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The Lie Disproved
The arrival of the Victoria with 440 odd passengers on board again
gives . the lie to the misrepr^sentatSve tales of Nome’s alleged dee.oh nee
•proud broadcast in the states last fall, in an effort to discredit this district -n
tl:« eyes of the Outside world. This is approximately the sune nul.nber that
departed on the same vessel lust October and is mudN ui> of practically the
same individuals
These facts refute wholly the declarations contained in the stores re
ferred to that very few of the-people who left, here List, fail would r.-tum and
that “there is nothing left at Name," owing to the mineral deposits of this
section being worked out. 9
If there Is nothing left at Nome but forlorn desolation tenanted chiefly
by wailing inalamntes and Eskimo and bereft of all resources and industry,
how is It that nearly a half thousand people— the same people, be :t remem
bered, who it was claimed last fall intended to return no more—come hack to
us on the first passenger carrying ship of the season? How does it happ<-n
that so many people changed their minds about coming hack? furthermore,
one may ask, whui did they '-nme hack for if there is nothing left at Nome, as
the author's of the disparaging stories palpably tried ver> hard to make the
Outside world believe?
If Nome's golden sands are denuded of thtiir aureate wealth: if dredging
is nearly “a thing of the past"; if Nome is moribund and Arctic blizzards are
"tearing down the gaudy palaces where the miners once scattered their gold
by the handful," what in the name. <if common sense has brought them lin k'.’
The world was solemnly assured by the propaganda- knocker’? last fall that
these people had left Nome “for good," yet here they are hack again, without
a sign of 'diminished interest in the country ami one and ail apparently con
vinced that this distr et offers them at least as good a reward for their labor
and efforts as the slulir* infested, crime ravaged, toil burdened Outside.
It is regrettable that the story of their return cannot lie as carefully
spread over the United Stat- s as were the false tales of Nome's decline
last fall. The fact that they are hack is. in most cases at least, proof posi
tive that Nome, despite her alleged moribumlity, despite the depletion of her
placers, is a better place to make a living in than any they could discover in
Time To Ring Off
The unhappy tendency nf Alaskans to quarrel anions themselves h i
r.ot only resulted in •Alaskan vticws and candidates being practically ignored
in connect'I on with political appointments Init has also provoke.! deprecator;.
comment from no less a personage than the president of the i'nited States.
“I wish most sincerely that the people of Alaska would stop quarreling
and I would appreciate anything you can do along that line," he sa:id recent I \
in addressing an unsuccessful candidate for an Alaskan appointment. Al
though phrased in language which seems to express only mild deprecation, th.
president’s words are plainly of censurable portent. in the view of tin
writer they can be considered as nothing less than an open rebuke as well as .
significant warning that Alaskans will receive scant consideration in Wash
ington while the present administration endures unless they cease their hit.
minable bickering and mud slinging and achieve at least some appearance of
agreement regarding their affairs.
Secretary Kail has been even more outspokgn than the president in
making it known to the people of Alaska that their deplorable penchant fo
squabbling lies at the bottom of the rejection of Alaskan candidates for the
governorship. His words leave no doubt in the mind regarding the adminis
tration attitude, as^they were plainly expressive of open disgust at the Alaska
situation as presented to hifcn in the connection with the governorship ap
pointment.
To many other people the words of both Fall and the president would
doubtless provoke a deep sense of humiliation which might induce a salutary
change in their behavior but whether they will affect Alaskans in that' way is
doubtful. In any event it is time for us to ring off before our pestiferous
aptitude for picking rows over anything and everything weans away the few
shreds of administrative" respect we still enjoy. When it reaches such a
state that even the president cannot forbear comment, it is time to remember
that we must ourselves at least comport with an aspect of decency if we are
to preserve the respect of those who shape our destines.
A Gloomy Prospect
(From the Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sir I’ll lip Gibbs, when recently in Cincinnati, declared another great
European war was certain. "The world hasn't moved forward as a result of
the recent conflict," he said.
Said Bishop It. J. Cooke, of Seattle, i» a recent address: "I forsee
unless the white races assert themselves promptly and decisively, a crushing
and tenrifle blow delivered to an already tottering civilization by the black,
the brown and yellow races under the keen and German-like duplicity of Japan.
Eminent, authority points out fourteen existing causes for proximate
war hetw'een the nations of Europe and Asia.
It Is fatefully strange that the Treaty of Versailles has so disturbed tlie
races and so muddled the matter of boundary lines that it already stands oon
\ feted as the'potent promoter of innumerable conflicts.
Another war would mean unmitigated hell on earth. Is moral con
sciousness dead? Has Christianity utterly failed in Its mission? Of what
value are the so-called moral forces? Mu«t admission be made that the cul
minating history of the world is the history of evil triumphant? Shall
Armageddon witness the doom of democracy, the wreck of religion, the de
struction of civilization by a .recrudesCent paganism? r Where are the priests
and prophets, the statesmen, the lovers of righteousness and liberty to whom
an Imperious critical emergency is calling?
The thought of the probability of smother great war sickens the soul.
The net loss of the late conflict In money was $139,702,269,225. But what is
this vast sum in comparison with the loss of the millions of human beings who,
died or who have been left to live as shattered wrecks? And'''the widowed
and fatherless, the outraged and tortured— think of them.
The next war, prophesied by these experts, will be a war in which
chemicals and airplanes will play 'chief part. Thousands of winged d- -
»dlX>yera will fly above the doomed populations of innocent people; death will,
descend from the profaned heavens: cities will vanish; ch etuis', ry and the
wireless will enhance the toll of universal murder, the divinely appointed
instruments of peace will serve the ends of Moloch and Mars!
It to a gloomy prospect. The old gods seem to be throned above the
ahiines and altars of Chrltendom.
ALASKA LEADS NATION
IN EUROPEAN RELEIF
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NORTHERN TRAVEL PRESAGES RUST YEAR
than are those in older settled ..
flic peri'-'! men* imv-l The restil
ALASKA HAS
54,899 POPULATION
Tin* present population "I 111• • .
i"iis divisions ns- compared if) l!tl" is
S«*ct»n«l Division . . . . 10,753 1.'.:: >1
N'onii' Sal’: Wr.mwll S21: Seward «.VJ:
Nonanu 634; Lu touche 505: Skng-wnv
494: Kennecott 494: * Valdez. 468.
The populations of the various lead
Division are placed as fallows:
Nome 862: St Mivhaol 371: Harrow
322: Noorvik 281; 1’nalakleet 28.'.: S.-l
awik 274; Kotzebue 230: White Moun
tain 198; Xokatuk 1C4; Klim 102: Ti
Sara (l*t Hope) 141: Wales 136; Mary’s
Igiloo 11.5: Haycock 114: Council 100;
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