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THK POPE'S PEACE TERMS.
Whatever rhanres the Allies have
of inflicting a crushing anil definite
defeat upon Germany and the Cen
tral Powers. Germany and the Cen
tral Powers cannot inflict a crushing
defeat upon the Entente and the
United States. That is utteriy im
possible. and it is growing more
and more impossible even if every
allowance is made for the destruc
tion of the merchant ships by U
boats.
Two of the most powerful powers
in the Entente have practically not
begun to take a part in the war as
.vet. Those powers are Japan and
the United States, and even if Rus
sia is a doubtful factor and any
thing may be conceded as possible
in that country, German victory is
still absolutely out of the question.
The mere fact that the leaders such
as Hindenberg and the Kaiser insist
that their arms will carve a victory
where peace has been spurned, does
not alter the facts any in this in
stance.
The gigantic features of this war
arc almost incomprehensible. The
British Chief of Staff recently stated
that there were 24.000,000 men
under arms in the various belliger
ent nations and inclusive of every
field of war. But that this constitu
ted but 25 per cent of those who
wore actively engaged in prosecuting
it, that the other 75 per cent was
engaged in industrial co-operation
with the military, and were no less
actually engaged in carrying on the
war. It is mainly for this reason
that provided tiie powers can main
tain an approximate equality of man
power, the final stroke for victory
will be accomplished by those who
have the greatest industrial resour
ces for production and distribution,
and the most efficient system of
organization to the end that these
may he made available in propor
tion to the enormous quantity can
so be made available.
It is a self evident fact that the
isolation of Germany and her Allies |
gives in this respect all the advant
age to the Entente, an advantage
the present superiority n.ani-v-sted
on the west front by the latter, how
ever slight it may be, shows over
the numerical superiority iu man
power which Germany is there able
to maintain.
So at this precise period the Pope
puts forward peace proposals. These
in the main would bo a concession
to Germany. The mere fact that
the status quo ante is conceded to
Belgium and to Servia. while Poland
is torn from Russia, and is made an
independent nation even as a buffer
i>tate with Germanic influence pro
tected against, would moan that
Germany finds itself in a position
much securer as a result of the war.
The country has felt little of the
havoc of invasion; her merchant
fleet save for a paltry million tons
seized by belligerents, is intact, her
authority in the Balkans, thanks to
the Bulgarians prowess, is supreme,
r.nd with that Balkan predominance,
•the predominance over Turkey is as
.sured. The Middle Europe dreams
are realized and out of the war Ger
many will come, wounded and bleef.
ing, but In a state far better than
France and even Great Britain.
France has almost suffered the
greatest losses, hardly even except
ing what Servia has suffered and
what Belgium has suffered, for the
loss in buildings, factories, industri
al and agricultural, can be replen
ished but the loss in the human ma
terial can never be.
How many intellectual briliants
were dlipmed for ever on those
ghastly fields of battle along the
Aisne, at Verdun, in Champagne, in
the Argonne, who may say? Yet, as
the greatest of all intellectual na
tions, the French loss, and in the
French loss the world's loss, must be
incalculable. so Incalculable that
not even a century of tho kultur
across the Ithine can ever compens
ate the world for it.
Yet under the papal peace terms
it is quite obvious that France would
have fought and died for nothing.
The menace of imperial Germany,
even if legitimate, would still be
there, not only would it be there but
it would have the intensity a foiled
first attempt to realize an ambition
naturally would possess, to redeem
tho original failure of that first
attempt.
War from every point of view is
Hell. Hut an indecisive war is thc
parent of a thousand worse hells
than that original one. And an in
decisive war just now would he fatal
to the peace of the world. It would
mean not one but a myriad lands
devoted to Prussianism. It would
mean not one continent, but the
earth an armed cant]), and it woui!
Icav, as a legacy to the world such
a legui v of militarism and hate that
eventually . nother conflict would en
sue which would make this war like
a bar r iom quarrel in comparison.
It would leave capitalism, the
handmaiden of Prussianism at the
throats of the nations: it would
mean such a prodigious rush for the
spoils that the already unholy unity
between commerce and military pre
paredness as has been proceeding in
Germany, would be the intensified
condition throughout the world.
There would be no heating the
sword into plowshares, but human
ingenuity would be called upon to
devise plows which would in war be
more efficient than sword: industry
would be founded in its efficient con
ne tion with, end its perfect co-reia
ticn to, war, just as the German
chemical industry was built upon
its connection with, and relation to,
the German preparedness for war,
that demanded great guns and high
explosives.
It is not impossible to conceive
that some system could be devised
whereby a comity of nations could
guarantee against war. But this is
an idle dream. Wars are born of the.
instinct to possess and to control
possession, which a system of society
whereby explotation is the keynote,
gives human beings. Usually the
war instinct is strongest in those
who possess greater power, and de
clines in its intensity until the low
est strata of propertilessness and im
potenev is reached. That is due to
the fact that only those who have
the power may keep, and those w'lio
can, may take. War itself is the
recognition of the fact that might
makes right and even when right
has to invoke might to maintain it
self, it is a paradoxical concession
that might is the superior factor in
tlie relations of men under the sy
stem.
