Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-25
MEN WHO ARE OPPOSING
LEAGUE Do NOT KNOW
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
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WI Ilueu L LoIn fdse one
new nationalities that affect new
areas Of the world that affect new
commercial and economic connections
that have been established by the
great world war through which we
by the moderateness of those who
have represented national claims ]
can testify taat l have nowhere seen
the CLEAN of passion. / have seen
earnestness, | have seen tears come
TO the eyes of men who plead for
down trodden people whom they
were privileged to speak for; but they
We're not the tears OF anguish, they
were the tears of ardent hope.
And ! don't see how any man can
fail to have been subdued by these
pleas, subdued to this feeling, that
he was not there to assert an indi-
vidual judgment of his own, but to
try to assist the cause of humanity.
And in the midst of it all every
interest seeks out first of all when
it reaches Paris. the representatives
of the United States. Why? Because
and ! t1ink | am stating the most
wonderful fact in history-beCause
there is no nation in Europe that sus-
poets the motives of the United
States.
Was there ever so wonderful a
thing seen before? Was there ever
SO moving a thing? Was there ever
any fact that so bound the nation
that had won that esteem forever to
deserve it?
| would not have you understand
that the great men who represent the
other nations there in conference are
disesteemed by those who know
them. Quite the contrary. But, you
understand that the nations or Ep-
rope have again and again clashed
with one another in competitive in
terest. 1t is impossible for men to
forget those sharp issues that were
drawn between them in times past.
1t is impossible for men to believe
that all ambitions have all Of sud-
den been foregone They remember
territory that was coveted. They re-
member rights that it was attemnted
to eNtOrt; they remember political
ambitions which it was attempted to
realiZe-and while they believe that
men have come into a different tenn
per, they cannot forget these things,
and so they 10 not resort to one an-
other for a dispassionate view of the
matters in controversy. They resort
to that nation which has won the en-
viable distinction of being regarded
as the friend of mankind
Americans Welcome Everywhere.
Whenever it is decided to send a
small force of soldiers to occupy a
piece of territory where ii is thought
nobody else will be welcome, they ask
for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be looked upon
with suspicion and perhaps met with
resistance, the American soldier is
welcomed with acclaim.
| have had so many grounds for
pride on the other side of the water
that am very thankful that they are
not grounds for personal pride. I'd
be the most stuck up man in the
world. And it has been an infinite
pleasure to me to see those gallant
soldiers of ours, of whom the consti-
tuition of the United States made me
the proud commander. You may be
proud of the Twenty sixth division,
but I commanded the Twenty di-
vision and sec what they did under my
direction And everybody praises the
American soldier with the feeling that
in praising him he is subtracting from
the credit of no one else
/ have been searching for the fun