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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Aiasaa, under the Act of March S, 1871.
Nome, Alaska, February 21, 1910.
The other day before the con
gressional Committee a Rrigadier
General, on the Philliplnes question,
testified that he believed that in a
section of that territory he thought
the government should uphold poly
gamy. The number of wives a man
had gave him a standing in the com
munity, while it could be safely left
to Chirstian influences to ovcntually
lot monogamy be established auto
matically. The gentleman who so
testified was a Christian presumably.
His name is M'lntyre, General
M’lntyre, and he has had a world of
experience in the Phillipines and
ought to know.
if any person after going through
the schools were asked haphazard
to catechetically answer what are
the foundation stones of “our” civi
lization he would respond the Home,
Family and the Christian Religion.
Out there in tl.c Philliplnes how
ever the religion of Mahomed is very
accomodatingly recognized as the
religion of a certain place, while j
here wo have an authority voting
for polygamy as necessary to the
stability of things. Almost ail sy
stems of morality depend. And de
pend upon economic considerations
of no mean importance. While H
might bo horrible for a man in the
United States to have more than
one wife, in sections cf the domain
of the United States it is urged as
right and correct.
llow is this? Are there no eternal
truths as to family morality which
must be followed by ail men, or are
there special ways of righteousness
for some and other roads of virtue
for others?
Or is it that the actual dual mo
l rality which obtains under civiliza
tion, avoiding nicely thereby the il
legal condition of poygamy or biga
my, makes rulers more tolerant of
an open support of a standard cer
tainly against the laws of civilized
nations.
Resides with a dual standard: one
for men and one for women, it is
not so very unreasonable In pursu
ing the imperialism of a ruling na
tion, that it might be accptod that
what is all right for the Moros
would he all wren ■ 1 c i 1 Amer
icr.u. It’s an int1 .;; question.
It is stated that the bate in evid
ence in Germany in the earlier
months of the war aghinst Englan 1
is dying out, and the Song of Hate
once in high favor is now not s.i
popular. This is epxlaiued that in
Germany as in other nations people
are tiring of the war, and find it an
intolerable incubus that has still to
lie tolerated only because it must.
Hate is really one of the most
evanescent of emotions. Relatively
few men hate with permanence, and
in a measure a vindictive nature is a
sign of a weay egoism. Men often
despise for a lifetime; but hate 1s
more often than not inspired by
fear, or by a scncc of being jealous
ly indebted to the person hated.
Nothing was more singular than
the sudden emotional display by an
unemotional nation like Germany of
hate for England. It was manifested
everywhere. in signs post cards,
songs, articles and statements this
emotion manifested itself.
A careful reading or me rauiev
land" reveals this in almost every
line and while Franco and Russia
are recognized in an ‘‘our-friends
the-enemies” sort of fashion, to
wards England there is notnlng hut
unconcealed and bitter rancor that
festers in itself.
This has l>eeu a revelation, but It
has hardly been a dignifiod one.
Aud certainly it did no good to the
Teuton cause, for it seemed to indi
cate an unnamed fear of the Brit
ish power that would have beon far
better not mauifected at all.
It wao reasonable enough. We
know now that bad France and Rus
sia been the tsole antagonists of the
Central Powers this war would
have been over long ago, and ended
only In the undisputed supremacy of
the German Empire, But with the
English navy an asset and an ally of
the armies of Russia and France, it
made a whole lot of difference. It
may end as it would have ondea
had England been out of the war,
but it has cost Germany one hund
rtd per cent more suffering, more
losses financial, human and com
mercial than it otherwise would
have suffered, and it increases day
by day the uncertainty of the out
come.
Nations are like individuals how
ever. Strong emotions like hate ana
distrust and frantic love die out of
their own accord. They are tempo
rary aberrations that have little ul
timate place in a man’s nature. The
nuinoer oi men wno can carry a
hateful revenge for a life time are
very few and they are seldom
great.
Quite a misconception prevails as
to the role the persistent hater fills
in this world. He usually is a mis
fit in politics and socially he is far
from dangerous. His reputation is
built upon the bad man of a by
gone melodrama when the villains
began plotting as the curtain rose
and were only foiled in their plot as
the curtain went down. An effort
is made to revive this conception
in the movie, and it is especially
marked in the dramas that seem to
display with unusual unction “Pas-1
sed by the Board of Censorship' .
Really it is the nation and the man
who rise superior to emotions of the
kind and pursue an earnest purpose j
unemotionally, that rise superior to
circumstances. And it has not in
frequently happened that the man
who has nursed Ills wrath against
men or things ultimately discovers
in a vain ending, that he has been
nurturing something that has been
a curse instead of a blessing.
This is an entirely different thing
as emotion go, to a man's feeling
I towards things that are evil. But
| even that is better viewed as an of
i feet of a condition which ho can
I remedy and which depends for its
j continued existence on his own lack
I of effort to change or abolish such
condition.
