Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-21
JOHNSON OBJECTS TO
MAKING U. S. SUBSEQUENT
TO FOREIGN NATIONS
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of our action and the time of our ac-
ton.
ITS silly to talk about moral or
legal obligations. The honest man
and the honest nation carry out their
moral obligations as readily as either
would carry out a legal obligation.
We Have Never Been Isolated.
1T may be legal or moral, or as
the president says, compulsorlly
moral; it may be of one sort or the
other, nevertheless when the United
States of America signs its name to a
document by which it guarantees ter
ritorial integrity of another nation,
the United States of America will
carry out its obligations no matter
what the cost may Ne. SO ! don't stop
to talk to you in differentiation of one
kind of obligation of another.
Our splendid isolation of the past,
to which our friends on the other side
so feelingly refer. is a matter quite
apart from the discussion. They say
we have entered upon our world ca
reer we can't turn back Not so, at
|all. We have never been isolated
from the rest of the world, financially,
socially. commercially, politically or
any other way The only isolation
which has been ours is geographical.
God gave us the two oceans, and what
God has given US in these two oceans
even the league of nations can't take
away from us.
III any man had come to you three
years ago, before the war; ii any man
should come to you three years
hence and say to you that he was en-
tering into a partnership between his
nation and a foreign nation by which
the foreign nations should be given
six votes in that partnership and our
country should be given only one. you
would boot him from the rostrum-
If he did that three years ago or three
years hence you would boot him
away.
But so strange and distorted is our
psychology today that that very
proposition is made to us. | have no
prejudice against our English brother.
admire him immensely, | admire the
ability with which Lloyd George rep
resented the British empire. l would
that We could have hired somebody to
represent America who could have
served our interests as well
How England Has Grown.
''What Il proud boast II was
that he made to his parliament
the other day when lac sara ne
had added to the great British
empire 100000 square miles of
territory. What Il proud thing il
was when he said to them, We
have so arranged ii now that
whenever we are called into any
war the United States enters au-
tomatically.' What proud thing
| il was for him when he was able
TO demonstrate that the great
British empire hold today prac-
tically one-fourth of the whole
surface of the earth, and its
dream of rule from Cairo TO the
| cape is now realized.
But as | look about the nations of
the world who are profiteering from
the war, | find one nation fought for
| its ideals AS Lloyd George, with his
tremendous territorial gains, and
Clemenceau, with his, looked about to
find one great unprofiting nation of
the world they saw before them Amer
| lea, and they wrote into that pact
that this nation should guarantee 10
England, Italy, France, Japan, all
| their acquisitions by these countries
of the great territories and peoples
| they have received; while | may not
care at all and probably do not care,
one thing | say to them: If you want
to take the territories for which you
have fought and which are your boast
| today of your power and greatness,
and all the great things you have
done; we join with you in the paeans
of praise, but my fellow citizens, my
son and your son shall not guarantee
tese territories and those people to
those nations for all time in the fu-
| ture.
This is the issue whether the nom
profiting nation in the world, yours
and mine, shall guarantee the profit
and booty they have gained, from the
other nations of the earth. Not only
do we guarantee to our European
neighbors their spoils but we guarap-
tee to our neighbors beyond the sea,
| the Japanese, their spoils, and you
can't question the infamy of the shan
tung decision in glitterng generalities,
pleasing phrases"