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Pi..\< i; I'lll.K IKS.
It is impossible to express any
opinion or to male- an;, fair judg
ment upon the proposed peace po
lity of President Wilson until his
statement to the Senate is read in
mil. Yet it will be admitted that
there is something very elevating
however Utopian in the proposal to
have the 1'nited States enact the
role of peace maker throughout the
world.
It shows how the opinions of people
run as to the causes of wars, when
such a conception is possible, and ro
mantic as it may be. it shows how
ideal can be the views held by prac
tical men who deal, or believe they
deal with materia! facts. Surely,
no one would think of denying the
fact that an experienced statesman
like President Wilson, who has
brought the theories of academic
life to the aid of the man of affairs,
is anything else hut a practical man,
and that therefore his ideas are
anything else but the ideas of a man
basing his views upon the everyday |
experiences of at. important official I
position. |
Kor that reason it is astonishing
that in titis day and age it could
be held as possible that commerce,
unbridled c ommerce could be pro- .
longed for any length of time with
out international rivalry culminat
ing in the logical development of
sin h industrial, commercial and
financial rivalry, ntmdly war.
The popular hut none the less
grotesque idea that war is some
monstrosity that establishes over
night. spontaneously, an abnormal
condition of things is a hard thing
to kill and so many fine phrasers
and makers of “weazel words” have
b nr tli :r intellects to support this
delusion, the notion prevails with
wonderful universality.
Hut the plain fact is that war it
g. If is only one of the many pheno
mena of our social evolution and it
demands and premises tor its ma
nifestation and materialization a
system of industry begotten in ex
ploitation and rivalry and competi
tion The man who attempts to con
ceive of peaceful competition is guil
ty of trying to conceive the imposs
ible. and even the corner groceries
would be at daggers drawn were it
not tor the fact that public opinion,
popular convention, police authority
and legal codes are erected to pre
vent the rivalry of trade terminat
ing in a village personal war. Yet
even in the village community we
know that rival interests can tear
that community asunder into rival
factions which will result in the
most unpleasant friction and in
terruption of the even tenor ot tlie
ay by reas >n of that rival
d is< ord.
Between the nations, no race or
ghts in or
would shed the blood of a rival.
But elements of trade, of commerce,
profit-making in a word promote
hostility between the races, prosti
tute nationalism and patriotism to
their ends, and compel wars over
which the people have no control
whatever.
Wars, all wars, we except none,
have an eeonomii I asis which are
lost sight of during the war and
which are usually hidden from the
popular perception in the records or :
such hostilities. Popular histories,
do their level best to prevent the
economic facts at the basis of the
struggle coining to light.
As a peace maker the United
States of America does not enter
the lists like a Bayard sans peur et
sans reproche— without fear and
without reproach. The United
States is held responsible by other
nations not for the wishes, desires
hopes and aspirations of the people,
hut for the activities of what a few
of them have been. The United
States that the belligerents have in .
mind is made up not of a people ,
loving liberty and peace, but of a ;
nation mad with the lust of profit.
The United States that is considered
in Europe is the United States as
seen in Wall Street, as checked and
balanced in the counting houses of
the Morgans, as packed, labelled
and delivered from the Munition
Factories, as illustrated by that im
posible few that has fattened upon
war stocks and that has labelled its
ownership with such facetious irony
“its war babies”.
And when Wilson, with lofty
mind and noble principle, sets out to
.nak° peace the world outside of \ra
erica views him as Uncle »am ill1
great speculator in food and cloth
ing and shoes and war material who
c ade his people stint t .cir bread
ind sell the clothing from their
ba< ks ami the shoe-: *'rom their feet
that a few gamble's might profit !
by the bloody c arnage of a European ,
battlefield.
It is therefore only reatouabl- to
point out that President Wi on
with the best intention in tlie world
is handicapped from the start not by j
the* people of America, but by the
reputation which the people have*
obtained through the profit mad spe- '
dilators and munitionists and ship- I
pers who have ransacked the na- 1
tional supplies so that the nation |
starves and is unclad that they may j
enjoy a few more dollars profit.
For it is only natural that foreign '
nations, observing these ideals pre
vailing among the most powerful
classes in the United States and
dominating the nation to such an
extent that corrective legislation and!
discipline is sneered at as an imposs
ibility, would regard with sinister
distrust the sincerest and the most
earnest effort.
It is reallv difficult to blame belli
gerent foreign nations if they dis
trust the absolute sincerity of a ,
nation which has made millions of
dollars profit through war, changed
its entire industrial system to tiiat
end. and proposes to build the
strongest navy in all the world and
to make every citizen a soldier.
