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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, al the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 2, 1879.
Nome. Alaska, March 1H, 11)1(1.
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The reported revolt of Carranzist
soldiers at Cabbulona and the pos- -
sibility of their offering resistance to i
the American invasion, hunting Tor
Villa, is an example of the dangers i
involvod in this effort to capture 1
a Mexican outlaw on Mexican i
ground by another nation's troops.
It reveals the fact that the man :
entering, bearing a naked light into !
a powder magazine with lots of ex- i
plosive scattered about, is engaged 1
ia a safe and sane undertaking con
trasted with the work that General
Pershing has on band.
Notwithstanding the clever diplo
macy of Carranza, Mexicans do not
like the presence of Americans in
Mexico any more than would Amer
icans like the presence of Mexican
troops In American soil, even when
approved by the President, and for
that reason it is not until the Am
erican troops return that the coun
try can be satisfied it has escaped
war.
The Mexican people withal their
civil commotion are just as patri
otic as any. They are keenly sen
sitive to the fact of their national
independence and every outsider is
an invader, questioning the integ
rity of tho Mexican nation.
They have no notion that the
American government is chasing
Villa with the highest possible mo
tive, for they have quite a different ex
perionce of American rule in their
plantations, mines and haciendas
than is conveyed in the Wilson pro
testations of well-meaningness.
They know by sad exeperiencc that
tlie American that goes into Mexico
goes their to get wealthy no mattei
liow; to exploit tho Mexican peons
and to exploit them as profitably
and relentlessly as they possibly
can.
They judge America by those Am
ericans. and the hate manifested
against the “gringocs” is not wholly
without reason or without justifica
tion. The story of American plant
ers on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec l
something to shudder at; the ex
ploitation of the mining resources ie,
Sonora is red with peon blood a: i
everywhere they turned the Mexican
i.ict the American 1 ■ with
tho big mitt, wi’.li i ■ ,g:r. < i the
welfare of cither Mexico or M x
i< ans.
Now it is utterly impossible t"
suppose that the Mexican can ’grasp
at all the idea that thoro is a differ
ent America to the grasping, grind
ing, oppressive, surly, tyrannical,
grabbing, bossing America which lie
lias come in contact with. To him
every American is a grafter and a ;
bull dozer. And not all the honeyed
words of American statesmen have
been able tc overcome that idea.
It is sometimes unfortunate that
a country should be judged by the
energetic anl ruthless class of out
side investing capitalists and cer
tainly this is doubly unfortunate n
the case of Mexico. While the aver
age “greaser” is to the American a
bandit or a peon, the average “grln
goe" to tho Mexican is a cons^ieu
coleus exploiter, crafty and graft
ing.
follow out the articles in Mexican
papers and hardly one is apprecia
tive of any of the finer points of Am
ericans. And that is because of the
fact they nevor have come in con
tact with them.
W>3 see the same condition re
flected in Europe. Almost all the
belligerent nations regard the Un
ited States as a grafting con3cion
celoos monoy-rand nation without
principle and without any other
ifleal than the ideal of the dollar.
rftie papers in articles and cartoons
reflect that view and when Rufus
Choate said that Amorlca is the
worst hated country in Europe today
he unquestonnbly is justified in that
assertion by the newspaper comment
alone. Every American is a mti
nitidnlst. ’ '* !
It i$’ preposterous to suppose that.
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his view is engendered by the sue
:6;;s of Americans or for any jeai
)iisy of their supremacy in industry
md finance. The view is due solely
tnd absolutely to the fact that the
orelgn nations everywhere come In
:ontact not wth all that is best and
ill that is really fine in the Amer
can character, but all that is really
>ase and really sordid and roally
lospicable and truly unprincipled
>ut powerful therein.
They come in contact with a class
lot by any means popular in wide
lections and among large portions
>f the American people themselves,
the High Financiers and the Mono
polists, who Insist on having more
than their pound of flesh from Am
ericans and foreigners alike.
The foreign nations insist upon re
garding these people with the' in
stinct of a vampire bat as represen
tative of the American people which
they are net, but because they are
so regarded their activities will
be always a menace to the security
of the entire American people ai
home or abroad.
One of the most serious facts in
American public life is that th;
greate r talents and virtues and fine:
points of the Am :rtcan people find
little or no expression. The groat
papers, the greater weeklies, maga
zines, reviews are solely devoted to
the High Finance cult; that obtains
control of parties and politicians;
they sway administrations however
well intentioned and they dominate
American life and especially Amer
ican public life almost completely.
The magazines devoted to youth
manage to inject the ideals which
the plunderbund advocate, as the
national ideals, and the entire na
tion pays the penalty in oppression
at home and loss of reputation
abroad. The distrust of the Am
erican people manifested throughout
South America is no mere chance;
it is born of t:d experience will
dollar diplomacy and High Final
ciera. And although only represen
tative < f a relatively very small por
tion of the people it is translated
. ' e cliaracterkiic of the Amer
■t m pe<'pie. and representative o,
Hie entire nation
Now not all America Is money
mad. Not all America is a con
scienceless nation imbued with onlv
one Idea of bulldozing its way to the
profit pile regardlers of every liner
sentiment and nobler feeling.
