Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-19
NATIONAL GUARD
SAVAGELy ATTACKS
MILITARY BILL
Says Universal Training and
League of Nations Cannot
1sst 2lcsas3a the
General Staff.


Washington, Aug 1S.--The capitol
has not yet recovered from the shock
of the terrific, and wholly unexpected.
attack upon the ChamberlainK Kahn
conscription bill made by the National
Guard association of the United
States which is holding its annual
conference in the Seventy-first regi-
ment armory in New York city. Every
member of the house and senate mill
itary affairs committees received last
week a telegram, stating definitely
and explicitly that the men who car
ried the day at Chateau Thierry and
the Argonne, are in no mood to trifle
with permanent peace time training
and conscription in America. That
telegram, which was only partially
carried by the press associations, de-
serves rehearsal in full:
Telegram in Full.
-Four million veterans of the great
war are sufficient nucleus for the
organization of any army which may
be required for some time to come.
1.-THE American people will not tol,
crate the ruthless abandonment of a
policy which created a great civil
army which answered the call, never
flinched in the face of the severest
fire and whose record of achievement
stands as a guarantee of its ability to
handle any situation which may con-
front it.
THE Chamberlain Kahn bill abol-
ishes the citizen soldiery of the United
States which public sentiment de-
mands shall be the backbone of its
military strength and. at a time when
the people are struggling under the
burden of excessive taxation, creates
at, enormous expense, the machinery
for the establishment in America or
that detestable Prussian system
which is abhorrent to the American
! people.
"The league of nations and the
| Chamberlain-Kah bill can never go
| hand in hand.
| EITHER the league of nations is a
snare and a delusion or there is no
| necessity for the passage of the
! Chamberlain Kuhn bill.
| Condemns General Staff.
"The Chamberlain Kahn bill Is the
swan song of the general staff. Fail
| ing utterly in its efforts to secure
/ necessary recruits for the regular
army it now attempts in time OF
peace under the guise of q universal
service bill to resort to CONSUMPTION
and to seize from their homes the
youth of America for service in the
regular army in the Philippines. In
Hawaii, In Porto Rico. in the cana
zone and even in Russia should the
military dictator created by the pro.
visions of this vicious bill determine
that the emergency demanded It.
The Chamberlain Kahn bill de
stroys and places a stigma upon tn
citizen soldiery which bore the brun
of fighting as shock troops, and ere
ates centralized military oligarchl
with dangerous potentialities for po
liticaI abuse, and the destruction o.
the freedom which is vital to the ex
istance of the country.
Therefore the National tGuard as
ISOLATION of the United States, through
| its officers. executive and Legislative
committees in conference assembled
representing that great body of citi
zen soldiers whose record of efficienc,
entities it to the fullest measure O.
support, opposes the passage of thu
| Chamberlain Kahn bill"