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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
nn,‘lin\ A, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH J-\ r.nr,.
SHOULD CWINA GO BACK?
In :( recently published statement, Dr. Frank J. Goodnow,
president of .Johns Hopkins University, who was formerly ad
visor to Yuan Shi Kai, president of the Chinese republic, gives
Ids reason why China should no longer continue the dangerous
experiment of democracy, but should become a monarchy.
These reasons are nothing new. They have been used by
the stand-patters, reactionaries and exponents of special privi
lege ever since man emerged from his cave dwellings and- be
gan the thorny enterprise of civilization.
The gist of them all is that people are not competent to
govern themselves, and should not essay democracy until they
are sufficiently educated.
We have heard’this since the world began. The Ptolemies
of Egypt, the Archons of Greece and gentlemen who ruled be -
fore Noah doubtless lucubrated the same sort of lucubrations.
Then* is a continuous outcropping of royalists in France,
who insist that the country never will be fit to live1 in until
some pigeon headed Bourbon is once more on the throne. The
wiseacres have been shaking their heads and tut tutting ever
since Portugal got rid of its ne'er do well crowned family. The
twenty or so American republics receive the combined sneers
of European statesmen.
Still, it would be difficult to conceive how republics could'
have botched tin* job of government worse than the emperor*
and czars and kings have done. The French Revolution wa
child's play compared with the hideous collapse of humanity
in the present war. Where Robespierre and Danton killed one,
the royal miscreants of this present time are killing a hundred.
And tlie revolution was for an id'oki. This wretched war is Do
nothing at all.
The same arguments that set forth the advantages of mon
archy are used to support all kinds of autocracy. Democracy
in business is opposed as streuuouslv as democracy in politics.
Portly gentlemen and their hired advocates insist that the la
borer cannot prosper unless the millionaire manages the lmsi
ness for him. Everything from profit sharing and labor unions
to Socialism is regarded as destructive to etticioncy.
The only possible way to develop our resources and get
rich, we are told, is to hand the management of affairs over to
a chosen few. As for the common run of us, lot us be content
with a dollar a day and “that station in life in which it hath
pleased Providence to place us.’’
The only trouble with this line of talk is that it is not
true. ^ ,
It is true that tlio poopla ot no state on earth are competent
to govern themselves wisely. But the only way they can become
competent is to keep on trying. To slump back into the me
dieval plan of government by nobles is to retard progress.
The best and only school for democracy is democracy.
The South American republics are far from perfect., but
they are a deal nearer perfection than if they had' remained
under Spanish rule.
With all the turmoil in Mexico, the Mexicans are vastly
better off than if Diaz still reigned. They are coming to them
selves. They are finding out their own weakness and strength.
Some day every monarchy has to go down, and all of
them go down in blood.
Property may be destroyed in a revolution and financiers
and adventurers discommoded, but the people* are not de
stroyed; they get the one priceless boon—liberty; they learn
the one valuable lesson—self reliance.
After this European war must come the great revolution,
for it is unthinkable that the people will continue in the
twentieth century to allow themselves to be destroyed by the
rulers that have got them into so meaningless and causeless a
calamity.
Why then should an American, the president of an Ameri -
can university, lend his name to the old, moth-eaten and spe
cious arguments for monarchy in the case of China?
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But another week remains in which to register for the
municipal (‘lection.
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The local Democrats will hold their territorial primary on
Wednesday evening next.
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Women who faint after the mouse vanishes can understand
perfectly how soldiers suffer the worst pangs of fear after
battle.
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The spring cleanup is near at hand, and when it arrives
all should get busy and remove the winter’s accumulation of
ash heaps and tin cans.
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It is said that Senator Smoot has declared that if Colonel
Roosevelt becomes once more a Republican lie’will support him
with all his power.
That shows that the senator has some gratitude, for, po
litically, he owes more to the colonel than to any other man.
And the colonel will be agreeable. He would not need
more than seventeen minutes to bloom out just as a good lb*
publiean as he ever was.
If the colonel can lead the procession all he asks is to be
the drum major, tie does not care what the flag is.
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Effective October 4th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and
j§ Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making
connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving jiji
from Seattle.
:;!• Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, !;i:
Mondays and Thursdays.
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| Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays. § ,
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£: Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Peesenger Trains Be- &•
tween Cordova and Chitina.
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