The Nome daily nugget., 1918-01-08
(sY 0. M. ELVEOAHL.) ]


 world have Nations spent their ener- gles more furiously than at the pres ent time. The world powers are at war, and in the death-s struggle every thing is sacrificed for an ultimate victory by either of the warning pow CTS. Victory for the Central Powers will mean the establishment of an iron rule over the conquered by the conquerer. Victory for the Allies will mean liberty and freedom for all and the death blow to autocracY and des- potism.
 , Let us look at the past for d mo- ment and we will find that never in the history of mankind did the human race emerge so rapidly from old con- ditlons as during the eighteenth cen tury. 1t was an nge in which tradi- tions suffered much Ancient tyran- nies were startled from their throne and the ground long soaked with the cold drippings of the middle ages, was torn up and turned to the sun and air by the terrible plowshare of Radical ism. The cruel customs of bygone days were attacked and destroyed by the enginery of right reason and of war. The spirit of man, too noble grown for shackles of serfdom, was seeking the freedom of universal brotherhood. The dream of enamel patton was abroad everywhere but the actual instruction began in America. The crimes of tho mother country against her own subjects brought their legitimate results. and a thousand British soldiers lay strangely still in the meadow grass in June while the patriots with powder begrimed faces ard with clubbed muskcts glared fiercely over the breastworks on Bun. ker Hill.
 The down trodden people of France, who had helped the colonists to throw off the British yoke, caught the con- tlgion and began to question the di- vine right of Kings who were ever tramping down the rights of citizens. The voice of Mlrabeau was heard and tic rising enthusiasm portented a storm. The Reign of Terror swept like a red spectre across the stage and the sound of the falling throne of the Bourbons, like Q mighty thunder clap. echoed and re-echoed throughout the iron clad framework of despotlsm. At last the mighty republic lifted it's head into the circle of cringing monarchy. Then came the reaction. The people who had dethroned the king turned to destroy their own government
 As in Russia today, this was due to ignorance and the want of a lead CT, who was capable of establishing sound government on the debris of the revolution.
 The fate of the republic and the in- tesrity of France were finally en. trusted to 8 young artillery officer from Corsica. The voice of Napoleon's cannon proclaimed to the world that the bloody revolution was not to be fruitless and that France had at last produced a man capable of controll- inx and directing the tremendous en- ergies of the young republic.
 Born in poverty and obscurity, at the hour when his country was per- ishing, his cradle surrounded by the clash and din of war, with the groans of tho oppressed in his childish ears, this Corsican fought his way from the peasants hut to the throne of half of Europe. Napoleon after fighting for democratic principles became emper- or. Julius Caesar as he stood on the banks of the Rubicorn, realized that if ho crossed the river Caesar. the Pro Consul would become Caesar tho 1nsurgent: choosing between peace and war. disgrace and honor. srasped the situation, accepted the inevitable and stepped resolutely across the bridge to empire. Napoleon return- ing from Egypt recognized the abso- lute necessity of a one-man rule and welded the crumbling fragments of anarchy into a mighty empire. By this stroke he preserved the benefits of the revolution and made modern France.
 Great Britian was at this time in the hands of William Pitt, to whom Ma poleon addressed frank open letter in which he said: Must the war, which for tho last eight years has de- vastated this quarter of the world bc eterna17 Arc there m rneana If rom,