Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-10
WHO
COME LATER WILL
STAY At HOME IF
THIS BILL PASSES
Representative Campbell In
PRODUCES Measure Which
Prohibits Chief Executives
Leaving United States.
SAYS WILSON TRIP
HAS MADE ENEMIES
Declares President Received
With Great POmp and Cere-
mony But Left In Oppressive
Silence By MuItitudeS,
icy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WIRE

10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL lEAsto WlREl
Washington, July 9.-The president
of the United States would not be per-
mitted, during his term of office. to
leave the country or to perform the
duties of his office except at Wash
ngton, under bill introduced today
by Representative Campbell of Kan
sas chairman of the house rules COM
mittee.
Representative Campbell had pre-
pared a lengthy address on his bill in
which he sharply criticised President
Wilson for going to Europe for the
peace conference, but unanimous con-
sent for its immediate delivery was
refused by Representative Blanton,
democrat Texas.
Mr. Campbell hoped to deliver the
speech later in the day, but In the
meantime he made it public in the
form of a statement.
Now that the president is home"
said Mr.. Campbell, 1T is not improper
to draw a lesson for future presidents
from the experiences of his recent
absence from his own country and
seat of government, and to call atten-
ton to some of the conditions his
NlSlI ildS pOoolblC AAltit oNilOdHi5
affect the future of the republic and
the welfare of its people.
THE presidents arrival in Europe
was marked with the usual attentions
that have ever been given to princes
of the royal blood or to emperors with
imperial power. In Paris, in London,
in Rome, every art of the entertainer
was exhausted upon the president.
He approached royal palaces amid the
applause of the multitude; he entered
royal banquet halls in ancient and
regal professions, he was wined and
dined in royal state in every capital
he entered He was flattered with
every attention that mankind can give
to man. He liked it all.
Appealed TO Vanity.
Diplomats and international states
men constantly attended him and paid
him homage. If he had vanity. 1t was
encouraged Nothing that could
please was omitted from the prellmi-
naries that marked the approach to
the peace table. The statesmen of
other lands. intent upon the welfare
of their countries artfuily led him to
see their countries needs. He was
easily beguiled into assuming the role
that had been carefully created for
him. The government and people of
the United States are to pay for all
these honored attentions in the years
to come.
1.-THE president wanted a league OF
nations--it was given to him. Those
who sat with him at the peace table
wanted to add more territory to their
domains; wanted more friendly har-
bors at the doors of teeming millions
Of Tho aT1Hc n thn TDthG hnN nnntrpII
ed on the seas; wanted dominion and
control over smaller and weaker ma
tions; wanted indemnity for the losses
they sustained in the war; wanted Sc
curity and prestige for their govern
ment and people for future wars and
wanted the United States to share the
burden Of policing Europe and main
tanning the boundaries of their nation
and they got what they wanted.
Left Amid Silence.
1.-THE peace conference ended part
of its work q few days ago, and the
president left Europe amid the ST.
lence Of the multitude and without
even the honor of attention from his
former flat'arers. If Woodrow Will
son only were concerned, the affair
might pass without serious comment.
But every returned traveller and un-
censored report tells from Europe the
story of American unpopularity in
every country overseas.
''The cordial feeling for the govern
ment and the people of the United
States that existed six months ago is
wanting now Civilized and christian
people covet the good opinion of man
kind. The presidents presence In
Europe, his absence from his own
country has left the people of the
United States without that good op-
inion.
mo country can safely permit its
chief executive to intrude himself into
the domestic affairs of another coun-
try. When the president of the United
States, in France, in England and in
Italy mistook the royal reception he
had received from those in high
places and the applause that was
given him by the multitude for an
invitation to become their political
master, he lost his own prestige and
that of his country 1t will require
the work of years to restore the gov
ernment and the people of the United
States to the former cordial and con-
genial relationships with the other
countries of the world and with those
people with whom the president has