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NOME, ALASKA, MAY 11, 1917.
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THE CONSTITUTION.
When the Constitution "as fi .mod
its authors measured the distance to
Kuiopt w .th sailcloth instead of pro- |
tteller blades.
They thought that we could elect j
any expedient degree of isolation, hold I
aloof front international wrangles and )
1 ui. indefinite))' on an eighteen century
schedule.
Steam was still a secret force; clee
tncit) "another Franklin trick.” The
i iggest transports wouldn't hold one
good gulp of forty-five centimetre guti
fodder and frigates fought at speak- ;
lug-trumpet range.
The cable, much less wireless, had]
rot even promised to saw up the gaps
between the hemispheres. Inter- t
ocean communication was such a long
drawn affau that folks had abund- i
lit opportunity to consider any na- ,
tional policy while governments were
holding parleys.
Frogress was stumbling along rough
and ready highways, with prejudice
and precedent tugging at her skirts.
Then suddenly she spied a strand of
copper wire and a puff of kettle mist
and fashioned them into a pair of
wings.
Even Jefferson and Hamilton could
not foresee the astounding estate of
the new republic.
Had they dreamed of a United
States destined to command first rank
as an agricultural and industrial com
monwealth (and therefore grow more
dependent upon foreign business each
year) It must be assumed that the
instrument which Immortalizes their
names woud have been different in
several respects.
They could merely plan for a period
and a country with which they were
familiar—by their lights no men
could have possesed a truer vision.
But it is inevitable, when we weigh
the many conditions which they were
unable to anticipate, that this docu
ment, which fitted the requirements of
a gangling young state, shall, ns we
grow to full stature, require considora
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
OVER HILL’S DRUG STORE.
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Phono Main 7
hie patching and alteration.
Their wisdom did not provide guid
ance in emergencies such as now em
barrass us.
We ure not sell'-continent we are
too great for Insularity—our yields
and products exceed domestic con
sumption—wc must be world traders
on a constantly greater scale and as
such cannot avoid any issues which
seriously affect our fortunes.
So wo must stand prepared to face
the abrogation of doctrines and poli
cies as they fall to serve the changing
hour.
Wo are irrevocably committed to no
judgment of the past. Tills war will
discard and amend more than one
article of the Constitution. Human
Judgment Is always fallblc when it
undertakes to decide too far ahead.
We have been drawn into a game
for which tiie majority of the players
form the rules, and nt need must revise
our own accordingly.
HOPING FOR A GERMAN REPUB
LIC.
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The revolution in Russia lias in
pi ml hope throughout the civilized
world that there might be n similar
successful movement in Germany and
Austria and that the great central
powers may become republics. It is
believed by those who are following
European events closely that there is
little chance for an end of the war ar
an early date unless it should come
about in that manner. On the other
hand should Germany become a repub
lic it is the belief that there would tie
i a speedy termination of conflict.
And what a r. public Germans would
( make! There are no people in the
I world better equipped with natural
I qualifications for a democracy than
i die Gt rmans. They have the stability,
the Investigative disposition, the will
ingness to discard those things which
scientific development discloses to lie
obsolete, the love of personal libert)
and other necessary traits of char
acter. Their universities have been
behind none In following truth wher
ever it may lead.
In one glaring particular lias mod
ern German thought failed to measure
up to the progressive spirit of the
times—adherence to monarchy with
its militarism and recognition of caste.
The daring ambition of the kaiser and
tiie great military establishment he
created carried modern Germany off
her feet, and a conception of German
‘'kultur" completely inconsistent with
German university th.night in its most
general applications resulted. It is
not difficult to understand the pride
the average German has had in the
military establishment of his country,
tl is naural for a people to take pride
in national prowess, and this natural
tendency was encouraged and nursed
by the nobility of Germany, led by the
emperor who dreamed of a place tn
history with the world conquerors of
other days.
But there arc indications that the
stress of three years of war and the
demonstration that Germany cannot
whip the world has opened the eyes
of the German masses to the evils of a
! monstrous miitarism. if these indicu
| tions tell tlie true story of the condi
tion of the German mind it offers more
to tlie hope than anything else in the
present situation.
SILLY PERFORMANCE.
About as silly as performance as has
i yet been recorded is that of the Brit
ish authorities in Halifax in solemnly
contlscatiug the rubber heels from the
shoes of the members of the German
embassy, oil route home under a Brlt
ish safe conduct, and also their paja
mas. Ilubber and cotton are, accord"
mg to tlie present belligerent deflni
t.ons, botli contraband of war, but the
military use of tho rubber heels of tlie
German officials and tlie cotton paja
mas which they were taking home
would hardly threaten the safety of the
British armies in the field.
t’nder the same head of contraband
of war conies gold. Every country
at war 'is taking pains to see that no
gold leaves it to reach an enemy. It
is understood that when Americans
were leaving Germany, 'including some
of oui diplomatic representatives, the
German authorities impounded their
gold and made them take German
j paper money for it. This might give
the British authorities a precedent to
justify them in impounding the gold
money to be found on the German
officials and to substitute for it Brit
ish currency. It Would hardly be
taken as justitlaction, however, for
removing the gold fillings from the
teetli of the Germans of the late em
bassy, Perhaps the display of any
kind of magnanimity in countries em
bittered by the war is hardly to be
expected, hut decent self-respect, one
would think, might have restrained
the Hah fax representatives of tlie Brit
ish government from making such a
silly exhibition of petty oificiousness
as is shown in their crude interpre
tation of the inles aga'mst contraband.
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COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
Following are the lowest recorded
temperatures for this year and last
on the days \e3iguuted. The minu9
sign before a number means below
sera
D. S Weather Bureau.
1916 1917
May 1 . 23 22
May 2 . 28 30
May 3 . 23 22
May 4 . 16 0
May 5 . 18 4
May 6 . 8 8
May 7.14 12
May 8 ....6 12
May 9.12 14
May 10.21 20
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