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NOME, ALASKA. MARCH 25, 1918.
Not that we love less,
but we love liberty more
“THIS IS YOUR HOUR AND THK
POWER OF DARKNESS.”
The intelligent reader of Air. Lloyd
fleorgt/s speech in Gerys Inn will
<iuickly arrive at one interpretation
of it. Be its argument good or bad,
its mentality is clear. It is the ut
terance of a nvan who has no belief
in an early end of the war. Lord
Oruzon recently described Mr. George
as an "optimist.” But an optimist
who declares the enemy's defense in
the chief military theatre to be "im
penetrable," and regards our action
against him as essentially one of de
fense, while lie calls for an "army of
manoeuvre" to play on some new un
unspecified point of the vast battle
field, ranges over a wide space of time,
and sees, or thinks he sees, a sweep
ing solution of policy. The journey
is long: Air. George chooses one com
panion for it. Force and force alone,
is to be the solvent. Ideas he waves
aside , the moral notions, such os
"disarmament,” “arbitration”, the Lea
gue of Nations”—together with the
merely pi uuentiai ones. sue u as tne
search for “security.” It would follow
us Lord Buck master argues (in the
Star of December 14), that even if we
could get the terms we want today, we
must not stretch out our hand to take
them. We are not even to restate our
conditions of peace, though the secret
treaties reduced the war to a game of
grab, and abolished the clear moral
distinction which existed between the
Dormans and the Allies of 1914. Till
the military issue declares itself, all
these things are irrevelant, and the
nations must nerve themselves to en
dure not only famine of bread that
awaits them, but a "famine of heating
’ - words of the Lord.” Through
autocracy and democracy are supposed
to lie at stife, and their thoughts to
1 a as far apart as light from dark
ness, both issue the same order of the
day, and employ the same power of
authoity and Influence, military and
civil, to enforce it. “Silence.”
The power of darkness has fallen
on the world, while it his nev -r ceased
to discuss the original causes of Its |
disagreement, finds itself increasing-1
ly deprived of all unofficial means of!
1 H'ijng il. Its press, the (peculiar
< mid of its Character, is no more than j
a machine for arresting” the normal.
exchange of thought and information. I
Swift and free world travel is al
most its invention: it has ceased. In
trrnational tl'mh1 moves in un ever >
narrowing pathwhy between the mines)
anil the guns. The war has even I
destroyed the Victorian poet’s unhappy'
picture of society in which men “sit j
and hoar each other groan.” Men :
groan indeed; but they neither hear j
t he voice of suffering nor could they |
relieve it if they did. Ir is computed!
that fifteen million people have al I
ready been killed In the war.
. I
Itussia puts her own loss at five mil-|
lion. But these are casual coinput a-'
tlons. The suffering of vast tracts of j
Kastern Kurope an t Asia are almost1
entirely hidden from our eyes. The
American Commission, which was al
lowed to visit certain districts of'Po
land, declared that they were hare of
children under seven years of age,
that is to say, of those horn during
the war or shortly before it. We slutl!
never know the story of the Armenian
massacres, and it may take genera
tions to restore the' populations of
nearer Asia to the modest level they
Jr ! n<tallied in it!it. The some ne
science veils the (myriad acts 6f In
dividual suffering. Tile physical agony
of a single soldier whoh as lieen badly
in 1. '1 by shrapnel cannot be ima
gined even by the woman who loves
him best; yet we must multiply it
many mlllLnnfoM if we are to make
even amenta 1 calculation of the mass
of avoidable pain (to say nothing of)
disease nnd mental distress) which the)
war has caused in the fighting armies)
alone. Yet man, as his poetry, science.' [
and religion shows, is an extremely
sympathetic creature, hates to see a
dog die in paiiu and has given him
self hundred of times over in the ef
fort to make his fellow’s life a little
longer or more easeful. Civilized man
is like this. it is his practice, the
thing he lives by. And he would like
to resume the natural and Christian
relationship—even with his enemies,
when he can eease^to think of them
vindictively. But ’he cannot. By
reason of inunence area of the strug
gle, the obscurity and perplexity of the
fptojitical issues that are constantly
arising in it, the limited mentality of
our statesmen, and the embargo which
war mnintaines on religion, reasons
and social service, it seems almost im
possible to devise a sure, speedy, or
ganizable means of rescue from , it.
Thus while the will to war recedes n
correspondence with the decline of the
material forces that sustain it, the
will to peace suffers, too, by the weak
ness of even the growing atrophy of
man's soul. “Are we not lost?" ask
(he doubters. “How can these broken
communities ever be restored? Who
wil undertake to govern them, tax
them, moderate them, lacking as each
one is in the true repairing stuff of
scoinl unity? Will not lie Russian
anarchy spread till it overwhelmes
us all?”
Yet it is in the act of asking this
most perplexing question of all .he
Sphinx’s problems of the war that we'
begin to see the answer of it.