Reason it is that rises above these
emotions that tear the heart. For
they do tear the heart and make
many a man embittered against Hlm
j self when lie makes his fellows the
[ object of his wrathful animosity.
There is nothing sadder than the
, lines that are over the grave of
Dean Swift in St. Patrick’s Cathe
dral: “Where wrathful indignation
jean no longer tear the heart".
In all the warring nations how
II he bitter indignation of one against
! the other is being replaced by the
j feeling that the war is a senseless
thing at best, and that its benefits
; are at best also dubious.
Hate never became Germany
for Germany and the Germans were
too great a people and too great a
nation to give themselves over to
such an obsession. It was subject to
misinterpretation as fear, and gives
only too good foundation to the be
lief that Fear played no mean part
iu preparing for and declaring and
waging the war.
The reported intention to consider
barring anarchistic publications from
passage through the mails following
the alleged attempt to poison an
archbishop and several hundred
guests at a banquet in Chicago, may
well be viewed with misgiving.
Roally the most harmless of alt
papers published in the United
States are the anarchist papers. Cer
tainly not one of thorn advise crime,
for they know if they know any
anything, that it’s a short shrift and
a morry one they’ll get for so doing.
It is true they have no very
friendly feeling towards the religion
ists. But there are other publications
which are not very inspiring reading
• '-r« ^.iPl •
either for the faithful. And fchen
It comes to a show down, woMoubt
made on religion do anything else
but assist towards progress.
There is no earthly reason why
religion should be free from criti
cism any more then anything else,
and it is only an irrational super
stition that will fear attacks which
it dare not answer.
It is not In evidence that some ot
the revolutionary fathers were
burdened with any excessive zeal for
religion. Tom Paine certainly was
a stout worker for American ilnde
i pendence, and he as well as wtbers
had a hankering for diggln? into
religious belief when be thought it
foolish and superstitious.
The religion that will stand the
test must also be subjected to the j
test, and if it is to bolster itself
around with protective authority
and make criticism of its doctrines,'
its beliefs, its ways, its methods, its
moralities, the subject matter for
prosecution or prevention then it's
time to quit talking about a free
press.
The anarchists have .a notion ot
society with which we could never
agree. We believe that organiza
tion is as necessary to the life of
society as much as the organized ad
justment of man to nature’s law3 is
essential to a continuance of human
existence. The idea that the individ
ual is sufficient unto himself that he
should enjoy an untrammelled and
uninterrupted and uncontrolled li
cense does not appeal to us at all.
But it may be agreed that society
can lose nothing by discussing these
subjects. It is important. It is on
the road to progress that all the
ideas that human beings conceive
should be subject to free expression,
and thus if wrong corrected, or if
right adhered to.
There’s something invariably rot
ten with a government which fears
the free and open expression of
very much whether
certain ideas. And the rotteness can
be exactly gauged In proportion to
the number of ideas it is found de
sirable to suppress.
The Chicago police may have dis
covered an anarchist plot of con
siderable dimensions, but we prefer
to think that the Chicago police are
in an elaborate frame up. The -e is
no such thing as organization among
anarchists, if there is, it has never
heretofore been hoard of.
But it is very easy to foment such
belief by mere police assertion in
order to start a campaign towards
limiting the activities of the radical
press. For we know very well once
anarchist papers are excluded from
the mails, it is only a matter of time
when the radical papers generally
will also be excluded. The pea
brains that will decide what is
anarchistic and what Is not, will not
be likely to stop at anything when
they want to carry out asuppresslon,
and why should they? They seize
the power.
The power of the authorities to
suppress papers by deitylng them a
passage through the mails Is unques
tionably an Invasion of the consti
tutional right of a free press. It's
not the popular or powerful ideas
that need protection. It's not the
ideas of Wall Street or Morgan or
the Catholic or Protestant Churches
that need to have their freedom to
say what they want to say inserted
as a constitutional right. They aro
too powerful co oe stifled. But it
is the criticism that is not approved
by the powerful, that is feared as
unanswerable, that it is suspected
may affect the mind of the people
by arguments, that cannot be easily
overcome—those are the organs ot
opinion that need to have their
rights recognized by those who
might otherwise deny it them.
In the United States constitution
there is certainly nothing superflu
ous in way of clauses. There is
nothing inserted there that it would
not make a mighty difference were
it omitted. And it is impossible
therefore to believe that this consti
tutional right of a free press and
free tpaech and free assemblage is
put in there so that certain classes
of writings, addresses and meetings
might enjoy that privilege.
There's no one knows better than
the authorities that anytime ane one
publishes anything criminal, advi
ses crime or advises a criminal con
dition, he can be properly proceeded
against in a court of law and sub
jected to a prosecution in proper
form. But such a policy of enabling
a few men in a bureau in Washing
ton to say what is and what is not
right for dissemination, is unques
tionably, if not literally, at least an
! invasion of the -spirit of the constl
; tution.
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