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Entered a* •eoond-cias* matter Feb.
*0, 1907, at the postoffle* at Nome,
Alaska, under the Act of Congreee of
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NOME, ALASKA, FEB- 7, 1916.
The revival of the long pending Co
lombian treaty matter again reminds us
of the fact that we are not so altogether
Immaculate In our treatment of otherE
as might be suggested by the torrent
of high flown sentiment we are wont
to loose at every opportunity—and
especially when we find some one else
at fault We Jumped onto Germany
pretty hard for her violation of Bel
gium. for instance, and we are always
more or less ready to point the ac
cusing finger at others whose Inter
national dealings ire not altogether
above suspicion But what about
ourselves? Take this Colombia matter,
for example What art we preparing
to pay Colombia fifteen million dollars
for? Again, why did we pay Spain
twenty millions for the Philippines?
In the first case we paid the newly
created republic of Panama ten mil
lion dollars for a deed In perpetuity
lo the so called "Canal Zone" and
atferward made full settlement for
such claims as were held by the stock
holders of the old French Panama
Company. This would seem a suffi
cient basis for the belief that we had
settled with all valid title holders In
such interests as w® had acquired. The
French claimants were paid for their
holdings and Panama republic surely
nad full right to trade off such prop
city as it controlled In any manner
it so desired, so, it would seem that we
could owe no one else. Why then pay
Colombia twenty five millions, as was
ciiglnaUy demanded, of fifteen millions
as has now been decided upon? Simply
because the acquisition of the canal
zone was brought about under cir
cumstances that will cause the trans
act ;on to forever linger as a bar
sinister on the escutcheon of American
nonor. In fact there la little reasonable
doubt that we were guilty of us delib
erate u rttal” as any that have been
perpetrate t hy those whom we are
prone to accuse of International dupli
city and doubtle dealing. To be sure we
did not go at it like tile majority of
them, with gun and sword and a cause
founded upon some plausible protext.
But, this change in method does not
excuse the action, as is proven by the
fact that we are even now preparing
to pay Colombia tlfteen millions for
what we were cause of that nation
losing
We hud not the grace to go at our
nefarious business openly, and In full
sight of the world as the others do,
but must needs hide behind the deeds
of others and conceal our rapacity by
teeming honest payments for what we
acquired. It has never been openly
disclosed to the world that the United
States was ills prime mover in bring
ing about the insurrection which led
to tlie establishment of the Panama
'republic. The matter was carefully
hushed up when knowledge of the
shameful affair commenced to leak
out through devious channels, but the
record is written in damning terms tn
the "big black book of Jobs,'' a most
convincing evidence that for all our
platitudinous mouthlnga we are not
without reproach when It comes to
jetting what we want. We rave about
our national honesty and prate of an
■xalted regard for the principles of
humanity and the rights of others,
but the evidence furnished by the
Panama transaction and the Spanish
Vmerlean war prove that much of this
national honesty talk Is like many
mother thing American—a good deal
if a bluff We are admittedly not so
itterly conscienceless as the majority
■f the nations. We don't go out like
i brigand and take what we want at
the point of a gun. We don't trump
up a change and cram it down the
ither fellow’s throat by force of arms
inder the plea that it is Just, but that
we accomplish the same things by
| nther methods no less sure and certain,
can hardly be denied. We pay for
what we get, it is true but Is the
action of first taking it, thereby con
doned? We think not. One seldom
hears of a defaulting bank cashier being
let off by paying back the sum of his
defalcations. He may pay but he Is
none the less culpable In the eyes of
the law. And, does not the isame
| liability attach to the nation as well
ms the individual? It is doubtless true
that we have been leas guilty of shady
transactions In our International deal
ings than are most of the other nations,
but that we are guiltless of some un
holy deeds, cannot be consistently
denied. What was the Spanish
American war but a deliberate steal
carried on under the pretext of
defending the Monroe doctrine and
those exalted principles of humanity
we so persistently profess when othera
are at fault and so Inconsistently for
/et when occasion requires? We
needed some of those West Indian
possessions of Spain for the protection
jf our enstern coasts and also the
Ismathian canal, on which we had
already set our hearts. That was why
we took advantage of the Cuban situa
tion to take posaealon of what we
wanted. It was not the devilish cruelty
of the Spaniards toward the Cubans
nor yet the destruction of the Maine,
that set us howling at the heels of
poor, decrepit Spain. Those matters
were but the matches which set alight
the fires we had already decided on.
It was mighty little the slaughter of
the reconcentredoa had to do with It.
While we were doubtless filled with
horror and disgust at the awful cruel
ties inflicted on the hapless people
of Cuba, It Is a mortal truth that we
would never have made that the pre
text for war If there had been nothing
to be gained but the punishment ot
Spain. We wanted those Islands, It
not us private possessions, at least
under our own control and that la thi
reason we went after them and tooi
them. The eastern Spanish posses
sions were not exactly essential but
they were valuable and their acquisi
tion was a matter of ^course. Wa
afterward paid for theig, not because
we owed Spain anything, as they ware
ours by right of conquest, but merely
to salve our consciences and wash
away the Idea that we had not acquired
them for other than high minded
' reasons We may point the scornful
finger at others If we will, but it la
well to remember that our own skirts
are far from being as clean as we
might desire.
NOTICE OF EXECUTRIX.
In the Probate Court in and for the
j Sulnt Michael Precinct, Second Divls
I Ion, District of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Frank
lin Moses, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that on the
17th day of January, 1916, the under
! signed executrix of the said estate
duly filed her final account therein
, in said court, and also her petition
asking that said account b« settled
and allowed. And said court has or
dered that the hearing on said petition
and objections to the settlement end
allowance of said account be had be
fore Charles J. Koen, United States
commissioner and exofllclo Judge of
probate at his office In St. Michael
Second Division, District of Alaska, on
Monday, May 1st, 1916, at 2 o'clock p
m. of said day.
ELLA E. MOSES.
Executrix.
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