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WAR AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
When Bernhardi and oilier German militarists, following tne lead of
other and greater German teachers and thinkers, startled the wot id with
their doctrines exalting warfare as the greatest i actor m the moral,
mental and artistic uplift cf nations, thinking people, especially m this
country, puckered up their eyebrows and m a deprecatory manner
styled them as extremists, it not madmen. But while Bernhardi was
brought into prominence because of tne great world war whicn fol
lowed so soon after the publication of ms book, he was by no means
alone in his glorification of the god Mars. At the time of the military
demonstration against the Mexican dictator, Huerta, by the United
States a year ago, many publications throughout the United States
found occasion to point cut the national virtues which armed conflict
between nations brings to the surface—tiie heroism, unselfishness and
nobility of character developed in the love of country displayed in
time of national peril and the call lor individual sacrifice for tne com
mon welfare One of these writers, reflecting me sentiments of many
people at that time, said:
The influence of war is primarily heroic ami ennobling. The evils and vices that
spring from it are the evils ami vices of peace, which breeds a thou?; ml moral monsters
le every one that follows in the tram of war. A nation feels toe thrill and glow of the
primes id rail to conflict, or. is up its loins for the struggle :u;d is cm verted from u de
generate into a giant.
To many it will come as a shock to recall that John Ruskln, the great
English critic and author, as long ago as 1869. gave voice to senti
ments almost identical with those set forth by Treitschc and Bernhardi
on the subject of the necessity of war lor the proper and logical de
velopment of national greatness. But unlike the Teutonic writers, Rus
kin, in what seems almost an inspired outburst of prophecy, suggests a
wholesome substitute for warfare in the working out of problems of
political economy alone lines ot humanitanamsm and reason, itie fol
lowing description by Raskin of the rise and fall of a nation migfii al
most be mistaken for a page from Bernhardi:
Nations first manifest themselves it? a pure snd beautiful animal racr. with intense
energy and imagination. They live lives el hardship ny choice, ami Py grand instinct of
mar.lv discipline; they become fierce and irresistible soldiers; the nation is always its
own army, and their king, or chief head of government, is always their first soldier.
Pharaoh, or David, or Leonidas, or Valerius, or Barbarossa, or Coeur tie Lion, or Ft.
Louis, or Dandolo. or Frederick the Great Keypti: n. Jew, Greek. Roman. German.
Knglish, French, Vonet; u that is inviolable law ft r them ail; T air king must be their
First soldier, or they cannot be in progressive power. Then, after their great military
period, comes the domestic period; in which, without 1.graying the discipline of war,
they add to their great soldiership the delights and possessions of a. Delicate and tender
home life; and then, for all nations, is the time of their perfect art, which is the fruit.
The evidence, the reward of their national ideal of character, developed by the finished
care of the occupations of peace. That is ihe history of all true art that ever was, or
can be; palpably the history of it—unmistakably--written on the forehead of it ill letters
of light in tongues of tire, by which the seal of virtue is branded as deep as ever iron
burnt into a convict's tlesh the seal of crime. But always, hitherto, after the great
period, has followed the day uf luxury, and pursuit of the arts for pleasure only. And
all has su ended.
And here is what the great English philosopher said with regard to
the influence of warfare on the nation:
This. then, is the nature of the connection between morel* with art. Now. I have
asserted the foundation :f both these, :.t least hitherto, in war. The reason of this too
manifest fact :> that until now it has been impossible for any nation, except ; warrior
one. to fix its mind wholly on its men, instead of on their possesions. Every great sol
dier nation thinks, necessarily, first of multiplying its bodies and *. uis of men. in good
temper and strict discipline. As long as this i* its political aim. it does not matter what
it temporarily suffers, or loses, either in numbers or wealth; its morality and its arts (if
it have national art-gifti advance together; but so soon as it cease.' to be a warrior na
lion, it thinks of it> possessions instead of its men; and then the moral and poetic powers
vanish together.
