Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-05

| Sponslble, You must stop; this thing
Is intolerable, and we will not permit
It,, and the vision has been with the
people.
Vision With the People.
MY friends, / wish you would re-
fleet upon this proposition. The Wis
ion as to what is necessary for great
| reforms has seldom come from the
| top in the nations Of the world. 1t
| has come from the need and the as
| piration and the self-assertion of
great bodies of men who meant to be
| free. And l can explain some of the
criticisms which have been leveled
against this great enterprise only by
| the superstition that the men who
utter the criticisms have never felt
the great pulse of the heart of the
world.
And | am ama2ed-not alarmed
|but amazed-that there should be in
some quarters such a comprehensive
| ignorance of the state of the world.
| These gentlemen do not know what
the mind of men is. just now. Every
| body else does. | do not know where
/ they have been closeted, | do not
| know by what influences they have
been blinded, but | do know that they
have been separated from the general
currents of the thought of mankind.
World Must BE Satisfied.
"And / want to utter this solemn
warming not in the way of threat;
| the forces of the world do not threat
| en-, they operate. The great tides of
the world do not give notice that
| they are going to rise and run; they
| rise in their majesty and overWhelm-
| ing might, and those VINO stand IN
! the way are overwhelmed. Now the
| heart of the world is awake, and the
heart of the world must be satisfied.
DO not let yourselves suppose for
a moment that the uneasiness in the
populations of Europe is due entirely
to economic causes or economic mo-
tives; something very much deeper
underlies it all than that.
"They see that their governments
have never been able to defend them
against intrigue or aggression, and
that there is no force of foresight or
of prudence in any modern cabinet to
stop war. And, therefore, they say;
There must be some fundamental
cause for this and the fundamental
cause they are beginning to perceive
to be that nations have stood singly
or in little jealous groups against
each other, fostering prejudice, in
creasing the danger of war rather
than concerning measures to pre-
vent it; and that If there is right in
the world, if there is justice in the
world, there is no reason why ma
tions should be divided in the sup
port of justice.
Nations for the People.
"They are, therefore, saying if you
really believe that there is a right,
if you really believe that wars ought
to be stopped, stop thinking about
the rival interests of nations, and
think about men and women and
children throughout the world.
Nations are not made to afford
distinction to their rulers by way of
success in the maneuvers of politics,
nations are meant if they are meant
for anything, to make the men and
women and children in them secure
and happy and prosperous and no
nation has the right to set up special
interests against the interests and
benefits of mankind least of all this
great nation which we love.
at was set up for the benefit of
mankind; it was set up to illustrate
the highest ideals and to achieve the
highest aspirations of men who
wanted to be free; and the world
the world of today-believe that and
counts on us, and would be thrown
back into the blackness of despair if
IIcy .uSScl ltb II.
Tragedy of Suffering People.
II have tried once and again, my
fellow citizens, to FAY to little circles
of friends or to larger bodies, what
seems to be the real hope of the
peoples Of Europe and tell you
frankly I have not been able to do so
because when the thought tries to
crowd itself into speech, the profound
emotion of the thing is too much; |
speech will not carry. I have felt
the tragedy of the hope of those suf-
fering peoples.
ut is tragedy because it a hope
which cannot be realized in its per-
lection, and yet I have felt besides
its tragedy, its compulsion, it's com
pulsion upon every living man to |
exercise every indulgence that he has |
to the utmost to see that as little as
possible of that hope is disappointed !
because if men cannot now, after |
this agony of bloody sweat, come |
to their self possession and see how
to regulate the affairs of the world |
we will sink back into a period of |
struggle in which there will be no |
hope, and therefore no mercy. There |
can be no mercy where there is no
hope, for why should you spare an
other if you yourself expect to perish. |
Why should you be pitiful if you can
get no pity? Why should you be
just if, upon every hand, you are
put upon?
There is another thing which
think the critics of this covenant
have not observed. They not only
have not observed the temper of
those splendid boys in khaki that
they sent across the seas. l have had
the prOul consciousness Of the re-
flectetd glory ofthose boys, because
the constitution maze me their
commander-in- and they have
taught me some lessons. When We
went into this war we went into it on
the basis of declarations, which II
was my privilege to utter, because
] believed them to be an interpreta-
ton of the purpose and thought of
the people of the United States.