COMMENTS OF THE PRES
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topics of the day
FROWNS UPON POLAR
EXPEDITIONS
(Whitehorse Star.)
Explorer Stefansson has at last been
heard from alter eighteen months of
silence during which he is said to ha\ e
discovered a new country in the far
north. Scientists are enthusiastic over
ihe report, but just what benefit will
result to mankind in general front such
discovery is difficult to figure out,
Those of us who have been in Alaska
and Yukon almost twenty years will
agree that any und all territory furth
er north must necessarily be inhospit
able to such an extent as to render it
undesirable as a place of residence. In
eur opinion all polur expeditions should
ue frowned upon.
ECONOMY AND WASTE.
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
Tile last congress appropriated two
and a quaiter billions to maintain the
government for two years. Ail for -
iaer records were wiped oft the state.
From PiesiUent tvea i learned that
last year tne Pennsylvania railroad cu.
down its operating expenses 8 <i-f> Pul
ier,t The company had to perform
.ill US functions for Ihe people, and no
.. that rnuen more economically .
Lad congress shown a frugal sp.r t
i me same degree, American taxpay -
., would oe in pocket oxer $18u,uoo,
OUJ. That would he sutheient lo buhu
i nd equip twelve of the greatest bui
i i-jhips.
x r it would hax e created lu,UUO iniits
... excellent road—a Lincoln highway
n o in Philadelphia to San Francisco,
• nother from Chicago to New Orleans
a third from Boston through to Wasn
ngto to Atlanta.
FOR PREPAREDNESS.
illusion Record.)
The president will find plenty of
support, irrespective ot parly, in lui -
t deling an adequate program or P* -
jiaredueas which, acc aiding to tiie Ian .1
.dikes from Washington, he Will urge.
It is reported tnal tie ha;, approved
secretary Garrison's plan lor increas
ing the army, which calls for an ud
ouioual expenditure of about $75,000,
ojO, or a total annual expenditure or
,182,000,000. The navy will ask lor on
increase of $lou,ouo,oo0, with a total ui
. „ s.ujO.uOU. We may assume that the
president will look upon this increase
also with favor. At least we may ex
nect a program calling for the expendi
ture of about $400,000,000.
This matter of preparedness is not
a party mutter, it is a national mat
ter. it involves no question of "mili
tarism” or "pacifism.” It is a sane and
serious recognition of a national neecs
ttrty which muii not bo trilled with,
and which must not he betrayed into
partisan politics.
The American people have been slow
to wake up to the need for these large
expenditures. There is a thrifty dis
inclination, in this country, to look
with favor upon any expensive pro
gram; and expenditures lor army and
navy have customarily excited opposi
tion. Hut the situation is ominous
and pressing. That security which
seemed to be ours, preceding the great
war of the old world, we now must
see to have been absent. Preparation
for defense is as necessary as is a
police force to protect our private prop
erty.
The president appears to realize the
need very clearly. In this he repre
sents the people of this country.
MILITARY TRAINING.
(Seattle P.-I.)
The New York World ridicules the
talk of those whom it calls “prepared
ness extremist" about universal mili
tary training. It inquiries whether con
scription is what is meant by that
term. Aocepting that it is, it goes
on: “To bo universal it must ho com
pulsory and compulsory military serv
ice means that every able-bodied man
In the country must have military
training, whether ho likes it or not. How
many votes would such a proposal re
ceive In congress? How many con
gressmen who voted for such a meas
ure would ever return to Washington .”
Apparently the World is unaware of
the fact that for a hundred years there
was a law on the statute books of
the United States which in specific
terms required that "every able-bodied
man in the country must have military
training, whether ho likes it or not.”
That law was passed by the first Am
erican congress and remained unrepeal
ed until the passage of the present
militia law, known as the “Dick law.”
, it does not appear tiiat any of the
ngiessmen who voted lor it were ue
tented by tneir constituents on that
ccuunt.
the only liouijle with Lite law was1
.u was persistently evaued so long
1 i it become obsolete and was lur
jgotten, it was sound in principle, us
, rued to the ■ and conditions, aim
-s principles j i be as sound to*
: -ay as tney v o then, 'fuat law re
; lulled tiiat e \ vbie-buuied citizen
i ilie United fa. ,tes between the ages
i of IS and 4r» should be formally enroll
u for regular periods oi training, lie
.elect being that it was teit to. n.e
.ales to its the dates and Lite nunif i
. the training days. Tne stall* u;n
ited the training, ultimately, to oi.
-itty in thu year, and aunuai Lratoing
,i uecume a lidicuious farce, until it
..as dropped dually and fur all lime.
..ut tile country, as uie very lust step
i a its legislative history, it should not
i a* lorgutieti, uid declare its, it mr tie
■ niversal military training nuw being
d i oi uled anew."
