The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-28

of Nations is going to be formed, or continue the old system, of the balance of power. One thing we are quite sure of, and that is, that Amer ica will not agree to a thing she fought to destroy; balance of power is undemocratic, and un-American; | America's part in the great conflict was to make the world safe for dem ocracy, and secure peace and liberty for all who were oppressed. Now, l it devolves upon this great peace conference, to see to it that not only | is the world made safe for democ- racy, but, that a democracy will be created which will be safe for the world It will be no easy task, for instead of having plenty or good raw material to work with, and out of which to create such a democracy
 there is nothing but wreckage, to bring about peaceful and satisfactory conditions out of such disorder, will certainly entitle those peacemakers to be called the children of God.
 | Peace and liberty have always been purchased at a tremendous cost the peace that is worth while and that will endure, is not peace at . any price, but peace at the right price. The right price being humil- iation, repentance and restitution
 That is what God demands of all men everywhere; the wealth of the nations combined is not sufficient to pay the cost; think of the precious lives sacrificed, families broken up, homes ruined and precious art treas ures destroyed; what price can be
 put upon these things? Those whc are directly responsible for the awful ruin should be made to understand
 that a simple little apology is not sufficient to atone for their sins or
 the sins of the nations they repre- sent. This peace conference should
 be looked upon as an agency in the
 hands of God, for the bringing about
 better political, social and religious
 conditions.
 It may be urged by some that it
 is not the business of this peace con ference to meddle with religion, that
 religion is not a national but an in
 dividual matter. But, here is one of the points of contact: Wars have
 three sources at least-social, politi
 cal and religious; therefore it is within the province of this Peace Conference, to grant religious free
 dom to all people; this is according
 to the eternal purpose; that every
 man shall have the right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience and none dare to molest or make afraid. When we think of how the Jews have been treated by the Russians and the Ger mans. and of the Armenian by the Turk, we cannot help but pray, that the good and merciful God will in spire those peacemakers with such Iholy wisdom that they will see to it that the Jew, and Armenian and all others who worship the true and liv- l ing God, shall be protected in their rights as a people. A peace and a democracy that will be safe for the 1 world must embrace those Self evident truths; that all men are created free and equal; that they are endowed by their creator, with | certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
 the Pursuit of Happiness. The Jew. ish bill of rights which has been
 ratified by the American Jewish
 Committed, and presented to the
 Peace Conference. asks nothing more or less than these their rights. What
 would Jesus Christ do were he given
 place at the peace table? Who
 but the hardest-hearted atheist could
 fail to see the handoof Providence in some things that have results
 from this awful war; for instance the deliverance of the Armenians and the rescue of Jerusalem from the
 hands of the abominable Turk. Sure Iy, there must have been rejoicing
 in Heaven when the victorious Brit
 'sh Army marched into the Holy lCity. Mir. Charles w. Whitehair. an
 eye witness to the conquest of the
 Holy Land. has contributed a splen z did article to the National Geograph