Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-11
". c. SHEPHERD
APPLIES LESSONS
OF EUROPE TO us.
Famous War Correspondent
Tells What European
Statesmen Think of AM
erica and Foreign Policy,


the United Press has probably seen
moro of Mexican revolutions and
more of the European war than any
other American. He knows what wal
is. He knows what statesmen and
generals in the capitals and on tn,
battlefields of Europe think of tho
United States and her foreign policy
He applies the lessons of the wars he
has seen to the present problems OF
America in an interview, In which he
says.
II have been on every front il
Europe and in every capital except
Petrograd. on the fronts / have seer
he horrors of war And in the car.
itals ! have seen the efforts of the
various fighting nations to draw the
United states into the war
War Makes Men Unthinking Brutcs
In war, thinking men become un
linking beasts. Men of business
3ciencc and achievement stop then
work and become mere physical units
II an army. Youths drop their life
dreams and their futures. Ambitions
crumble. Home and family plans
are swept aside. Progress, whose
fieurc we carve in marble to decorate
our proud buildings, becomes "a with
cred. paralyzed wreck The blight o
hate reaches into the mnermost cor
ner Of every city Of every home o
every heart. Worse things than dealt
fall to the lot of millions of human
beings in war; including mental ano
moral decay.
into the situation which woulc
produce these terrible changes I have
seen all the nations of Europe en-.
deavor to drag the United states
"From these capitals, at the Other
end of the line, I have watche'
| Washington and the government
there extricate the United states from
one plot after another, from one dia.
| bolical machnation after another.
Europe's Efforts to Draw Is in.
| "Sometimes we in Europe who
were seeing the European side of the
| picture-the efforts of the allies t.
| draw us into war with Germany; tn
| efforts of the Germans to draw u
into war with the allies-held GU
breaths. There We're times when
| seemed that war would be the onl
way out.
| Il have seen Germany rejoicing a
| the prospect oil having ,ne i'''''
States duarrel with the allies; / hav
seen the alIles "'u WIN ut''5''I r, o,e
the chahce t1aO 'Ic ! "'''u go
would go TO war WIN ''gl''''''' wv
the Lusitana or some o''''' li'''''', IL.
But always sane souIl"' s'e"".
| the United states came l''rousI.' :
was maEnlilceh' lhins 10 Se' i'o,'
our point OF vantage III Europe !
made one thrlII 10 reali"e llat Wv
United States was MS o"" eoun,''
Now, when ] return nome l''''
an election campaign uhuof way
hear men say mat we nave peaV'
without honor. we, IN the EuIoPc''
capitals, who saw our government
escape the war traps, felt no loss o
honor We were always able TO 1902
The other fellow in the eye ana b'
proud NO one over there ever Se'i
ouslv charged MS with loss of honor
and men are highly sensitive 10 sucl
things over there.
proud If Nmcric IN sanity
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