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NOME, ALASKA. APRIL 21, 1917.
The Stars and Stripes of the United
States flying proudly to the breeze
over the British houses of parliament
yesterday rolls back the years and
causes one to reflect
Under that very same roof one
hundred and forty-two years ago
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, in
defense of American colonists, made a
speech which is carried down in his
tory .
Carried from a sick bed to the
house of lords and being hardly able
to stand up Pitt declared himself in
part as follows:
"As I have not the honor of access
to his majesty, I will endeavor to
transmit to him, through the con
stitutional channels of this house, my
ideas of America, to rescue him from
the misadvice of his present minis
ters.
.I contend not for indulgence,
but justice to America; and I shall
ever contend that the Americans just
owe obedience to us in a limited de
gree—they owe obedience to our ordi
nances of trade and navigation; but
let the line be skilfully drawn be
tween the objects of those ordinances
and their private, internal property;
let the sacredness of their property
remain inviolate; let it be taxable
only by their own consent, given In
their provincial assemblies, else it
will cease to be property. rte
sistanco to your acts was necessary,
as it was just; and your vain decla
rations.and your imperious
doctrines will be found equally impo
tent to convince, or to enslave your
fellow subjects in America, who feel
that tyranny, whether ainbitioned by
an individual part of the legislature,
or the bodies who comprise it, is
equally intolerable to P.rltish sub-*
jeet.^
The spirit which now resists your
taxation In America is the same
which established the great funda
mental essential maxim of your lib
erties—that no subject of England,
shall be taxed but fly his own con
sent.
As an Englishman fly birth and
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principle, 1 recognize to the Ameri
cans their supreme unallable right to
their property—-a right which they
are justified in the defence of to the
last extremity. To maintain this is
the common cause of whlgs on the
other side of the Atlantic, and on this
—"Tis liberty to liberty engaged"—
it is the alliance of God and nature —
immutable, eternal, fixed as the firm
ament of heaven.”
Tims spoke the immortal Pitt—one
of the greatest statesmen that Eng
land ever had. If he could but now
see the "hands across the sea" what
would be bis feelings. The Stars and
Stripes waving ov er the British houses
of parliament—a symbol of Liberty,
the Champion of Democracy and the
foe of Autocracy. May it carry its
sway and good work over every capi
tal in Europe.
THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
The following paragraph taken
from Governor Strong's message to
the legislature should ho and proba
bly is. . mlorse.l by every .citizen of
Alaska.
"The members of the legislature of
Alaska van render no greater service
to the territory than by holding tho
new laws to actual necessities. Many
states and territories have been and
ate so overburdened with law that it
becomes a national handicap.”
The governor covers the situation
thoroughly in a few words. For some
unknown reason, it has been proved
that give peopel the power to make
laws and they, or their representa
tives, appear to think it mandatory
on them to enact legislation on every
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subject under the sun. Laws are
daily placed on the statute books that
are not now, and never will be, bene
ficial to anyone unless it Is to aid
lawyers in the struggle to live.
Alaska is handicapped in enough
other ways without plating a lot of
freak laws in her code, the majority
of which will never be needed, and
probably- not enforced after their
passagd The governor knows full
well the disadvantage of having ill
timed Jegisaltion to contend with,
and has done no more than his duty
In his request to tho legislature not
to pass such measures as the people
have asked for, and forget the rest of
them. Tile legisalture will do well
to comply with the .suggestion.
It is to be regretted that the mes
sage did not include a specific rec
ommendation |for an appropriation
for tho Alaska agtrcultural college
and school of mines. The national
government has made as much pro
vision as it can, and it is now1 up to
the territorial government to keep (he
ball rolling. The need for such an
institution is urgent, and every year i
its establishment is postponed adds J
HIM. —W—
I that much more to the handicap un
dor which the youth of the territory
| are nqw striving to gain such knowl
1 edge as will give them equal footing
and opportunity with those in the
states.
