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NOME, ALASKA, OCT. 21, 1915.
The action of President Wilson in
declaring a provisional embargo on .'
the exportation of arms and war sup- I'
plies into Mexico is the most decisive |1
step so tar taken by this government '1
a ward a settlement of the long exist- '
ing troubles in the lower republic and 1
is also the only effort so far advanced
by the United States that is likely to
have an immediate effect. By shut
ting off the war supplies of the ene
mies of the Carranzi government after
a formal recognition of (hat govern
ment, iff; United States has struck a
tlow at the lesser lullin', e which can
not be viewed as other than decisive
as there is little prospect that they
will be able to procure munitions in
effective quantities from any other
source. Under more favorable condi
tions Japan might prove a source of
supply for the various renegade bands
wnich will doubtless continue to op
pose the recognized government as
long as they can secure supplies but
at the present time there is no indica
tion that Japan would bother with
such munition orders as might come
from Mexico owing to the European
belligerents consuming practically the
entire output of the Japanese fac
tories. With Japan eliminated and
with the supplies from the United
States at least restricted to the degree
that the quantities obtained will be
negligible, the Zapata-Villa campaign
will undoubtedly expire within a brief
period. This conclusion could be ex
pected even in the event that Car
ranza took no decisive military action
to stamp out the already dying flame
of rebellion against his government.
There will, of course, be some supplies
smuggled into the country from Am- ;
t rican sources in defiance of the em- j
bargo but such must be necessarily
restricted and can have but little ef- |
feet in prolonging the fighting.
In many aspects the action of the
president in first recognizing the Car
ranza government and afterward re
stricting the powers of its enemies, Is
veritably a stroke of genius aB he has
thus by practically one blow set up
:: constituted authority anil practical
ly destroyed the powers which might
tear it down.
l'lie announcement tliai Russia has
(placed an additional order tor war sup
tuies totaling over seven hundred mil
lion dollars with the Bradley Con
struction Company of Mew York and j
other eastern firms discloses with
startling clarity the tremendous wealth
the United States is reaping from the
! harvest of death in Europe. This one
order of seven hundred and fifty mil
' lions of dollars is of such huge pro
portions that it is dltiicult to grasp
just what it actually means until com
parison discloses its true significance.
An illuminating example of the great
Aze of this order is obtained by com
parison with tho liuliouai debt of the
c tilled States as indicated in the re
1 port of the bureau of the census for
i'JH. Here it is slated that the debt j
of the nation, bonded and floating, on
uUHe 30, 1913, amounted to 32.910,204,- j
014. This grout war contract therefore
represents a trifle mule than one- j
. uith of the totai debt of the United
■states. According to the same au
thority the total of the debt of the
i 'tty-eight states composing the union
was, at tlie same period 3422,700,523 or
only a trifle more than one-half of tlie
total vulue of the Russian contract, in
other words the money derived from
Russia would pay off the total debt uf
ail the states and there would still re
main a sum almost equal to one-lialt
uf tlie criginal. So great is tlie sum
.epresented that it would pay the totai
national debts of such countries as
Canada, Bolivia, Norway, Sweden anu
practically ail lesser countries. in
nuition it represents a sum equal it
not in excess of the totai stock of golu
uf the United Kingdom and nearly
nree-fourths of that of the United
States prior to the beginning or the
I war. With this mighty sum which is
tn be devoted to purposes of slaughter
ime could lift from poverty to aclu
ence practically every pauper in the
United States on tile basis of five
thousand dollars to each and still have
a gieater sum than is expended y'ear
• y by the combined charities of the
country. And tins is but <iue of many :
great war orders that have been placed ’
in the United States since tlie com- '
mencement of tlie giant struggle across 1
tlie Atlantic. Examples like tile above 1 *
might be multiplied ad infinitum if !
a sum total of all the war contracts !
were considered. Although the re- 1
Leipts are for a most horrible purpose, !
.he country is reaping the greatest
wealth that ever flowed into the strong 1
boxes of a nation since the beginning
of time.
PERSPECTIVE.
New Orleans Timej-Pecayuae.)
"The ™: format:! ti of hie rnind was
such that whatever was little se nod
to him great and whatever was great
seemed to him little.' Thus did .Mac
aulay describe Ho’.aci* \\ aipo’c, onoof
the most charming tritiers that ever
lived. Alas, lack of prospective is not
confined to tritles; between solemnity 1
and seriousness there is, as a rule, a
great gulf fixed. None but the great- |
est statesmen arc furnished forth with !
the delicate sense uf humor which
pierces the most solemn shame and sets
the really tragic issues in their true
light. Disraeli could formulate saving
policies in epigrams which captivated ,
the empire by their wit, while Glad
stone more than once used all the re- |
sources of his logic and eloquence to
no purpose.