It is thus, however, absolutely necessary to the virtue of war that it should bp waged
by person:! strength, not by im ney or machinery. A nation that bahts with a mer
cenary force, or with torpedoes instead of its own arms, is dying. Not but that there
is more true courage in modern ihan even in ancient war; but this is, first, because al
the remainin:: life of European nations is with a morbid intensity thrown into their sol
diers; and .'Cfindly. because their present heroism is die culmination oi centuries of in
bred and traditional valor, which Athena taught them by forcing them to govern the
foam of the sea wave and of the horse- not the steam of kettles.
And further, note this, which is vital to us in the present crisis: If war is to be made
by money and machinery, the nation which is the largest and most covetous multitude
will win. V', may be as scientific us you choose; the mob that can pay more for sul
phuric acid and gunpowder will at last poison its buliets. throw acid in your faces, and
make an end of you; of itself, also, in good time, but of you first. And to the English
people the nhoi.ee of :rs fate is very near now. It may spa*modieally defend its property
with iron wails a fathom thick a few years 1 nger a very few. No wall* will defend
cither it or its havings against the multitude that is breeding and spreading faster than
the clouds, ov. r the habit: ble earth. We shall be allowed to five by small peddler’s busi
ness. and ironmongery .-ince we have chosen those for our line of life—as long as we
are found useful black servants to the Americans, and content to ciig coals and sit in the
cinders: and have still coals to dig—they once exhausted, or got cheaper elsewhere, we
shall be abofi.hed. But if wc thit.T. more wisely, while there is yet time, and set our
mind* again on multiplying Englishmen, and not on cheapening English wares; if we
resolve to submit to wholesome laws of labor and economy, and setting our politic;,!
squabbles aside, try how many sir ng creatures, friendly and faithful to each other, we
can crowd into every spot of Kmd.-h dominion, neither poison nor iron will prevail
against us; nor traffic, nor hatred; the noble nath n \\:11 yet, by the grace of heaven, rule
ever the ignoble. and force of hear: hold its own against fireballs.
\ et, in spite of the fact that the military nation must necessarily be
the virile nation, and in consequence become the leader in “culture,”
there is hope in the thought that war may not be necessary to sustain
the virtues which make nations great and elevate mankind above the
level of brute beasts. Heretofore, as a latter-day writer suggests,
thought has been given only to attaining peace, not yet to protecting
peace against its own germs of decay. Surely, with all thought turned
from maintaining their own integrity, all jealousies as to their border
lines smothered, the nations of the world will as deliberately set them
selves to the task of keeping alive the fine qualities of mankind as now
they keep aiive the qualities that make the good soldier.
If, as seems to be generally believed, the reply of the German gov
ernment to the note of the United States protesting against the de
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struction of American lives and property should be an amicable one,
it will generally be received with satisfaction in this country. In spite
of repeated assertions to the contrary, neither the United States govern
ment nor any appreciable number of its people desire to enter the war,
and from present indications it appears that none of the warring na
tions are eager for its participation. To the belligerents it perhaps ap
pears that the best interests of all will be subserved by having a strong
neutral nation to rely upon for a determination of the problems in
\olved in the peace negotiations, when the time for them arrives.
A FREE PRESS
Among the most highly prized and most jealously guarded rights
of American citizenship, and one which lias been handed down as a
common inheritance to all English-speaking nations, is that of a free
press. Free speech and a free press have made possible the full devel
opment of democratic government and been the means of effecting
reforms which otherwise would have been impossible, or which at least
would have been for many years delayed. It is true that the freedom
of the press has often been abused; but in comparison to the benefits
to mankind conferred by the right to publicly discuss public questions
without fear of an official censor these abuses have been insignificant.
It is probable that the statement that the “freedom of the press in
America is a growing menace” will come as a surprise to most people,
and the further statement that there is “more real freedom of the press
in Germany” (under a strict censorship) “than in this country will
be sincerely doubted.
