The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1920-06-25
LODGE Picture
NOT JUSTIFIED
SAYS observer
Evils Depicted by Republi-
can Senator Do Not Exist
Writes Thane Workman

THANE, Alaska, June 21.-The
Editor-Alaska Daily Empire: In a
newspaper article recently appearing,
| noticed an article quoted from
Senator Lodge entitled: For the
Future of this Nation" reminding
us of the dire perils lurking in the
covenant of the League of Nations.
The newspaper in which it appeared,
wants people to think it is the
source and fountain head OF all
political wisdom in the North and
this wisdom radiates all over the
Territory from its office. However,
such is not the case. | would like
to remind it that similar predictions
of dire consequences" were made
and repeated time after time i'm,
mediately following the Spanish Am
erican war, when the American Gov
eminent decided to hold the Phil
ippine Islands Indefinitely. The
same gloomy predictions of dire
perils to American institutions"
could be heard repeated. The late
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, Ger
tainly good Republican authority, led
the opposition to American occu-
patton of the Philippine Islands,
and this against Republican Presi-
dent. The holding of theN Philippine
Islands was then held to be rad
lean departure from that splendid
isolation" so dear to Washington
and Jefferson. Senator Hoar feared
drift toward Imperialism. He de
clared the occupation to be nothing
but the entering wedge of Imperial
ism. Many Democrats held the
same views, but the gloomy pre-
dictions never materialized.
President Mckinley answered his
opponents vigorously and encourag,
ingly, which he summed up under
the heading of: Our Period Of Elk
clusiveness Is Past" and again.
Our Splendid Isolation is no Longer
Applicable To Modern Require.
ments." II the traditional policy
OF isolation for America had been
infringed upon, it has been done by
a Republican President and a. Re.
publican administration following the
Spdnish-American War-if it could
be called war.
The people did not require 8 per
cent of the exertion required in the
Great War, to win the war" with
Spain. And yet the charge of in
efficiency and political corruption,
following the Spanish-American War,
echoed and reechoed from the At
lantic to the Pacific. Scandalous
conduct was attributed to Secretary
OF War Algier, and his removal
was demanded The most bitter
controversies in American history
followed that war, and the recrim-
nations ceased only with the death
of the participants, in many in
stances. The American Republic is
right now the greatest creditor ma
tion on earth and President Wilson
was perfectly right in departing
from old hackneyed theories/o iso-
latfon and history will do him ample
justice. He made have made mis-
takes and so did every prime min
lister in Europe-very grave ones at
that. President Wilson could not
be expected TO satisfy contending
factions at the Peace Conference any
more than Judge could be ex'
pected to satisfy a three cornered
law suit in court. saH
: When the scales of justice are
evenly balanced, none OF the parties
to the suit are satisfied as a rule.
Any newspaper will find some trou-
BILE in creating political capital out
of President Wilson's mistakes when
placed in comparison with the last
Republican war Presidents record.
The Democrats should not hesitate
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