Between laughter and tears the dis
tance is short The laughing philoso
Jplrei, in the Greek story, looked out
i upon the same world as his weeping
! fellow. They simply saw different
| sides of the everlasting medal. Hu
manity was neither so comic as it
scemedto one one, nor os tragic as it
seemed in the other. Shakespeare Is
the supreme dramatist, because he
took the exact measures of all the
types that come and go on his stage.
A more solemn, but loss serious, art
ist would have painted Othello and
Desdemona, Hamlet and Ophelia as
last he might, but would have entirely
missed Osric Vet life, us we and our
immemorial predecessors have known
It, could- not go on without the vil
ms, the humbugs and the fribbles.
A picture without sharp contrasts Is
no picture at all. '
1 lie etymology of the word ."fana
tic'1 affords a perfect instance in point,
tor the word is derived from the Lat
in "funum" which means "a temple."
The "fanatics," then, was so carried
away by religious frenzy that he had
no mind for anything else. The type
is painfully familiar to this genera
tion and will be so to the last. At
the opposite extreme stand the desper
ate triflers, for whom there is nothing
sacred, in church or state. Naught
save his sense of humor, which is but
another name for perspective, can keep
the average man safe against these
diametrically opposite temptations of
hjs nature.
To the men who have to guide a
people through a crisis of its fate, a
I true perspective is vital. Time and
again have shortsighted politicians
wasted on subordinate campaigns the
troops and money that might have won
' i be decisiv e battle. Napoleon 111. kept
still while Prussia struck Austria
| down, but grew restless when Prussia,
I Hushed with thut triumph, had grown
too strong for imperial Prance. So,
i , Britain could not see the absurd
ity ot relying upon her fleet alone, at
ja time when it was manifest that the
i next great war must be won on land,
j if at all. Wherefore, Lord Huberts
! vainly appealed for compulsory service
land Mr. Lloyd George is appealing to
' the labor unions for supplies without
which ‘he armies and fleets'will be
[helpless.
It is in such a fool's paradise that
American is sleeping at this hour. Con
gress makes haste to vote fabulous
sums for pensions and local improve
rnt-n's, but tightens the purse strings
when expenditure that concerns the i
country's very existence is proposed. I
We wrangle about the tariff, but give j
no rer.l thought to the perils that lurk j
in the Mexican chaos. We have keen
eyes for foreign complications, but are
bind to the possibilities at home. Like
the British, we have not the highest
sense of 1 umor - the perspective —
wh ten enables men and nations to dis
linpuish i>e temporary from the per-1
rnanent, the solemn from the serious
the little from the great. We may |
survive in history as Horace Walpole
survives in literature, but such im- j
mortality is surely to be shunned— .
Some things are of that nature as to
make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart i
doth ache.
WAH HlIjllStS
TiihNAGE GN
VAfilOUS OCtANS
LONDON—Lloyd's report sftiowg that
tin- effective mercantile marine of the
world was reduced by 667 vessels of
926,134 tons of which 491 were steam
ers of 870,134 tons and 273 sailing ves
sels of 184,450 tons during the fiscal
\ ear. This is due almost wholly to
war operations. The United King
dom lost. 191 vessels of 229,170 tons by
warships or by mines, while the fig
ures for Germany are 13 vessels, of
67,641 tons. Apart from the war, the
greatest losses are under the heading
of “wrecked,” 258 vesels of 288,470
tons.
HOFFMAN HUUSL.
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MRS. GINNIv/AN. Prop.
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with buckets drills capable
from 1 Zz foot of sinking 5 in.
capacity to 5 holes 50 feet
foot capacity. deep,
lead all others.
We design, .
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build, Install r
end operate for desi9n *"» 9°'d
. period of 30 8avi"9 d8vice8
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7 KILLED IN
POWDER HOUSE
EXPLOSION
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BUTTE , Oct. It*.—Seven persona
were killed when the powder house of
the Granite Mountain mine north of
Butte was blown up this morning. In
addition to the killed at least four of
the unplo>es of the mine are known
to have been Injured. Several people
ate also missing.
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livery phone Mam 151 and the People s
Steam Laundry wjll call and got your
laundry.
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