The daily Alaskan., 1918-03-25
Outlaw Among Nations.

warning, In the drowning of helpless women and children, In bOmbardinS unfOrlihed cities, in lurking like as sassins beneath the waters and in the air, ready to strike and murder the un- armed, the unSuSpectlng. and the help less. has evidenced savagery and brutality such as the world has never known before. Humanity will find it difficult to forgive and history impos' Sible to forget, Germany Is the out law among the nations, trampling un' der foot every obligation of interna' tlOnal law, threatening every ideal dear to the hearts of freemen; and the world will not be safe place for liberty until the German autocracy Is Overthrown and crushed forever.
 We would have lost the respect Ot mankind and our own self-respect had We failed to take up the gauntlet SC jnSolently thrown in our face by the German rulers. We are fighting fol our own freedom and for the freedom of all men during all the years tc come. It takes fighting to make the people free and more fighting to GeeI the people free. We want no con Quered territory, we desire no lndem Rity. The mission of America in thi' war Is to free mankind by enthroning justice and brotherhood in the hearts of men everywhere. We are fighting Germany in order to secure the per manent peace of the world, which IS impossible as long as the German mlll- tary system Is allowed to exist for there can be no enduring peace until further criminal aggressiOns against the other nations by the German au- tOcracy have been rendered impossi- ble. The same reason which impellt l us to enter the war must force us-to keep up the war until Its objects have been accomplished, for an inconclu- sive peace now would merely mean a death struggle later on between Amer lean ideals and an unconQuered Ger man autocracy.
 No Compromise Possible.
 A truce now would be compromise, and there can be no compromise be- tween liberty and tyranny. A truce now would be surrender, and surren- der would be defeat. James Russell Lowell wrote these words in the long ago, and they come to us in the present crisis with a new and deeper mean ing:
 Once to every man and nation comes the
 moment 10 decide
 In the strife of truth with falsehood, Tor
 the good or evil side. -.
 Hast thou chosen. O my people, in whose
 party thou shall stand,
 Ere the doom from It's worn sandals
 shakes the dust against our iand7 Careless seems the great avengsr; his
 tory's pages but record
 One death struggle in the darkness 'twlXt
 old system and the word.
 Truth forever on the scatrold, wrong for
 ever on the throne.
 Yet that scafrold sways the future, and
 behind the dim unknown
 standeth God within the shadow, keeping
 watch above his own.
 List the ominous stern whisper from the
 
 ''They enslave their chIldren's children
 who make compromise with sin"
 Before we entered the war Ameri- cans had a right to be neutral as be- tween other nations. Now that we are In. no American can be neutral. The American who Is neutral now Is guilty of treason to the Republic. The American who Is not for his country in this war must be counted as against his country. Whatever our internal differences may have been, In such a time as this we must be one people, loyal to a common country and devoted to a common flag.
 Must Support Armies.
 Millions of America's sons have an- swered to the nations call. They should have the full support of heart and soul and spirit of all American men and women, for, in the name of Amer lea and in behalf of America, they are going forth to battle in order that American honor may be sustained, American freedom preserved, to make the world safe for the common man, and to make international justice su- preme. The withholding of such sup port by any individual or organization Is disloyalty to the government and treason to the flag.
 This Is the supreme hour in the life of this republic and the world. A new economic and social order is emerging In every land and new international- ism Is being produced by the blood and suffering of mankind. The ending of the great war, in the only way that 1t can rightly end, will mark the be- ginning of a new epoch of world CO., operation for the advancement of the common good. The public will no longer be the people of one section or of one nation, but all mankind and the principles of humanity will then be ap- piled between nations as they have long been applied between individuals. And why not? The inventions Of the past few years that have annihilated time and space and brought distant parts of the earth in touch with each o+har bova crested new ObligatiOnS in