Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-31

selfishness and bargaining and ma
| tional advantage which were the roots
of this war and any man who coun-
sells these things advocates a renewal
| of the sacrifice which these men have
made; for if this is not the final battle
| for right there will be another that
! will bC final Let these gentlemen
J who suppose that it is possible for
/ them to accomplish this return to an
order Of which we are ashamed and
! that we are ready to forget. realize
| they cannot accomplish it. The peo~
| pies of the world are awake and the
peoples of the world are in the saddle,
| Private counsels of statesmen cannot
| now and cannot hereafter determine
| the deStinies of nations Ii we are not
| the servants of the opinion of nttn-
kind, we are of all men the ltttlest
I the most contemplate, the least gifted
with vision. If we do not know Cour-
| age we cannot accomplish our pur
pose, and this age is an age which
! looks forward, not backward; which
rejects the standard of national self
| ishness that once governor the coun-
sells of nations and demands that they
shall give way to a new order of
things in which only the questions will
| DC Is IL IlSHl IS IL JUST Is II III
the interest of mankind"
This is a challenge that no previous
generation ever dared to give ear to-
So many things have happened. and
they have happened fast, in the last
four years. that | do not think many
of us realize what it is that has hap
pened Think how impossible it
would have been to get body of Ne
,sponsible statesmen seriously to enter
tain the idea of the organization of
Il league of nations four years ago!
and think of the change that has
! taken place. | was told before | came
to France that there would be Confu-
sion of counsels about this thing, and
| found unity of counsel. | was told
! that there would be opposition, and
l found union of action. l found the
statesmen with whom | was about to
deal united in the idea that we must
have a league of nations; that we
could not merely make a peace settle
ment and then leave it to make itself
effectual, but that we must conceive
some common organization by which
we should give our common faith that
this peace would be maintained and
the conclusions at which we had ar
rived should be made as secure as the
united counsels of all the great ma
tons that fought against Germany
could make them. We have listened
| to the challenge aud that is the proof
that there shall never be war like
this again. 49,.
Spirits Stiil Live
Ladies and gentlemen, we all be-
leVe, | hope, that the spirits of these
men are not buried with their bones.
Their spirits live. / hope believe
that their spirits are present with ms
at this hour | hope that / feel the
compulsion of their presence. | hope
that ! realize the significance Of their
presence. Think, soldiers of those
comrades of yours who are gone, If
they were here, what would they say!
They would not remember what you
are talking about today. They would
remember America which they left
with their high hope and purposes
/ They would remember the terrible
field of battle, They would remember
what they constantly recalled In times
i of dangor, what they bad come for
4 and how worth while it was to give
, lives for it, And they would say For
/ get all the little circumstances of the
day. BE ashamed of the jealousieS
that divide you. We command you IN
the name of those who like ourselves
have died to bring the counsels of mer