The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-05
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 The press and people of America have not yet awakened to the fact that the first year of the Wilson presi- dcntiad has given the United States a new character among the powers of the world. It has not yet come home to us-perhaps not come to the gov ernment itself-with a realizing sense that we have set out upon an en- larged international history.
 The first twelvemonth of Mir. Will sons administration has seen the chief article of our international policy sig nificantly extended and immeasurably strengthened. Before Mir Wilson had been in office a full week, he had giv- en the Monroe Doctrine an interpreta- ton the implications of which go far beyond anything voiced by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Polk, Webster Grant or Olney. Before Mir Wilson had been in office a year, the powers of other continents had yield ed to the principle of our domination in the Western Hemisphere; an ac- Quiesance never before accorded, and scarcely expected, and amounting to a transformation of what had before been merely our assumption into a recog- nized presumption of international practice. As a result, the relationship between the United States and the rest of America, and between the Unit ed States and the other great powers have substantially altered.
 It is not fantastical, therefore, to speak of our moral empire in Amerl- ca. Of the native of that empire, how belt. of the form into which, in the eX- banding years upon which we have now entered it is destined to grow, we should neither misconceive ourselves nor allow a misconception to deceive our neighbors to the south.
 Coming into power with a program of internal reform and progress, Mir Wilson's administration was from the beginning beset with foreign prob lems-embarrassed with foreign prob. lems. it seemed. year ago, natural to say. Under wise management wise with the wisdom of patience the foreign problems have proved no embarrassment.
 A difference with Japan was adroit- ly worked up into a crisis" by oppo- nents of the administration, acting in conjunction with enemies of the Jap anese government for the time being. It was a task of no great difficulty 10 allay this.
 The Mexican difficulty was more serious-and remains so. For time it looked as if the adversaries of the new administration and it's plans, in conspiracy with the interests that de- sire the appropriation of Mexican lands, might be able to plunge us into a war that would have postponed and perhaps defeated the program for the carrying out of which the people had sent their new leaders to Washington. Yet this foreign embarrassment, too, has been so handled, that the plans for domestic legislation have suffered no defeat nor postponment: the high tariff robbery has been outlawed, and new currency has been provided So swift and important have been the achievements of internal progress and reform that it is little wonder if the in the field of inter- national affairs have escaped recog- milton.
 It is altogether probable that many Americans are not quite happy in their minds as to the policy being pursued by Mir. Wilson with regard to Mexico. | It may not be a policy of immediately conspicuous glory; it is ore which is l bound to be recognized sooner or later as having won immense advantages for our country and for civilization. It would have been perhaps more sat isfying to lovers of the dramatic to | have gone down into Mexico with ban. ners and bayonets and have declared our will from the capital of Montezu- ma.
 We do not want Mexico. We do not want it's race questions, it's religious questions, it's pauper questions, it's all but total illiteracy. We can have a sufficient share of the wealth of its mines and lands just as easily, and far more honestly, while they lie under the red, white and green flag. We have no business with Mexico. We should not know how to handle it's people, either as citizens or as sub iects. To assimilate its fifteen mil.