The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-09-08

HE ALASkA (Il1ZE Doctrine, he is going to be met with pretty general credence.
 When he declares that without the United States, the league of nations will fall to the ground and that the world will be the sufferer and the American people be general ly regarded as having failed to measure up to their full responsibility as world race, he is going to get definite results. All of which is not going unobserved by the oppo- sition.
 "Impeach him." cries Senator Sherman when the President informs a Columbus, Ohio, audience that the international labor conference will meet in Washington soon re- gardless of what action or want of action, is taken by the senate. Of course it may not suit Senator Sherman and his coworkers of the opposition to have an international labor meeting camp down next to the capitol next month, but they will have hard time con vincing most Americans that such confer ence contains cause for the Presidents i'm peachment.
 We may expect to hear other walls from the opposition before the President ends his speaking tour. The position now occupied by the opponents of the league plan is getting ur- Icomfortably warm. The further MT. Wilson progresses the warmer it will get. It begins to look as if the question of the ratification of the treaty would after all be settled by the people and not in the committee room of the senate committee on foreign relations where Mr. Lodge has his abode
 u,L-TIMED IRISH PROPAGANDA
 The recent appeals made by Irisl,-Ameri- can leaders to the senate foreign relations committee in an effort to induce that body to report unfavorably to the senate on the ratification of the league of nations cannot but lose sympathy for the cause of Ireland. They are based on selfishness in SO much as those persons making them put the Irish in- dependence before the peace of the world.
 Every speaker mentioned as appearing before the committee is an American citizen. But without exception, each of them made his plea as an Irishman forgetting his obligations to his own country, or placing them below his love for Ireland. The war practically elimin- ated the hyphen in "German-American, mak- ing such persons either Germans or Ameri- cans, and if Messrs Walsh, Dunne, ct al, are not more judicious in their fight on the league of nations, it is altogether likely that the peace settlement will force show down on the hy- phen in "Irish-American."
 Sober consideration of the matter must convince any reasonable man that no action that the United States might take in regard to Ireland would be of any material benefit save declaration of war against England, and the consequences of such an act are un- thinkable. Senator Phelan, from California, recently spoke in the U. s. senate on this suL ject, declaring: eff an Irishman tells me that he would put Irish independence before the spectacle of world bathed again in blood, the loss again of millions of lives, and the hunger disease, privation sufferings and torture in flicted upon millions more would say he has forfeited generous consideration by an exhi- bition of unutterable selfishness"
 That is, in effect, what the Irish-Ameri- can leaders have said when they say to the United States senate, Do not ratify the league of nations' Because the peace conference refused to interfere in England's domestic af- fairs, radical Irishmen would have the United States refuse to join in establishing new world order which is designed to prevent fu- ture war, and without which there is sure to come sooner or later struggle which will dwarf even that one which is just being closed. That section of the Irish race which is repre- sented in the body of American citizenship will be well advised if it steers clear of these ill timed attempts to advance Irish independence at the expense of humanity in general