There is not much doubt thut a bill
will be introduced In the legislature
to provide funds to establish an in
stitution, and it is to be hoped that it
" ill pass without opposition, and
that every citizen of the territory will
put himself behind the school in order
. to make it the force for good that
j otherwise it will not be. The legis
, lature has the power to enact such
legislation, and the territory has or
can get the money to provide for nil
schools.—iFairba(nks 'Citizen
FORCE CAN NEVER ENFORCE
PEACE.
i The principle of preparedness, for
peace has been widely discussed In
the press and on platforms through
out America. Several other neutral
nations have given the matter earnest
thought, and the attention of the
I world was drawn to the subject when
| it was made the burden of the presi
| dent's memorable message to the Uni
I ted Slates senate. Hut if belligerents
j as well as neutrals, and militarists
as well as pacifists hvae recognized
that the question of world peace is
too important to be left solely to
such hurried consideration as might
lie given if a victorious army were
to dictate the terms, there are yet
the widest differences of opinion as to
I the particular means by which the
j concord of nations can be made porm
I nnent.
J It is still the belief of this paper
that general disarmament is the only
solid foundation of international
amity; and that the perpetuation of
naval and military preparedness
means the perpetuation not only of
tiie possibilities, but also of the
temptations to discord.
The professional navalists and mil
itarists, and also those cave men who
masquerade as modern civilized- hu
man beings, may never be converted
from their supesrtitious faith in force
as a reliable instrument of
international justice. The processes
of evolution have yet to eliminate all
of the ape and tiger from the race.
Long centuries of warlike habits have
left a lagacy of force-worship in
many who never realize how near is
their cast of thought to that of the
primitive, club-wielding savage.
Then there are others who, while
they want universal and permanent
peace, yet think that it can be secured
by a readjustment in the control of
force. Their mental picture of the
ideal state is blurred by visions of
international navies, armies and po
lice standing guard. In thcrl opinion
r ■III) si ■ II III .»■ !■!—II I i m
•the soldier could be transformed into
t a humanitarian agent by the magic
of a change in the stump on his bras?
buttons.
They are the compromisers in a
situation which admits of :io com
promise if tho purpose sought is the
enduring peace of ail mankind.
They have formed themselves into
a league to enforce peace and one
of their objects is tho creation of
what they sometimes cull nn inter
national police, an organization of
navies and armies recruited from each
of the powers and controlled by a
representative council.
Much of the misconception at the
back of this theory is based upon a
false analogy and a complete mis
understanding of the part played by
the police in tho maintenance of or
der. They imagine that communities
operate peacefully because of the
power of tho police, whereas they are
peaceful not in ordcrlines in public
opinoin. Rut for that opinion the law
less element in any communty would
have no difficulty in combining to
overthrow the police. They aro peace
ful and because of that fact do not
carry arms—if they did they would
not be peaceful- communities and no
police could restrain them.
It is the same with nations, which
are but aggregations of communities.
No police could restrain them if they
were not peaceful, and the best proof
they can furnish of tho fact is the
I abandonment of their armaments.
The existence) of an international
police would assume the existence of
criminal nations. And those criminal
nations would be represented on the
council chosen to watch them. A
perfect picture of such a council
would be a congress of assassins each
armed with bomb, knife and pistol
and 'discussing the best moans of
suppressing assassination.
We would not think of handing the
care of a community over to a body
on which professional criminals were
directly represented, yet that would
be precisely the position if represen
tation on the council of international
police were given to nations still re
taining armaments. And if no na
tion retained its weapons of offense,
what need would there be for an arm
ed international police?
The thug who promises to reform
must begin by throwing away his
weapons, and so must the nations
that promise to keep the pence. The
burglar gives no guarantee of good
behavior if he asks to retain his kit.
Peace in whatever form it may
come is better than war, but there is
the peace based upon the shifting
sands of naval and military prepar
edness and that built upon the rock
of disarmament.—San Francisco Call.
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