Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-01-09
McADOO'S MESSAGE.

FRIDAY. JANUARY ., 1920
McADOO'S MESSAGE.
William G. McAdoo sent n message
to the democratic conference in
Washington last night. 1t will be re-
membered that Mr.. McAdoo is can
didate for the nomination for the
presidency and has the largest indi-
vidual following now in the field. But
Mr.. McAdoo is not exactly happy in
framing his indictment of the repub-
lican party. which he charges with
responsibility for all the ills of the
world, from wars TO ingrowins toe
nails.
He says war taxes have not been
reduced as they should have been, if
the republican leadership had proven
equal to the task" Bravo!
Upon the recommendations of Mr.,
McAdoo as secretary of the treasury
and of President Wilson as chief exec
utive of the nation, a congress, demo-
cratic in both branches, passed the
revenue bills levying the taxes both
for 1919 and 1920, the latter measure
over the protest of the republican
members of both house and senate.
While the republicans have ma
iority Of two votes in the senate and
considerably larger majority in the
house of representatives, Il presiden-
tial veto has been cer,ain if any re-
vision Of the tax laws We're attempted.
This, of course Mr.. McAdoo knows
quite as well as any man in America,
Again, lambasting the republicans,
Mr.. McAdoo emits the following sum
mary of the republican misdeeds:
"Peace defeated, war prolonged,
and hundreds of thousands of needless
deaths inflicted upon helpless child
rem, women and men in Europe-a
ghastly toll to exact for partisan po-
litcal ends
Quite CHASTITY
When Were These Things Done?
But when did the republicans de-
feat peace? Who sent the American
soldiers 10 northern Russia and to the
wastes of Siberia? Who is sending the
soldiers to Siberia now? How could
republicans end the war in Russia? 1t
is a war between Russians Chiefly
It is Russians who are starving. The
whole TRADE is ghastly flubdub.
Of course. Mr.. McAdoo is attempt
ing to convey the impression that the
war has been prolonged because the
treaty has not been ratified by re-
publican senate. But Mr.. McAdoo
fired because of failure of ratification
or of a pound of food that has been
withheld from any European county
on that account.
If all the ghastly nonsense talked
by Mr.. McAdoo were fact instead of
the most arrant fiction, President Will
son would be solely to blame He was
advised while still in Europe that
the senate never would raufy the
treaty, as it was being framed with
his assistance if not under his actual
leadership. If it costs lives to pre-
serve the independence of the United
States from the dominance of a super
state, that is no more than the sacri-
flee that was required for the estab-
lshment of the independence of the
American people. But McAdoo does
not charge that American lives have
been lost through misdeeds of repub-
lcans. and it would be the veriest
aha hN TTnitan
States is in any way responsible for
conditions in Europe. The Europeans
have brought their troubles upon
themselves.
Urges Strong Foreign Policy.
But Mr.. McAdoo scintillates in tho
last sentence of his message TO the
democrats. Listen:
We must stand for the vigorous
protection of the just rights of Amer
lean citizens in every foreign coun-
try"
If Mr.. McAdoo should be the nomi-
inee of the democratic national con-
vention doubtless he would insist upon
the following reiteration of the plank
on that subject adopted by the DEM
ocrats at Baltimore in 1912:
'The constitutional rights of Ameri-
can citizens should protect them on
our borders and go with them
throughout the world. and every
American citizen residing or hav ng
property in any foreign country is en-
titled to and must be given the full
protection of the United States gov
ernment both for himself and his
property"
And the democrats won. Then be-
gan the most monstrous series of at
tacks against life and property of
Americans who were in Mexico and had
invested money there under treaty
rights that was ever levied against
the rights of any people in the world.
How IL Was Worked.
Bv orders of the democratic admin
istration to carry out the provisions of
the Baltimore platform, even the
American soldiers were ordered not
to return the fire of MeXicans direct
ed against American citizens in the
United States and even when directed
against the American soldiers them
selves
The American soldiers were ordered
to retreat beyond the range of the
Mexican riflesl
Hundreds of Americans have been
killed wantonly in Mexico, hundreds
of millions of dollars worth of Amer
ican property has been seized or de-
stroyed--all because the men and
women killed and the property de-
stfoYed were American.
An thaf ever came OF il was a Sc