Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-05
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init Its government to do what the
the German government did.
German People Guilty.
TN the last analysis, my fellow
countrymen, as we in America would
be the first to claim a people are
responsible for the acts of their gov
eminent, if their government purposes
things that are wrong, they ought to
pose is not executed.
Germany was self-governed. Her
rulers had not concealed the purposes
that they had in mind, but they had
deceived their people as to the char
acter of the methods they were going
to use, and I believe from what / can
/ learn that there is an awakened con-
sciousness in Germany itself to the
deep iniquity of the thing that was
attempted.
When the Austrian delegates came
before the peace conference, they in
so many words spoke of the origina-
ton of the war as a crime and admit
ted in our presence that It was a thing
intolerable to contemplate. They knew
the deepest conceivable wrong; that
1t had put their people and the peo-
pie of Germany at the Judgment seat
of mankind, and throughout this trea-
ty every term that was applied to Ger
mnay was meant not to humiliate Ger
many, but to rectify the wrong that
she had done. And if you will look
even INTO the severe terms of the rep
aration, for there was no indemnity
no indemnity of any sort was claimed
merely reparation, merely paying
for the destruction done, merely maxi
ing good the loss so far as the losses
could be made good which she had
unjustly inflicted, not upon the gov
ernments--for the PREPARATION is not
to go to the governments-but upon
the people whose rights she had trod-
den upon with absolute absence of ev-
erything that resembled pity There
is no indemnity in this treaty but there
Is reparation and even in the terms of
reparation a method is devised by
which the reparation shall be adjusted
to Germany's ability to pay it.
Pressed to Utmost Point.
'I am astonished at some of the
statements i see made about this
liSdlyt anu TIC tIulH Is LIldt tley are
persons who have not read the treaty
or who, If they have read it, have not
comprehended its meaning.
There is method of adjustment in
the treaty by which the reparation
shall not be pressed beyond the point
which Germany can pay, but she will
be pressed to the utmost point that
she can pay which is just, which is
righteous. 1t would be intolerable If
there had been anything else, for, my
fellow citizens, this treaty is not
meant merely to end this single war;
1t is meant as a notice to every gov
eminent which in the future will at
tempt this thing, that mankind will
unite to inflict the same punishment.
There is no national triumph
sought to be recorded in this treaty.
There is no glory sought for any par
ticular nation. The thought of the
statesmen collected around that table
was of their people, of the sufferings
that they had gone through. Of the
losses they had incurred. that great
throbbing heart which was so de-
pressed, so forlorn. so sad In every
memory that it had had of the five
tragic years. my fellow countrymen.
high purpose, the disinterested pur-
pose with which America lent its
strength. not for its own glory but for
the advance of mankind.
Will Prevent War.
"And as ! said. this treaty was not
intended merely to end this war; it
was intended to prevent any similar
war.
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of the league of nations have forgotten
the promises we made our people be-
fore we went to that peace table? We
had taken by processes of law the
flower of our youth from every eoun-
tryside, from every household. and we
told those mothers and fathers and
sisters and wives and sweethearts that
we were taking those men to fight a
war which would end business Of that
sort and if we do not end 1t, if We do
| not do the best that human concert of
| of action can do to end 1t. we are of
all men the most unfaithful-the most
unfaithful to the loving hearts who
suffered in this war, the most unfaith-
| full to those whose heads bowed in
grief, vet lifted with the feeling that
| the lad laid down his life for great
| things, among other things in order
that other lads might not have to do
| the same hting.
THAT is what the league of nations
Is for. to end this war justly. and 1t
is not merely to serve notice on gov
ernments which would contemplate
the same things which Germany con-
templated, that they will do it at their
peril. but also concerning the combi-
nation of power which will prove to
them that they will do it at their peril.
1t Is idle to say the world will COM
bine against you because 1t may not,
but it Is persuasive to say the world
lis combined against you and will re-
main combined against any who at