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NOME, ALASKA, APRIL 14, 1917.
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ARE WE APATHETIC I
So very frequently wo hear from
American citizens, who doubtless have
their country’s welfare sincerely at
heart, very decided objections to the
United States taking any active part '
in the prosecution of the war. Their
objections are made in true faith of
the rectitude of their convictions, but,
aside from those whose national ori
gin gives them racial prejudice, these
convictions are in the main the result
of a lack of knowledge of the issues
which involve this country.
Probably no ruler in the history
o£ the world has occupied as difficult
a position, as has President Wilson
for the last three years; representa
tive to the warring nations of a
heterogenous people, themselves di
vided in sympathy through origin; it
became necessary for him at once to
decide on a course of action that
would with dignity protect the inter
ests, preserve the integrity, and ex
tend the influence of the nation as a
whole. The clamor of the militarists,
stern demands of the peace advocates,
and the gibes of the warring nations,
must not influence the action of the
peoples elected—simply the nation.
During the first two years and a
half of the conflict it seemed as though
we might be able to maintain our
neutrality, that by the maintenance
of peace we might become a greater
fictor in the establishment of perm
anency that the dignity of our action
in ignoring the taunts of the war
crazed might be a precedent that
would in future compel deliberative
nefl-on on all International issues.
Not until every expedient to pre
serve peace had been exhausted, till
i he honor and integrity of the nation
had been threatened, till actual hos
tilities had been commenced did our
president call upon the people, not
us Englishmen, not as Frenchmen,
not as Germans nor Austrians, but as
Americans, citizens of the new world
to rise as one man and settle this
r.iqfnstrous upheaval of civilization;
assert not only the conviction of the
wrongness of war, but our right to
assist In putting it down.
Many seem to think that our dis
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j lance from Europe constitutes an iso
I lotion that is ample protection—Nev
Voik city is more closely allied ii
commercial ^relations and is easier
of access from Europe than we an
to Candle—the United States is sur
rounded today by Europe on the east
Mexico on the south, Canada on tin
north, and Japan on the west—an(
they are all lighting one way or an
other, armies nnd navies on all side:
hard at it—it is time we stepped ir
and stopped It.
Every citizen in this country eithei
of himself or by his ancestors has
foresworn allegiance to an Europear
government, very many did this ii
repudiation of a government that en
forced military service, while not los
ing sympathy with the people fron
which they came, the matter of om
or two generations has not eliminat
ed this feeling of sympathy, nor has
it changed the antipathy to enforced
military service; but let every Am
erican remember that the time hat
now arrived when he cannot only as
sist the cause of democracy by the
destruction of autocracy nnd by these
means preserve the free institutions
of this great government, for a tri
umph of autocracy in Europe would
surely threaten the integrity of this
country.
And now that the die is cast, that
we are in the war, let us show our
strnegth, let us show the world that
our demand for peace we were in
earnest, and that we will back up this
demand with all our resources, we
want peace, we have used every
means to maintain it, but now that
we have been assaulted let us show
that we can and will enforce it.
President Wilson is right, let all
our strength be employed to show
that the most democratic unwarSke
nation in the world today has the will
and the power to enforce peace.
I Our fight now is not for conquest,
not for gain, not for power, but for
peace. Let us fight for peace.
THE VALUE OF AMERICAN VIM.
What they need in Siberia and
P.ussia is American initiative and
ubility to start new things going, and,
further, the ability to keep them go
ing when started." So says A. IS. j
Freeman, a local merchant, who lias j
just returned from an eighteen months |
visit in the czar's dominions.
That these have been the distin
guishing qualities of Americans and
have been more than all others re
sponsible for a rapidity of industrial
and commercial development without
parallel in human history is disputed
by none who has given the matter
earnest and discriminating thought.
The wiser of foreign thinkers have
agn ed that greater than our natural
opportunities, and, having recognized
them, to set to work without waiting
for governmental assistance.
For one in Europe who has risen
from povcrlty lo affluence as the re
sult of commercial, industrial or finan
cial ability, scores have so risen in
■) this country. Of these many have
come from Europe, which proves that
it is the new conditions and habits of
! American thought which have devcl
I opened a talent which In its native
land might never have come to light,
i Social, legal, political and many
other obstacles stand In the way of
new enterprises in old world countries.
So many purely arbitrary and wholly
extraneous difficulties have to be
overcome before anything can be
started iu various parts of Europe
that man is more discouraged by his
fellow man than by the problems of
nature.
Here we began with few traditions
and as the years rolled on and new
people came in those traditions be
came less and less until, in the most ,
natural manner possible, wo acquired ,
the habit of direct thought and Its '
ccnseciuence, direct action.
Great were Ihe rewards and their j
greatness became a stumulus to abil- !
ities which might otherwise have re- ,
mained dormant. Big fortunes could j
not be made by all, but all shared in- j
directly in those that were made. The I
pioneers of industry were pegging j
out claims for others as well as
themselves. No manufacturer or in
dustrial' organizer ever accumulated
more than a fraction of tho sums paid
to others in wages or dividends.
European economists, or at least
the ablest of them .recognize that the
most fruitful forms of American free
dom were those which related to in
dustry and enterprise. The wealth of
opportunity which leads to freedom
or Individualism in America stands
in sharp contrast to the lack of op
portunity which has developed a so
cialistic philosophy in Europe. The
one is the doctrine of hope; the other
the teaching of despair.
And yet despite the thing which !
Freeman and others see so clearly'—
that American progress is due to
"American initiative and ability to
start new things"—there has arisen
a school of politicians who, catering
to the cupidity and envy of the less
successful, desire to legislate that
initiative out of existence. Forgetting <
that production must precede distri
bution, and must always be the basic
consideration, they' want to start
from the wrong end, which is the re
striction of output, under the mistaken
idea that if those who have the ability
to produce in largest quantities are
restrained it will be better for the
less gifted.
There is much talk of what Eu
rope will be able to do as competitor
when peace comes and new condi
tions of trade are established, but
America need never fear the rivalry
of any nation so long as we preserve
■ u,n Industrial freedom sufficient to
j preserve our "initiative and ability to
' start new things."—San Francisco
Chronicle.
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