The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-10
Some of the Inside Facts Told by One Who Knows About Con-
 ditiOnS.
SOME LESSONS TAUGHT
The True Wealth of Any Nation Lies in the Riches of the
 People.

The Dltter IeelinS or the NOT wegian people against Germany and it's piracy warfare is notice able more and more in the daily papers received from there. Al though they know full well that a war with Germany would prob ably be to invite annihilation and "that little Norway would be only 4 an atom whirled into the chaos, such man as Che Collin writes ir The Daily ("Tidens Tegn") the fol. lowing (translation by William E Britt):
 England was before the war one of the richest countries on eartf in cash. Her capital was the cen. ter for the worlds markets. Shf had billions of pounds invested il I every part of the globe.
 Now all this saved up capita is invested in fight, whose aim is to gain justice on earth anf safeguard the liberty of both smal and large nations.
 "The center of the worlds trad will probably never more be th' capital of England. Nevertheless \ the Britons are in good spirit The, believe they shall come out of tho war richer than ever. It is true \ they offer not only their wealtl but much of their most precious i life and blood. However, the savet ones will be richer because the. have become abler and better meI and women. The Rritons believ, more than ever in the truth o MT. Ruskin's words: Our wealtl is in our people,.
 Tt applies to the Britons as i has to the Frenchmen: The world war for liberty and justice harden and strengthens the nations pow CT and calls forth the reserve of |; slumbering energy The Briton learn now, in the days O Shakespeare and Ethe Spanish arma da, to do their utmost. They hay, learned to mobilize, not only sol diers, but labor power. ingenuit, and good will to do what is right
 "The Norwegian people has, dur ing the past period of the world war, generally speaking, probabl. become poorer than richer in hu man worth. Thrift and the jo, Fof giving the very best there is il one to the common good have prob ably not advanced generally. Thing have been sold, which honestl, should not have been sold Mer chandise has been smuggled ant bartered for money sake. The onl. port which all Norwegians can de fent, our national honr, has not al ways been truly guarded. But maybe, there still is a while to tn last crossroad
 "One or more years of more worse than the past, is probably tt come. What if we at this tim with all our power, tried to learl by the example of the French, tn English. and the Belgians. What i we tried like the leaders of thu American people to do what we con sider our sacred duty. From thu White House of President Wilson shines light over the world more valuable to us than anything Amer ica can give us or deny us.
 Don't let us for a minute durinf these difficult times forget wha the United States is doing for thu welfare of all people in this war If everybody in our dear Norway from school children up-would il these horrible times with heart ant soul do his duty, if everybody would produce the best and purest in his mind and apply it to the real goot for Norway, and for humanity then we, too, would have a goot hope of coming out of this wal richer and better, no matter what material consequences it would bring us.
 Let us never forget John Rus kin's famous words, Our wealth is our people,
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