The Cordova daily times., 1920-09-20

chances on the welfare of his own country and his own countrymen mere ly in order that he may experiment with some theory of world govern ment, is less than a patriot and good citizen.
 Any man has the right to make any sacrifice he wishes in behalf of others. That sort of sacrifice is noble, even when blindly or foolishly made. But the American citizen who is willing to sacrifice the safety of his own countrymen in behalf of some pre- conceived idea of his own is not half as noble and sacrificing as he claims to be. He is patriot after the pat tern of Artemas Ward: Undermined to put down the rebellion even at the sacrifice of all his wife's rela tions." When some of the big talk that is heard in high places about being "unselfish' in our attitude tow ard the rest of the world is analysed, we find it akin to that of the man who sits on the pier and talks elo- quently to his wife about her duty to jump into the ocean and save a bystander who has fallen into the sea.
 Just as Republicans believed and said in 1916 that President WOlsOn's policies were not keeping us out but getting us into war, so they say now that the un-Americanized treaty and covenant, with Article X requiring the American people to send soldiers into every war that may begin anywhere in the world, is not device to bring peace to this land. but to put it per- petually in the shadow of war. The League of Nations as it was written at Paris is a combination of imperial ism and communism. It represents imperialistic expansion and aggression by some of the powers, but so far as this country is concerned it represents sacrifice of our safety, our interests, our rights and our ideals.
 The Republican party stands where Theodore Roosevelt stood in the mat ter of the League of Nations. It stands for a league of justice as con- trasted with this proposed league of force. It stands for the protection of the rights of this nation to cling to it's own institutions and ideals. Not a reservation was proposed by Republl- cans in the senate giving to this na- tion the right of aggression against any other nation, the right to take from any other nation what belongs to it. The reservations adopted by the senate, and to which President Wilson was so much opposed that he killed the league and treaty rather than &C., cept them, safeguard things that have been considered fundamental in Amer icanism from the days of the founding of this republic.
 The Republican party is not respon-
 
 Nations. For that, one wilful man is wholly responsible, because he insisted upon misrepresenting his country at Paris and then tried to coerce a CO., ordinate branch of the national govern ment into a betrayal of the duty it was sworn to perform. With him it was the Wilson league or nothing; he would not yield an inch to any plan for safeguarding America in the adOp- tion of the covenant and treaty. Gov. Cox says he is absolutely one with MT. Wilson, This means that if MT. ton of tie fight for the adoption of the un-Americanized covenant. The end of such a contest is certain be- cause it is now sure that at least one-third of the membership of the next senate will be opposed to any league scheme which puts America last, and in the destruction of what this nation stands for, would kill the worlds last and best hope of the rule of justice throughout the world rath- CT than the sway of force. This is the issue as it stands. Every man who wants to make the world safe for America must cast his ballot against those who think of this repub- lie last, if ever, when they begin to develop their ambitious plans for the worlds reconstruction.
 VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS