The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-10
ONE PREsIDENT-oNE FLAG!
lSeattlc Post-IntelIigencerJ

A group of narrow-yisioned hairspli;tirg half baked Americans in the United States Senate. German apolOgists the side and craven weddings Of the paCst school the other succeeded in the clos.
 ing hours of Congress in talking to death the admin jstratons measure empowering the President tO Cs- ta6.sh armed neutrality on the seas and otherwise safeguard and uphold American rights
 Well may au outraged country hang it's head in shame for this wTetched reprehensib.e performance and let loose its wrath at the odous exhibition of national perfidy and dShonor in high quarter
 To this cOmmonwealths disgrace Wesley L. Jones al:gnel himself with the ObstruCOnists and lifted an untimCly voice in eNenUatiOn of barbaric of fare I is his individual privilege to make common with potrOOns, if he must, but this state, bear ing the lOltiest American name disOwns him in that role and disayows the sorry part he played.
 Whether Woodrow Wilson required the power and credit he asked is beside the question It was enough that he asked it. Immediately it became the plain, patriotic duty to grant what he asked to the full and h manner that would iorciby and without the shad ow of doubt impress upon the world the perfect unity Of this nation. Anything short of a ready and responsive compliance with the executives request meant falling short of national duty in this emergencv Whether the Pr sident required, did not require, the additional powers called for he needed. for the dence which such an enactment would unmistakably give.
 As it is, nonaction proclaims to the world though wrongly Congress- if not country divided against itself withholding authority from the President and unwilling to meet eyentualities impending! And all because Of motIy contingent of mOycOddleS and mal contents made potent for mischief by palseyng sys tenn Of unlimited debate in the United States Senate!
 once upon a time a drunken Senator Obstructing legislation by holding the floor to air his grievances ls the hour of final adjournment approached was 'orcibly seized by the sergeantatarms and removed 70 the cloak upon autOcratC order of the presid ng officer, and the appropriations thus saved Stern treatment of like kind administered to the hyphenate- fearing Stone and his measly followers would have spared the blot now put upon the nation.
 The POst-Intelligencer has believed that Congress should be kept in continuous session. With the pos bility of war fast developing into probability or certainty. it seemed the part of national wisdom But he spectacle presented at Washington these past few Sgraceiul days has greatly modified that view The ess Congress is in evidence. if its Amercanism to e bcsmirched by upatrioc outbur5ts and its duties Instructed by a loud and uncomfortable minority, the letter for the country and the safer the guidance of he ship of state.
 What the nation is demanding is an affirmative oreign policy vigorously enforced in the protection If American rights The country is behind the Presi ent and prepared 10 give him its support to the last Olar and the last man in resisting aggression on sea r land. It would have him add to his vested powers ny power that may be necessary command respect or American lives and the American flag. The time | pr strict accountability is at hand and permits no 'averng hesitation
 Stand up for old Glory and sound the slogan merica first and America always, e