THE
(Horns Daily Wuggct
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Published daily except Sunday by
NOMt PUBLISHING CO.
•
E. C. DIVINE
UEO. 5. MAYNARD
bole Owners and Publishers
CHAS. SANDFORD. Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(In advance.)
Nome Dally Nugget, 1 month... .12.00
Nome Daily Nng'gei, 6 months.. 110.00
Nome Dally Nugget. 1 year.120.00
Nome Weekly Nugget, 1 month...60c
Nome Weekly Nugget, 1 year...$6.00
NUGGET MINING AND DREDGING
MAGAZINE,
(issutU Annually In October.)
Price per copy...,...60c
Price per copy, maUed.6Bc
Ha tee for advertising space la any
of the above publications will be made
known on application.
PHONE MAIN 4S.
lint-red as second-class matter Feb.
t’6. i*o;. at the Postottlce at Nome,
Alaska, under the Act of Congress \»X
iv iuvn *. 1X1 <*.
Copy for regular advertisements
musi be is by 10 o'clock on the day of
publication.
City Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA, SEPT. 23, 1915.
— --T__ ■■ —■Ii_J_I_LI I ."Bga;
The announcement that a special
of the senate may be called for the
acknowledged purpose of securing a re
vision of the rules governing debate,
discloses that the executive has learned
his lesson well and does not intend to
permit tlie perpetuation of such tactics
as marked the closing days of the sixty
third congress. The manner in which
the ship purchase bill was “talked to
death” at the last session indicates
clearly the necessity for some action
which will tend to do away with prac
tices of that character. What happened
to the ship purchase measure can also
happen to any bill which may incur op
position from any interested source
Rules which permit of the blocking of
legislation through such measures as
marked the attempt to bring the ship
purchase and other bills to issue can
not he other than detrimental, not alone
because pressing business is delayed
and much needed legislation checked
but also because of placing it within
the power of external Influences to hold
up or kill ail legislation which may be
in any degree detrimental. For years
constructive legislation has been block
ed and hampered or killed completely
by the same order of practice which
resulted in the ship hill being withheld
from reaching the vote. Almost with
out exception, every attempt to bring
about legislation which tended to re
strict the activities or lessen the profits
of “the interests” has been fought to
death for years whenever influence
enough could be brought to bear. The
postal savings system, the parcels post|
and a half dozen measures which con
flicted with the desires of certain inter
ests may be cited as examples of what
may he done under the present system
of debate, and all Illustrate clearly that
a change is needed. It is a notorious
fact that a large portion of the senate
has been completely under the domin
ance of certain of the great financial
and commercial powers which have
fought with savage bitterness any at
tempt to bring about legislation of any -
■V •
.piaracter which hud a tendency to con
Hict with tiieir interests. .Vs a mallei
ji fact, three fourths of the legisla
tive measures proposed must receive
me sanction of one or unother of these
interests before there is an hope Unit
luey can be brought to issue. All this
nas gone oil for years to the great detri
ment of the nation and with but little
protest although the evtt of u was plain,
blither ihrough heedlessness or thought
lessness the American public has con
tinued to allow the moneyed powers to
dominate the country because of the
ironuence they could bring to bear
against restrictive legislation through
the methods of our parliamentary prac
tices. Practically every measure which
IX enacted Into law. Would result in a
decrease in prices for necessary com-'
modifies or which would lessen some ol
the more flagrant abuses of our public
life has either been killed or nullified
through this antiquated system. All
this has resulted in immeasurable j
harm to the citizen body of the coun
try which has been compelled to await
the pleasure of special privilege before
coming Into what Is rightfully its own.
The evil is so apparent and so grossly .
restrictive that it is a matter for won- ]
der that it has been permitted to con
tinue for so long a period. One need
not look farther than the last session
of congress ti> realize that in allowing
the perpetuation of such practices as
resulted in the killing of the ship bill,
the nation Is allowing the higher influ
ences to wield a power which Is In no
degree conducive to the good of the
people.
The efforts of President Wilson to
hi ing about a change in this direction
will be watched with Interest as on
the Issue depends In a great degree, the
future bondage or freedom of the na
tion.
j CAN THERE BE A LASTING PEACES
j As has been the ease with nearly ail
'former wars, the one now being waged
has been brought about, not by the
I people, but by the ruling power
Hitherto It has been the part of the
people silently to acquiesce to whatever
conditions those in power have, in thelt
wisdom or stupidity, generosity ot
selfishness, brought about. But the
time has come when the great mass of
the people refuse longer to accept un
questioningly the dictates of those that
govern. They nre beginning to ask the
reasons why a nation pursues this or
that policy.
There is an International public sen
timent which today is making itself
felt to an extent unknown before. The
effort of each of the nations now at
war to justify its course by charging
another with being the aggressor, not
only presupposes a changed attitude
toward war—with its admission that
war is an anomaly demanding apology
and explanation, not an exploit to call
forth praise—but it is an evidence that
the heads of governments are beginning
to recognize the growing importance of
what the people think about what the
nations do.
