Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-01

are: but who has list of them
Where are they? What law lays up
on them the duty OF coming into the
ranks of the armed forces of the
United states il II should be neces-
sary to call for volunteers.
What we wish is a definite citizen
reserve of men trained to arms 10 q
sufficient extent to make them quick
~ transformed into fighting force,
organized under the immediate direc-
ton of the United states, subject TO
definite pledge to serve the United
States and pledged to obey immedi-
ately the call of the president when
congress authorizes him to call them
to arms.
Have you looked at the most vail
ucd souvenirs Of the families in Am
erica? Have you never seen a rusty
sword, treasured from the days of the
revolution or from the days OF the
civil war? Have YOU never seen an
old fashioned musket hung up in
some conspicuous place OF honor?
Loved Honor Moro Than Peace.
eve dread war; We condemn war;
in America we love peace. hut we
know that the lads that carried those
swords and those muskets loved some
thing more even than they loved
peace--that they loved honor and the
integrity of the nation.
And so we prepare ourselves, not
to be unfair to the men who are going
to make this self sacrifice should the
terrible necessity arise, for them to
make it. We ought to make sure that
we are not responsible for leaving
them unprepared In knowledge and III
training
Tho men and women of the Amer
lean colonies were physically com
Portable. Even the much complained
of arrangements of trade in those days
were not unfair in the sense they did
not bring prosperity. America was
offended and restless under the mere
suggestion that she was not allowed to
get her prosperit in her own way and
under the command OF her own spirit
and purpose. The American revolu-
ton was fought for an idea. We would |
have been as prosperous under tho
British crown but we should not have !
been as happy, and we should not have /
respected ourselves as much. And |
therefore whata America is bound to
fight for when the time comes IN moth /
ing more nor less than her self-re- I
spect. There Is no immediate pros I
pect that her material interests may
be seriously affected. but there is con
slant danger every day of the week .
that her spiritual interests may suf- {
fer serious affronts And 1t is in or
der that they may be safeguarded, IN
order that America may ahoW that the
Did conceptions of liberty are ready /
to translate themselves In her hands
into the conceptions and manifesto
ions of power at any time that II is /
necessary so to transform them.
Il did not come away from Wash /
ngton because ! had the least mis-
giving as to what the United states
was going to do. You must not get
inpatient because there are long pro- +
,esses of debate at Washington Wait
or the end OF the debate, and the !
Kings that are necessary to be done
ne going to be done, and thoroughly
lone.
Il have merely come in order that
'ou might receive from my lips the
assurance of the absolute necessity
hat these things should be done, thor
,ughly done. and done very soon. il
nay turn out that you have laid upon
ne an impossible task; and that I
hall have to suffer the modification
.Hu you tHc UlShppOlHtmtnt Oh HdNlnE
he combination Of peace with honor
roved to be impossible.
1T is not a happy circumstance TO
ave those tense moments Of national
ecessity arise, and yet I, for my part,
m not sorry that this necessity has
risen. II has awakened me- myself,
frankly confess to you, to many
hings and many conditions which a
ear ago | did not realize. did not
ealize then that the things we're pos
ible which have since become actual
acts. | am glad that | know better {
han | knew then exactly the sort OF
'orld We are living in. {
1T is probably fortunate circum- !
lance that America has been cried
wake by those voices of the disturb [
d and redeemed night, when fire !
veeps sullenly from continent to con !
nent; and ii MAY be that In this red e
anne Of light there will rise again
nat ideal figure Of America holding /
p her hand OF hope and OF guidance :
) the people of the world saying: L q
and ready 10 counsel and TO help: 5
and ready to assert, whenever the 3
anne is quieted those infinite princi- ?
les of rectitude and peace, which (
lone can bring happiness and liberty
mankind