Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-03
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 3. 191
LET Us ADJOURN POLITICS.

The time has come for the AmeFl-
can people to do something. If they
wait for conditions to become per
fectly satisfactory before they start
a forward movement, they will bring
about the worst thing possible, a pc
Rod of stagnation in business.
An Alaskan engineer-and that is
n spectal breed of engineers, willing
10 stand up to anything from an au4
rora borealis to a glacier falling into
the sea by chunks-brought down by
dog-sledge, seven weeks from Nome
TO Seattle, his simple creed: Develop
ment and fear don't travel together
Just now everybody is waiting for
a decline in prices. Labor wants TO
take no cut until the high cost Of
living has been reduced; the mlru-
facturer doesn't want to reduce he
price Of his goods until Their cost IS
lowered by a reduction Of wages; the
farmer is certain it would bankrupt
him if he sold his wheat belo" the
figure set by the government for
1920-$22G a bushel
Thus we are on stills and don't
know how to get off of them.
While it was announced that we
would adjourn politics during the war,
nothing Of the sort was done. But
now that congress IS about to end by
constitutional limitation and the New
Mexico legislature soon will pass into
history. let us all really adjourn poll
ties and begin to move forward to
save the prosperity of the state and
the nation.
The Journatfrns had its say regard
ing the political situation. 1t has
tried to give the facts to its readers
as fully as it could and as fairly, The
league of nations is not a political
question now, and let us hope that it
may not become one. Whatever is
done about it will he done by the
president with the approval of the
United States senate. So far, there
has not been a voice raised against
the creation of such league. but
VOICES are being raised all over the
country against this nation taking
over obligations to foreign peoples
without first knowing what those OBJ
legations are to be.
But the time has come for us to
turn our minds to the business Of
making the country prosperous. Of
ending the halt to which we came
when the armstice was signed. All
over the country there is a demand
for houses. for buildings, for things
the doing of which give employment
to labor. But men hesitate to invest
for fear they will lose money by the
operation.
Let it be said here, they will lose
far more If they continue to listen to
the whisper of caution.
Our men in France were not timid,
They went ahead, regardless of gas
and machine-gun bullets, shells and
bayonets of the enemy. Many house
has been built on sand-the grit that
makes for success. The Sunday school
boy grabbed at an important truth
when he said the lions didn't kill Dan
lei because half Of him was back
bone and the rest grit"
What we need just now is n spirit
of daring in business. That is not
recklessness. 1t would be a reckless
bid for business depression, for ruin.
Gus stagnation, if we should continue
to halt between two opinions-thC
one opinion that we should go for.
ward without further waiting for adj
justments to come; the other one thai
we should wait for some one else tC
bring us prosperity We must go after
it, and reach our objective before We
stop That is the way the war was
won.