Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-24
SENATE CLIQUE MAKES LEAGUE REFERENDUM
NECESSARY, COX TELLS A UDLENCE ATARMORY|

home building. The government
must be helpful in this. A definite
plan of reclamation properly work
ed out will add millions of acres
to the productive territory OF our
country.
I'VE declare our adherence to
the fundamental progressive prin-
ciples Of social. economic and in
dustrial Justice, and advance pur-
pose to resume the great work of .
translating these principles into I
effective laws. Action already be-
gun was interrupted when the war
claimed all the national energies
for the single task of victory. We !
tory having come. we must estab-
fish a legal peace and on an hu-
manitarian basis.
Labor Has Right to Organize.
"Labor should have the right to !
organize, and, through representa-
tives of their own choosing nego-
tate collective bargaining. This
right has never been denied capt. J
| tai Care must be exercised that
government at no time be made |
oppressive in maintaining the laws
of the land. l have said that pub
| lie opinion will settle industrial
| disputes, and to this end believe
that government should provide
| for proper investigation in all
| cases, with provision for the filing
of the facts without prejudice, so
that the public may have full in
| formation. The right to free
speech and free press, and the
right of orderly assembly, guaran-
teed by the constitution. must
never be infringed.
Waste and extravaganza must
continue until as a result of our
agreement with the other nations,
f, building Of ornaments may he dis
continued. Our war taxes cannot
be reduced if we must go on build
ing battleships and equipping
armies year after year in compe-
tition with other nations and we
cannot discontinue until the other
nations do likewise. The league
of nations provides the means
World Civilization at Stake.
"This brings us to Considera-
ton of one of the most vital ques-
lions of the day. Millions of men,
women and children in the devas-
tated regions of Europe are liter
ally starving to death when Amer
lea has the ability and the re-
sources to provide for them all,
But this provision can only be
made when reconstruction OF the
world has been undertaken under
definite plan. Although our brave
soldiers achieved a victory in the
great war and by their direct con-
trbution brought the war to a
close, we still do not have peace
Until that peace is accomplished
little Roadway can be made. Not
only is the civilization of the world
at stake, but the material welfare
of our own country is vitality at
fected.
"And now let us discuss the
peace treaty and the league of ma
tons. / am going to discuss It in
primer fashion. A technical dis
cusson was originated about a year
ago in order to confuse the public
/ mind. That covenant is simple
and plain and clear, and the men
who contend that it infringes upon
the sovereign rights of America, or
the men who contend that il in
creases the probability of Ameri-
can boys going to war. know bet
ter. They know their statements
are false. What assurances did
you give the mother heart Of
America when their boys sailed for
the bloody battlefelds of Europe
Did YOU tell them we were going
, over to conquer domain that we
did not possess; that our boys were
to fight in order to gain rich cash
indemnity? No. You simply said
that we were going to destroy a
military autocracy war machine,
and that we were going to end this
war in order to make wars in the
future impossible. Isn't that
right?
'The boys completed their work,
While they stood watch on the
, Rhine, Germany signed the treaty
with the allies. America alone has
failed to ratify the treaty.
Separate Peace Dishonorablc,
| The republican convention
I passed a platform. Its provision
with reference to the league of ma.
tons is meaningless. Nobody
knows what it means. Now, the
candidate has interpreted the plat
form. He says, if elected, the first
thing he is gong to do is to make
a separate peace with Germany
I He is going to desert the allies,
Would you soldier boys have de-
serted the allies during the war
ask you whether it would be an
honorable thing for us to desert
: the allies and sign a separate
peace? My contention is that II
would not be; that it is a dishon-
orable thing. Then the candidate
| says that having done that he is
going to turn to the nations of the
earth and establish an entirely new
relationship. What nations of the
earth will have anything to do with
America if she performs per