Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-01
Wilson, Plea That He Needs
Democratic Senators to Cdrry
Out His Policies Is BuncOmb

gated an ordinance requiring all Wo-
AMEN between tho ages of is and -
to register, and giving the men the
right to choose from among them
once each month wife pro temporo,
hey consent being unnecessary, the
childrcn of such marriages To be-
long to the state.
Wilson and Metcalf Agree.
We know that Mr.. Metcalf is not
Vet advanced enough in socialism To
inpr've of that practical application
OF its principles, and we may assume
the President 5 also in harmony With
him ON that point.
They may not be in entire accord
m some other questions For eN-
mple, Metcalf believes that our sol
Tiers fighting in the field twenty
lours day Should be paid at least
IS much rs the government now pays
ne railroad track laborer for eight
lours, even though the soldier has no
ote With which to reciprocate public
'avors.
Again, while Metcalf approves the
rctS of the administration in. fixing
he price of wheat wool. mefts end
lthel northern and western products.
'hould not he applied to cotton and
roducts from the solid democratic
'outh The president appears To he
1t odds with him on at least those
'wo points.
The omnous significance of Mr..
Netcalf's support of Wilson is that he
ecogniaes the fact that the president
mas led this country under the cloak
{ the grim necessity of war far along
he path of applied socialism in which
the state * 10 be everything and
he individual nothing" 4 path from
which to retrace its steps after the
war our country will require the best
'alcnt and craftsmanship II possesses,
That is the reason Metcalf and the
socialists are giving Wilson their ap-
oroval ana support and It leads old
inc democrats as well as republicans
right up to thu question: Does the
'ountry desire to 20 on with Wilson
md Metcalf clear over he BC'shcvist
prec.pice, or does it wish to call halt
or retraCe.
The latter course will require men
# vision clear enough to penetrate the
nations future course and needs: and
with courage enough to stand against
the holshevist elements ana move
monts among our own people to which
the president so plainly parders on
the one hand and the extreme rcac-
tionaries who would go back to the
old order of thngs on the other, 1t
VIII need a man of known progressive
tendencies for while socialism must
be relegated to its rainbow cell and
is kennel yet the interests eff the la
boring classes. the men of small
means must be advanced and safe
Guarded under the new order of things
as never before Verify it is no job
for a weal5ling or a rubber stamp
Compel Wilson to Fight Ii Out
SO far as the war and its termina-
tlcn is concerned, the whole public
press Except soclaistsY shows that
this nation democrats and republicans
alike. rs Endy ana en- masse are of
ona mind That in agreement and in
harmony with our allies who have
horne the burden Of the struggle we
will stand by the president and if nee
cSsary compel him to fight ii out, un-
til the last Hun who harb0rS visions
of some future time when he can start
again and muose kulture on the
| world, is thrashed into what Grover
| Cleveland once termed irDcucus de-
eueude; and we will finally admit
him on terms of equality to tho fU'l
brotherhood of nations when. in our
good Judgment time has SO far disn-
feted and blcached his SOU thai So
/cietv can endure his company without
holdiro its nose
II. which We doubt the president
ho9 SGT his mind on some other boil
shoviet theory for ending this war,
then he &c due for change NJ mind.
because the consent of two-thirds Of
the senate is required, and # every
democrat running was elected that
""vcr could hn secured The plCa that
the president needs democratic sena-
tors to ca~ry out his peace plans is
puro uolitical buncCmbe and Is pat
entity insincere. What the country and
tho president both need for the diff
CT'' Questions of reconstruction that
VIII follow the war and are already
IN for solution les not socialism not
intorro tonal BolsheNist theories. but
y GOOD, bratnv balance wheel against
Bolshevls tendencies, and every man