Frank Koester, who is mentioned as the author of “Modern City
Planning and Maintenance,” and other works of a technical character,
in a diatribe on the “Responsibility of the Press” in The Fatherland,
says
The American newspaper holds the public in contempt. It is without fear, except of
the advertiser, t ut full of favor, to various influence*. For this the public is in a measure
to blame. In Germany false statements soon discredit a paper, the public withdrawing
their support. Here the public ‘'stand for it.” probably because it finds no models to turn
to of what a newspaper should in reality be. the freedom of the press in the United
States is a growing menace to the freedom of the mind of the public. The news of th ■
war has been a striking proof of the irresponsibilitv of tiie press. The German press is
regarded in a somewhat different light. Unlimited license is not allowed it. If it gets out
of bounds, the government may order one or more issuess suppressed, or suppression for
i. longer time. If the paper obieets. it may appeal to the courts. The public is thu~ pro
tected by prompt executive action and the paper by prompt recourse to legal measures
it it feels itself aggrieved. As ar esult there is more real freedom of the press in Germany
than in this country and vastly more freedom from the press, and from the destructive
license and pollution of public opinion to which the readers of American newspapers are
subjected.
Now the very foundation upon which a free press stands is that the
publishers must he responsible for the statements to which they give
utterance. If a libel be perpetrated, the publisher may be mulcted of
monetary damages and even imprisoned. !f treason be fostered, he is
amenable to the laws dealing with such subjects. What a boon it would
be to the unscrupulous and corrupt politicians of the United States,
in case they should ever gain control of the government, to have the
German censorship system in vogue m the United States, to be able
without a moment’s notice to suspend the publication of a newspaper
or periodical! Supposing such a government were attacked by a
newspaper and its criminal transactions laid bare. 1 he censor could
confiscate the entire edition containing such disclosures and put a stop
to its further issue. True, the aggrieved publisher might, according to
the German formula, appeal to the courts; but the mischief might
already be done which it had tried to prevent, and it will be small sat
isfaction to be allowed to resume publication after the corruptionists
plans are consummated. And the threat of just such disturbances to
the publisher’s business would operate effectually to put him com
pletely at the mercy of the censor and the government behind him.
it is not likely that such a system could ever become popular in the
United States.
But there are occasions when even in free America it would reerr
that the freedom of the press is abused, and the publication which con
tains Mr. Koester’s effusion contains a glaring example of it. The
Fatherland, which is devoted to “fair play for Germany and Austria
Hungary,” and is believed to be in a measure the mouthpiece of the
German government in this country, or at least of its prominent repre
sentatives, contains unbridled statements reflecting on the head of this
nation which no newspaper in Germany would dare to utter with refer
ence to the kaiser and his government. It would be looked upon as
indelicate, to say the least, if even a publication dedicated to ' fair play
for America” were to attribute criminal acts to the President and his
cabinet, and to accuse him of cowardice, as m the following from The
Fatherland:
Mr. Wilson knows that it is criminal for this country, in the light of the moral idea
that actuated his policies heretofore, to sell agencies of destruction and to furnish the*
financial fuel that will feed the flame of w r. but for (-r.ee, if we are rightly informed, his
moral courage deserts him. fie does not dare to come out in the open against the powr«
that profit by the prolongation of carnage in Africa. Asia and Europe. . . There is
one profession that neither answers nor asks questions for the sake of illegitimate profit.
But the President of the United States is not in that class.
Strong language, indeed, for a publication that deprecates a free
press and is devoted to “fair play.”
It is quite possible that the death of Elbert Hubbard m the Lusitania
disaster will not bring sorrow to the hearts of the Germans. He is cred
ited with having published the following outburst, which called forth
dcnunciaitons of the most violent! character from the pro-German
press: “If anyone asks, Who lifted the lid of hell? let the truthful an
swer be: William Hohenzollern. ‘Bill Kaiser’ has a withered hand
and a running ear. Also he has a shrunken soul, and a mind that reeks
with egomania. He is a mastoid degenerate of a noble grandmother,
in degree he has her power, but not her love. He has her persistency,
but not her prescience. He is swollen, like a drowned pup, with a pride
that stinks.” Hubbard’s pen was frequently used for the expression
of ignoble sentiments, and it is a pity that a genius such as his should
have stooped to such drivel.
