The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-12
The Presidents Challenge.
(New York World.)


 'The proudest thing have to report to you, President Wilson in his speech in Boston yester day lis that this great country of ours is trusted throughout the world
 This is the proudest thing that any President could report It is the highest tribute that can be paid kept? How is the faith of the world in the Amerl- can people to be maintained?
 That was the text of the Presidents address. and nobody familiar with conditions in Europe can deny his conclusion:
 This confidence have established
 throughout the world imposes burden upon
 us Any who resists the present tides
 that run in the world will find himself
 thrown upon shore high and barren
 that it will if he had been separated
 from his humankind forever.
 If America at this juncture to fail
 the world what would come of it? America
 the hope of the world, and if she does
 justify that hope the results are un-
 thinkable.
 treaty of peace and do more, will have noth- ing but modern scrap of paper
 Thus far the opposition to the League Of Ma tons in the United States and particularly in the Senate has been counsel of cowardice. It has come from tmid men who are afraid to permit the United States to play mans part in the world. They fear that it may cost money. They fear that it will entail duties. They suspect that great friendly peoples like the British, the French and the Italians at heart thieves and bandits who turing into darkened street only to rob and murder They are terrified of respon- abilities.
 They worry about the Constitution and the Mon roe Dosrine and the Panama Canal They grow
 
 which has taught sef-government to the Filipinos might be asked to assist some other backward peo- pie the road to freedom
 When these critics are not ruled py thelr COW COW, ardice they ruled by their petty parochial prejudices. They think the United States can De in the world but not of the world They would have the most powerful of republics emulate the example of the Coreans and become hermit na- tion lest association with other countries corrupt hearts and institutions. They do not believe that can be prevented, but if wars can be prevented let somebody else stop them. It is none h1Si heinz neutral there would be opportunities for making money.
 Moreover, League of Nations a practical thing in international affairs is innovation, and always to be regarded with suspi- cion Besides, President Wilson favors it, and every Perhaps he coerced the British the French and the Italians Who knows? This scheme to prevent war may be all subtle plot for his own political az grandizement. And so it runs.
 But the hard facts of the world situation must be faced. The millions of men who have suffered the horrors of this the hundreds of millions of people who have made the sacrifice of life and treasure, have rightly regarded it as war to end war If it is not that to them if their children must tread the blood-stained path that they have trod if the old order of things is to be restored, all thsi agony has been in vain If there is to be no of peace and security, if the nations are not to exert their reason and their power to main tain the liberty that has been won what was the good of it all? Is there any American in the Senate out of the Senate who is prepared to assume the moral responsibility for thus cheating the living and de- fraudng the dead
 No critic of the League of Nations has advanced any plan of his by which the peace that ends this war be guaranteed. Not one of them holds out the smallest of hope civilization wound ed almost death They leave the world weting blood and tell the afflicted peoples to heal themselves best they can.
 The Wrold does not believe that that sentiment represents the mind and the heart of the American people They may be confused for the moment by the camor of discordant voices, but they have strayed far the ideals of the Republic. As the President said yesterday, We set this Nation up to make men free and will make men free" And that is his challenge to his opponents when he invites them to test the sentiment of America