Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-29

covenant that the Monroe doctrine
| is excluded, that domestic ques-
{ tons are exempted, that not one
American can be sent out Of the
country without formal action by
congress and that the right Of with
drawal is absolute. If there are
words which can make these mean
ings clearer, they will be welcomed.
1t is not reservations that the pres
ident stands against. but nullifica-
ton.
When the president came back
from Paris in February. 1919, he
brought the first tentative draft OF
the covenant Of the league of ma
tons. He gave publicity to it. 1t
was published throughout the land.
He invited the friends of such a
leaEne to submit criticisms. For
mer President Taft offered four
amendments: former Senator Root
offered six amendments; and Mr..
Hughes suggested seven. At a
meeting of the committee on for
eign relations Mt the White House
in March, 1919, other changes
were suggested. These amend
ments We're taken back by the
president to Paris and their sub
stance was actually Incorporated in
the revised draft Of the league. Or.
Lowell president of Harvard uni
versity in his joint debate with
Senator Lodge, invited the latter
TO suggest constructive amend
ments which the president might
incorporate in the draft; but he
refused so to do At no time has
he offered constructive amend
ments So intolcrant was his atti-
tude that he would not even con-
slider "A compromise proposed ny
former President Taft of his own
party and which was assured or
the support of forty democratic sem
ators. Senator Lodge knew that
he controlled the senate and that
i'm his own time and way, he could
destroy the treaty
This is the sordid story or It's
defeat No blacker crime against
has every soiled the
pagcs of our history. The last
chapter was written at Chicago.
The republican platform not only
the league of nations,
Int praises, without discrimination,
all of the republican senators VINO
in its defeat. Its words
of benefiction fall alike upon the
the Lodge reserVa-
tionists, the mild reservationhsts
ana those who proposed separate
neace with Germany. 1t is consist
ent in one thing only, the recoghl-
ton of the fact that the open ioee
of the treaty, the secret toes OF 'ne
treaty, and the apparent trlehus VI
the treaty who Consplred WIN ito
enemies, are equally responsive tor
the destruction of the lhslruilleut
itself. 1t would be idle 10 ihquite
by what political legerdemalh .his
and ye, omlnous Gee
was prepared IL Is ehousl,
10 know that the "old guard soid
the honor of America for the priVl-
lege of nominating reacuohary
for president.
The cause Of Peace.
The war had set n great task TOT
The best thought
NJ the world demanded that (
serious attempt be made by the
leaders of the allied governments
10 formulate treaty or peace
which should prevent the recur-
renee of war. Every rightful i'm e
pulse of the human heart was IN
record with that purpose. FROM
line immcmorial, men nave
lreamed Of peace: poets have pans y
If II: philosophers have written
,bout it; statesmen have discussed
I. men everywhere have hoped
md prayed that the day might
zone when wars would no longer
le necessary in the settlement OF
differences.
For the first time IN the turbu-
ent annals of the human race.
uch a project had become feas-
BILE, The destruction of militar-
SIN. the crumbling of thrones, the
dissolution of dynasties, the world
vide appreciation of the inner
meaning of war and the final tri-
Imph of democracy had at last
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