The entrance of Italy into the arefi^a of war against her former allies,
long expected though it was, gives an example of the value of treaties
in time of national danger. By the terms of the triple alliance Italy
was bound to join forces with Germany and Austria in case either of
the latter were attacked. She chose to regard them as the aggressors
in the war, and thus left herself free to protect her own interests in her
own way.
The killing of non-combatants in warfare, the use of gas-filled bombs
and other prohibited weapons, go to show how little thought of are
“civilized” methods of warfare when the war lust is rife. It will not
be in the least surprising if all restraints are thrown to the winds and
any method of inflicting death and destruction upon the enemy nation
be adopted before the war ends.
Now that Roosevelt has been cleared of the charge of libeling Poli
tician Barnes, that gentleman can quietly take his seat as a full-fledged
member of the Ananias Club, while the country anxiously awaits the
announcement of the next candidate:
A VISION OF WAR
Memorial Day Address delivered by Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll at Indianapolis;
Ind., May 30, 1878
The past rises before me, as it were, like a dream. Again we are in the great
struggle for national life. We hear the sounds of preparation—the music of bois
terous drums—the silver voices of heroic bugles.
We see thousands of assemblages, and hear the appeals of orators; we see the
pale cheeks of women and the Hushed faces of men, and in those assemblages we see
all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers. We lost sight of them no
more.
We are with them when they enlist in the great army of freedom. We see them
part with those they love. Some are walking for the last time in quiet, woody places
with the maidens they adore. We hear the whisperings and the sweet vows of eternal
love as they lingeringly part forever. Others are bending over cradles, kissing babies
that are asleep.
Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting with mothers, who
hold them and press them to their hearts again and again, and say nothing. And
some are talking with wives and endeavoring with brave words, spoken in the old
tones, to drive from their hearts the awful fear. We see them part. We see the
wife standing in the door with the babe in her arms—standing in the sunlight sob
bing—at the turn of the road a hand waves—she answers by holding high in her
loving arms the child. He is gone, and forever.
We see them all as they march proudly away under the flaunting music of war
marching down the streets of the great cities—through the towns and across the
prairies—down to the fields of glory, to do and to die for the eternal right.
We go with them, one and all. Wc are by their side on all the gory fields—in
all the hospitals of pain—on all the weary marches. We stand guard with them in
the wild storm and under the quiet stars. Wc are with them in ravines running
with blood in the furrows of old fields. We are with them between contending
hosts, unable to move, wild with thirst, the life ebbing slowly away among the with
ered leaves. Wo see them pierced by balls and torn with shells, in the trenches, the
forts, and in the whirlwind of the charge, where men become iron, with nerves of
steel.
We are bound with them in the prisons of hatred and famine; but human speech
can never toll what they endured.
We arc at home when the news comes that they are dead. We see the maiden in
the shadow of her first sorrow. We see the silvered head of the old man bowed with
the last grief.
The past rises before its, and we see 4,000,000 of human beings governed by the
lash we see them bound hand and foot we hear the strokes of cruel whips* we see
the hounds tracking women through" tangled swamps. We see babes sold from the
breasts of mothers. Cruelty unspeakable! Outrage infinite!
hour million bodies in chains four miliion souls in fetters. All the sacred rela
tions of wife, mother, father anil child tramph'd beneslh the brutal feet of might
And all this was done under our own beautiful banner of the free.
The past ri.— before u.-. We hear the roar and shriek of the bursting shell. The
broken fetters fall. These heroes die. We look. Instead of slaves, we see men and
women and children. The wand of progress touches the auction block, the slave pen
the whipping post, and wc see homes and firesides and school houses and hooks, and
where all was want and crime and cruelty and fear we see the faces of the free.
