The Nome daily nugget., 1914-01-26

For some time Mexico has been torn and shot to pieces to such an extent that all industry. advancement and commercial activity has come t" an absolute standstiil. Mexico is stagnated along all lines of develop ment. It is rather pitifui to see a rich country. where there Is SO much to be had from the soil and from the mines going backward on account of the internal strife among brothers.
 But we are not interested in Mexi- 70. True, we certainly are not the s,iehtest bit interested in Mexica way up here in Alaska.
 When Napoleon started his brilliant series of campaigns he prohted by th. experiences of Caesar. and Caesar had stolen some of his ideas from tho men before him. Still later generals .,pp, optiatcd the lessons taught by ,ae Napoleonic wars and the whol" world learned military wisdom from the battles of our own civil war.
 This nIy proves that one genera ten si,o. Id profit by the activities Of the last. that one country should take [" herrt the lessons being daily taught hy all of the other countries in the
 world.
 Mexico is going to pieces commer- c.aliy and financially because she Is torn by internal dissension. China Is not advancing as she was expected to advance with the establishment of the republic. because the factions in China that should be pulling together are at war among themselves.
 The history of the world is full "s such examples of the decline of n"- ,ions because the factions would not lc reconciied the one with the other.
 What Is true in the larger realm or world development is equally true all along the line. No baseball team t.nt is split up into factions and Is not playing together will ever win a, ything. It is team work that counts
 It was team work between the leg icns of Caesar that won the victories for Rome and made her the mistress of the world. It was team work among the generals of the great em- per or of the French that made 1t pso- s.ble for the lines of his empire to stretch from one end of Europe to the other, and beyond. It Is team work that has ever counted in the advance ment of any community to in the ad- \ ancement of any interest. or In any rcme. Without it there will be on ad- vancement.
 Where factions exist which are con tinualiy pulling apart there can be no settled prosperity. no commercial ad- vfncement.
 This does not mean that any man. CT any set of men must give up their political ideas or party faith. Let e.. oh one believes as he pleases poiiti' cally. we must have individuality in all things, but in one thing political creeds have always been forgotten and set aside. That is where patriot ism, love of country. is concerned. All parties that are worthy of the nam" will join hands in defence of the country.
 Just now we want c little local pa . triotism here In Nome. Never mind what we think or how we vote on na : tional Issues and economic questions. They can wait until we have settlc't matters of far more vital importance to us right here.
 What we want in Nome now isn little less democratic party and republican party and any other kind of party that happens to be in existence and n whole lot of the party of boost and progress for the town and the adjoin- ing section of Alaska Let us form n new local party. let us adopt a name that has not become tarnished by con ncctions with any political movement u. cn let this local Nome party swing tc gether and see what it can do for this section If Alaska.