Iditarod pioneer., 1914-11-28

The old adage Blood is thicker than water" seems to be both remembered ana forgotten by our American people during the present European war-remembered as to England, forgotten as to Germany. It certainly has been forgotten by the Enghsh'
 Like most Americans, my sympatheS Tn the war are with our mother country, Eng land or at least I would not like to see any evil befall England and the British empire.
 But there is one feature of the struggle which both England and America are over looking. and that Is the westward march of the Slavic race. For decades Russia has been the dread of western Europe. Is not pan-Slavism the cause of this struggle, at least in origin? Is it improbable that nan. .Slavism will emerge from this struggle as tbc mightiest single force in Europe?
 Slowly but surely, decade by decade, Russia moves in all directions east south, west-to use free ports The Pacific ocean has been reached on the east; on the south the borders of India witness British and Russian sentinels making goo-goo eyes at one another; people after people Tn central Asia have been added to the empire of the czar: the integrity of Persia Is menaced while on the west and southwest Constan- tinople is within easy march, and the SlaNlc states of the Balkan region look upon Russia as their protector. To her standard they are rallying in this struggle. The later decades of the Nineteenth century witnessed the Russianizing of Finland, an act that has been called lone of the great
 
 the Scandinavian penlnsula, especially Sweden is filled with alarm for fear I'm lands fate awaits Scandinavia. Agalnst this Sweden has for several years been talk ing military precautions The czar never sleeps. Slowly, noiselcssly, like mighty glacier, moves this great emplre.
 Now, the only power capable Of lmpos- ing any eTfectual resistance to the Russian advance" in central Europe is Germany. Is it not, then. an act of shortsghtedness on the part of England to be breaking down the great Germamc empire Looking for ward a half century Is such policy not even suicidal, taking into consideration her empire in India? Does not the prlnclple of self-preserv ation demand that Slave unity be opposed by the prnclple ot Ger manic and Teutonic unity! Nlll not the struggle for existence compel all peoples Of Gprmanic origin-not only Germany, but German Austria, Scandinavia, Holland, Switzerland, England and her colonies and the United States to act in unison! As John Stuart Mill has said tquoted by Prot. Selrger). if the Germanlc race does not unite, the Twentieth century belongs to the Slavic race.
 The progress of the German empire since its creation in 1871 has been striking phe- nomcnon of our generation. Visitors to Europe are impressed on every hand with the progress. vigGr and power of Germany The steady growth in population while that of France remains stationary; hne pup l;r buildings rising, the absence of poverty, ft, large families. the advance of science and the application of scientific principles to industry, the efficiency of governmental administration the marvellous deVelopmenlt of tke German navy and of the world $ greatest fighting machine, the German army; the extension to every part ot the globe of German commerce, the splendlo efficiency of the Hamburg American anC North German Lloyd steamship lines all this exhibition of power and of progres: fills an American visitor with admiration wonder and amazement. But the Brtor was filled with alarm. The sudden realiza ton that the German was winning hls com merce away from him, that German steam ship lines were surpasslng the British IT efficient service that Britannia no longer ruled the waves as sheh ad since Trafalgar ruled the waves as she had since Trafalgar was like pouring a bucket of cold water upon a man.
 Now, all money making Is more or less selfish. The American revolution wa! caused not only by taxation without repre- sentation," but by British regulations re stricting American trade and manufactures For example, all commerce to and from the colonies had to be carried in English ships No hats could be manufactured in Amerca The building of rolling mills and iron fur naces was prohibited. In fact, ln all his tory the commerce element has played { great part, leading for example to the framing of the present constitution ot the United States and the formation Of tht North German confederation, which laic the foundations of the present German empire.
 With England's full realization less thar ten years since that Germany was pressing her closely as a trade rival for the com merce of the world, the intensest feeling arose. Although growing somewhat accus toned to it, this feeling was by no mean' allayed when the recent match touched Of the European magazine So England IS 1T this war to put crimp into Germany trade expansion.
 The feeling in England, and to some ex tent in America, is somewhat heightened