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NOME, ALASKA, JULY 13,
Although President Wilson and also
a number of equally able men have
taken a decided stand In the matter of
increasing the American army and
have likewise cast doubt upon the ef
fectiveness of any addition to the navy,
t lie question of advisibillty still seems
to be one in which the exponents of
national preparedness have much the
lies! of the argument. The principle
contention of those opposing a general
increase in the army and navy seems
to hinge on the theory that military
preparedness tends to the adoption of
a general policy of militarism similar
to that of the larger European na
tions and the evil effects of whicli are
pointed to us proof conclusive that we
are inevitably .bound to follow in the
same lane and to reap the same ef
fects In the event that we place our
selves In a condition to preserve the
national integrity by force of arms
It is pointed out that without excep
tion the larger nations of Europe have
continued to pile up vast armamentj
year after year and that this in the end
lias been their undoing, it is ar
geed, through continued development,
the piling up of vast armaments is
not a protective measure but rather an
invitation to conflict, in general effect
the burden of their opposition rests
on tile assumption that if one is strong
enough to tight the greater will be his
inclination to fight upon provocation |
being offered and the primary founda
tion of their argument against the ac
cumulation of military strength is to
be found in the negative expression of
this idea; namely, that if the nation
is not prepared for war the less likely
will become the possibilities of being
involved In war. There is to be sure
some degree of logic of a certain kind
in the argument when stated in the
latter form, it tan hardly be gainsaid
that one who is too weak to fight will
probably lie exceedingly cautious about
inviting conflict, yet, it would seem
that in putting forth this view its ad
herents are losing sight of the fact
that weakness is no guarantee of Im
munity from the aggression of the
pliysieaHy strong. We may assume
witli reasonable certitude that the one
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who Is too weak to fight will not be
likely to fight but the matter of
whether this inability to offer defense
will serve as a protection from the
attack W others is one which seems
decidedly lacking in satisfactory assur
ance. Booking upon the general man
ifestations of physical existence it is
difficult to find even the most abstract
example of the soundness of this con
tention. From the most minute to the
highest developed forms of objec
tive life the natural tendency of the
stronger Is to force aside and to dis
place the weaker forms. Nowhere, re
gardless of the state of existence in
which examples may he sought, will it
be found that the strong give mor.
than the scantiest consideration to the
weak and helpless. No matter what
plane of physical life may be con
sulted it will be found that weakness
is an open invitation to usurpation
rather than a safeguard and protec
tion and the history of nations dis
closes all too clearly that humanity
Is closely akin to the lower orders in
this respect as nowhere in the storied
pages of human history can he found
one proven example of the stronger
nation withholding its hand in defer
ence to the weakness of its rival. So
numerous are the instances of the na
tural tendency to overpower a weaker
rival that the argument seems falla
cious. i
That national antagonisms and race
hatred have little if anything to do
with war in modern times finds ample
confirmation in the fact that each of
the larger nations engaged in the Eu
ropean struggle today have been both
friends and foes in the numerous mar
tial struggles of the past and have
displayed an inclination to switch
from one to the other with an utter
disregard of the so-called natural
racial antagonisms. With the possible
exception of the late Balkan war there
Is not one of the great struggles of the
past two hundred years where racial
antipathies seemed to have had more
than a trifling effect in influencing the
causes leading to strife. In the great
wars following that monumental
struggle known as the Thirty Years
War the question of expedience seems
to have been the dominating influence
solely. Racial lines have clearly
played no part in such strange com
binations as appeared in the great
struggle of eighteen eighty-five when
France and Britain joined with the
Moslems to down the Slavs. England
has been the hereditary foe of France
for centuries and their struggles have
filled a number of chapters in the pages
of European history hardh equalled1
by the storied struggles of any other
nation or nations with one or two ex
ceptions, since the fall of the Roman
empire. Between Britain and France
the bitterness of the enmity, fostered
through years of conflict, would seem
ingly create a national antagonism
that could not Ire forgotten and yet we
find them several times aligned ns
allies for the conquest of some other
foe. The Prussian co-alilion. composed
of the many Teutonic states, now
known as the German Empire, waged
one of the bloodiest wars in history
against Austria, her present ally and
in that Jay both England and France
gat e their support to Germany. Again,
one hundred and fifty years ago. Prus
sia, under the leadership of the great
Frederick, fought a deadly struggle
with Austria and was sa\ed from an
overwhelming defeat largely by the
added strength of Russia. The passing
years found the Russians flinging their
legions into Hungary in the interest of
her former foe Austria. In the first
part of the nineteenth century Russia
was the most implacable enemy of
France and in the eighties. England
was aligned with France against Rus
sia in the interest of Turkey who is
now fighting all three. The constant
shifting from one to the other through
out the years seems to furnish ample
evidence that racial animosities have
very little to do with these great in
ternational struggles It seems im
possible to conceive that race hatred,
in the common meaning of the term,
can be thus easily laid aside over some
pretext of political necessity. The fact
that the friends of today have been the
enemies of yesterday and will in all
probability be arranged in future years
in antagonistic combinations as
strange as those of today, indicates
with seeming verity that such a thing
as a lasting rare antagonism does not
really exist.
ALASKA
NOTES
Wrangell hunters hay- killed about
2.'. while swan on the Stikine flats.
The old saw mill at Sitka, built by
the Russians before the Amei lean ^oc
cupation. has been torn down
Judge Royal \. Gunnison, of Juneau,
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BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 7TH, THE PRICE OF BREAD
WILL BE 10 CENTS PER LOAF OR THREE LOAVES FOR 25
CENTS. THE SIZE OF LOAVES HAVE BEEN INCREASED
WHICH INSURES MORE AND BETTER BREAD FOR OUR
PATRONS.
CHAS. CAVEY, Prop.
'bas returned from Washington. D. C„
'where he attended, ss a representative
I of Alaska, the annual meeting of the
cotnmisisoners an uniform laws.
The lesson of the election In Alaska
I has brought forth from all pars of the
j territory a demand for an Amt -altar,
ballot system.
According to a newspaper puUPsllcd
in that city, Henry W. Darr. of Juneau,
has invented a steel auto tire that w’U
outwear rubber.
Oomissloner Adams was fined by
the city magistrate of Cordova som»
days ago for an assault on a newspaper
man of that place.
11. R Roth, recently appointed U.
,g. attorney for the Fourth division
in Alaska, is fighting to defend his
character against the vicious on
slaughts of a preacher.
A cording to a statements by an
Eastern business man, an Alaska com
pany has been formed in Chicago to
sell town lots in A'aldez on the strength
f toe i instruction of the government
[ i allroad.
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A big black bear came walking down
the main street of I’etersburg one day
recently, s. aring big dogs and little
one alike. The town baker produced
i rusty old shotgun and killed the bear,
thus winning fame for his bravery.
A Seattle postoffice clerk was ar
rested some time ago charged with |
stealing mail. It was found that he.
had taken something like 5.000 letters
i .>ming from Alaska and British Co
lumbia. expecting that they contained \
money.
Robt Blei, a show-man in Dawson in
the early days, is given the credit in
the Mining Age, of bringing to the at
tention of the Morgans the rich Bon
anza copper properties of the Guggen
heims, lying at the head of Copper
river, midway between Dawson and
Cordova, and close to the Chisana
camp.
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