The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-09-30
ISOLATION POSSIBLE

Shortly after the ma jority report of tht senate foreign relations committee had beer made on the floor of the senate, Senator Lodge chairman of that committee defended the reservations and amendments proposed by that report giving as one of his strongest req sons his "Americanism' He declared
 q will go as far as any one man i'll world service, but the first step i'll world service 1 the maintenance of the United States. Iol may call me selfish, if you will conservativ or reactionary, but an American l was born an American I have remained all my life.
 'I can never be anything else but al American and 1 must think of the United States first, and when 1 think of the United States first in arrangement like this l an thinking of what is the best for the world for if the United States fails the best hope of mankind fails with it. 1 have never ha( but one alleglanCe-I cannot divide 1t now.
 Turnout the speech of the senator h' overlooked the fact that the chief achievement of the war was the Unacceptable entang lemen of America" The United States, no matte what 1t might deslre has no choice in thl matter. Germany dragged it into the con
  "The iron necessity of making sure that ou boys did not die in vain letters Us firmly t( the task of fighting on with the forces tha seek to bring ordered peace out of tumultuou and terror-ridden chaos.
 Answering Senator Lodges assertion o Amerlcansn, the editor of the Ledger make the following comments: No wonder the gal leries cheered. Who could say otherwise: w. are all Americans first. But does the senato believe that America would now be worse of If she had been "entang led' in league o nations during the summer of 1914 WhlCl would have been able to tell the Hapsburs government of Austria-E Hungary that its ult matum to Serbia was War-proVoking ac which must be withdrawn ii 1t did not deslr to encounter the condemnation of the league Does he believe If Germany and Austria ha( known at that time that any wanton precipl tatlon of war on their part would bring into the field against them automatically Britain France and Russia, but Italy and the United States as well, that they would have rushed to meet their fate? The same thing would b true if it had been Russia that then thot O. lifting the lid off he'll" The "union O. civilized nations" with "a controlling forc' behind the maintenance of peace" which Sen ator Lodge so eloquently envisaged at Unio' college, would have kept the peace.
 And America, which we must think O. first, would have been richer today by ten of thousands of "dead," hundreds of thous ands of "wounded" and billions of dollars We paid big price to learn the lesson tha we live in the world, and no senator can sins sweetly enough to cause us to forget for { moment so long as America does not lend he1 sanity and power to the proper control O what MT. Lodge calls so contenptuously "every controversy and conflict on the fac' of the globe," she abstains at the cost of risk ing the life of every American lad who leaves his home this morning with a righ face turned toward the days duty or pleasure
 
 we cannot stand aloof We cannot shirl the risks. Immediately greater risks will men ace us if we do. We must pool our brains anc our hearts, and our strong right arms. We must join the forces of prevention as we'll a! the forces which subsequently, fight the flames on dizzy ladders We cannot afford to spl hairs and chop logic cover definitions of the Monroe doctrines or what are or are not do- mestic questions x * *"
 VITAL. TO ALASKA.