Nothing could be a more errone
ous idea. The deepest seated senti
ment in the majority of Americans
is to resist wrong to any desperate ex
treme. It manifests itself in the much
despised I. W. W., in the Farmer s
Granges, in reactionary unions, la
hospital associations. In Industrial
Relations Commission, In Farmers
Go-operative associations, in the
often misguided but always live re
form parties that try and try and
try again to make political life bei
er and freer, and the courts more
real dispensers of justice and less
the administrators of money made
law. It is so often an irrational
and so often an incoherent senti
ment that it reacts upon itself, bu.
it develops just the same the na
tion and the nation’s course, de
jpito everything and every obstacle
that rises to overwhelm it. It man
ifested ltsolf in the heart breaking
agitation of the earlier and more
unsuccessful abolitionists and In
personified just as much in Wendell
Phillips as in Abraham Lincoln, and
men like Thoreau and Emerson
with an inate devotion to personal
and national freedom, are always iu
the majority in American Ufo al
though they find such scant expres
sion in these days of tho kept press
and a servile news service.
Because it’s the noisiest of all
ideals and Its devotees occupy public
posltlops and shout their mad de
signs from- the housetops and glory
In their Insanity, the dollar except
a3 a moans to desirable ends * and
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then half despised, lo not th<^ ideal
jf three fourths of the people- of
America. Yet life under capitalism
is so sordid, so utterly do the men
who control the dollars control also
the lives of those who long only for
life, free and independent, that these
majority lives and these majority
ideals find little expression what
ever, and pass unnoticed as Ainer- '
lean characteristics.
It‘s not the American with a sense
of fairness and fair dealing, whose
word is to be believed thought every
thing else is doubtful, that impresses
himself upon the strangor.. It is
the notey man who sells adulterat
ed food, and shoddy pants ana boggy
farms, and false titles, tbe real
estate Shark, the employment shark,
promoter, the cob man, the lying
booster, the parasitic politician, the
shyster lawyer and the corpora
tion hireling,—these are they that
impress their brand of noisy ant
flag waving Americanism upon the
foreigner and the stranger and per
suade him that they represented
America when as a matter of fact
the America they represent is only
that smaller but powerful jiortion
which reads and understands not a
Declaration of' Independence and
who really embody within them
selves true enough types of natidna.
degeneracy. . ' i
An American writer who travelled
the length and broadth of South
America with a view x>f ascertain
ing trade possibilities said that he
found that an American was dis
trusted. They had been too damn
sharp, he said. When they got into
a mining camp they lot loose wild
caU upon the people, and "irtttibel
rights by corrupting politicians. And
what.South American people wond
ered at was that they consldereo
themselves wonderfully clever by
reason of this miserable trickery.
It has been one of the astounding
facts that the United States of Am
erica rose one thousand per cent In
the estimation of cyory South Am
erican nation by reason of the po
licy of “watchful waiting” in Mex
ico. The people of Chili and Argen
| tina and Brazil came to fhe con
I elusion that America was not the
! nation of grab and bull-dozing some
of its more unfortunate acts had
led them to belli-ve. And it is also
i recorded that American trade rose
] in prosperity throughout South
j America with even step with this
: change of sentiment. And although
the policy of President Wilson had
j been subjected to all kinds of con
j tempt by the press thr.Odf^es ohly
[ success in the accumulation of great
j wealth and in the furtherance ot
the interests of the great ones In
Finance and Industry, the Amer
ican people rose Inestimably In the
opinion of the sister republics to the
South who felt that somethin
higher than dollar diplomacy could
Inspire and did direct the policies
cf the American people.
Fitting allowance in criticizing
the attitude of Central and South
American nations towards the Un
ited States, must be made for the
shameless conduct of many Amer
icans in industry, in finance and in
diplomacy related to those coun
tries.
It certainly is a hard legacy in
this Mexican campaign and it re
acts unfortunately upon the people
who never had such base Ideals and
who desire nothing better than that
all nations and all peoples should
attain and enjoy the very highest
ideals that they have set before
themselves to live under and enjoy.
VERY SPECIAL OFFER.
From now until the 2Otji of March
we offer first class tailor made Suits
at outside prices, your choice from
$18.50 up in all wool material. Fit
and workmanship guaranteed. Over
300 of this seasons (1916) latest
styles and, patterns to select from,
and 32 over coat patterns. Besides
fancy Vests and rain coat3. Order
before the 20 th of March so we can
get them on the first boat. Pleaso
bring us your cleaning, pressing and
repairing. We appreciate your pa
tronage. Yours to please
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Between Segerstrom & flflgen ana
Zehners Jewelry Stodge.
NOTICE.
Will all readers help us in an in
vestigation of the co-operative
movement In this country by writing
us the name and address of any
co-operative enterprise— especially
store or workingmen’s manufactur
ing co-operatives—that is known to
them, and by stating any facto con
cerning trade union or other labor
activity or interest in favor of co
-operation past or present.
INTERCOLLEGIATE SOCIALIST
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A FEW SPECIALS
ON OUR BARGAIN COUNTER THIS WEEK.
QUAIL BRAND, BERRIES, Gal. Cans, 05c. per can.
QUAIL BRAND PEACHES, Gal. Cans, 45c. per can.
QUAIL BRAND APRICOTS Gal. Cans, 45c. pen- can.
QUAIL BRAND, RHUBARB Gal. Cans, 40c. per can.
SEA PORT PEACHES .$4.00 per case.
FORCE.8 Pkgs. for $1.00.
SHEEDED WHEAT BISCUITS.8 Pkgs. for $1.00.
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