These heroes are head. They died for liberty- they died for us. Th-v are at rest.
They sleep in the land they made free, under the flog they rendered stainless under
the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vim
They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, enrol"-- Me of me him or of
storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars—
they are at peace.
In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death
I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: Cheers for the living: tears for
the uead.
CHARGE AGAINST DILLON
UP TO JUDGE BUNNELL
Judge Bunnell, at Fairbanks, received on
i recent mail a communication from the
territorial legislature asking for the dismissal
• :f ( nminis.'i ,ner John F. Dillon. The reso
lution ot the legislature, in which many of
the commissioners, and particularly the Fair
banks commissioner, were condemned for
disregarding the territorial laws and for not
keeping a proper account of vital statistics,
as provided by statute, was adopted several
weeks ago.
After the communication had been re
ceived by Judge Bunnell he was asked if
he had anything to say regarding the mut
ter. or any comment to make on the action
| of the legislature. He said that the reso
lute a came as a big surprise, although he
had seen press dispatches regarding the
matter. He would make no definite state
ment as to his opinion of the action of the
legislature, and simply said that he would
take no action on the matter at present.
A number of federal officials, and practi
r: Ily a 1 the attorneys of Fairbanks have
iriticized the legbl:-.’ ure severely for their
11 c ck < n the con mbsi< n« r, an 1 ..1! declare
! that the action was ill-advised.
Com in:.-dinner Dillon maintains i hat his
i office has been manage i according to law.
! and that it is open tor inspection at any
I time.
The Times, commenting editorially on the
1 attack ot the legislator.** upon the mawig -
! ment of the Morningside sanitarium, which
j cares for Alaska insane, and also on Com
; missioner Dillon, says:
“The attack upon the sanitarium, how*
ev , is neither sillier n -r more unfair than
the tttuck upon Commissioner Dillon. And
we say this with only the commissioner’s
word against that of the combined mem
bership of the legislature, that he is innocent
of the charges preferred against him,
‘ In his report to the legislature, the ter
ritorial secretary made charges that practi
cally all of the commissioners in the Second
and Fourth divisions had failed to comply
with the territorial laws with respect to
vital statistics, and Commissioner Dillon
was given special mention for his alleged
delinquency. Whereupon the lawmakers
took the matter up, without further inves
tigation, and demanded the dismissal of the
Fairbanks official, wholly ignoring the oth
ers. who appear to have been equally guilty.
“All of which reminds us of a story which
recently appeared in one of the coast papers.
A resident of Juneau, runs the tale, took his
little son to attend a meeting of the legis
lature. The youngster was greatly inter
ested. and, of course, asked questions about
everything. The chaplain of the house
stepped forward during the opening of the
session and delivered his prayer. When he
sat down the youngster asked his dad who
the man was who had just been talking,
and was told that it wav the chaplain of the
house.
“ ‘Oh, he prays for the legislature, doesn’t
he?’ asked the lad.
“ ‘No,’ said his father, ‘he gets up. takes
a look at the legislature, and then prays for
the territory.’ ”
DR. HALL NOT GUiLTY
ON MORE SERIOUS CHARGE
In ihe United States district court at
Fairbanks on April 23 the jury in the case
of the United States vs. Dr. M. F. Hall, in
which the defendant was accused of assault
upon 9-year-o!d Selma Lappi, brought in a
verdict of guilty. Although the public was
excluded from the room during the trial,
the doors were thrown open and about thirty
persons besides the court attendants were
present when the jury returned the ver
dict. Counsel for the defense indicated
that the defendant would move for a new
trial, and asked for time to prepare the
necessary' motions. The request was
granted and the defendant was allowed his
liberty under the original bonds.
