The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-08
THE CASE OF NICARAGUA.
(Boston Record.)


 leading article in the new Century by Lincoln Valentine, an American busi- ness man, intimates in its title that we are "Meddling with our Neigh bors," the neighbor being specifically Nicaragua:
 Let us consider what Nicaragua wants. The people demand emphatical- ly to eercise their constitutional right If sovereignty. This Is being in- fringed by the presence of our marines. Why are they there? Ostensibly for tho protection of American life and property. But American life and property are safe, as conservatives and liberals alike offer ample guar antees in this respect Hence our ma- rines are no longer needed, and there is no further excuse for their remain ing. They should be removed without delay
 Our most famous ex-president ex- presses some very emphatic and un- qualified personal opinions on Inter national Duty and Hyphenated Am aricanism' in the Metropolitan:
 Selling arms to a belligerent may be morally either very right, or very vrong. This depends absolutely upon the justice of the cause in which the k0 IAIt kIxn& he United States should adopt as the policy: First, the duty of being amply 'eady to guard its own rights; and second, the duty to show sympathy with, and so far as possible, to make effectively evident, this sympathy with every nation which by its con- 1uct deserves such sympathy, and to 'tand against every nation in every specific case where 1t Is guilty of mis- conduct. Tn 1878, for instance, our sympathies should have been against England, and for Russia and Bull garia. In the 'so's, our sympathies anent Egypt and the Soudan, should have been with England and against France Tn 1914 our sympathies should have been against Germany etc.
 In an editorial on "The Duty of America, the Outlook says:
 The American nation Is maintaining o,, off do % tv, hn ent European conflict. It does not follow that 1t Is the duty of every in dividual American to maintain an at ,itDde of neutrality.
 Sc long as this nation remains neu- tral. the advocates of resistance have no more right to forbid the friends of one of the belligerents from furnishing 1t money or munitions than those who believe in the righteous ness of the belligerent's cause to com pel the nonresident to furnish money or munitions. The liberty to decide for himself is one of the liberties which the constitution has secured for all American citizens
 An article by Aleister Crowley is copied from an English journal by Mir. viereck, editor of the Fatherland Tn his monthly organ. The Interna- tiona1.
 The attitude of the real American Howard the war) Is very concise This is the placard which hangs in thousands of business offices all over America: "If you want to fight, go to Europe.
 "If you want to talk war, go to hell.
 "This place Is neutral"
 There was never so clear and em- phatic a definition of a mental at titude. It says everything, and not a word wasted. When the Lusitania sank, he (the American) saw the German side of the case instantly. He couldn't see why the hell the durned fools couldn't keep out of the wal zone. Go to war? oNt he. He might sell munitions to the allies; that was his business. The Germans might sink the ships; all the better; it meant a repeat order. Hard as nails, you bet your life.