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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1914.
WAR PHILOSOPHY.
There is evidence that the philos
ophy of Nietzsche is! one of the im
pelling forces in the present Euro
pean war. The philosopher’s key
notes were Power, Force and the doc
trine of the Superman. That his
principles have been accepted and
forcefully championed by units of at
least two of the opposing armies is
evidenced by memoranda, clippings
and diaries found on the field of bat
tle. on the bodies of the dead.
This, from the diary of a young
officer killed in battle:
"We are the super race of the
world. We have done everything
worth doing, and it is necessary for
humanity that this race shall lead.
It is endowed with the greatest pow
er, and power is the one thing in life
best worth possessing.
“Pity is opposed to the tonic pas
sions which enhance energy and the
feelings of life: its action is depress
ing. A man loses power when he
pities. On the whole, sympathy
thwarts the law of development,
which is the law of selection. It pre
serves that which is ripe for death;
it fights in favor of the useless, and
hinders progress of the useful.”
Nietzsche was the great foe of
democracy. He held that it is folly
to presume that by mere rummaging
and fumbling among a motley popnla
: ion one or several men could be
foi.nd to take the place of the ideal
tiller. Nietzsche could not believe in
the equality of men. Human exper
ience, he held, is against the theory.
He was an advocate of the higher
matt, and force, power, will, were the
ideal instruments of race progress.
"A good war,” wrote the philosopheer,
"halloweth any cause. War and cour
age have done greater things than
love."
Whatever the merit or demerit of
Nietzsche’s philosophy, its pursuit has
bathed Europe in blood, and human
poverty, misery and disaster have
arisen in its watke. He had a place
for ordinary humanity, but it was at
the base of the human pyramid, which
was to be made broad and massive
with mediocrity, grading up in qual
ity as the human units grew fewer,
until the pinnacle of power and lead
ership was reached. And around the
pinnacle nature fought most furious
ly in elemental strife, and the sun
shone most gorgeously.—Ex.
NEUTRAL RIGHTS.
The British government has decid
ed not to interfere for the present
with the shipment of foodstuffs from
the United States to Holland, but
has placed an embargo upon the ship
ment of copper from the United
States to that neutral country, on
the theory that copper can be UBed
for the manufacture of ’rifle cart
ridges and that it is possible for Hol
land to send the copper into Ger
many. Several English newspapers
are gravely discussing the possibility
of England blockading the ports of
Norway, Sweden and Holland, to pre
vent German trade being carried on
through those neutral ports.
Colonel Roosevelt recently arous
ed some discussion by ills statement
that neutral rights do not amount to
anything unless there is force to back
them up. The attacks upon neutral
rights during the present war show
that his position is correct. The Unit
ed States and Holland have a per
fect right, under all of the rules of
international law, to carry on trade
with each other in any articles, wheth
er contraband or conditional contra
band of war or not. Yet Dutch ves
•StJIS alt? Ucliig oicauuj pviuvu
English cruisers when homeward
hound from other neutral countries.
If the United States had any ves
sels in trade with Holland they would
probably be seized in the same man
ner, unless the United States made
the most vigorous remonstrances and
backed those by a flat declaration
that it would consider such invasion
of its neutral rights an act of war.
This was the position taken during
the Napoleonic era, at least after Jef
ferson retired from ofTice.
The English attitude is in marked
contrast with that assumed during
our own civil war, when the Bahama
islands were made the depot of sup
plies for all war material needed for
the Confederate armies, which were
sent through from those islands by
blockade runners under the British
flag. Thus the war was kept alive
at least two years longer than would
have been the case without this act
ive British aid extended to it. Had
the United States attempted to block
ade the British West Indian islands to
prevent this shipment of war mater
ial to the South, there would have
been war at once.
Notice.
The original owners of the Valdez
Ivanhoe property will not be respon
sible for any debts incurred by the
Valdez Ivanhoe Mining Company.
Signed. Emil Davis, Wm. Wesser
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KIDNAPING VOTERS.
One* a Regular Feature of Political
Warfare In England.
In England a generation or two ago
kidnaping was a regularly organized
feature of political warfare. On the
eve of an election especially men of In
fluence on either side would mysteri
ously vanish to reappear later with
strange tales of forcible seizures, mad
races across country In post chaises
driven by yelling postilions, followed
by longer or shorter terms of gilded
imprisonment In great mansions, where
they were wined and dined In sump
tuous style and treated right royally
In every way, only their liberty being
denied them.
