The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-03

V new members to the league of na- tions. With regard to every other matter, for example, an amendment to covenant, with regard to cases referred out of the council and as- sembly, it is provided that if a ma jority of the assembly and the repre- sentatives of all the states represent ed on the council concur that the vote shall be valid anu conclusive, which means that the affirmative vote of the United States is in every instance just as powerful as the six votes of the British empire.
 Even some of my fellow country men who insist upon keeping a hy- phen in the middle of their names should be satisfied with that, tho 1 must admit that I don't care to argue anything with hyphen. A man that puts anything else before the word American is no comrade of mine. And yet | am willing to comfort him with the statement of q fact"
 THE IRISH QUESTION
 On the Irish question. speaking from his train, the President said:
 "The covenant would not bind the United States to assist in put ting down rebellion in any foreign country, nor would it limit the power of this country to recognize the independence of any people who seek to secure freedom He said further:
 Tt was not possible for the peace conference to act with regard to the self determination of any territories except those which had belonged to the defeated empires, but in the covenant of the league of nations it has set up for the first time in Article Il forum to which all claims of elf-determination which are likely to disturb the peace of the world or the good understanding between nations upon which the peace of the world depends, can be brot."
 THE NATIONAL BOYCOTT
 Mr. Wilson also discussed a. length the arbitration and boycott provisions of the league covenant, declaring that had there been any thing approaching such an arrange ment in 1914, Germany never would have begun the war. The boycott, he asserted, was "an exclusion from civilized society,"" which no Europ- can nation could endure for six months. He emphasized that the boycott was an automatic step short of war and that under the cove nant all mutual questions of war or peace would be reserved for de- cision by congress.
 TRIBUTE TO THE PACIFIC COAST
 The President at San Francisco paid the glowing tribute to the per ception and conceptions of the peo- pie of the Pacific coast:
 q have not the slightest doubt as to what the result is going to be. l have felt the temper and high purposes of this great people as I have crossed this wonderful land of CUTS. And one of the things that makes it most delightful to stand here is to remember that the peo- ple of the Pacific coast were the first to see the new duty in it's en- tirety. It is a remarkable circum- stance that you people, who were furthest from the field of conflict, most remote from that contact of interest which stirred so many peo- pie, yet outdid the rest of the coun- try in volunteering for service and volunteering your money.
 "As l came through that wonder full mountain country to the north of us it occurred to me one day that the aspiring lines, those won- derful lines of the mountains must lead peoples eyes to be drawn up wards to look into the blue serene and see things apart from the com pulsions of force, to see the real pure vision of the interests of hu- manity; and that after all, the spirit of America is best expressed where people withdraw their thoughts from the entangling interests of ev- cry daylight, purify their motives from all that are selfish and grov- cling and animal, passed upon the desire to seize and get, and turn their thoughts to those things that are worth living for. The only thing that makes the world inhab- itable is that it is sometime ruled by it's purest spirits.
 How do men ever go to sleeI tbot houa ooroo;uoJ IT.