Mr. Edward Carpenter has said with
truth that the war arose not merely
from the eunuiy between one group of
nations and another, but from the seed
of enmity /Which each nation bore
in its own bosom. The war was or
dered by rich and cld men. and in the
main has been fought by young and
poor ones. But unnatural as that di
yislon of functions must seem to every
just and good man. it is in itself the
expression of a deep moral fissure in
the fabric of the modern state, it is
:!-.r iove of power which has brought
the world to this pass; the power of
one class over the life of another class
passing into the am hi ton of the most
materialized of all the European so
cieties to exercise this power over its
rivals. Christian thinkers have"often
liked to reflect that it was slavery
which brought the first great Euro
pean Imperialism to the ground. Has
ites sueessor banished slavery? When
war lu'oke out, every great commercial
city in the world was the moving
wheel of sime tromendous engine of
economic power. YVhat measure of
liberty was likely to Ire left to the
workpeople under a system which put
every natural agent of man's physical
needs, and therefore every avenue of
his labor, under a few hundred men
sitting in board rooms in London of
Johannesburg, in Berlin or New York?
Internationalism in supply and manu
facture is necessary and right. But
beneath the internationalized capital of
our times has lain something very like
national slavery—expressed as over
wors, unaer-pay, oau Housing, lnuus
tri.il disiases. Its jtvnflters were abso
lutely distrustful of each other, and
one after another of their crowning
acts of exploitation—in North anil
South Africa find in the tor Hast all
but ended in general war. They could
not make a just peaceful division of
the worlds rich Inheritance; for they
conceived of power as force, pursued
it (with the help of their governments)
in mutual jealousy, ami based it on tile
esential subjugation of the general will
and mass of mankind -black, white and
yellow. Thus industry, which should
unite men. divided them. Wealth,
which should lie the sign of a fuller
general life, lie came merely the sym
bol of a grasping and restless one, and
science, which is the victory of reason,
overthrew it.
is there, then, no element of hope, no
possible and available service of res
cue for society? There is. It is not a
matter of small significance that the
class which, with some exceptions, has
spoken of the war with most sense
and moderation is that which lias suf
!
fered most from it, and has least to
do with bringing' it about. That cfe^s
consists of the real workpeople of the
ists, hard and mistaken as many el
tl-.omselves most with the social prob*
lem.
Rolsheviki has came an act which,
with all its roughness and inconsider
ate haste, has rent the veil of the
Temple of Secrecy where much of the
worlds worst work and meanest wor
ship have accomplished. But behind
the Bolsheviki stand forces which are
not merely more moderate, but more
serviceable. \Ve do not understand tlie
task of Liberal Europe and America
in reducing to reason the wild dream1
of Nationalism and Imperialism. But
Liberalism is no longer a direct weap
on of democracy, and since Its decline
m western thought, something ir> touch
with the first needs and realities of
man's life has come into being Even
at this stage of the war, it would be
possible to imagine half a dozen Labor
Cabinets meeting in conference and
bringing it to an end in n movfh. If
such a work of salvage is possible,
and we Lelieve it is, the vvcvM is like
ly to have recourse to it. Even In
this dinn hour, the moral work of prep
aration for peace has opened.
The civilian populations who do noi
know what war is. are only beginning
to be touched by it. But from the
armies, martyrs of the desecrate!
world. It consists.
them have been who have busii
Even frAn those strange Russian
Church of Hulmanlty, visably proceed
iririrVkbb
the seed of her renewal. For the
armies came from the people and will
return to jthgmT A thousand 'wit
nesses exist to show that from their
much tried ranks the Spirit of Reason
and Reconciliation has once more aris
r en in the soul of man, and will become
fhffih, as of old. in the inspired
thought of the cottage and the work
shop.
(From the London Nation,
January 27, 1918)
WEATHER REPORT
U. S. Weather Bureau
March 24, C A. M.
Temperature—Max. 2 Min. —2.
Barometer—30.072 inches.
Weather—Clear.
Wind—N. E. 9 miles per hour.
Precipitation—None.
March 24, 4:45 P. M.
Temperature—Max. 8 Min. 2.
Barometer—29.897 inches.
Weather—Clear.
Wind—N. E. 12 miles per hour.
Precipitation—None.
We serve Hills Bros'. Coffee, Sour
dough Hotcak.es, Ham and Eggs,
Warm and Cold Lunches, and Fresh
Ice-cream Daily at
ARCTIC BAKERY
First-clas^ Unalakleet dog sal
mon for sale at 12 cents a pound.
See Dully O'Conner. ... .
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-Formerly Delbar’s store—
The place where you can
reasonably buy anything
from a needle to an
anchor
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING A TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGELMAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILE RE
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3RD -AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
Nome Baker
Victory
BREAD
Conforming to orders of Food Administrator; on sale at all tiniest
WE RECOMMEND OCR SPECIAL HEALTH BREAD FOR*
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First thing we know we’re going to have a Bone Dry country
out awl out. Already the mighty prohibition wave is engulfing
“demon rum" and the flood gates of righteous antagonism against
John Barleycorn is going to sweep him into everlasting oblivion.
Thousands of men in the country o\er are going to shortly find it
impossible to get their daily, most of them their hourly “nips”
and those fellows are going to look up the best bottled drink they
can get to wet their whistles with. They are not going to “get
oft'" booze, and drink any pink “tea slop" Oh no—they want
something with a delightful relish—a sparkle and a zest and the
AK8ALA drink is going to fill the bill ,to a T-Y-T. Wets every
spot in the internal arid district, soaks it down good. \o dust
left in your throat after a bottle of AKSAIjA For sale every
where.
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