What the nations of Europe are do
ing today is being variously defended.
The chief excuse for fighting seems to
he the fear that, owing to so-called
enduring race hatreds and national
antagonisms, some one powerful race
or nation may, unless checked, subju
gate or destroy the weaker. Such a
fear is unfounded, for there are no
permanent race hatreds or lasting na
tional antagonisms. It needs but a
glanre at history to prove the truth of
this.
The races living side by side in the
warring countries are chiefly the Celt
the German, and the Slav; and with
these may bo mentioned a branch of
the Mongolian race in Hungary, the
remains of an older race in Prussia
and Finland, and families of Tartars In
Rusdia. Not for centuries has there
been any serious clash between the
contiguous peoples. They have lived
together In harmony and through In
termarriage have obliterated most of
the enmities that once existed. This
a what usually happens when unlike
peoples are brought together and live
n close contact and under the same
'ondltions. With few exceptions they
pear, ami they become one people. 11
ihr brunches of (he rail's that are re
ngnlzed as hereditary enemies can live
together In peace and amity, what
reason is there for supposing; that any
one of the main bodies of those races
has need to fear destruction at the
hands of the other?
When we look for lasting national
antagonisms, we find that these, too
belong to the catagory 6f things that
do not exist The nations which today
are In alliance once were at war wlthl
one another. The sanguinary Thirty
Years’ War was fought between Aus
tria and Germany, and England's part
in It was to support Germany. One
hundred and fifty years ago Austria
and Prussia were at daggers’ points
anil it was only through the assistance
i f Russia that Frederick the Great was
sm ed front defpat. In the first half ol
the nineteenth century. Russia was the
uncompromising enemy of France; and
in 1S49 she was the foe of Hungarv
crushing the Magyar revolution for the
benefit of Austria. Prussia despoiled
Austria of her fairest states in 1886
and in the Franeo-Prussian war relied
upon Russia to keep France Isolated.
England and France were foes for
centuries. Their first notable alliance
was formed in 1885, when they Joined
Turkey for the purpose of keeping
Russia out of Constantinople. Now
Turkey is fighting them both. It if
barely a decade since Russia and Japan
were engaged in a desperate struggle:
today they are united in fighting their
common adversaries. Thus it is seen
(hut neither race hatreds nor national
antagonisms are among the permanent
things of this world.
The permanent things of the world
are not those things which separate
men, but the things which draw and
hold them together. The bonds that
unite and hold men together, generation
after generation, are paramount to all
political affiliations and racial ties
These true and lasting bonds rest upon
a common interest in what the entire
human race throughout its history has
accomplished. What each race or na
tion has contributed to the world’s pro
gress—in science, in philosophy, In art
' — is shared by every other race and
every other nation: and their common
possession makes a community of alt
mankind.
Kven war itseir, tnougn it mnv ser
iously impair, cannot break the bonds
of universal frlendslili). It is said that
the English, French, and Germans, on
many occasions, in the Interims be
tween fighting, have expressed good
wishes and exchanged keepsakes. A
short time ago a German soldier, en
tering a French cottage, took a baby
In his arms and as he tenderly fonded
it. said to the proud mother: "It makes
me think of the kinder at home.’
Again, in the hottest of the rifle fire
in the forest of Argonne, a French sol
dier stepped forward under the pro
tection of the whit© flag and asked
thnt the firing cease for an hour be
cause a beloved lieutenant was dying
and the noise pained him. For an hour
there was silence. Then the French
man again came out, and bowing po
litely said: "Our lieutenant is dead:
we thank you.” And the firing was re
sumed.
Are there undying race hatred and
ineradicable national antagonism
where such things take place? Is there
not. rather, evidence of a solid basis
for mutual understanding and endur
ing peace? What the people are im
pelled to do from within is of far more
importance than what is imposed upon
them from without. And they will not
continue to be moved as puppets when
they find their power to govern them
selves.
1’olitlcai control cannot longer be
withheld from the masses of Europe
Reflection upon the contradictions of
this war will make perfectly plain the
right and the duty of the people to
rule. When the people rule the nations
of Europe, co-operation and not com
petition wi I be the basis of interna
tional relations. Instead of a struggle
for monopoly, there will be a sharing
of the fruits of achievement; and the
need of alliances will vanish, with other
delusions. The welding forces will
form a closer bond of international
unity in commerce and in science. Not
--- ■»-" .."Ml!. ~ ■
concern for a race, but Interest in the
welfare of the nice will be of supreme
important!*'. The bonds founded upon
that which Is highest and best in man’p
nature will persist .In spite of every
ii< dent of place or time, and will be
paramount to all differenees of govern
ment or nations, age or race.—Eagle
.Magazine.
NO STARVATION THERE.
