Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-16
UNITED STATES A MERE
CATSPAW IF PACT Is
RATIFIED AS IT STANDS.
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hundreds of thousands of square miles
of territory and The transfer of mill
lions of human beings to England,
France, Italy and Japan, is that by
doing so the possibility of future wars
will be minimized, and there may be
greater sense Of security in the pos
session by England, France, Italy and
Japan of their newly acquired peoples
and territories.
viii Strive for Their Rights.
''But this argument in its last analy-
sis means that United States power
and treasure and blood will do for
England, France, Italy and Japan
what otherwise they would be COM
PEELED TO do for themselves. 1t means
not the end of discomfort or the ces-
sation of war, for peoples held in
cruel subjec.ion like the Koreans or
Chinese win ever be striving for their
liberty and the self determination for
which we talked so much and did so
little. 1t means that the great democ-
racy of the world-our country-must
not only continue party 10 the de-
NAL of these peoples rights whenever
they are asserted, but to our diplomat
ic Genial we will add denial economi-
cally and by force of arms, too.
II am not quarrelng that our allies
make Germany pay the full price"
continued Senator johnson.
n do quarrel with requiring our
treasure and our blood for all time in
the future to preserve the spoils of
war to England, France. Italy and
Japan under secret bargains, which in
bad faith We're concealed from us dur
ing the war. During the war. we,
properly and rightly, made every sac
rifice. We are demanding now. at its
close, none OF its spells, but in the
name Of America, lei us at least refuse
to be treated as part of the spoils.
Mistress of the Seas.
''Out of the war Great Britain
comes with supremacy of the sea
unquestioned, BY the treaty she has
a fourth of the earth's surface and an
overwhelmingly preponderance of the
peoples OF the earth. Great Britain
proudly contemplates out Of this peace
a British world. Shall we, who neith-
er ask nor get anything from the
peace, guarantee this British world
with our wealth and our man power?
France and Italy and Japan emerged
with territories beyond the widest
dreams OF their statesmen and 1t is
demanded that America shall under
write all their immense accessions.
I'VE have been told by the president
that we must now by this league of
nations make the supreme sacrifice
and throw in our fortunes with the
rest of the world Why? The very
query evokes from league enthusiasts
immediate and angry retort, and,
while they will not enlighten us. they
hint darkly at our motives and deny
even our good faith. Occasionally we
hear that we have at last entered upon
a world career, that we have become q
part of world politics and that we can
not now either withdraw from the
course into which the war drew us, or
desert the world which so needs us. In
the language of famous editor of the
west All of this is partly true but
it by no means establishes that we
must surrender our cherished position
or our loved ideals by becoming
party to the sordid quarres and the
diplomatic duplicity of Europe and
Asia.
U. $. win play Her Part.
THE United States will play her
proud part in the world in the future
as she has done in the pasta part
prouder because based upon American
principles and American ideals. 1t did
not require secret treaties and stealthy
hartering of unwilling peoples to
make our nation play, her part in the
war; 1t does not require the guaranty
of secret treaties and bargaining and
bartering of unwilling peoples to have
the nation play its part after the war.
Throwing in our fortune with the for
tunes of the rest of the world, means
with our altruistic brethren throwing
our fortunes to the rest OF the world,
that the rest of the world may do
with our donation as 1t sees 1t. Gladly
will we do what duty commands ana
humanity and civilization may require,
but that duty can be better done. our
obligations to humanity and civiliza-
ton better fulfilled In the high posi-
ton of the worlds greatest democ-
racy than in the subordinate position
of the least consequential of quin-
tuple alliance, or as one Of many
bound irrevocably to the guaranty of
the many powers and territories
League of Armed Nations.
This Is not a league of nations to
prevent war 1t is league Of armed
nations in a gigantic war trust In
its very creation it has been stripped
of every idealistic purpose it ever had.
1t contains within itself the germs
of many wars, and worse than. that,
1t rivets, as in the Shantung decision,
the chains of tyranny upon millions of
people and cements for all time un-
Just and wicked annexations. 1t is a
great world economic trust, wherein
few men sitting in secret may con-
troll the economic destinies of peoples
It is not league of peoples. nor does
IT anywhere concern itself with peo-
pies whose past wrongs and future
rights were SO eloduently portrayed by
the president. 1t is a trust Of existing
present power. 1t viii never prevent
war, it will sanctify power in new,