The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-12-13
EDITOR OF SEWARD GATEWAY

lc memory serves Us light we were taurht in the old schAolboy days that the people of the world were divided inyo three distinct races the White or Gauysasian Race. the Back or Negro kuce and the Yellow or Mongoiian Race. Since those far fetched days time. and customs have changed somewhat and in the light O. recent wor ds events it would see that the fellow Race should be enlarged a
 east enough ;1 admit the Swede5, .Eat k if this may be dOae without .tfending the ChinkS, which IS doubt .ul cor the SwedeS as a race nave nm
 lv uemonSt .'o. ed that for sh"'r !Ci. 5wneas they gre entitled tJ bE cla,s-
 d v.tl the ycIlowest of tH, yellow, .'or Y Nation that has taken !'o a"i'
 ,r art in tuc now al but pa 'sed VI ids var tha Swed2S hay" cmcrgCC
 rh less credit than aa! race of peo' plC ln the wo ld Their acti)rS both As nation and as individuals have been .ontemptable to the extreme. As a .eutral nation they have at all times
 run with the hare and made up with he hounds" They have truckled lC ,;armany when it looked as though the tar Of the Central Powers were on ne aScendent. And now when the Civ lized people of the world have at las. ltt their stride and the KurS of kul- ,ur are hurled back to their de generate dens, and forced to drain tl,C bitter dregs of defeat, the artfu squarehead is up on his hind leg
 neering for the Allies.
 There has been no country in the world where the Swede has been sc well treated as in Alaska. He has ey.- yoyed all of the privileges of mos. liberal form of Government. All min ng ground all fishing rights and in tact all of the rights and perquiSite Jf the American born have been thrown open to him. He has had op- portunitieS and has prospered as nev' ar before in the history of his race. On our Government Railroad and in tact upon all Public works he has been employed and treated as an equal, ana Nhat has been his answer when Un- cle Sam called on all loyal citizens 10, their help in this, the worlds struggle Did he fall into the line witl he Tanks, the Canadians, the Serbs vhe Scotch, and the Irish, and helpe' .o pay for some of the privileges tha | nave been handed to him on silvei latter? Nay, Nay, Not for Ole. Hi ! contributions to the Red Cross hay, lad to be choked out of him; on Wa ! Savings Stamps he has been fros and on Liberty Loans, Ole has been a 1 joke and a ghastly joke at that. Hi' | job had to be threatened before ne would loosen for a dime and then IL was with grumbling and complaints hat he parted with tenth Lart O
 what he should have willingly sub scribed, and when he was called upoI 70 register for the draft, then it wa; !, that the saffron howl came from he 1 bottom of his yellow heart. He was {, 1 Neutral, Pacifist, an Alien, in fac, ne was anything that did not have tC fight for the land that it made it's liv, ! ing in, for the land that had made him independant, for the land that took this ignorant squarehead yokel from { before the mast and put a bank ac-
 count in. his hand, presented him with the right to vote, and even gave him a say in the government of the Lano His appearance before the Exemption Board was always the signal foI trouble. He was yellow in almost ev. cry instance, he was blind, couldn't hea'', had limp, in fact developed all of the ills that would place him in the fifth class and then failing to cheat his way past the Board, he would sur. render his first papers and revert tc : virgin Swededom, become an Alier and thus not subject to the draft. And able to go back and take the job that the young manhood of America was fighting to make safe for him.
 ! 4 bird that fouls it's own nest i, not much of bird and bird that vii not fight to defend that nest is not worthy of having a nest. A Country that is not good enough to make 2 living in, is country that is wortf fighting for and man, that will no go to the mat for his home when that home needs him is a poor citizen.
 AlaSkans as class are a tolerant people. In the past they have stood for great deal and doubtless in th' future they will have to stand for ,