White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-04-18
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS:
::::: April IS, 1867.


ne purcuase VI tno AsN'o"n "A
possessions is severely condemned by 8
large portion Of our people. 1t is claim
ID that We bsve merely secured . large
sxs.ut of bleak territory, utterly worth
h.. for any practical use. We have no
aoobt the same was ssid of Jefferson's
Loui.i.na purchase. yet time has shown
The territory thus acquired to be among
tbs most valuable and important Of all
the United States possessions. So it
will prove, We have no doubt. with the
Russisn purchase.
Let us look at it for moment. 1t is,
OF should be. the policy OF the United
States to produce everything necessary.
usefui or ornamental, within her own ju-
sisdiction, 80 that she may be dependent
upon foreign powers 10 the slightest de-
grss possible. II she cannot do this
within her present bounds. let her extend
them. This was doubtless the object IN
annexing Russian America. See ~hat
advantages we have thereby gainrd:
The United States had within her lin
its men of almost every known race and
nationality. But of the graceful. hand
some, energetic, intellectual and dainty
Esquimaux, we do not believe she had .
single one. By the purchase of Russian
America, she at once acquires q vast
number Of these highly useful and orna.
mental citizens, who, in the progress Of
the grest principles Of the Declaration Of
Independence and Impartial Suffrage.
viii soon become intelligent and inde-
pendent voters, and will be studiously
eonrted by ambitious politicians.
White Bears did not exist in the Uni
ted States, Of their own free will and &C.
cord-and, thanks to the Society for the
amelioration of the condition of dumb
brutes, the animal kingdom is rapidly
being transformed into free moral agents,
and will soon be supplied with Bibles.
tracts. and missionaries. (The bears
will undoubtedly prefer the missionaries
-rsw. As white bears would not vol
unfairly come to the United States, it
was clearly the duty of the United States
to 60 to them. This they have done, by
securing possession of Russian America.
Seal skins are a valuable species of
peltry, extensively used in our country.
Yet this nation possessed not single
seal except the great seal of the United
States, the various State seals, and the
seals with which the wives OF the Nor
mons are sealed to them. But as On
item of peltry. we doubt whether any of
the above named could be made generally
useful. Russian America abounds in
scale: By securing that country, the
United States is enabled to raise her own
seals.
The possession of health and vigor is
essential to the permanency and power
Of . nation. Health and vigor depend
principally upon food and habits. Our
new brethren. the Esquimaux, are among
the stoutsst and hardest people known
They subsist chiefly upon the flesh of the
Walrus, which doubtless imparts this
vigor. The United States had not a
walEus in al her broad domain. By the
purchase of Russian America, she secures
On abundance of walruses. Who doubts
that the result will be speedy increase
Of strength and vigor in our people, and
increased power to make other scquisi.
tioas. whereby we may produce other ar
ticles which now have to be imported
from foreign countries
1t has been the boast Of the United
Statss. that she possessed almost every
variety of climate. This was an empty
boast-she had no frigid zone. But she
can now make the boast truthfully; for
in the purchase of Russian America. she
hes acquired vast extent of frigia zone.
and soon icebergs will become an article
Of United States production.
The question of fewest hours and big
gsst wages for dsy's labor, is becoming
. leading feature in American politics
and il will continue until the laborer is
not required to work at ali. and has free
access to the money box, The first effort
was to make ten hours the standard of q |
days labor. and it was with difficulty
accomplished. The effort now is to re-
ducs the standard to eight hours. The
working-me are warmly in favor of
these changes. while the men who have
to pay the money are as decidedly op-
posed to them-so that we now hear of
alternate strikes for fewer hours and
higher wages. One difficulty the labor.
ing man has to contend against. is the
fact that the natural days in the United
States are too long. Now, if we could
secure any possessions where the days are
only from four to eight hours in length.
there the four, six or eight hour system
would be established, ss q natural conss- |