Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-16

uellNeTeu q Dlllef attack against the
president and the league of nations
i'll the commencement address at
Syracuse university:
Colonel Harvey's address follows in
part
II denounce and oppose the ratifi-
cation of this covenant for the fol-
lowing reasons, which l defy anybody
to challenge successfully:
Because, as l have shown, it does
involve our country in entangling al
lance and 50 violates the great tradi-
ton enunciated by Washington and
reiterated by every president and
statesman from the inception of the
republic to and including the time of
Roosevelt. This fact is undeniable and
admitted.
Because, as have shown, it does
vitiate our independence ard impair
our sovereignty. Thomas jefferson ac-
curatey, and graphically defined indie
pendence as implying full power to
levy war, conclude peace, establish
commerce, and do all other acts and
things which Independent states may
of right do Sovereignty is no less
correctly defined by a later authority
in these words: "A state to possess
external sovereignty and complete in
ternal sovereignty exclusively within
itself, that is, possessed by its sover-
eign. If it lacks either it falls short
of a perfect national character.
There can be no actual independence
of state unless the real sovereignty
is held within the state That is the
definition of our present secretary of
state, Robert Lansing.
mo argument is reeded to prove
that full and complete nationality as
depicted by these two declarations
cannot be maintained under the agree
ments prescribed by this covenant.
That fact also is admitted. The fur
Their statement is made that other
powers do likewise, but that is a pal
liation, not reason for the sacrifice Of
America.
Because so radical departure
from an established system violates
the first principle of a democracy that
no change shall be made in either the
form of the control of its government
unless and until it has been approved
by the people themselves. If said
Abraham Lincoln in his first inaugu-
raj, there be any object to hurry any
of you in hot haste to a step which you
would never take deliberately that
object will be frustrated by taking
time, but no good object can be frus-
trated by taking time
Il insist that no hasty conception of
any one mind, be that mind ever so
sagacious, should be fastened upon
this nation in direct Contravention or
all teachings and practices of the past
until il has received the fullest con-
sideration.
president Lowell of Harvard de-
clared in Indianapolis only last week
that President Wilson never heard OF
the plan whose adoption he now de-
mands until 1915. I deny that, in rea-
son. and many, overwhelmed in the
meantime by the conduct of a great
war could formulate in detail a pro-
ject of such magnitude with any GER
tainty or probability of its rightness'
of its wisdom, or of its success. | de-
nounce the attempt to impose it upon
our country by defiantly intertWlnlns
1t in mere treaty of peace as a crime
against the republic. Only it's COM
plete separation can give to the peo-
pie ample opportunity for analysis ana
discussion and thus enable them to eX-
ercise their own mature judgment
And that is all | ask, readily conced-
ing that, ever as has been, the voice or
the people in this democracy ever shall
be as the voice of God.
Ruler" of the World.
?"Because no nation, however well
fitted by experience and equipped
with statesmanlike vision, is compe-
tent to become the ruler of the world,
That is what Great Britain would be
under this covenant. DO you doubt 1t?
Consider first her numerical supe~
riority in the proposed body of dele
gate;; six to one as compared with the
United States. Consider secondly her
influence, as con-
trascted with that of this country,
upon the scores of smaller European,
Asiatic and African nations, each OF
whom would exercise in that body
voting power equal to our own. Con
slider further, in respect to the pro
posed council, her separate offensive
and defensive alliance with Japan,
which she refused to abroSate. Com
slider the authority which she would
to WELD over France and
Italy by virtue of their utter depend
ence upon her for their very exist
ence Consider finally that, by her
own peremptoTy insistence and our
concession after flute
protest, she would be intrenched for
all time in her present control OF the
seven seas.
Talk about disarmament. Does
Great Britain propose to dlsmantle
her fleet? The mere suggestion evokes
only righteous Indignation from the
English people and dersive scorn
s.4, ta q
duce it, yes. to save expense. but not
one shin beyond the point where hsr
navy will continue to be forever as 1t
is today, the equal or superior of any
two or three navies of other powers
combined. Reduction of armies she
would welcome, and why not, since
thereby her superiority uponAthe seas
would be magnified correspondingly?
Not only, moreover, would she well
come it. but in this covenant, with our
acquiescence, she has provided Tor IT,
"The assertion that the United |
States may accept or reject the rec
of the council respect |
ing the limitation in size OF ITS army |
is correct, but that is only at the be-
What of the continuing sit
uation to follow? Having once de-
termined the size of its army in CO.
operation with otnef powers, toH-
formally to an avowed purpose of |
common reduction, the United States
agrees that, whatever unforeseen
needs may arise for the preservation
of its territory or for the protection of
its citizens, it will abide absolutely by
that limitation. and it cannot there
after increase its force Tor any pur
pose except with the consent of the
international council
Much stress has been placed upon
the nrnYisinn that that council can