The Nome daily nugget., 1918-01-03

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 All government, whether autocrptic or democratic, Is of the people. Any government may be, but a democracy must be, for the people. Only a dem ocracy. however Is by the people.
 Now, the object of any government ia to secure to all the people equal opportunity for life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness" Naturally if q government Is to achieve that object, the source of uthorIty-whether n monarch or the people-must necessar- fly be well.informed concerning all matters related to the welfare of the governed. Experience has proved, what might have been assumed, that. in a democracy, free speech, a free press. md public discussion are essential means of enabling the people, who are the rulers, to obtain adequate infor- mation concerning the nations affairs and to arrive at wise conclusions con- corning the course of action that should be taken.
 Under ordinary condiitnos, If a ma jority of the governed are well dispos- ed to seek not simply their own but their neighbours good, that govern ment is best which governs least" A truly democratic government interferes with no mnn. 50 long as he, in turn, does not interfere with his ne.ghoor But, in any government, restraining power must be exerted upon the com paratively few who, needless or ma. licious. infringe on the rights of others Naturally. the more complex the social scheme the more congested the poputa- ton, the greater the need for restraint: police regulations" necessarily be- como more stringent. Their sole ob- ject, however. Is to promote the gen eral welfare" not to restrict the in- lividual.
 There are. thus, two parties--two personalities, ns 1t were--in a nation First the individual citizens. whose rights are to bo guarded and whose welfare Is to be promoted; and, sec ond, the government itself. whose ex- istence must be maintained and whose authority must be recognized and up- held. Both of these personalities are tfnportaEt--but the former cannot ex- tst without the latter. Lacking 'efh . cient government. anarchy and law lessness would prevail and the rights of the citizen dlsappear--perhaps Tn rlotIng and bloodshed. As tho whole is greater than any of its parts. so the government Is more important than any of the citizens composing it. For the aake of the general good. 1t has the right to take their property--as in taxcs-for its support. It has the right, moreover, to demand tkeir lives, if need be. to defend It against enemy governments. and to abrogate their privileges, If such an net is necessary to preserve It's existence. These arc what arc known as the 'war powers of government.
 In peace, as has been said, the gov ernment that interferes the least with the happiness of the individual is the best government. But in war; the very life of the state Is at stake. And. since the state is the sum of the individuals that comprise 1t. manifestly the inter- est of any single Individual or single group of individuals must be subordi. hated to the interest of tho whole. The Limitations and restrictions that war conditions impose upon n man should be--must be-accepted in tho spirit oi "rhis is for the common Eood."
 Among these Limitations and ressric. lions are those placed upon freedom d speech and of tho press and upon the right Of public assembly. On throe oc.