The Nome daily nugget., 1914-02-06


 1Hy hears out the statement of the .,r,l"r that th" burden of the fight '4 fJjS Jpon the poor man or the
 imrr or the workman.
 I'Du if Che gentleman is so solicitious l thr sons "f the people there is onr ,t> good way to prevent their going r" war al all and that is to see that country is so well prepared for War ..t war will be impossible
 There was once gentleman named he may or may not be fa- 'niiial to all of us. but his principl. distinction was that he spent his time waiting for something to turn up"
 Waiting for something to turn up" !E"r" are men with brilliant mind> rahlc of wonderful ideas for the al = lr"m"nt of themselves. or th" :"rld or for their communities. who TOW old and pass on and leave no "trk on the record of time simply a''uose all of their lives they just sat and and waited for something to aru up
 Probably the world has lost more i1 &'anccment through this one very 'ad trait in SO many of it's inhahi-
 ntS than on account of any other "" thing Certainly towns or see ,ns of the country which are popu-
 '"d by this class of men will never l'ance above the dead level of me iiccrity.
 W" Sre the lazy peon of the Latin untries indolently smoking his ci- lrette as he leans against the corner the hacienda. He has not a cent
 the world or the prospect of one. l' does not know where his next mad is to come from. But he has n" initiative, no ginger, no life. He k simply waiting for something to turn up. That is why his country Is | hundred years behind where it ought l' be in development
 We have seen the merchant who purchased his stock, or bought it on redit. arrange his display window, fix lp his counters and then sit down on one of the isle stools and wait for to turn up. It usually didn't urn up and we have seen the same merchant standing sorrowfuly by while the sheriff sold his stock or some live man." who had had an eye to business and bought him out, put a fire sale" or some equally attractive pro position through and cleaned up d profit. The Hive man" did not wait for something to turn up. He got busy and advertised and he turn T things inside out until he MADE I' mething turn up.
 We have seen the man out of a job
 
 lronnd places where he was not want .l while he was waiting for something to turn up. And we have seen at the same time another man who was out of job and who instead of waiting fl something to turn up went out and hustled around until he turned some thing up for himself.
 There is not a thing in this waiting game"
 This is not all confined to indivi- duals by any means. Towns and To- calitics suffer from the same "waiting- for-the- other rfellow- to- do-it it" disease.
 We believe that there are still great possibilities in the country around Nome. It is more than a belief it is Il certainty. Hardly man in this town but will admit that there is as much gold right around in this section today as has already been taken out But there it stays in the ground ant there it will stay until "somethine turns up"
 That something" is going to turr UT before very long It is going t. turn up in the shape of outside capita which will quietly continue what | has been engaged in for years. the ac. quisition of ground through it's agent. here. and when it is ready the some thing will turn up.
 When this happens Nome is bound to benefit to a greater or less degree Certainly the influx of money and tht development of the country by min. ing activities is going to do a grea deal for Nome. And yet, 1t would hell little if we could have some hand in this ourselves. If the citizens oi