On May 1, after a trial of the case of
the United States vs. Dr. Hall, in which the
defendant was accused of assault with intent
to commit rape upon the person of Hilma j
Johannson, the jury brought in a verdict of
“not guilty,” after deliberating from 6 j
o’clock until 11:15.
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I believe that Tolovana is going to make j
a good camp and u larger one than people
generally lh;nk. There is no question but i
that they have the pay." said Charlie Joynt j
to a i airbankjj News-Miner representative !
on May 13.
"I believe that Livengood creek will pro
dure fully as much gold as Ester creek has
and that other good creeks will be opened
“The principal obstacle that Tolovana has
l overcome before it can be a producing
: camp is shortage of water supply, which i
a serious problem at the present time. It 1
can be remedied by building ditches and im :
! pounding water, but this requires time and ‘
money. On Livengood creek the water will I
have to be carried along the north slope of'
i the hills for several miles, across many small I
; creeks or around their heads, and this \v:.l (
necessitate arrangements with miners >n 1
; thc.se creeks. The water supply this sum- |
j nier is going to be short.
"About pay: \ou can pan anywhere on 1
the dumps being taken cut on the Liven- ;
good bench anti get from 4 to 15 cents t«. 1
the pan. Kinney and his associates have 1
--1 grounu lower down along the creek. <
•where they have only a few feet to go t-«» I
bedn ck. as against nearly a hundred fee' |
i out on the Cascadeu bench, where the hill
••(ie has .-l.ughed off and made deep dig
, tnr.gs. llte gold is there, end has been
’found in a number of holes. Just as spoil
s Pearson <fc Johnson get their hole down
we shall probably see u definite paystreak .
lined up on this bench.
“Further down on Livcngood they will j
have to use drills, as the ground is so deep
that ordinary prospectors cannot tackle it
j with success. As soon as possible, one or
j two drills will be taken in there.
“Other creeks are showing prospects. !
which will be developed in course of tiim.
j but we must not expect too rapid deveh>i
i ment in a district, so difficult to get sup !
1 ; lies and machinery to.
“The dues route, with some changes in
j the present trail, appeals to me as the most
feasible into the camp. I believe a road
can be built in that way with no grade
greater than that on Birch hill, and with
only three divides to cross in a total dis
tance of forty-five miles. The camp will
have to have a road if it is to be developed,
and the people of Fairbanks must get busy
in the construction of one.
Mr. Joynt went into the Tolovana with
j Delegate Wickersham and John Josiin. arm
I returned after carefully looking over th
I camp and paying particular attention to
ihe road proposition. lie is naturally inter
i ested in transportation, by reason of his long
j railroad experience, and his opinion will re
j ceive serious consideration any time he cares
i to give it on this subject. He feels that
1 no man can predict what gold lies under j
| the ground, but his long residence in the
I North leads him to the firm conclusion
! which he expressed in this interview. Dele
gate Wickersham remained on Livengood
to watch mining operations on the La.
I caden bench a little longer.
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DISCOVERY OTTER Harry Donnelley
“HEINIE” IS MARCHING HOME
(Fairbanks Tii. May lb
Ex-Senator Roden said tin.- morning that
he expected to leave <one of the first
boats flown river, ; robably within a week
or ten days. He go - :o I iitarod. where he
will represent the Guggenhcims in some
legal matters. IV-"ite the many reports
to the contrary, he slates that he is still
fortunate enough to be retained by the
Guggenheim interests as their attorney.
His Opinion on Tolovana
(Ruby Record-Citizen, May 221
Henry Roden arrived from Fairbanks on
the mail launch Thursday afternoon, and
left for Long creek the same evening. Re
i,lying to questions, he said it was too early
yet to pronounce judgment on the Tolovana.
"lie did not visit the district himself, but
■unversed with numerous per-ens from
there. He said opinion is about equally di
vided as to whether or not the camp will
make good, but it is agreed that no pay
streak "has so far been developed. E. .1.
Ives, associate of Price & Manley, has se
cured options there and seems to think well
of the country.