It is an astonishing tiling that j
Wilson himself would go before the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit- j
tec and talk about reducing national
armaments to within such standard j
as is required to enforce order, and
forget that only a short year ago
in his own cometlike preparedness
campaign he declared in loud voice
amid louder applause that the
United States must begin to build
the biggest nayv in all the world,
and at the same time his cabinet
was considering making every one i
a soldier . President Wilson will
not see any more than do any of
tl.c ] c ifb (juixot'S observe, that
t; <t» I- just one cause for war and1
that has its basis upon a struggle
, .. .. i
whit a ii \ system ot exploitation en- i
der: it has its basis upon the '
abilitv to mak' money out of other
ei -s labor, and as long as that
stem exists there will be wars. |
We may give wars a religious or a 1
p itrioii.- rarb, but beneath it all is
the flesh and blood of rival exploit
■ interests which have donned that
uniform to deceive the ignorant
and to mislead the unwary.
To propose an industrial prepar
edness which bespeaks an industri
il absolutism in one nation, and to
mention at the same time the need
of such a policy to conquer for
go markets is only to represent in
a pacific guise a state of things
eliminates in actual warfare.
The ramifications of trade are al
ways poisoned barbs which en
gender hostilities. There are bound
!o be disputes as to territorial li
mitations or as to commercial or
financial methods. The problem of
’ivil war in Mexico would always be
i civil war problem, if the Amer
can or other business interests had
not spread out into the southern
republic after its national trea
mres. How many editorials in his
syndicate of papers have not the
learst properties been responsible !
for? Could Tampico and Panuco
have been the subject of concern
were there no foreign oil interests
invested there? What brought Am
erican marines into Honduras and
Guatemala but the Wall Street loans
using dollar diplomacy, as if all
diplomacy is not of the dollar
brand? How active have they not
become in Haiti with its Mole St.
Nicholas base for the Panama Canal
and the intermeddling in San Do
mingo is not wholly uninspired by
American commerce and finance.
Moreover the United States is but
a neophyte in this policy. The older
countries of Europe have practised
it in every section of the world.
Every move of Great Britain for
a coaling station, for a slice <?f
Africa, for a chunk of the east has
been dictated by prudent trade
principles of expansion which ha 1
at the end of the roads Red War.
Nor is Germany nor is Francs t
bit different. And the exploitation
that begins within the confines of
those nationalities as well as with
in the United States, have within
them the seeds which grow to the
area,';ul harvest of war, the full
lipening which mankind must
reap.
A" industrial war and interna
tional peace ire finally not poss
ible. and there is no probability or
possibility of permanent, peace just
as long as man ivii be placet
above his fe ows to make profits
from their la nor. It is that poss
ibility of exploitation which be
speaks ultimately war not with
the uncertain and quavering tones
of fanciful prophecy, but with the
unerring deduction of cause and ef
fect.
In truth is there anything can
reveal the idealism of practical mer
when they conceive for one instant
that peace can be conserved when
within the heart of social things
war grows with lustful fury, a foul
embryo?
Internationa! relations to be per
manently peaceful must be based
upon equality. No less must also
international relations of equality
find their basis within the nations
in such an equality. Just as an
equilibrium can be established only
when such equality exists, the equal- i
ity of one cannot be maintained J
within itself by unequal elements, j
There must be an industrial epuality |
and there must be an obliteration j
of any system of exploitation before :
the national and social conditions j
can become stable.
There will come a day when su«h
a stable condition will be achieved. ^
It is to be achieved by a golden rule j
of basic justice which is so totally j
foreign to any conception of an ex
ploitive system. When an industrial
democracy based upon an industrial
equality administered by the work- !
ers themselves becomes possible
then also will the great ideal of
the brotherhood of man be achieved.
Moreover we are getting there
Slowly, so slowly that those who are
in tiie midst of the current -an
scarcely perceive the movement, but
none the less surely do we move
And it is only a matter of time when
the facts of our evolution will have
placed us upon that plane when
wars and rumors of war will be
buried for ever among the other
charnel heaps of an impossible
past.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 1C, 191C.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
J.. Osgood, Estate (Heirs. Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Rell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
[ their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
■ on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
VV. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2-; thence N. 9 deg. j
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. j
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. j
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var. j
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to j
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43 1
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. ,
386.SO ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
4 5 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25 j
min. E. 273.SO ft.; thence S. 13 !
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min. j.,
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining, j
containing 5.90S acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4S deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No. i
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E. !
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.;’
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45 j;
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. «
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S. |
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10 j
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be- !
ginning, containing 16.656 acres. |
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles'north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a |
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base !
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat- j
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly j
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road, j
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North «
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vo!.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 andj
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page j
S5, Records of Cape Nome Record- j
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the i
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek, ;
Survey No. 69S and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West, i
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 74 7. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ.. Feb. 21, 1917. I
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