The Alaska daily empire., 1918-11-25
AMERICAS CONTRIBUTION.

The military contribution which the United States made to the defeat the German Army was great enough to source of enduring prlde lh 'hs country Never before in the history ot the "oriu was an expeditionary force as large as the Amer ican Army equipped and sent 10 any such distance as that which 1t traversed. When the full accom- plishment of the navy Is known there Will be an other astonishing to tell and the industrial and financial achievements of the country nave been 
 In the battIefeds of France the Ameri- can Army which turned the tide. On the day that Germany knew beyond further doubt that the Amer ican Government could land troops in France to the full extent of the nations and that Amer jeans could fight well any men the Germans knew they were beaten. They have known it for three months and it American brain and Ameri- can energy that convinced them.
 But when the is said of American participa- ton in the fighting, it must still be said that great CT military glory goes elsewhere. Not one of the Allies in Europe did little in proportion to its power the United States, and the British colonies when judged by wealth and population, have madt far greater sacrifices than this country has, while will come out of this war with a better record for heroic fighting than the colonias will bear.
 The greatest contribution made by this country the winning of the the contribution of a well-defned ideal. That ideal the democratic idal and found its application in the thought that the would fall fatally short of it's possibilities unless it became for democracy.
 While the statesmen of Allied countries were en- gtossed in the stern business of whipping Germany while they battling for nation existence, America had time look and think. American isolation freed American staesmanship from the prejudces sell fish ambitions present fears and ancient hates that becouded European thinking about the and its objects It possible here to the meaning of the struggle a whole and to that the Allied course more than common cause against Ger many and vastly various separate caus- es which actuaed the different nations It that Alsace-orraine, unredcemed Italy, the enslave ment of the subject peoples of Austria and the so lation of the Belgian treaty but the symptoms of world disease and that the would reach it's full fruition unless the disease erred
 When the day came, America, speaking through the President, proclaimed democracy the cure and every other cause became subsidiary to the 
 Old fears tat the peace council might be the of break between the Allies disappeared under its unifyng influence, and new hope took shape in the hearts Oi every oppre ssed nation The thought that the might berate the Slavs gave way to a conviction that it must lberate them and that Austria Hungary was more to be tolerated in reorganized Europe than Turkey was.
 The disintegration of Austria Hungary was due as much to penetration of this idea to force of arms, and the example of Austria sinking without struggle in separate autonomous states instantly reacted in Germany whore for many months the same doctrine had gradually accustomed the Ger to the knowledge that they could neither gain peace friendship without first altering their ernment. For the reyolution that is now in pro- eress in Germany the people had been prepared by their autocratc rulers, who by their grudging concessions democratic forms under pressure of the American ideal encouraged the German people carry reform to the utternost.
 The war is won and it's greatest object is won without agreements and without treaties, because the democratic ideal is self-ehectuating II has been powerful instrument in winning the It is still at work reorganizing Europe. In the end it will bring 10 the table group of men seekng justice. not