Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-05

over over lHtIt. anu II must not De !
over until the nations Of the world !
peace.
Gentlemen on this side of the |
water would be very much profitel |
hy getting into communication with F!
some gentlemen on the other side of
the water We sometimes think, my
fellow citizens, that the experienced
statesmen of the European nations
are an unusually hardheaded set of
men. by which we generally mean,
although we do not admit it, that
they are bit cynical; that they say
this is a very practical world By
which you always mean that it is not
an ideal world; that they do not be-
lieve that things can be settled upon
an ideal basis.
"Well l never came into intimate
contact with them before. but if they
used to be that way, they are not
that way now. They have been sub
dued, If that was once their temper,
by the awful significance of recent
events and the awful Importance of
what is to ensue; and there is not
one of them with whom | have come
in contact who does not feel that he
! cannot in conscience return to his
people from Paris unless he has done
| his utmost to do something more than
attach his name to a treaty of peace.
! Every man in that conference knows
| that The treaty of peace in itself VIII
| he imperative, as Mr.. Taft has said,
without his constant support and en-
ergy of a great organization such as
| is supplied by the league of nations
Skcptics Converted.
"And men who, when | first went
over there, We're skeptical of the pos
sibility of forming a league of nations
admitted that if we could but form
/ 1t, it would be an invaluable lnstru-
mentality through which to secure
| the operation of the various parts OF
! the treaty; and when that treaty
comes back gentlemen on this slde
will find the covenant not only in H.
hut so many threads of the treaty
! tied to the covenant that you cannon
| dissect the covenant from the treaty
without destroying he whole wal
structure. The structure of peace
will not be vital without the league
| of nations, and no man is going TO
bring back cadaver with him
II must say that | have been puz-
zled by some of the crluclsms, hot
by the criticisms themselves; ! can
understand them perfectly, even Wileil
! there was no foundation for theni pul
/ py tile 90 -, these gentlemen can
/ not llilaS ny I,,a IN tbe atmosphere
/ of the world. 49,, oar
! live and not be in contact with tne
events of the times. and ! particularly
cannot imagine how they can ne AN
orleans and set up a doctrine OF care
lul sellslihsas, hoord no counsel of
detail navy oc;ticis,, I have
seheIosl.S n, ., suggestion. |
4 nearu no eon 'tt.i',o ovoent will II not
nav ,n eTa,o,,s n ne to helm the world?
( re ua, be fatal To MS not to help.
- WouId re Coutemptibic.
i "rrom being what ! will venture
tn call the most famous and the most
| powerful nation in the world we would
of a sudden have become the most
contemplate. SO, | did NOT neeu "
( be told, as | nave Deeh tolu' tilat IA
| people or the uhllea S'ales Az,
support TINS covenant. an "a
encan, ana | hI'eW nv II is unon
ma. SWee' ,a,,sshad ot us once
Ny W W" thn ~, We lid MOI mean our
eueS ,iI,,'I ~ ,nrincinles They
,ha,,obt 60 unTl April of 1917 1t
wae hardly credible to them that we
/. would do more than send few men
over and go through the forms OF
! helping, and when they saw multi
tudes Fastening across the sea. ana
saw what those multltudes were easel
TO 40 Wnen 'nes go " IA e,,e s LII ,The
tbino 10 reaI this nation 81 the friend
I of mankind. as it said it was The
enthusiasm the hone. the trust, the
I confidence in the future bred by that
change OF view is ndescribable.
VIII Die for an Inca.
Take an individual American ana
you may often find him seiflsh, ana
confined to his special interests, but
| take the American in the mass ana
he is willing to die for an idea. The
| sweet revenge, therefore, is that we
believed in righteousness, and now we
! are ready TO make the supreme sac
rifice for it, the supreme Sacfflce OF
throwing in our fortunes with the
fortunes of men everywhere. Mr..
Taft was speaking of WaShtngtons
utteraBce about entanglinG alliances
and II he will permit me to say SO,
he put the exactly right Interpretation
upon what Washington said, the in
depreciation that is inevitable if you
read what he said, as most of these
gentlemen do not, and the thing that
/ he longed for was just what we are
now about to supply; an arrangement
winch will disentanBle all the alli-
ances in the world.
Cnvoscs selfish Alliances.
.No+hino ent,oles pothinp on
~, oai',''5 o,, oxea,, saIfisl, com
hir,.ti" LII r,aot,nd,, ,ISa Motbiny