Northern light., May 01, 1917, Image 8

About Northern light. (Unalakleet, Alaska) 1913-1917

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CUS1FICATS0J
Tl««e.a» o .. wi pi.^r for good
natured Uncle Sain lol c involved in
the struggle of the Hast. The world
knows that for many months Pres
ident Wilson and the nation have
e ideacored to keep from being draw n
i r to the m lelstrom, but in we are,
and now we are enqually proud of the
st.i :d take i by Mr Wilson,and of the
support given him by tlie whole na
tion, when favi :g the war thrust
upon ns.
O r. hope is that it will mean the
speedy end of the struggle. Perhaps
this step is necessary in order to uni
fy this gre ;t nation composed oi'
people who have come from foreign
lauds to our shores.
All momentous questions thrust
upon a people and upon a nation as
well.tompell taking sides: :.s a fur
nice it separates the dross from the
pure, leaving « unified people, it ie
quires an eitoit on our part to have
sympathy for a class of people who
come to our hospitable shores, make
their homes, vie with those about
them in every e\emie of trade and
profession, take advantage of our
free school system, e; joy the boss
ings of the free, recieve the protec
tion of the most charitable and just
laws that ever graced a people, vvatc h
their Hocks multiply and their fields
spread, tiieir home* oecome palaces,
while at heart they remain un-Amer
ican, and in many instances do not
tvea tike out their naturalization
papers They t ilk big and blustering
about unjust laws, and rulers, and
all the time continue lining their
jrockets with gold. And while thus
doing tiieir hearts and allegiance in
a toreig » liud.Thi* struggle may l.«
necessary ,and out of it will come,
we trust,the triumph of Universal'
Democracy and a unified and a de
pend able people with love intensified
for the nation over which wafts the
stars and sripes.
•fVA.'*-*'
St Michael, Alaska,May 2,1917.
Mr. K Iv Van Ness,
Unalakleet, Alaska.
' V •• ^jr;
As:* sorry that the Noi them Light
is going; out of commission, we'll
miss ii in lore >\ :vs then one toi it
carried :• message of ' liter to the
co—workers for the elevation of the
native races of Alaska and made
each one realize that others were
helping them carry the-white man’s,
burden- it helped to perpetuate the
tradition of the Kskimo tribes and in
ti ne the author of the future histo
ry of Alaska may refer to it as an
authority upon the ancient customs
of tlie Kskimo,and as it was printed
by the Kskimo it was an education
through its publication,carrying as it
did messages to school children and
others throughout English speaking
countries that here upon the bleak
coast of the Bering sea were a people
throwing of the darkness ol centu
ries and learning to star d the search
light of civilization to the e;.f' that
t ley <v » il l be worthy Christians
and citizens of the country that it
now fighti- g for the heritage of free
dom handed down to them from our
Revolutionary forefathers, and will*
iug if called upon,to shed their blood
Lo uphold the doctrines of humanity
ase uboded in our constitution and
laid down by President Wilson.
Thorree A. Power