The Nome daily nugget., 1917-04-18

us is chosen for .eader. And all ideals are lost and sunk in the ambition 10 kill the others.
 Nations at war are vile. murderous, lynching mobs.
 Each as it proceeds to murder be- lieves itself in the right and blas- phemously prays to God to help in the killing.
 The dreadful, discouraging part of this war is proof of the fact that every kind of human activity may lead to wholesale murder.
 We used to have horrible murders, and tortures, wholesale and retail, based upon superstition, bigotry and religious hatred.
 The race hoped that with supersti- tion and religious ignorance dead, murder and torture would die out also
 Ne had wars and wholesale killings based upon brutal Individual ambi- ton, ruling over ignorance and stu pidity.
 Men hoped that growing intelligence would suppress murderous vanity.
 Competition between the 1oblemen. kings and emperors. one craving the land of anlother. one resenting the insult of another. caused wars that lasted seven years, thirty years, or one hundred years.
 It was hoped that democracy, mak- ing the people rule in place of kings and barons, would end war.
 Commerce and money came to rule the earth in place of Individuals, in place of ambition, vanity and super stitio1.
 Commerce and money apparently required peace; the merchant. big or little, wanted his shop-the nation quiet.
 But now we find that commerce itself, the love of money and the crea- tive trade, drive 10 war and brutal bloodshed as eagerly as did the rulers ambition, or the religious bigots' de- sire to force his faith upon others.
 We have the Germans telling us that the English forced this war through jealousy of German conner cial growth-and there is no doubt that that jealousy did exist in hts most bitter form in England.
 We have the English telling us that the war was forced by Germany, be- cause Germany was determined to get English colonies, English trade and English money.
 We are bound in this country of neutrality to refrain from taking sides. But, what side is there to take?
 We see the nations of the world wing with each other in destroying life.
 Ne know and they know that no good can come of it.
 We know that the nation which wins in the end, or the group of na- tions that win. will be hopeless,, bankrupt, Respondent bled half to death and discouraged when the wal ends.
 We have seen the old story of mur. der and conquest repeated over and over.
 We saw the day, long centuries ago. when kings. dressed in furs, sat op- posite each other on the thrones of Carthage and of Rome"
 And those kings. coming from bar bariaa ambition, thought. of course. that they would sit upon those thrones forever.
 Soon they were swept away.
 We have seen the world divided and redivided.
 We read now of the plan of opa fighter for division of the earth when victory comes.
 We used to read as children the plans and boasts of Attila and others that thought brutal power could con- quer the mind.
 And we have seen and know that no race can be made to stay in s,av- cry; that no conquest based upon bru- tai force can endure.
 Over and over the world has been divided, and sub b-dyided, and re.di- vided.
 Civilization. intelligence, study. have concentrated power in the brain, talk E it from the muscles.
 Wealth accumulated has made men "effeminate." That is to say, it has taken their attention from brutal con. quest.
 Then brute power has come in and