Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-06

them. Let them show me how they
will prove that having gone into an
enterprise they are not absolutely con-
temptible cutters if they don't see
the game through.
What was the old formula of Pam
Germanfsm? From Bremen to Bag
dad, wasn't it? Well look at the map.
What lies between Bremen and Bag
dad? After you get past the German
territory, there is Poland, there is Bo-
hemia, which we have made into
Czecho-Slovakia, there is Hungary
which is now divided from Austria and
| does not share Austria's strength.
There is Rumania, there is Jugo-Sla4
via, there is broken Turkey, and then
Persia and Bagdad. We have UNDER
taken to say this route is closed.
Our own business! Is there a mer-
chant present here or a manufacturers
or any banker that can say that our
interests are separate from the inter-
ests of the rest of the world CONNER
cally, industrially, financially? And
when he draws picture to himself, il
he is frank, or what some gentlemen
propose, this is what he sees: Ameri-
ca qninding her own business, and
having no other. Despised, suspected,
distrusted; and on the other side OF
! the water, the treaty and its operation
| Interrupted? Not at all We are great
nation, my fellow citizens, but the
treaty is going to be applied just the
same whether we take part in 1t or
not.
Germany Must Pay.
1.-THE reparation commission created
by the treaty was created for the pur-
pose of seeing that Germany pays the
reparation. Not only that, but some
of you gentlemen know we used to
have trade with Germany. All of that
trade is going TO be in the hands and
under the control of the reparation
commission.
81 humbly asked leave to look after
our interests, and l was rebuked for
it. / am looking after the industrial
| interests of the United States / would
like to see the other men who are.
They are forgetting the industrial in
terests of the United States and they
are doing things that will cut us off
and our trade off from the normal
channels, because the reparations COM
mission can determine where Ger
many buys, what Germany buys and
how much Germany buys.
Now, is It Winding our business to
keep out of that?s on the contrary
IL is handing our business over to the
people who are not particularly inter-
ested in seeing that IT prospers. The
broader aspects Of this subject are SELL
dom brought to your attention; it is
the little picayune details here and
there. f' f
Not League for War.
~ beg that you viii not conceive
of the league of nations as a combin-
alton of the world for war, for that
is exactly what it is not. IT is \ COM
bnatioh of the world for arbitration
and discussion. z"
"Any member of the league which
breaks these promises with regard to
arbitration or discussion is to b.
deemed thereby to have committed
an act OF war against the other mem
ters of the league; not merely to have
Gone an immoral thing, but by refus-
ing to obey those processes to have
committed an act of war.
And you know what rnen happens.
You say, Yes; we form an army and
go to fight them Not at all; we
shut our doors and lock out; We boy
cctt them Just so soon as that is
done they cannot ship cargoes out
or receive them shipped in. they can
rot send Geographic messages; thcy
cannot send or receive a letter.
'T don't think that after that 1t will
be necessary to do any fighting at
all. Now, that is the league of ma
tons An agreement to arbitrate and
discuss, and an agreement that If
you do not arbtrate and discuss, you
\. H,...I N,I, tnh ~
starved out, f
No Secret Treaties.
"And there Is added to this, this
very interesting thing: There can
] hereafter be no secret treaty The
! provision of the covenant is that
| treaty on international understand
/ ing shall be, registered, l believe the
word is with the general secretary OF
J the league; that the general secretary
shall publish it in full just as soon
as 1t is possible for him to publish it.;
! that no treaty shall be valid which IS
i not thus registered.
4 ut was very embarrassing, my
4 fe How citizens, when you thought you
I were approaching an Ideal solution
of a momentous question to find that
some of your principal colleagues hal
III given lHe WDOle lIllilB away Anu tiiot
leads me to speak, just in passing, of
what has given a great many people
II unnatural distress. ] mean the Shan
n tung settlement; the settlement with
regard to a portion. of the province
of Shaptung in China.
Great Britain and others, as every
body now knows, in order to make
1t more certain that Japan would
come into the war and so assist 20
clear the Pacific of the German
fleets, had promised that any rights
IL at Germany had in China should,
in the case of the victory os the allies,
pass to Japan. There was no quail
fication in the promise She was to
get exactly what Germany had. And
so the only thing that was possible
was to induce Japan to promise--and
want to say in all fairness. for Il
would not be fair IL l didn't say it.
that Japan did very handsomely make
the promises which were required OF
her that she would exercise in Shan
tung none of the sovereign rights
which Germany had enjoyed tere, hui
would return the sovereignty withou;
qualification to China and retain in
Shantung province only what other
ationalities had elsewhere---econom-
! ic rights with regard to development
and administration of the railway
and of certain mines which had be-
N come attached to the railway. Thal
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