Quite bumble voters, too, were forci
bly abducted, bnt these did not always
fare quite so well. Thus one victim
made complaint before a magistrate
that he bad been decoyed from his
bouse by a ruse and kept shut up In a
coal hole for three days.
Wholesale kidnaping of voters In
batches, too, was not unknown, the
process being rendered easier by the
custom of candidates paying the trav
eling expenses of their electors to and
from the polling places.
For Instance, at a certain Newcastle
election a whole shipload of freemen
of the borough, dispatched from Lon
don by sea, were taken by the captain
—who had been heavily bribed—to Os
tend and there left stranded.
During the same contest, too, and
under similar circumstances a number
of Berwick electors who happened to
reside In London were dumped down
In Norway, and a group of dirty Ips
wich voters found themselves on the
day of the poll cooling their heels upon
the quay at Rotterdam. — Pearson’s
Weekly. _
MARRIAGE FAILURES.
Two Crises In Wedded Life That Are
Mainly Responsible.
That there should be such Involved
discussion and so many amazingly
contradictory theories about the cause
of the failure of marriage Is surpris
ing.
The plain fact Is that marriage Is al
ways the end of romance and the be
ginning of history. This Is so true
that Homer tells us the women of un
dent Greece reckoned their ages not
from the birth date, but from the wed
ding day. A good many husbands In
this twentieth century are a good deal
more certain about the number of
years their wives have lived since mar
riage than about the summers and win
ters they had numbered before they
became wives.
Failure to recognize the difference
between romance and history causes
failure of marriage. Romance Is all
play; history Is a serious business.
Courtship Is pie; marringe is potatoes.
The comedown from pie to potatoes
sometimes overstrains matters serious
ly. But If this crisis Is safely passed
another awaits.
Love Is the spice of life, but friend
ship is the nourishing food without
which life, except to unusual Individ
uals, becomes a burden. The marriage
which Is all spice and no food soon
gives one or frequently both of the
parties thereto acute Indigestion.
When the ecstatic emotions of the hon
eymoon have fled, marriage must And
some other subsistence or It cannot
thrive. And the only satisfying food
Is friendship.—Mother’s Magazine.
Trivial Causas of Wars.
A backet was once tbe Innocent
cause of a terrible war. Nine centu
ries ago some soldiers of Modena stole
a bucket as a joke from a public well
at Bologna. When they refused to re
store It scrimmaging commenced be
tween the soldiers of the rival states,
and a war ensued, which spread until
It Involved the greater part of Eu
rope. In more recent times a debt of
a few shillings of which the bey of
Algiers demanded payment through
the French consul led to a war which
lasted twenty years, cost more than
600,000 lives and made Algeria a
French possession.
Good That Ha Returned.
“Boy, watch my horse till I come
backf called a man to a boy lounging
around the station, as he hastened, to
bid farewell to a departing friend.
"Sure I” said the boy, taking the
reins.
Just then the locomotive whistled
and the horse, rearing suddenly, start
ed at full speed up the road.
The boy stared after the fleeing
animal, and, as the owner appeared,
exclaimed with relief:
"It’s a good thing you came now, sir,
for I couldn’t have watched him much
longer.”—Ladles’ Home Journal.
His Dear Son.
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"Is It expensive to send n boy to col
lege?"
“No, but I find it's expensive to keep
him there.”—St Louis Globe-Democrat
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President Woodrow Wilson
C. E. Bunnell i
ALASKA as a storehouse, should be
unlocked. One key to it is a sys
tem of railways. These the govern
ment should itself build and adminis
ter, and the ports and terminals it
should itself control in the interest of
all who wish to use them for the ser
vice and development of the country
and its people.
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
THE policy of President Wilson’s
• administration toward Alaska has
been one of magnificent constructive
development.
Support the Administration by voting
for
C. E. BUNNELL
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JOHN LYONS
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for Representative in
Alaska Legislature.
Resided in Alaska since
1897. Resided in Valdez
since 1901. Believes in
opening up Alaska for
this generation, and that
such a course is best for
all future generations.
TK. G. PRICE I
of Cordova.
Democratic candidate for Senator.
Believes in government con
trol and immediate development
of the resources of Alaska.
If elected will work in harmony
with the National Democratic Ad
ministration in its attempt to open
up Alaska. A vote for him is a
vote in support of President Wil
son. >
For Representative
Thomas H. Holland
of Chitina.
Democratic Candidate.
Has lived in Alaska since 1902.
Knows Alaska, knows the needs
of Alaska and if elected will work
for Alaska.
A vote for him is a vote in sup
port of Woodrow Wilson in his
attempt to develop Alaska.
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