Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-20
HUNS OUTRAGE
Of BELGIUM WAS
GREATEST WRONG
Of WAR; WILSON
President Tells BeIgians Viola
ton of Their Soil Awakened
World to Character Of the
Struggle.
URGES PRIORITY IN
OBTAINING MATERIAL
Also Declares That Allies Must
See That People Of Belgium
Get Credit to Tide Them
Over Lean DAYS.
tsr MORNING JouRsAL SPECIAL LEASED wrssl

Brussels, June 1S.--(by the Asso-
! ciated Press THE King and Queen
of the Belgians said good bye &c
| President and Mrs. Wilson tonight aft
er a day of functions and sight see
ing that taxed the energies Of every
individual in the American party.
The president made three speeches
and an extended tour of the battle
fields, attended a luncheon and for-
NAL dinner by the king. Had there
been any doubt relative to the feeling
between Americans and Belgians, II
was removed in the chamber of depu-
ties when the president was warmly
applauded by the members and those
gathered in the galleries.
In his address before the Belgian
chamber of deputies President Wilson
said in part:
"The enemy committed many out
RACES in this war, gentlemen, but the
initial outrage was the fundamental
outrage Of all They, with that inso-
lent Indifference, violated the sacred
ness of treaties. They showed thai
they did not care for the honor OF
any pledge. They showed that they
did not care for the independence OF
any nation, whether 1t had raised its
hand against them or not; that they
were ruthless in their determination
to have their whim at their pleas
ure Therefore, 1t was the violation
Of Polgipm that awakened the world
to t. replication of the character OF
the struggle
"a very interesting thing came out
of that struggle, which seems almost
like an illogical consequence. one or
the first things that the representa-
tives of Belgium said to me after the
war began was that they did not want
their neutrality guaranteed. They ala
not want any neutrality. They wanted
equality, not because, as | understood
them their neutrality was insecure,
but because their neutrality put them
upon a different basis of action from
other peoples. In their natural and
proper pride they desired to occupy
place that was not exceptional, but
in the ranks of free peoples under all
governments.
"I honored this instinct in them
and IL was for that reason that the
first time I had occasion to speak or
what the war might accomplish for
Belgium ! spoke of her winning
mace of equality among the nations.
So. Belgium has, so to say. once more
come into her own through this deep
valley of suffering through which she
has gone.
"Not only that, but her cause mas
linked the governments of the civiliz-
ed world together. They have realized
their common duty. They have drawn
together as If instlnctively into lea
pue of right. They have put the
whole power of organized manhooi
behind this conception of justice,
which is common to mankind.
Defends League.
"That Is the significance gentle-
men of the League of Nations. Ine
League of Nations was an inevitable
consequence of this war. 1t was
league of rights, and no thoughtful
statesman, who let his thought run
into the future, could wish for a mo-
ment to slacken those bonds. His first
thought would be to strengthen them
and 10 perpetuate this combination or
the great governments of the world
for the maintenance of justice.
"The league of nations is the child
of this great war;. for It is the eX-
preston of those permanent resolu-
tions which grew out OF the tenn
porary necessities of this great strug-
gle, and any nation which declines
TO adhere to this covenant delib-
eratelv turns away from the most
telling appeal that has ever been
made to it's conscience and to its
manhood.
"The nation that wishes to use
the league of nations for its con-
venience and not for the service Of
the rest of the world deliberately
chooses to turn back to those bad
days of selfish contest, when every
nation thought first and always of
itself, and not of its neighbors;
iIonrInued on PaLs Twoi