Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-31

81. Louis. Mo, Dec. 30.-Quotinl
from President Wilson, General Woo
and Theodore Roosevelt Prof. william
H. Hobbs, of the University of Michi
gan, told the American Association foi
the Advancement of Science today
that it was time to determine "wheth
er we had not better abandon the ideG
of the league of nations before it wa!
entered upon
president Wilson has admitted o.
the scheme for which he stands snon
sor before the world that with il'
adoption we would embark upon 'un
charted seas. =" said Professor Hobbs
we need then, the advice of those
best qualified to forecast the storms
We are likely to encounter and to de
termine whether we had not better
abandon the adventure before il is en-.
tered upon. The real question before
the American people has from the
start been one of the reliability OF
judgment of it's political prophets"
Quotes the President.
In quoting President Wilson, Pro
fessor Hobbs said: standing in the
of the peace conference at the formal
presentation of the covenant of the
league of nations. Woodrow Wilson de-
clared of this instrument. 1t is defi-
mite as a guarantee OF peace. II IL
definite as guarantee against aggres-
SION
"On the other hand Gen. Leonard
Wood has made the statement that
the claim that any covenant viii pro-
tect the world from future wars is idle
twaddle and a dream Of mollycoddles.
The pacifists, moreover. tell you
lies when they say war as an institu-
ton is dead. Don't listen to the mol
lyeoddles. Be a citizen of common
sense.
(which guide are we to follow
Each has been a leader in the recent
past when the issue was, as now, both
national security and world idealism.
Woodrow Wilson declared we could
not become involved in the war ana
that the affairs of Europe were not
our concern. so he advocated non-pre,,
paredness as the remedy. Leonard
Wood declared that we were very like
ly to become involved in the war that
our only safety was in making prep
arations for any contingency, that the
world struggle was our war and he
had risked all that he had n save the
country and his countrys honor.
Wants Horse Sense.
eslas,lrhe Psyeifiatsi' saintieil did moi avail
tn keen us out of war despite mr..
Wilson'S consoling promises, and the
internationalists' solution which he
now no less confidently offers to
charm away future wars has an equal
chance of success.
"Theodore Roosevelt tells usa IT is
we'll at this time for sober and reso-
lutte men and women to apply that eX-
cellent variety of wisdom coiloduailV
known as horse sense TO the prob
lens of natlonalism and International
Nations are made. defended and
preserved. not nv the illusionists, but
hv the men and women who nractlce
and who in time of righteous war are
ready to die. or to send those thcy
love best TO die for shining ideal. ="
In discussing the league of nations
according. to the American idea. Pc
fore the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. Henry A.
Wise Wood of New York said:
"None Of us can foretell the future,
but all Of us can review the past past
fare is preventable. but these must
admit that never in the history of the
world have men been able to achieve
more than an armed truce.
Statutes POwerless.
"If our statutes are Dowerless 70
prevent broken faith and violence
among men. we ask ourselves How
then are the less indefinite and more
indifferentlv sanctioned. provisions OF
a covenant OF peace TO prevent IT.
reconci'iable disagreement or broken
faith and violence among nations?
The law can punish; 1t cannot pre-
vent--but international punishment is
war. and 1t is war that we wish to be
what folly. therefore, to erect
anv International structure upon the
hvpothcsiS that a complete overthrow
of the combative nature of man can
h. brought about by a, co npanv or
men, fnweNe' wise, and warfare be
by them brought to an end for all
time.
t'If we turn tg ,, to the many atte1doff ~ sf
with warfare as an evil we find that
had failed in the past to perceive that
war is a recurring phenomenon. and
as such is among the inevitable oc-
"He forgets that the most enduring
covenant of peace practicable at the
time has followed every war of his
tory: and that war has followed ey-
cry such covenant of peace
NapoIeaR's Aim.
Using quotations from the Cam
bridge modern history, Prof. Charles
Mr. Bakewel of Yale university show
ct that Napoleon gave mouth to ideas
similar to those that are included in
the league of nations, and that Alex
ander I of Russia did likewise. He
quoted: -
ena, explained to the world the great
ideal toward which all his efforts had
been directed. He had aimed, he
said at concentrating the great Eu-
ropean peoples, divided hitherto by
multipIicity of artificial boundaries.
into homogeneous nations. out of
which he would form a confederation
bound together by unity of codes,
principles, opinions, feelings and in
terests.
"The Emperor Alexander of Rus
sia took up the thcme. II was sep
tember IL 1904, he suggested In the
event of the triumph of the coalition