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f !\ 'I i )5. 1 .Si A 11 i N S\l i 1 i1 , * * \ •
most startling remark that
s r Lansing made with reler
c;i< to the peace note is that the
neutrality oi the ITiited States was
becoming intolerable.
Now that will he news to the
average man. To him neutrality
has not been so intolerable that you
could easily notice it. It has not
presented such unoharming features
that the average man wanted to get
off to the shambles of Europe and
come back minus a leg or an arm or
an eye.
it may be that some who are not
the average man have been like
Alexander, sighing for new worlds
to conquer, but surely to the people
of the country this neutrality
looked mighty good, especially if the
war scenes that they saw from time
to time in the pictures or the re
ports which they occasionally read
of, had even an adumbraton of the
truth.
Why Lansing should think that
the neutralit' of the 1’nited
States had become onerous and irk
some 13 because of the fact that he
docs not speak for the average man.
The average man is not sitting in
at game where millions are at stake
and doubtful war loans and muni
tion bills and the like are gambled
away overnight. The average man
is staying at home nights not shipp
ing as freight, passenger or super
cargo on ships entering into the war
zone with contraband of war.
The average man, the people, is
quite satisfied that the war cloud is
afar off, and that so far it has not
lowered upon ilie national house ana
most decidedly and most assuredly
had Wilson declared that neutrality
was wholly intolerable and that it
would be necessary to enter the war
before election, then Wilson would
have failed of election for a second
term.
That lias been the trouble with
the average men. They live a life
of delusion. They are the victims
of myths. They are obsessed with
vain dreams and fancies and they
imagine things which are not so.
The Great War is the dispeller of
visions. It is the . it game ot
many millioned gammers. It is a
right royal pastime not lor the com
mon herd who are merely the chips
cast as a stake. And the fact that
the neutrality of the United States
has been becoming intolerable to the
nuuiy-miUioncd ones whose millions
are at stake: that is all the more
ri a son why there should be concern
in tlie country. It is showing that
there is a oomplti and well d< fined
cleavage between the popular vl* w
and tin popular sentiment and the
pc; ular ideas coneerning this war
; i. : tlii neutrality and that shared
by the government and the admi
nistration. It is surely v srlli while
noting that fact.
The neutrality of the United
States lias been the tibon that all the
people have sought to bless Heaven
that it raine their way. That it was
not a financial or war munition
neutrality cuts but little figure. The
country was at peace under it at
any rate, and the people are not
swashbucklers and fire eaters who
detest the name of peace. They are
not Crookbacks who weep the pip
ing; times of peace ,and lament that
the war clouds are in the deep
bosom of the ocean buried.
They were one and all extremely
glad that Mars took a hack seat over
in Europe and hied him from this
continent. They knew all about that
God: his bloody altars and his sav
age priesthood. They know war is
hell. One of their best and bravest
and brightest and most daring gen
erals had told them so in language
he could fearlessly utter from ex
perience.
Yet this is not th6 administration
view. The adminstration's view is
tlie view of the duellist concerned
about codes of honor when the dollar
j marked ones are injured. And it is
| placed before the people now as the
only view which tan receive atten
tion.
Of course it may well he that
Lansing lias some facts that the peo
ple know nothing at all about. It
may. well be that some secret
which d’piomacy has wrested from
the nasty mess of diplomatic secrets
is weighing upon his nerves. All the
more reason why secret diplomacy
should be wiped off the map. There
is no reason why any nation should
have secrets at all. If trickiness
and chicanery are the companions
of secrecy, it is all the more rea
son for its being avoided.
However that is not how things
are done on the civilized plane. And
these are days when notes of care
ful wording are hushed from pub
licity, until tlie crisis comes and the
people are asked what do they
think of the kettle of fish.
It is quite possible too that Wil
son is just giving a friendly tip that
the Allies are not so averse to
peace as they have been pretending.
