The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-10

pdAN4t NiA'o bl Ailf sn'AAl4a- li' Al fathers had bought and sold the black man with impunity, Why not they What right had Abraham Lincoln, or the arrogant North, to confiscate their property, held through generations Of slave owners? What right? Only the right of divine will expressed through human in strumentality. that would save nation from selfdestruction by re- moving from it's yitals the cancrrou- growth of selfindulgence.
 Standing in our national cemetery at Arlington, beside the monument that marks the burial place of To- 900 Union soldiers. realized fully. for the first time, something or the for victory over the South. To the Unknown Deadt' Not even nan' 10 mark the resting place of these men who had laid down their lives Tor the honor ot united country.
 Then I crossed over Mason and Dixon's line into the Southland; and here I realized, again for the first time, the price the South had paid for a conviction of personal liberty. as opposed to the larger liberty of national ideals wherein the advan- tage of the few must be subordinated to the good of the whole Property was ruthlessly destroyed. as well as confiscated Ground into the dust of poverty and despair. the proud spirit of the South was subjected to the further humiliation of a carpet bag government to which noth ing that Alaska has endured is in any way comparable, But out of that tragedy of shame and delcat prosperous and permanent; South that proclaims anew with each sue ceeding year her satisfaction in the economic prosperity whose roots are not watered by human blood and tears; South that has in large measure shaken off, as well. the slavery, the legalized liquor traffic,
 ! heard the Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Georgia, known nationally as the silyer-tongued orator of the South" say before an audience of ten thou, sand people of the NOrthland:
 Personal liberty, Why, there is no such thing as personal liberty, You may study the Constitution of this great Republic of ours and the constitution of every State in the Union, and the words Personal Lib erty' nowhere appear The savage has personal liberty; the civilized man in a republic does nor know When our fathers builded this great Republic every man who entered It as a citizen surrendered forever his personal liberty to the public good Personal Liberty It is this pernicious doctrine that is under mining the laws Of the country One man comes along and says: This law is not in line with public senti- ment therefore l trample upon it. Another comes along and says: This law does not please me and my friends; it is against our ideas of things; we trample upon it And if that idea of personal liberty is allowed to spread it is only a ques- tion of time until every man be comes a law unto himself and the laws of the Republic go down for ever.
 You folks back in the eos charged us down in the South with an attempt to nullify law. have and I remember that your fathers, under Abraham Lincoln, took the pc sition that laws could not be nUl'i fled in this country. What did your fathers do when the issue came up! Did they say to us: Defy the laws of the Republic if you will: de stroy the Union if it interferes with your personal liberty Not a bit of it, They shouldered their mus kets, went down into my land. and
 said, God helping them, they would die for the laws of the Republic and the old flag. l thought that war was a brutal thing then. l did not understand it. But when 1 grew older I learned how holy and sacred liberty is I learned. as the whole south has learned, that slavery is eternally wrong. and when your | fathers abolished it they did right. Your fathers did not count the cost in dollars. They did not say, 1 Let us license slavery and make a l revenue out of it. They said it was wrong; and they went down South and abolished it. Do you know what you people up here in 1 the Northwest need today? Here l is a modern slavery, the slavery of your own people, of your own race, of your own color; the galling, aye, sting | ing slavery of tens and hundreds of
 thousands Of men to the saloon sys-
 tenn that you established and keep