Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-08


IT some perverse fate should give
to me the power of war and peace
and call upon me TO fla the seasons
of truce and the times OF combat
should certainly make June period
Of peace. IT is impossible 10 harmon
lie the promise Of the season with
blood-letting There are filter occupa-
lions when the world Is knee deep in
June than lying at the Threats of
brother men or than letting loose
poisonous gases TO be driven by the
Dalmy winds over the trenches occu-
pied by sons of grieving mothers.
And there Is nothing In the season
that can be made to harmOnize with
firing shells ten miles at target
which you cannot see, for the pur-
pose of killing men against whom you
have no personal hate. And the SUM
iner sous ought not TO be Nexed by
The explosion of torpedoes let loose
from treacherousN submarine mon
sters. The proper mood for June ex-
presses itself not in war but in
verses like these:
Who knows whittier the clouds have
fled?
In the unscarred heaven they leave
no wake.
And the eses forget the tears they
have shed.
The heart forgets its sorrow and
ache.
The soul partakes the seasons youth,
And the sulphurous riffs OF pas
sion and woe
Lie dead meath a silence fine and
smooth,
Like burnt-out craters healed with
snow
But, alas the sulphurous rifts of
passion ana woe do not lie dead In
this June. ana they have not been
inert IN past Junes. The month of
roses has been the month of battles
II was In June that Bunker Hin was
fought. 1t was in June that Sheridan
made his famous ride down the Shen-
andoah valley to Winchester. It was
in the same month that the Alabama
and the kearsarge had their duel to
the death. Bnt these arc modern
scars on the month of roses.
Cromwell at Nascby.
The great victory Of Cromwell over
Charles | at Naseby, which DESTROYED
the IoNui HuNtF Nllu anu Alt ibuHhlT
lions FOR the commonwealth in Eng
land, was won ON June IA, 1915, This
was triumph for democracy and a
defeat for privilege which heartened
All freemen but in comparison with
the battles Of the present June it was
only sklrmish between two small
forces Charles | had an army of l0,-
eco and Cromwell mustered only
$4,000, but they fought for their lives
with such weapons as were availahle,I
and when Charles | lost his guns and
ammunition train II was impossible
for him to equip another army in all
England But the pettiness OF the
conflict does not diminish the great
ncSs OF the issues involved
Only eight years later ADMIRAL
Blake, general of the seas who
treated The Atlantic as British lake
aud disputed the right Of the ships
Of other nations To sail It unmolested,
met the Dutch fleet in the channel on
June s. and forced Admiral Won
Tromp TO flee for his life. He had not
long before seized a Portuguese fleet
OF merchantmen as a reprisal on
Portugal for refusing to allow him To
attack the Dutch in Portuguese wa
ters, The rights of neutrals We're
poorly defined IN those days and no
right WAS admitted on the sea save
the right of superior power
The power of the sea which Blake
won for the British IS now challeng-
ed hy other nations; but the dominion
over India which Lord Give won at
plassey, on June %, lTb7, has been
strengthened with the years But III
was not a great battle. save in It's
consequences. olive had only l.f00
European troops, supported hy a.
small native army OF 2l0O. and he
was opposed hv 0.900 men under the
Nawab Of Bengal. But he had under
mined the loyalty OF the Nawab's
commanders by the liberal use of
gold. The battle was a farce. but for
all that Il Is down in the records as
"a glorious victory" and one more TO
be placed 10 the credit Of the month
OF roses
The battle ef Bunker HIM, which
was fought on another continent in
june. eighteen years after plasseN,
was 10 greater consequence to the.
world. Although il was noninally a
British victory the colonists diseov-