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NOME. ALASKA, AUGUST 23, 1916.
Once again the perennial Jap Scare
uses athwart the horizon to disturb
the dreams of timid folks and inci
dentally g i v t the yellow journals
something to yawp about.
It may bo a case of listening to life
cry of "wolf too long, but it is not
doubted in the least that the present
yarn about Japan having acquired a
naval base along the Atlantic seaboard
of Panama is as foolish and baseless
as the dozen and one others that have
been sprung at intervals since Japan
emeiged from her long obscurity to
assume a place of power in world af
f a I rs.
Since that far off day when Japan
demonstrated her ability to "lick some
body" by giving China an unmerciful
thrashing in the famed battle of the
Yalu, we have become literally ob
sessed with the motion that Japan is
our worst enemy and that she has
, made up her mind to do something
to us. Why it is that this peculiar
inference has obtained such a hold on
the American imagination is some
thing hard to tell. At no time in her
carts-r as a modern power has Japan
shown -in obvious unfriendliness to
ward the I'niled States. Keen though
we have at times behaved toward the
island kingdom in a munnr well eol
eulated to arouse the Nipponese ire,
Japan lias always swallowd her hu
miliation and returned the retort court
eous. She may, as the alarmists love
to declare, he holding something up her
sleev with a full intention of coming
hack at os one of these days, hut
if this is so, she has taken remark
able care to keep her designs conceal
ed from the eyes of everyone hut the
bugaboo chasers.
It is true that we have several times
come to loggerheads with the Jap
anese over one thing or another but—
so have we also had numerous rows
with other nations. Yet, for some pe
culiar reason, we have never conceived
the idea that those nations were for
ever seeking to do us injury, or were
carrying a stuffed club to bang us
over the head when we were not look
i ing.
Also when we come to review the
lit11 affairs we have had with Japar
it vi i lly appears that we have beer
quite as much to blame as the othet
fellow. In most of the cases when
friction 1ms arose it appears that i
Was due to I'ncle Sam treading or
Japanese toes rather than the reverse
Take it through and through, out
whole attitude toward Japan is niori
nr less ridiculous. Japan has not at
tempted to infringe upon our nationa
rights or safety any more than havt
three or lour other nations whose
names easily occur to memory. At nt
time has she displayed an inclinatior
to take advantage of us or to do any
thing which might lie assumed to be a
distinctly unfriendly act or one thal
would lead to a severance of the long
existing friendly relations.
We, on the other hand, have sever
al times done things to Japan which
were they committed against ourselves
would cause us to raise a howl thal
would startle Bedlam and, unless sonn
one apologized pronto, there would b<
hell to pay. But Japan has taker
matters very good humoredly in every
rase ami has usually given us the best
of every deal in which our Interests
conflicted. Hut, with all this stand
ing before us as a guide to our judg
ment of the little brown men, we can
not get over the iden that Japan is
trying to sneak up on us in some man
ner when our back is turned. Al
wuys we are worryng and frettng over
possible naval bases somewhere on oui
side of the Pacific when all the Unit
Japan appears lo be tending strictb
to her own business on the other side.
Japan may have designs upon the
Philippines because of their import
ance as defenses for tier own shores.
So had we in the case of Porto Itico,
which we so gracelossly wrested away
from poor old desereplt Spain when
we thought we needed them to pre
serve our own safety.
Japan may try the same game with
us in tlic Philippines some day but
she has not shown any inclination in
that direction so far. Had England
or Germany or any other loading pow
er stood in the situation of Japan we
would have had a first class scrap on
our bands long ago and would prob
ably be mourning the loss of a per
fectly good bunch of islands right
about now.
i m ilie whole our attitude toward
Japan is verily like that of the child
who is forever looking for spooks
and generailj manages to see one.
Were it not that there is that in our
own attitude toward Japan that will
tinevitnblj lead to trouble, our con
stant scares, fears and tremors over
what we imagine Japan is doing, or
about to do, would be laughable. As
ii is the situation Is really serious
in that we will surely come to blows
some day if we continue to cherish
our unreasoning suspicion of Japanese
intentions. Sooner or later our almost
morbid fears will engender a hatred
between the two laces that call he re
lieved only by Mows,
We believe that some day Japan and
the I'nited Slates will he at war but.
when that unfortunate day arrives,
we have not the slightest doubt that
it will be found the hatred that is to
day being developed from the mistrust
and suspicion we feel toward Japan
will be at the bottom of it more than
any effort of the Japs to infringe upon
our national rights on this side of the
water.
IMPORTS FROM ALASKA
IN FISCAL YEAR 1916
Vlaska's sales to the t ailed States
in the fiscal year 1916 aggregated
nearly $50,060,000, a sain double the
annual average since 1912 and only ex
ceeded by those of ten countries when
measured b> their sales to us in the
last year prior to the great war. In
addition to this Alaska shipped to us
in 1915-16 gold valued at $16,000,000
and silver to Ihe value of $760,000 both
from its own mines.
The predominant feature of the
year’s trade, according to an analysis
made by the bureau of foreign and
dotnestii commerce, department of
commerce, was ihe rise of copper to
first pi i e among Alaska's export
staples, thereby supplanting salmon
and gold as leading items. Receipts
of copper in ore matte, and regains
from Alaska aggregated 117,000,000
pounds valued at $26,500,000. This is
four times the average for the preced
ing three years and exceeds the com
bined imports of that class front Chile,
Coha, Canada, and Mexico, the leading
r< oign sources of this form of copper.
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Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
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Canned salmon shipped to the Uni
ted States In the last ltscal year
amounted to 216,000,000 pounds val
ued at 18,750,000, an Increase of 21,
000,000 pounds over 1915 and of 40,000,
000 over 1911.
The shipment of $10,200,000 worth of
Alaska gold to domestic ports was
larger by $1,000,000 than the total for
1915 and by $4,000,000 than that for
1914. Stiver shipments, valued at $700,- |
000 ill 1916, were $500,000 more than in I
1915 ami $600,000 more than in 1914.
The following table summarizes by
leading articles (he shipments of Al
askan products into the United States
during the last two fiscal years:
Classes. 1916. 1915.
Total domestic
merchandise $14,966,000 $27,039,000
Copper In ore,
matte & reg
ains. 26,488,000 5,172,000
fanned salmon. 18,307,000 17.590,000
Other sullnon 550,000 785,000
Other fish and
fish products. 773,00(5 850,000
Furs and skins,
except seal . . liiS.oOU 564.O00 :
Sealskins .. .. 105,000 115,000,
Animal oils ... 371,000 29s,000 j
Antimony .. 189,000 |
Tin ore and con
eoncentrates . 79,000 117,000 1
Lead in ore, etc 74,000 .
Marble & stone 59,000 117,000
Gypsum . 51,009 110,000
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