The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-06
Phone 262 Phone
AN APPRECIATION OF WOODROW
 WILSON

Every citizen of the United States chise is today tensely awaiting the date, now close at hand when we will decide who shall be our Chief Magistrate for the next four years.
 This choosing of a President Is in deed great national drama, that Is staged upon the American continent by free people in quadrennial peri ods; wonderful play. in which all perform more or less important part.
 In our support of the Star Actors we must remember. these are not ordinary times. and the problems that have been so perplexing to the off cials at our national capital for the greater perpleXity with each succeed ing month--are not by any means or dinary problems. Perhaps never in our history has 1t been so vital to the welfare of the nation that every voter shall play his part we'll; shall now, more carefully than ever be- fore, examine the record of the standard bearers of our two great po litical parties, for a false step. or a false choice at the present time may mean disaster to a liberty loving people who do not crave expansion of Empire at the expense of their neighbors, who do not invite the ar bitrament of the sword in every pet ty dispute or fancied injury, but who are ambitious, rather, to spread abroad a benevolent and progressive civilization, and confer upon the world at large a broader and more elevating freedom than the race has ever before enjoyed.
 Woodrow Wilson is now our Chief Magistrate, and during his term of olllSc uc hdS ptSl SOllcIlulASo NllA questions, conditions and events, both national and international, so ex- asperating and difficult of solution as might well drive the ablest states man in the world to despair Yet he has grappled with these problems and solved them with as much wis dom perhaps as any other public man in the world could have done.
 Through 1t all he has maintained a calmness of demeanor. confi- dence in our ideals and his ability to exemplify and uphold them, that has been beautiful to behold. Not since 1862 have our National Skies been so perilously clouded as during his incumbency of office. Yet even when the dearest principles of our government were threatened by treachery and sinister influences in the Nations capital he has been un- dismayed. He has courageously con tinued the fight of a real statesman. maintaining our rights with firmness and composure, though at times ev- erything seemed to go dead wrong. To his everlasting honor, he has kept us out of serious difficulty, not only with the war-crazy nations of Europe. but also with locoed and ban dit infested Mexico. This alone should win for him the confidence and support of the plain people of the United States, and to a thought ful mind 1t would seem if these same plain people fail him now, one must indeed despair of the intelligence of the average voter. It might be well at the present time to contrast the actions of MT. Wilson and those of his chief political opponents. The Hughes and MT. Roosevelt. They are out, and, of course, anxious to break in. They are both parading the country trying desperately hard to successfully assail and discredit tho policies and legislative measures of which MT. Wilson has been the cham. pion. Tho task Is a far larger un- dertaking than either of them thought 1t would be. and we find both Mr. Hughes and MT. Roosevelt falling down in their inglorious work.
 They have each tried to hoodwink the American people by presenting some special plea. or making some indefinite charge that sounds big and clustering. yet which will not for a moment bear logical analysis or the weight of reasonable argument. They have found fault with every diplo- matic action that has been inaugural cd by Mr. Wilson in our intercourse with foreign nations. Yet they have ~nt Asr>A to ototo in nIntu forrna