Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-14
WAR FOUGHT IN
VAIN, SHOULD THE
NATIONS LEAGUE
NOT CO THROUGH
President Appeals to RepubIi-
cans to Forget There Is a
Campaign in 1920 and Sup
port the Covenant
THR0NGS OF PEOPLE
HEARTILY CHEER WILSON
VIII Stay More Than Week on
Coast; Reviews Grand Fleet
and Makes Two Addresses
To Big Audiences,

ESPECIAL coRRGsPoNDENcE TO MORNING JOURNAL
Seattle, Wash, Sept. 13.--Detailing
the purposes for which the United
States entered the war, as they were
set forth and accepted by congress
in his war message, President Wilson
told the people of Washington today
that the issue squarely facing the
country in the treaty debate was
whether that program should be car
ried through or abandoned. He call
ed to mind also the cost in money and
In human life by which the war had
been won, and asserted that those op-
posing the treaty now proposed that
the sacrifice should be of no avail.
In the first day of his stay of more
than week on the Pacific coast, Mr.
Wilson spoke during the morning at
Tacoma and then came to Seattle in
time to review the Pacific fleet in the
afternoon and address a mass meet
ing at the Arena in the evening. In
both cities he was cheered by crowds
that thronged every point of vantage
to get a glimpse Of him. He will rest
tomorrow at Seattle hotel.
Repeating many of the arguments
he has used previously against quail
fication of the treaty by reservations
or amendments, the president again
appealed to republicans of the coun-
try to forget that there is an cleo
tion in 1920" 1t was an American
program which the treaty proposed,
he said, and to be an American was a
thing bigger than being a republican
or a democrat. He asserted his pur-
pose to read "the riot act" to any one
who let political conditions dictate
his course in relation to the treaty.
The Tacoma Speech.
The text of President Wilson's ad-
dress in part was as follows:
I feel as I am sure you feel, that
we have reached one of the most critic
ical periods in the history of the Unit
ed States.
The shadow of the war is not lifted
from us, and we have Just come out
of the depths Of the valley of death.
thought 1t might be useful If re-
mind You of few things lest we for
get. 1t is so easy with the strong
tides of our life to be swept away
from one situation into another; to
forget the real depths of meaning
which lie underneath the things that
we are merely touching the surface Of
Therefore, thought it would not be
impertinent on my part if I asked
permission to read you the concluding
passage of the address in which I re-
quested the government of the United
States to accept Germanys challenge
of war.
For Popular Government.
"We shall fight" l said, "for the
things we have always carried nearest
our hearts, for democracy, for the
right of those who submit to author
ity to have voice in their own gov
ernment, for the rights and liberties
of small nations, for a universal do
minion of right, of such a concert Of
free peoples as will bring peace and
safety to all nations and make the
world itself at last free. To such a
pass we can dedicate our lives and
our fortunes, everything that we are
everything that we have, with the
pride of those who know that the
time has come when America Is priv
ileged to spend her blood and her
might for the principles that gave her
birth, of happiness and of peace which
she has enjoyed. God helping her
she can do no other"
That ispthe program we started out
on. That Is the program which all
America adopted and shall We no Il
falter at the very critical moment
when we are finally to write our
name to the standing pledge which
then took?
1 want to remind you many other
nations were put under deeper
temptation than we. 1t would have
been possible for little helpless Bel
GUM at any time to make terms
with the enemy. Belgium knew that
resistance was useless. Belgium
knew that she could get any terms of
advantage from Germany that she
pleased If she would only submit.
And at the cost of everything that
she had Belgium did nothing else than
underwrite civilization.
! do not know anywhere in history
of more inspiring fact than that.
Praises Belgium.
Belgium lies PROSTATE because she
fulfilled her pledge to civilization.
Italy could have had her terms at the
hands of Austria at almost any periodi
of he war. particularly just before
she made her final stand at the Piave
live., but she would not compound
with the enemy. She, too. had under