The general belief may be that the
president has been tipped off that a
suggestion for a peace conference
wliile it would not be welcomed
from Germany would be welcomed
by the Allies from him, and Lan
sing throws in those mysterious
hints about intolerable neutrality
just as a friendly cloak for the sav
ing of the Allies face, so to say.
New York papers have hinted as
much. They say that it
is incredible that President
Wilson would have acted
unless lie had been advised that his
action would have been welcomed.
That was awful nice of Woodrow
surely, but at the same time it is
putting one over on the common
people if Lansing sprung that one
about this hateful neutrality just to
conceal the fact that the Allies
asked him to butt in to help them
out.
Because it is certainly a new one.
It gives a wrong idea. -The people
are not aching to throw off their
neutral coats and wade into the
slaughter-fest by half a jug-ful. It
is true that it may as a garment be
pretty frowsy and that here and
there mudstains may be noted upon
it. but the other combatants have
not established the “honor” that
they have been scrapping for on any
smh elevated plane that the aver
age man in America feels like going
out and buying a halter and doing
! likewise.
It is a pretty evident secret, if it
i a secret, that not one of tht
| warring powers, blit is mighty sick
of the war. They are sick of it in
-v» ry way and sick net least in that
'ill? 1« si and bravest and comeliesl
i ll most spirited and most ingeni
ous and fearless and inventive and
progressive are lying stiff and stark
in nameless mounds throughout the
battle. zones to point a tiuite im
portant moral even if tlie privilege
of adorining a historical fable is
also theirs.
It is without doubt a good turn
that is being done in bringing about
peace. But peace is not to be hast
ened by persuading the world that
the United States and its people are
just aching for a fight. Besides
and moreover Teddy is away to the
Fiji islands and any talk about In
tolerable neutrality seems out of
place when he is absent.
It is a hard situation this
standing on the fence with bullets
and insults and sneers flying all
about. But there’s many a nation
in Europe today would swap with
out kicking for that neutral posi
tion.
In this war it has been a great
thing that the United States did
keep its presence of mind and let
the boys in the European house have
their faction fight out without jump
ing in to take a hand in the melee.
It is all right to enjoy a good fight,
but the enjoyment is on paper most
ly. The maimed and the dead al
though fiction covers their dust
with immortal glory, come hack to
tel! none how they liked it. The
price that a nation pays for war Is
not the price in aged or grey hairs,
but in the young, the active, the
strong, the healthy. That’s the price.
It’s not to written in dollars and
•onts. It is not to he written in na
tional honor when that is merely
crip for dollars and cents. It is
1! right of course for those who
will profit by the war to want war
and those whose fortunes are wrap
ped up in a career of national fire
eating to demand a nation of fire
eaters. But it’s all wrong to imagine
that what they want and the people
want ane one and the same thing.
NOTICE.
All members of Nome Mine Work
ers’ Union and all members of or
ganized labor are expected to muster
in full force to do .justice to the ce
k-bration to be held in the Miners
Hail on Christinas Exe, Dec. 24th.
at 8:00 p. m.
NOTICE TO T.l.MMVKKS.
You are hereby notified that the
Assessment Roll of the City of
Nome, Alaska for the year 191G.
lias been delivered to me and the
amount due from each person
thereon named and levied upon the
personal and real property therein
described has been extended and
carried out by me, and the said Roll
lias been examined, approved and
completed and that said tax levy
has been made by the Common
Council of the aforesaid city.
And you’ are further notified
that all persons owning real and
personal property or both are re
quired forthwith to pay the amount
of money so assessed amt taxed
against the property described In
said Roll, to said assessor and ex
officio tax collector at his office in
the City Hall in said City.
Dated at Nome, Alaska this 20th
day of December, 191C.
E GRIMM.
City Clerk and Assessor and
ex-officio Tax Collector.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION* FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome. Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, \Vhose 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.
G95, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. IT. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
\Y. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N,
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.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No.' 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
mill. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to.place of begining,
containing 5.908 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. 48 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.
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
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
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
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol.'199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 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,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21. 1917.
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