Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-31

soldiers should have been ordered
to the seaports on the Atlantic, and
not toward Germany. Even regu-
lar army officers deplored the pol
icy of aggression that this govern
ment assumed when it went forth
to occupy conquered area in a land
where we have no business to en-
gage in setting up a government
over alien people. Europe owed
us money then; Europe owes us
money now. We should have re-
minded Europe of her financial
Obligations. expressed a graufica-
ton of having assisted in winning
the war and then gotten aboard
ship.
Americans Built French Roads,
"But for six months American
soldiers were engaged in breaking
rocks for the benefit of the French
1t became necessary for the high
command to order officers sent OUT
six months after the armistice was
signed to make speeches to the SOL
diers and tell them what the war
was about. | know this is so, be-
cause ] was one of the officers or
dered to do some speech making.
More bolshevists We're bred in
France by the orders of the pow
ers at Washington to build French
roads being carried out, than have
been recruited by all the soap box
orators in America.
The league of nations will
breed war, just as surely as a
specie is reproduced in kind. The
,,ra,t11 hn u unnH
apple in a barrel of rotten ones in
this league, and such association
would make the good apple rotten,
rather than the rotten aoples good.
Veterans Not Deludcd.
THE former soldiers who saw
overseas service are not deluded.
They know the difference between
right and wrong and they are pre-
pared to defend their actions.
Charges of lese majesty do not ter
rify us. President Wilson is but "A
human being with an overweenins
ambition that increases his Liability
to err. We had rather that proven
principles of government be ad-
hered to, in order that the safety
of this nation be not needlessly i'm
periled, than to give aid and COM
fort to any movement that has for
its object the vaulting of the power
of any man.
MANY 4 "A per cent patriots, who
made excellent speeches in liberty
loan drives and who gave us the
glad shouts when there was dan
ger in the air, are now denouncing
those who oppose the league OF
nations as enemies of this govern
ment. | know of one former SOL
der who was even called a pro-
German because when he first
came back he declared as his con-
viction the league of nations was a
war breeding scheme, with a hid
den purpose to assist England in
keeping her restless colonies in
subsection and to hold down the
price of cotton through denying of
Germany the right to freely i'm
port same. Tet this particular SOL
der was nearly so years old when
he threw up his place and joined
the colors.
Where England Benefited.
England has acquired, as a re-
suit of the treaty so heartily in
dorsed by President Wilson, more
new territory to her dominion5
than is embraced in all the area OF
the United States. without the
assistance of this nation the mat
ter of keeping these countries in
subsection will prove a test OF
England's abilities. With the
league of nations adopted We
would have the novel experience of
free people being a party to pre-
vent other people with the love of
freedom in their hearts from OBJ
tanning independence.
81 ask my fellow democrats 10
talk with overseas soldiers about
the league of nations. | ask them
to talk with overseas soldiers
about the spending debauch in
dulged in by the 1900 people who
attended the peace conference at
Paris l ask them to give heed to
the counsel of the men who were
unafraid to fight when danger
once assailed this nation and in
whose keeping the future of this
nation would be placed should 1t
again be threatened from without