The Nome nugget., 1901-09-24
LESSONS STILL TO BE LEARNED..


 We have had Heretofore occasion to remark that the fires of American patriotism burn brightly whether at the Gulf of Mexico where soft the byeezes blow or in the frozen north where the biting bliz gard and the iceberg the peoples environments for the greater portion of the year
 . We do not think that it is to any mans credit that he is patriotic citizel of his native adopted country It is plain duty that he owes to the flag and the country which protects him. Nor is all the patriotism in the world confined to the United States as some people seem to imagine. But we do believe that American patriotsni as We know 1t, stands out pre-eminently among the nations of the world. The older nations of civilization have longer histories than They date back centuries before our na- ton was born they are full of romance, perhaps, and haloed with the dust of centuries almost for gotten; their deeds of prowess, their feas of arms, -ther struggles against expressions and for liberty are bescon marks in the annals of nations still living some of which have run their course and are nov only remembered as among the departed gores of great and mighty past. Patriotism to their de- scendants iiss become merely relative term. "Civis : Romanum sum-" was once the boast of the Roman s't m an American citizen," is our proud boast to- day. But the glorics of both imperial and repub- lcan Rome have long since faded, and her mighty l people.
 We boast of our patriotism, and it is well that we should but let Us remember that other nations have ,, done the same, and they but the moulderng relics of forgotten past. We may truthuy say that our people have exempled their patriotism anC devotion with their lives many we'll fought battlefield. We may answer. so have other nation: which long since plotted from the map
 .p;r; of ic and essence it thrives only to it's fullest extent where there is the most intelligence, the freest institutions and the greatest of personal liberty Yet, or the other hand, where there is lack of intelligence little real liberty and unequal laws there is still shs found what passes for the patriotic sprita blind devotion of the people to their traditions This may not be the real. sfmonpure article called patriotism but it has done duty for ages such and has helped 10 make the history of the world.
 We are proud of that living, active spirit of Amer ican patriotism which we illustrated from time tc time. We proud of the people which breathes it proud to be of them and among them yet we canno, torbsar pointing to the fact that with all patriot isun, all liberties and freedom our unexampled progress and prosperity nation. the fate that overlook Greece and Rome and Carthage may one day bc ours, There insidious influences at work which in time may threaten the very life and exist shce ot the republic.
 Twenty years ago-nay, ten years-who among ss would have had the temerty to predict that the beginnint of the twentieth century would be marked by the assassination of president of the United States by the hand of an anarchist? Amid oar free institutions, liberal laws the fullest freedom of press and speech there has been nurtured and craded tho spirit of anarchy It has been of slow but sure growth. That it has taken firm root cannot be de- .isd; th.s 1t has been permitted to be fostered on American soil is to shame. Tho United States is not the land that breeds the anarchisthe destroyer of all government. He may be the product ot des. 1otic empires ogarchies but he is not and cannot b the outgrcwth of fresrepublican institutions,
 The mistake we have made has been in treating ts snarchst harmless and in listening to his foul ssuctstions as tho vagaries of a diseased mind An aschists plotted in New Jersey town the death of Htssat end benefcent ruler of European kingdom, sad tho plott:ngs were overlooked An anarchist beSn and reared i-pthe aited States it is sa;d at tamptsd to take the life of president of the United Ssates.
 Psrhapswe shall learn presently what is best to be done with that class sect whose only avowed sts is--anarchy.
 Judge A. $. Humphreys, of Honolulu, against whom the bar association of that city filed charges ssnae time ago, has been upheld by Attorney General Ednox. And the vindicaton of the judge, it would