Editorial June 8, 1917.

Yukon Territory's contribution to the Empire and Allied cause in this war is nothing short of magnificent.

Despite the fact the region is remote and the people are engaged in struggling against primitive and exceptionally obdurate and severe conditions in pioneering, they have more than held their own in the war game.

Between four and five hundred men have gone from this territory direct to the war, meaning practically ten per cent of the population of Yukon are under arms in Europe. Were the whole of the Dominion, with its eight million people, to contribute in like proportion to Yukon there would be 800,000 men, or just twice as many enlisted from Canada today as there are.

In point of cash contributions to the Red Cross fund, and the associated war funds, the Yukon has outstripped all other portions of the Dominion. She has given more than one–third as much as Quebec, which has a population of more than two million

The whole Dominion contributed last year, that is, for 1916, $1,157,884. Yukon gave practically two dollars per capita for every white person in the territory. Had all of Canada averaged as well as Yukon the Dominion's contributions would have been approximately $15,000,000.

Yukon at the same time has contributed unstintingly of labor in the way of her women in the making of garments for the wounded, and has born her share of all federal war taxes, and, in addition, has contributed a purely patriotic war fund here running two or three times as much as the Red Cross fund.

All these contributions from Yukon have been made without the territory getting one dollar in returned revenue in way of orders for munitions or other local products, such as other communities receive.

The generous and patriotic spirit of Yukon deserves to be known throughout the Empire and Allied realm. If all the Empire were contributing in like proportion in men and money the assembled wealth and armies today would be far greater than they are. But these matters will adjust themselves.

Yukoners will continue to do a mighty share and uphold the tradition that the sons and daughters of the North are excelled by none in loyalty to the nation and to humanity.