The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-15
SPEAKER WANTS
 LEGISLATURE TO ENDORSE WILSON
First Division Member h. troduees Resolution Fa- voring Formation of the
 League of Nations.

Speaker White would have the Al aska Territorial Legislature go or record as favoring the League of Ma tions and give expression to senti- ment of approval of the course ot President Wilson and former Presi dent Taft in endeavorng to organ ize the world again war. He intro duced a joint resolution for that purpose in the House this morning
 Speaker Whites joint resolution follows:
 Whereas, since America entered the war now about to close, the men women and children of this Nation have bent their every effort and have cheerfully endured great sacrl fices and sufferings for no selfish end but for the sole purpose of SC curing the reign of law, of advanc ing the cause of civilization, and oi making the world "safe for democ racy"; and
 Whereas, it was for those same purposes that so many thousands of the sons of America have laid down their lives and now sleep or the battlefields of France and in Flanders where "the peoples blow be tween the crosses, row on row, that mark their place.; and
 Whereas, we for whom they fell should not "break faith with the dead" but should bear still higher the torch which from falling hands they have thrown to us. to the enc that they shall not have died in vain; and
 Whereas, representatives of the Nations now assembled at the Inter national Peace Conference at Yer 5ailles have unanimously agreed upon I covenant and constitution for g for the purpose of securing and per petuating to mankind of this age and of future ages the beneficient re suits of the victory which has been won by right and the righteousness of civilization over the might anc cruelty of barbarism, Now Therefore
 Be it resolved: That while the great part which has been taken by 1ur beloved country in this great war causes our hearts to swell with joy and pride, we are none the less ratified at the great effort whicE America is making to secure the per manent peace of the world. We are proud of the high prestige our coun try has won, and proud of the place it occupies in the hearts of men everywhere We realize that the Nations are looking to America tc take the lead and be the spokesman in this world crisis, and that if America is recreant to the great cause no pauses in the great work, the hopes of humanity will give way 10 the gloom of despair.
 Be it further resolved: That we endorse the proposed League of Ma tions and call on all the lovers of liberty and all the friends of hu manity to rally to it's support. We are far away and relatively of littlo importance, but we wish to contri bute our mite to the noble endeavor by sending a word of cheer to Pres; lent Wilson and former President Taft and to all who are so faithfully laboring with them to the end that America may fulfill it's destiny as he light of the world and the hop of the ages. God speed them in the noble work in which they are engag ed
 Be it further resolved: That these resolutions be spread upon the Jour nal of this House, and copies there If be sent to the President of the United States, and to former Presi lent Taft, and to the Senate and House of Representatives at Wash ington.
 PRICE INTRODUCES SAME
 RESOLUTION IN HOUSE