The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-22

salve our wounded feelings with the thought that even if We had continued to increase our navy it would have been no use anyway and besides we have saved an awful lot of money. pr Sharpless insists that the constant alarm at the Japanese scare is a false belief, d hueadoo, a wordy trne of the sensation loving press. mere fabrjca- ton of words which Ebert Hubbard would denounce as persitlage and pifle. There is no danger in Japan, the Doctor says, "ENeryone who has felt the tenn people is sure that neither interest nor desire exists for an American war. a war which would have no prospect off final success and would break them down with financial burdens" This is difficult to understand. If We have nc navy and no adequate means of nation al defense why, pray. cannot Japan hope for final success Does the Doctor consider that we may still their hostile passions by telling them that we are lnvulnerable in our dependence on jus l tice and make them believe ita or l perhaps. We can hold them off as the l Doctor suggests by cutivatine a judi aial attitude which will take the view ]
 it's reasonable demands" Good, And l if those demands he not reasonable how l thcn, The Doctor also asserts that we can find an ineffabe and everlasting peace bv limiting our commercial am ] hitions and methods both individual and national to such an extent as to recognize the just rights and proper desires of others" While this proposi- ion is somewhat complicated we find 'hat it becomes quite clear if We base our moral ideas on the teachings of the
 New Testament and have faith that they will carry us through. even when
 We cannot clearly see the future way"
 We also find that the Doctor in ordee
 O further bolster his argument as to
 ,he terrible costs of maintaining a ma
 'ional defense, is not adverse to jug
 ling the facts a bit for we read that
 two-thirds of our national expendi-
 ures so to warlike purposes including
 h. tiet
 mental sum and will do much to compel
 he svmpathies of those who are in
 lined To replace prudence with econ
 my as suggested by the Doctor. but .ot the same time it is d misrepresenta-
 ion. The facts are that the pension
 ist of the United States shows total
 1early equal to the total army and navy ] appropriations. The 1913-14 appropria-
 ions for the army and navy were ] 235.o66.7SS. which included the costs of
 maintaining the naval academy, the l naval wards. and also the costs of con
 Structing new ships, while the pension
 lists reached the total of S175.OS5.451. l r" place such huge sum with the army and navy appropriations swells
 the total to enormous proportions and will undoubtely cause the economical
 minded ones to go into mysteries This is undoubtedly what the Doctor ] desires, though how he conceives that such sum is a true statement of the
 costs of the national armament is
 rather pnzzling and indicates ten dency to pile little more straw upon
 the fire for the purpose of making more smoke. With all deference to the wis
 dow of the good Doctor il is difficult
 to reconcile his, and many others. con
 tentions for a cessation of our defen-
 sive activities. The one under discus
 sion is but fair sample of all the rest
 but has an added weight because of
 the prominence of it's author All have their principal arguments based oh
 speculative or ethical principles and
 make but little allowance for the facts. l nor do they consider the natural ten