Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-29


When this war broke out. |. ant
all those who believed as | did, cast
all thought of politics aside and put
ourselve unreseryedly at the service
OF the president, OF course. if Mr.
Wilson has really meant To disregard
politics he would at once have CON
struggled a coalition, partisan cab
net calling the best men of the ma
ton to the highest and most import.
ant offices under him. without regard
to politics, He did nothing of the
kind. In the positions most vital Ia
the conduct of the war and in the po-
sitions now most important in con-
necton with negotiating with the
peace he retained or appointed men
without the slightest fitness for the
performance of tasks, whose sole re-
commentator was a supple eager
ness to serve Mr.. Wilson personally
md to serve Mr. Wilson'S party in so
TAR as such service benefited Mr..
Wilson.
Appeal Pure Partisanship.
j am glad that Mr.. Wilson has now
cast off the mask His appeal now
s pure partisanship.
i ask all patriotic Americans to
consider Just what is meant when
the president says that in the pres
eht congress the leaders of the min
ority, although unquestionabIv pro-
war nave been anti-administration.
ihese leaders supported that admin
istratlon when declaration of war
was needed They supported it when
there was a demand for the draft.
Fhey supported it when We sent tho
army overseas. They supported ev-
cry demand for money, whether by
taxation or by loan. They supported
1t or gave it initiative and guidance
on every issue where ii stood for Wig
orous prosecution of the war and
they supported ii on these lines when
the leaders of President Wilson'S own
party opposed him when he had com
mltted himself to war measures--and
yet President Wilson now makes a
partisan appeal in favor of the demo-
Greats who opposed the war measures
and against the republicans who sup
ported them. Now, what does Mr..
wilson mean when he speaks OF
these leaders as being, although pro-
war yet administration? He
means that when the war department
was administered with utter ineffi-
clency they investigated the matter
and insisted upon efficiency. He
means that when they found that
nothing effective was being done in
snip building they insisted that the
work be speeded up He means that
when they found that six hundred
million dollars had been spent for
alrplanes and yet that not an air.
plane had reached our soldiers at the
front, they insisted that our soldiers
shouid get the airplanes for which the
people had paid.
MI wilson regards it as "anti-ad-
nlnlstration' to demand that our gall
iant men at the front receive the
guns and the auto rifles and tanks
and alrplanes and shoes and clothing
Tor which congress has appropriated
SO many billions of dollars The entire
oItense or the republican leaders in
Mr.. wilson's eyes is that they have
demanded that inefficiency and waste
and extravaganza be remeded Such
a demand he treats as anti-adminis-
tration.'
Says Young Ford Stacker.
Mr.. Henry Ford has announced
mat ne does not believe in patriotism;
that ne thinks the flag is silly. and
does not believe in ii, and that when
this war is over he will pull down the
Rag and never hoist it again. The son
of this multi millionaire stays at
home while hundreds of thousands of
men of small means leave their wives
and children and go to the war. But
Mr.. Wilson is supporting Mr.. Ford
for the senate. On the other hand.
Senator Weeks does believe in pa
triotism. He does believe in the war.
His only son is fighting oversee at
this moment, facing death: side by
side, with his comrades from every
rank of life. But Mr.. Wilson is op-
posing Mr.. Weeks. There are dozens
of such cases, and the only explana-
ton possible of the presidents attitude
is that he makes adherence to his per-
sonal fortunes and not loyalty to the
nation the acid test in accordance with
which he gives or withholds support,
The president says he is anxious
about the effect on Germany and our
allies Of the election of a congress
which would follow the present re-
publican leadership of the house and
senate. He need be under no anxiety.
1t would he clearly understood abroad
as at home. our allies would know
that it meant that America was de-
termined to speed up the war, to back
her own army and the armies of the
allies to the limit, TO tolerate no cor
ruption or inefficiency in waging the
war and to insist on Germany's uncon-
ditional surrender. Germany and her
vassal states would know that in this
country the ro-Germans and pacifists
and Bolshevists and Germanized So
cialists could no longer be counted
Ifnnn nfftaipnt
that he fighting men and not the rhe-
torlcans were uppermost and that
henceforth the Germans would have
to deal with the straightforward and
resolute soul of the American people,
and not merely with the obscure pur-
pose and waverng will of Mr.. Wilson.
And flnally, let our people remember
that the incoming congress will deal
with the vital questions of reconstruct
ton after the war The president pro-
poses to let these questions be
dealt with by those who con-
troll what his personal organ calls
the present Stacker congress.
lie proposes to put the reconstruc-
ton of the country in the hands Of
these slackers under the guidance Of
such men as Mr.. Kitchin, the pres
ent leader OF the house, and incident
ally one of the anti-war workers of
the house. Surely the country will
feel that this work of reconstruction
ought to be entrusted to other hands,
and that these hands shall be those
OF the republican" leaders whose vi
sion IS for the future and who yet
possess practical ability to work for
the best interests OF the present"