Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-06

| ton. The present nationalist is the
man who wants his nation to be the
| greatest nation and the greatest ma
ton is the nation which penetrates to
! the heart of its duty and mission
among the nations of the world
ut is in the light of ideas Of this
| sort that / conceive it a privilege to
! discuss the matters that ! have come
away from washington to discuss. l
! have come away from Washington to
! discuss them because-apparenty it
1 is difficult to discuss them in Wash
| mgton--when the whole subject is
surrounded with mists which it is diff
| ficult to penetrate.
zone of the most interesting things
| that / realized after l got TO the other
side Of the water was that the mental
attitude of the french people with
regard to the settlement of this war
was largely determined by the fact
that for nearly fifty years they had ex-
.pected 1t. we cannot. we will not live
another fifty years under the cloud
of that terror.
Fatal Misconception.
'The terror had been there all the
time and the war was its flame and
contamination, and it had been exc
cuted because the politics of Europe
were based upon a definite concep-
ton That conception was that the
strong had all the rights and that all
that the weak could enjoy was what
the strong permitted them TO enjoy.
"One of the centers OF all the bad
business was Ia the town of Con-
stantinople And that was Because
Constantinople was the key to the
weak part of Europe. That was where
the pawns Were; not the kings and
queens and castles and the bishops
and the rest of chess game of politics,
but the little pawns, And every inter-
national conference that preceded the
conference at Paris had been intended
to aonsummate the arrangements for
that game.
THE treaty of peace with Germany
is a charter and constitution of q now
system for the world. and that new
system is based upon an absolute re-
versal of the principles of the old sys-
TEN. The essential object OF that
treaty is to- establish the independence
and protect the integrity of the weak
peoples of the world.
Stands for Article Y.
when you read Article X" said
the president, you will see that it is
nothing but the unavoidable logical
consensus of the whole system of the
covenant of the league of nations; and
l stand for It absolutely. &
"If it should ever, or in any imports
ant respect, be impaired. l would feel
like asking the secretary OF war to
get the boys who went across the
water to fight on some field where
| could go and see them and | would
stand up before them and say: Boys,
| told you before we went across the
seas that this was a war against war,
and / did my best to fulfill the prom
Use, but | am compelled to come to
you in modification and shame and
saw | have not been able to fulfill the
promise. You are betrayed; you have
fought for something that you did not
get, and the glories of the armies and
the navy of tht United States Is gone
like. dream in the night. There
ensues upon it in the suitable darkness
of the night the nightmare of dread
which lay upon the nations before thR
war came; and there will come some
time in the vengeful providence OF
God another struggle in which not a
few hundred thousand fine men from
America will have to die but as many
millions as are necessary to accom-
plish the final freedom Of the weak
peoples of the world.
Our Business to Prevent War.
IL hear some gentlemen who are
themselves incapable Of altruistic
purposes say, oh, but that Is altru-
| istic. 1t is not our business to take
care of the weak nations of the world
No, but it is our business to prevent
war and if we don't take care of the
weak nations of the world there will
be war. Let them show me how they
will keep out of war by not protecting