In Its note of protest to the United
'tates against the shipments of arms
nd ammunition to the allies, the Aus
tro-Hungarian government says that
i he adoption of a policy of embargo
upon such shipments by this country
would "also offer the great service ot
ii. featlng the “criminal efforts of the
. nemles of Austria-Hungary arid Ger
jmany to enlist starvation as an ally.”
The German government, in several
i f its notes, also speaks of the attempts
f Its enemies to starve Germany. Ger
man-American newspapers in this
country are also constantly alluding to
ihe starvation of noncombatants In
Germany, a result of the Rritlsh block
ade, as affording full justification for the
killing of -noncombatants. including
women and children, by the sinking of
passenger ships without warning.
Rut Dr. Karl Helfferich. secretary ot
(he Imperial German treasury. In a
signed statement says: "The Rritlsh
starvation war has failed. Once and I
for all it as proved that our domestic
production of foodstuffs, bread card
ystem and maximum prices assure
•wen to the poorest the necessary sup
ply of food and that at prices lowei
than prevailing In Great ttrltaln.”
In short there Is no effective starva
tion policy against Germany which
warrants any departure from the rules
of civilized warfare In retaliation. Th<
tarvatlon excuse for killing neutra
aoncombatants, weak and fallacious as
it was. lacked even facts as a basis.—
P.-t.
Don’t forget the big special sale at
Holt’s Cash Store.
Mining and Dredging Editions of the
Nome Daily Nugget 50c each, $5.00 a
dozen.
Sill heads, statements, <ett«> heeds
end envelops*. Havs them printea at
Nuuaet office.
Visting Cards at tne N’-nqst Office
School Supplies. Lomen Bros.
EAGLE HALL
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Drama
HIS DAY OF FREEDOM.
Comedy
BILL THE BILLPOSTER.
1 »
Scenio
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Educational
CEYLON SHOPS.
OUR TAME MICE.
Watch for Sunday Program.
OLLIE BOURRET, Pianist
ADMISSION, 25 cants
J. R. GRANT
COMPANY
WHOLESALE GROCERS
1105 Waatarn Ave. 8sattla, Wash.
Outfittara of Proops eters fend
Minora.
■' ■■■ a ,ii
. . ..■!
Our Smaller Manufacturer
sized dredges of light power
with buckets drills capable
I from 1/i foot of sinking 5 in.
i capacity to 5 holes 50 feet
.foot capacity. deep.
' lead all others.
I
We design, .
. ... . " „ Our special
build, Install . . '
design fin0 gold
and operate for , . T
7 . . saving devices
a period of 30 , * .
. installed on
***' dredges of the
Dredges de- flume type.
signed and
built to suit -
conditions
under which Write for
they ode to prices and
operate particulars
AMERICAN DREDGE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
503-504 PIONEER BLDQ. B. BERNARD, Manager SEATTLE, WASH *
t
* * <. + . + ■♦-»♦■*-♦#♦'>''♦#♦ ’«Sw+ *♦ #»4«<
| W. J. ROWE 1
| TRANSFER AND FREIGHTING
(Dealer in all kinds of Lumber
hay and Grain
Horses For Sale;
I Board of Trade j
j--~ !
+ A Resort for Gentlemen J
j -- A
T 3fte Hardest Biffiard and Poof Room in Clfasfta. V
KUSS DOWNING, I KOA‘ I
Established June 1900
Alfcfrd Banking and
Sdfe Deposit (onpy
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL ....*125,000
PAID UP CAPITAL. 50,000
A General Banking Business Tran
sacted.
Miners & Merchants
Bank or Alaska
NO/VttJ, ALASKA
Capital - - $100,000
Gold Dust Purchased
and Assayed
4~t4*4*
i\ |
Subscriptions ..
t received for all 4
jj Magazines and papers «>
■ ■ Lowest club rates l\
o n
| ■ At tha Raxall Star# Only j |
: BUTLER-MAM Coll
! < »
> JS
Chas. W. Reed
Machinist & Blacksmith
Gasoline Engines. Hoists
Boilers, Pipe and Pipe
Fittings
No. 5 Front St.
I BOARD of TRADE : |
Restaurant j|
and I;
LUNCH COUNTER j j
F. A. Daniels, Prop, ; •
< 11 iimww
I micos jj
Cafe
i.-1—rmmur^wj '
OPEN DAY AND NIQHT. ! I
II < ►
ii
- i ,
i »
Next Door to Pacific Cota
Storage Harket J
.. ;
CHEAP JOHN STORE 1
I Clothing :,T^T V. ,Th!ml.°'„'fi!, M""" * «“• I
«.h»:i';:h:r *■ I
“..0 John, clothing ^ ^ “k* I
"h-,h*—~ -.h. ;c"Tr.r^rjr I
I SEIDENVERG, Prop. I
**********+++++*+++++++++^
♦ moonlight water j
+ , The Purest w»‘cr in all Alaska *
| 12 buckets for $1.00 or“oc p“ nba^Vy +
J A.D. POTEET I
I PHONE RED 126 if
SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR
THE NOME DAILY NUGBET
AND GET THE REAL NEWS