The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-22
WRONG KIND OF PATRIOTISM

Former Governor Martin H. Glynn in edito Il reprinted in the Congressional Record does nc the kind of patriotism which would maE apital out of for politics. Regarding Presidel Wilson and former President Roosevelt among otht hings, the writer says:
 } No sooner, however had Woodrow Wilson, with his panoramic view of the history of the world in peace time and in time, his thor ough knowledge of democratic aspirations anu economic possibilities, his sympathy with the and his consideration of the classes no sooner had be become President of the Unit ed States than the wheels of progress were set in motion to equip this Nation as years before she should have been equipped for the solution of pressing national problems and the handling of contingencies of an international nature
 The rehearsal of all the legislation of Presi- dent Wilson to carry out this progressive pro- gram would be superfuous here. The world knows it by heart. It insures him splendid place in the annals of statesmanship. It is the unnfistakabe triumph of the democratic yearn- ing with which the heart of mankind throbs and pulses today. And it carried Woodrow Wilson to wonderful victory in 1916 against aval- anche of money and labyrinth of intrigue.
 His Federal Reserve bank law, which Null hall, the famous English economist, said of worth to the world than the Panama Canal, saved this country, with the advent of the war; from the most supendous panic in history and enabled to ride the tumultous waters of "world-war" finance with hardly squeak tremor of our old Ship of State. Without this Federal reserve bank today the United States would be grinding and pounding the rocks of disaster
 Nor is this all.
 From vision almost prophetic came the Federal bill, which wrung lordly DOT tion of governmental revenue from internal tax instead of from tariff mposts, which, under the banful influence of war dwndled to a sum insufficient to provide fabrication for gears of Government, let alone provide fuel for the Treasury boiler that makes the wheels of tional life go round.
 Our National experience since the start ed must carry conviction to every far-minded American that for these two measures alone we have ineffabe debt of gratitude to the wisdom and statesmanship of Woodrow Wilson.
 And of our military realm we have the self tale.
 Theodore Roosevelt may indulge himself in all the weird juggling of language that peases his fancy; he may insensate himself in such inspirational riot of emotional frenzy may give fire to his tongue and flare to his imag ination but the fact remains undeniable inef facable, irremovable that in two years of ante beem days Woodrow Wilson did to put our Army and our Navy on footing of war than both William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt did in the whole II years of their supine reign.
 During these two years preparedness for a possible pushed by President Wilson as fast the sentiment of the country would permit and quite as fast the most vlo lent of his present-day critics then deemed pedient or polite.
 Suddenly however, conditions created by the autocratic dogamtism of Germany disregarding treaties and throwing promises to the winds hurled us into the seetlng whirlpool Of war Then the very men who had been at the helm of the Ship of State for 16 years, the men whose policies had weakened the Army and stunted the Navy. began to howl because could not equip million overnight and put them in the trenches of France in day They forgot the experience of England; they forgot the experience of France; they forgot their own neglect of our martial strength; they forgot everything but their own personal adver tisement and their own political advancement Again the editorial says
 And. furthermore. unlike the Spanish Amer- War; in which MT. Roosevelt was a kingpin:
 We have Army contract scandals.
 We have emblamed beef horrors
 We have no fat, old generals going to in carriages and leading battle charges from easy rocking chairs.
 We have unpleasant gossip about the ap pointment of political generals and society ad miras.
 We have roundrobin letters, from. pre- sumptnus and inferior officers demoralizing discinline and exalfinR