What we observed in the past has
in reality been an effort upon the
part of the nations to insure against
peace. The Triple Alliance, the
Mittle Europa schemes, the Entente
Cordiale, the British-Japanese Alli
ance and ’even the more recent Pan
American movement, what have
these been after all but measures
of self protection against encroach
ments by other powers, and as such
really alliances against war. It is
the very serious difficulty of differ
entiating between an offensive defen
sive alliance against war, that in
volves all the nations in such a mael
strom of international difficulty.
No alignment of nations Is at all
permanont. It is hardly a decade
since Russia and England regarded
one another as hereditary foes: The
legacy of a Crimea war and the
Rus80-Turkish war was unpalatable
lo Slav and Briton alike, and the
uncomplimentary tributes one paid
lo the other in press and picture are
well typified in the Kipling slur of
the Boar that walks like a Man.
Surely the episode of Fashoda
marked the high water mark of
Anglo-French enmity that drove
many of the most skilled French of
ficers to volunteer their services to
the Transvaal in the Boer .var, and
all these things happened within the
1 recollection of the present geuera
| tion. So it is unnecessary to revert
to even that relatively recent time
when Frederick the Great was sup
ported solely by British gold and
men, in a world in arms against him
or the still more recent Napoleonic
I wars that marked a British and
Teuton unity against the French
woild power dreams.
This war's value is in its smashing
down of false idols and the longer
it proceeds the surer will be the
iconoclastic efficiency which it will
devolop. Russian freedom so far is
the only prize that the world has
gained after this terrific sacrifice of
blood, but before it will finish unless
it ends in a compromise, the world
will see many Russias arise from
the ashes of destruction.
Kven in Germany we see those
social democrats who have been
loyal supporters of the wat party
and the war aims of the government,
beginning to remove themselves
from the sphere of complete subor
dination to make demands that have
a ring almost as valiantly revolu
tionary as those which marked the
earlier nationalistic apostasy of
Liohknecht and the rest of the un
terrified souls who dared to defy
the war lords. In other countries
there is an apparent loosening of the
bonds of blind allegiance, and men
are asking the wherefore of things
who before have been required hut
to do and die and not at all to rea
son why.
All this is the supreme develop
ment of the war. It may be con
sidered the national chastening that
has come with the scourge and ter
ror of the dreadful events in which
they have taken so startling and
awe inspiring a part.
All the activities of the war are
not proceeding in the trenches; nor
by a long shot are all the develop
ments or. the battlefield. The social
consequences are in direct propor
tion to the proportion of human us
ings employed. 25 per cent under
arms, and 75 per cent actively en
gaged in directly or indirectly,
furthering the war.
One cannot turn to a single conn
try which has shared the joys and
sorrows of this most eventful period
in the world's history, its terrors
and its inspiringly aweful experi
ences, without observing that it is
to leave a lasting result upon the
community. *
Although we may see still the
money grabbers still hoarding and
piling up hoards, although we ob
serve the masses slowly bending be
neath tlie almost unendurable burd
ens which they are called upon to
bear, we can be certain of nothing
more emphatically than that the end
is not yet.
Tins war is not to see the same
system, which was enjoyed under
the pleasanty irresponsible doctrine
of laissez faire, endure. It is only
the introduction to the house clean
ing in society that is inevitable.
After the clouds that lowered
upon the nation’s houses have been
in the deep bosom of the ocean
buried, the earth is not to be
guided in its destinies by the sordid
incentive or' the dollar. The piping
times of peace will not be times
wherein the few fashionable and
wealthy can dictate the conditions
of the rest. But the welfare of hu
manity is to arise like a thing of
beauty and a joy forever from the
ashes of the fearful monstrosities
laid low in the destructive storms
of human passion that now sweep
the earth.
Else the war is meaningless—
purposeless—madness. And it would
be merely the drunken revel of
crazy commercialism if it is to end
in such a compromise as is suggest
ed. and the nations are to revert
after a crazy period of blood drunk
eness to a peace confirmed upon the
plane of the status quo ante.
This is not a pro war article. On
the contrary it is written with the
firm belief that this is to be the last
of wars: the last great act of human
suicide when brothers slay brothers
and for the gratification of the
meaningless ambition or a lust for
further power. No more appaling
consideration could the human mind
entertain than the belief and the
desire that the efforts of the past
dreadful years have been wasted
and the world is to arise from the
bloody misery of war to stagger
back to its corners to await another
signal to resume the horrid conflict
at a later time, while mothers raised
some more sans to be prepared to
sacrifice their lives in the samej
senseless and useless sacrifice that
those parents who have lost theirs
have by ar. untoward peace been
compelled to make.
if the world does not rise from
this wr.r, bleeding, broken and
staggering it may be, but with a
certainty that humanity will have
an entirely different ideal than the
dollar and the lust of property, the
war will have been lost by human
ity, no matter who wins it.
SOMETHING NEW.
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500 of this season’s latests styles and
patterns, the most beautiful line of
woolens ever arrived in Nome. We
invite you to see these samples
whether you buy or ndt. If you
wish to take advantage of this offer
order before the 14th of August, in
order to have order arrive on last
boat.
We also make alterations, and
wo do cleaning, pressing and repair
ing. We appreciate your patronage
Yours to please.
NOME TAILORING CO.
Next door to Segerstrom & Hagen.
Why worry
About wash day
THAT'S OUR BUSINESS.
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AUGUST 11,
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We are experiencing great dilticiilty in securing anthracite
coal for winter use and cannot guarantee having any quantity
on hand.
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