Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-09-06
Riddles With Feryid EIoQuence
and Cold Logic Arguments
Of PaCifiStS and' Pro-Ger-
man AgitatorS,
NO TIME TO TALK OF
PEACE DURING WAR
Enemy Is on Soil of France,
Belgium and Serbia Ruth
lesSIy; Must Be Forced to
Get Back Home,
tsvsoRsrso JoussAl SPECIAL LEASED WIRE,

ray MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIRgl
Minneapolis MINI, Sept Sam
uel Gompers, president of the AmS'-
ican Federation of Labor, late today
pledged the united support of organ
lied labor to the government in its
prosecution of the war, assailed peace
propagandists and denounced the fu-
tile activities of those who would
split labor's ranks on the question of
war.
He attacked the arguments of those
who declare the working masses want
peace. and challenged pro- German
societies to step further into the open
and match their disloyalty against
labor's loyalty.
1t was the keynote speech of the
conference of the American Alliance
for Labor and Democracy of which
Mr.. Gompers had Just been named
permanent chairman and was pune
tuated by applause from the 200 ac-
credited delegates-labor leaders and
former leaders of the socialist party
assembled in the auditorium.
Spargo Vice Chairman.
John Spargo, former member of
the executive committee of the So
cialist party, nominated Mr. Gompers,
end was himself named vice chair
man. Frank Morrison. secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, was
elected secretary, ana T. J. Mead of.
Maryland, assistant secretary. Com
mittees on permanent organization
resolutions were named.
Several members of the People S
Council of America for Democracy
and Peace. barred from meeting in
Minnesota and other states, were scat
tered through the audience, includ-
ing c. F. kruze, president of the In
ternational Brotherhood Welfare as
sociation and one of the council lead
ors, Mahlon Barnes and d. Shier.
There was no attempt TO remove
them.
ITO ask the government 10 state
its terms of peace now is playing into
the hands of the enemy" said Mr..
Gompers. referring to one of the
Peoples Council demands
Great Loyalty Wave.
The alliance, which met here to
offset the work of such organizations
as the Peoples Council, "and more
completely to Americanize labor" will
establish local branches throughout
the country.
And" predicted Mr.. Gompers,
Frank P. Walsh of Kansas City and
other speakers, "in three months the
wave of patriotism will have swept
aside the disloyalists and thrown
their activities open to the eyes OF
the world
Mr.. Gompers spoke before local
business men this noon and tonight
addressed a mass meeting Before
his late afternoon address the newly
organized alliance made public its
declaration Of principles.
Nation Is AItrulstIc.
"a moments thought will decide
that there never was in all the world
a great country that was so altruistic
in purpose and idealstic in it's prac-
tices as is the republic of the United
States" said Mr.. Gompers. with
thinking men and women / count my
self honored as one of the critics of
the shortcomings of our government
and our country. | am not given to
hide or to gloss over the wrongs
which are committed against our peo-
pie.
"Under all circumstances I have
protested against a wrong committed
against the meanest and humbiest Of
our people and have tried to be help
full so that the wrong should be right
ed because | realized that we in the
United States have not yet reached
the acme of perfection. Is that IA rea-
son why / should befoul my own nest ?
Is that a reason that | should lack in
appreciation of that which has been
done and that which has been accom-
plished?
Democracy on One Side
Take country for country, take the
countries at war against each other
and see where liberty and conscience
and freedom prevail and beyond ques-
ton 1t will be admitted by those who
are fair enough to see the right and
to dare to utter the right, that the
democracies of the world are now
engaged in one great titanic struggle
to free the world from autocracy, i'm
perialism and militarism with one
fell stroke H
II doubt if there werc many who
were so thoroughly shocked from
center to circumference as / was with
the breaking out Of the European
war. But 1t had come. And I have
asked myself, as would ask those
other men who have not yet awakened
from their delusion, is 1t not time ia
recognize when your country and yous
home is being ravaGed and oyerrid-