The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-06-30

tests, confronted with internal disaster and ruin involving the present government of Ger many, she signed.
 It remains to be seen how fully she will carry out the provisions. If she does so fully, most people are convinced that it will be be- cause she could not escape doing so. That she will do so willingly is hardly to be expect ed
 All reports of various German activities, especially those on the western border of Po- land do not create feeling of confidence as to her good intentions If conditions existing there approximate anything near those report ed, it would appear as if she was entering or a deliberate campaign to compel allied mili tary interference.
 The terms are severe But the general satisfaction which greets them from all sides, save Germany's, proves that they are not over ly harsh. All are agreed that Germany must be accorded justice in the final settlement. If this has not been done, the error lies in being lenient instead of too harsh.
 It is vastly different set of terms than the one which Germany, from the "all high est" to the lowest Jerry in the ranks, had in minds when she hurled her legions across Bel gium at the throat of civilization in 1914. AL ready she saw herself mistress of the world, dominating commerce, trade, society and all human activities by the right of brute force.
 More than four long years were required to beat back her vandal hordes Millions of lives were sacrificed and billions of dollars expended in the achievement. Failure to achieve world power upset her plans and the day of reckoning has arrived and the balance struck.
 Even tho Germany has signed the war is not yet ended. The terms which she has ac- cepted must now be ratified by the various signatory nations before peace can be official ly proclaimed. The treaty and its complement, the league of nations, now pass to the various ratifyng bodies of the several countries inter ested and their duty is to reject or ratify.
 From all indications in only one country will there be any organized opposition to eitl CT the league or the treaty. All Europe as we'll as Japan are agreed as to the necessity for the league and the wisdom of its bein. part and parcel with the treaty terms.
 In the United States alone is there any real fight yet to be made before peace can come. Certain republican senators have en- tered into a combination, some thru genuine distrust of the effect they fear the league would have, others and the more numerous group from political designs and fear and hatred of President Wilson.
 In every attack they make upon the league, thru their ingenious phrasing gleams of their malice against the President show up like dry rot in the heart of sound wood. Cast ing aside the ,loak of senatorial dignity, they have hurled themselves into struggle against anythin gwhich he proposed any stand he made seeking deliberately to cause failure ill the important mission he undertook, know ing that such failure meant disaster to the world, but unmindful of that if only they could bring about his political destruction.
 Tomorrow MT. Wilson leaves for home He has been working under a severe strain for months. About him has swirled diplo- matic storms, the Adriatic difficulty, the Saare valley question. French claims to the east bank of the Rhine, British demands for re- distribution of German shipping, Japanese claims for German islands, and other matters some of minor and others of greater omport- ance. Under such strain, he must be worn down considerably.
 Perhaps he has not accomplished all that he set out to do. But the big item in his peace program has been adopted. He has seen hi society of nations plan adopted by representa- tives of the greatest nations in the world. He has seen it incorporated unalterably into the terms of peace in such a manner as to give il tangible force and for such purposes as to