
by the terms of the lease can terminate
it at any moment, lie is the sole au
thority and the town under this social
istic form of government Is a pretty de
cent one to live in.
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