The Nome daily nugget., 1915-12-11


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 .-. e.1a 1- ,-.~-- ,-....sa oae eanhOt .,-, aee. e..ss. ,.e -o....ae. e4 4o.~.e-. ..-4as aa4 .ae sn~Y Y4ns ol toreisn pol .>.~s were better ielt n lis careful .,u1- ,nan II ,Aose ot congress. The ...4on vs1h d least nave the knowl- -dge tAa1 il is trusting to one who aas been tried ana proven equal to very emergency and who can be .IeIy depended on to bring the ship | slate through storm and stress to
 haven ol peace and security. What would be the result should congress
 reign affairs at the present time annot be conJectured, but, one can o. view tue prospect without fore odug. Congress, like all assemblies.
 made up ot many characters and many views, and the personal element ntels largely into it's deliberations. o uae presumably guided and con- rolled Dy reason and good Judgment, t Is also apt to pit the personal view gaius1 tie dictates of pohcy-some- ..Ies With disastrous results, as his .OIy frequently discloses. In fact such oaies are fully as pqrone to be led nto errors of judgment by personal .ulIment as are individuals. Reason l5es not always rule and the veriest ot head sometimes eXerts the dom uauns influence is controlling such Jew the prospect o1 congressional in- elfereAce ln the matter of our for lsn relations without the distinct i'm uessIon that evil rather than good s uaOIe lo come If IL. AL no time
 lue uislory oI tne word nave hu- .aA passlons, animoslues, halreos anu l44ousles been Iased u the tensIonI :. touas Never have the sentiments nd op4uions of mankind been sO .Ieauy aIsiued as m the present. Am llca, no less than any other nation. | sIpped II tue mlgnty flood of -utlment Ior or against one side oi | lie OtLoI II that great controversy | Il wNeA hangs tAe Late ot Europe .uu possiUiy that ot the world. Be- .-oUa sae oareIess exterior, the calm D.".,fa ueIneauor Ut tne people, eN .,s all andereuIrent of feeling, d penl p passion, lnat needs but d touch J.a deIoss tAe water to break forth lay uItnnalely sweepq aside all die los o4 JausIDen, and iead, to God uows. what
 10 suppose that congress does not are Ill tAis dangerous sentiment Is
 auppose the impossible. And, IL Is 4uany presaming the impossible u -pyUse that congress would be but ,tle less fable to yield itself up to lat latent spirit of hostility than .ou.d the rank and file of the people. ConsIderong the possibilities in this irecuon one cannot but be struck by ne thought that, in situations such 8 the present, the presence of few eads n the business of directing our olicies, Is infinitely more desirable nan many While admitting the enerdl desirability of maintaining the roadest principles of democracy in he government through keeping the upreme control of national affairs in ne hands Of congress as much as pos lole, at the same time it may be sub- nitted that in situations such as the resent, several hundred heads al waved by varying degrees of senti- neat are far more apt to make a mess f things than few that have been Iied and not found wanting.
 The foreign affairs of the nation re in safe hands Let them remain here.