The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-12-04
WAR ON HIN ALLIES

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 The present agitation in Washing ton of declaring war on the Allies of Germany is daily gaining ground and very probably Congress will be asked to make the declaration. Yesterday Senator Cabot Lodge came out thor oughtly in favor of the declaration. On November twentieth. Theodore Roosevelt in an article in the Kansas City Star had the following to say regarding war with the three nations now assisting Germany:
 The attitude of the United States at this moment toward Germany and it's three vassal allies, Austria, Tur- key and Bulgaria, is a ffty-ffty atti- .ude between peace and war It is not honest war, neither is it honest neutrality. It is the attitude of the backswoodsman who, seeing a black animal in his pasture at dusk and not Knowing whether it was a bear or a cali, fired so as to hit it if it was a bear and miss it if it was a calf. Such craftsmanship is never happy.
 Bulgaria is now simply the tool Of Germany and Turkey. ] was former Iy a stanch champion of Bulgaria, and would be again if she returned to her senses. But she now serves the devil, and shame be upon us if We don't treat her accordingly. No one can doubt that the Bulgarian legation is an agency for German spies in this country. The administration has pub Gshed reports that for over a year previous to our entry into the war the German embassy was the center of spies and dynamiters with whom Germany was already waging war against us. These papers show that Germany's allies are her mere tools and that Germany is withheld by no ~cruple from the commission of ey- cry conceivable treacherous intrigue and brutal outrages against us. Uu- der these conditions it Is a grave of feuse against our allies not Co declare war on all of Gelmauy's allies.
 Turkey has been and is the tool of Germany, but Germany has permitted her on her own account to perpeuate massacres on the Armenian and Sy- rian Christians, which renders it little short of infamy now to remain at peace with her. It is hypocutical to express sympathy with the Armen- ians and appoint messages to be read in the churches about them, yet re- fuse to do the only thing that will permanently help them, which is to declare war on Turkey
 With Austria our present relations are less definite than our relations with any other power. No one can truly say exactly whether our atti- tude is one of peace or war. We have not declared war on Austria, and yet we are furnishing money, coal and munitions to Italy in order to enable her to fight Austria. If we really treat peace with Austria We are flag rantly violating our duty of a neutral and we ought to be condemned in any international court.
 Crime of Hitting Soft
 - But if we are really at war, then we are committing the cardinal crime of hitting soft. IT we had gone to war with Austria when we broke with Germany, and had acted with proper energy, the disaster to Cador- ua would probably not have occurred. We are now taking part in the gen eral council of our allies. The only way in which to make our part in the war the most effective and our lead ership felt to the utmost is whole heartedly to throw ourselves into the war on the side of all our allies and against all their enemies.