TntY'Vt I'KfcuU itOOY,
Itfaeaule fatal..)
i i.ey re roasting Colonel Kooseveit,
loin soup lo grape juice, because in
i .eciaicd tnat Lucie bum uugtu tu nan.
...icueu into tu i many wiivii Keigiums
..euvrulity was \iulaleu, ai.d they sev
I .o nave mtn ueeu beeause lie tui, i
p.tuuco aiiy Heavy oi 111 vernation, v,
vgieement vu warrant suen aelion.
The thing that eonies nearest to sum
,vairant is tiie Hague ueeiaiat.un m
..Hi, to tills eliect;
ilie territory ol a ucutiai power .a
.nviolate, Belligerents are furuiuden
-o move troops, supplies, etc., across
.at territory ov a lieuuui power.
I This would be suhicienL lo jusu...
-fie whole worm m going atvei hu
.nany. were tile Hague ue. laratioiis auy
oevler man mere express.ua of vie.. .
...aicessions oi views ale proper am,
.vise, but when you go to forodu.ug
.hinge, you ougnt vu hare guiipovtue.
oaeking, ol else keep iiu.et wuen p a
nes leiuse vo iiie up to uui views.
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A SELFISH VIEWPOINT.
(Seward Gateway.)
When Henry James abandonee i,lc
j American citizenship for that oi Great
| Arman and when the suggestion is
j made that the American atmospnere is
I unfavorable to art and literature there
1 .a an admission b.v the famous wrltei
' mat he is willing to forego the virtue
[of being patriotic in order to secure
I advancement. Of course, there is some
truth in the suggestion that this eon
j tinent is not advanced tu the point ,
| where it is possible lor toe higher men- ;
utl attributes to huuri. h. America 1= i
in an artistic sense a nation of bour
geoisie. A man of ; e attainmonls oi
Henry James is no; generally apple
eiated liere at home.' He would proba
bly be despised by ihe vast majority
of his countrymen I cause he neglccte .
the opportunity of running a hotel oi
establishing a pitchfork factory, but
his countrymen arc not to be blamea
I if in tho struggle to make a living oi
! money they failed to have their train
i ing developed along the same chan
nels as his. Lots of Americans have
abandoned their country because their
! country has not yet got beyond the
! artistic level of tho popular magazine,
1 but they are cowards for doing so. No
I matter how elevated a man might be
j come in any branch he lacks tho true
' soul when he thinks himself superior i
j to his motherland. Ho is like the
I despicable ass who gets too high-ton- '
| cd for his parents.
KICKS ARE DOING GOOD.
(Fairbanks Times.)
That tho persistent campaign for a i
better mail service is doing some good, |
even if the government does not ac
cede to the wishes of the people in tii
interior, is evident from a number o.
letters that have been roceivd by Fair- j
banksans, in answer to complaints
made to tho various publishing houses.
On the*mail which arrived yesterday'
there were a number of letters receiv
ed, some of them having enclosures
from tho postal department, explaining
Vhy the government would not send
through all the mail all the time.
One letter was received by McGow
an & Clark from the West Publishing
Cotbpany, one of the largest law book
publishing companies In tho country,
Tho letter slated that tho matter had
been takeg up with the department and
tho company promised to do ail it
could to better conditions.
Postmaster Deal received a commun
ication from tlio llip-Haw, enclosing a
\r from .he second assistant post
(r k in i.al, which was similar to
<• i < • • • i • t somei im© ago b> tiro Fuir
. hi •- (Jomtnercial Club.
i in majority of the letters received
i a. - lie department are in the sum.
rm, i rid from the number that the
. . postnatal neral 1
... aSix ■ ...-.nature, it
uni appeur that it will be as cheap
or the government to Send tile mat
.plough as to hire stenographers to
tnswer the letters.
Even il' the campaign for a better
mil service is not successful this year,
he man; lei'erd sent out will have a
mdem.y to advertise the interior, and
'ill bring home to the postmaster gen
eral in u forcible manner tire fact that
o iny outsiders are interested in get
ing the mail through during the win
,er months.
At tile u o- of the Fairbanks Com- j
nercial Club there ure circular letters,!
til ready for mailing, and the public is j
urged by ti.e executive board not to
re an oppoitunily of sending them
ut to the papers und magazines for
which they subscribe. Every letter
lit oui means a gru-t deal in the 1
ampaign for a better mail service, and -
very added pap r, magazine or poriod
lps along the cause it is not i
on la e to send out these letters and j
e sooner it is done the better it will
for the town.
NOTICE.
Auy one having "Victor" phonograph;
rords loaned to them from the "Lob- '
.j ” saloon pL-ase return them to room ,
. Steadman building and obliged
Mils. J D. JOUKDEN.
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