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

president, at least, until the tasks
OF war were finished. 1t was their
contention that they would enter
upon the work of reconstruction
with superior intelligence and even
with greater patriotism than would
be possible under democratic
leadership. They gave publicity,
when they entered upon the recent
session, TO detailed and ambitious
statements as to their program,
Ii We are to be judged, as l hope
We may be, by the record, let them
also be judged by the record. What
have the republicans acls .nplished
since their political success IN
1918? What beneficial results have
| flowed TO the American people ?
/ What promises have been re-
deemed? What progress has been
made in the settlement OF foreign
| or domestic questions?
Twice the president went before
| congress, since the termination OF
| hostilities, calling attention to
needed legislation. He urged the
passage OF laws relating to prof
! iteering; measures to simplify and
| reduce taxation; appropriate ac-
! ton relative to the returning SOL
| dierS: the passage of a resolution
| concerning the constructive pans
worked out in detail by former
| secretary Lane. and the measures
advocated by the secretary of ag-
riculture. He suggested that the
! congress take counsel together and
provide legislation with reference
| 10 industrial unrest, and the mu-
tual relations of capital and labor.
After more than year of sterile
| debate, our country has neither
peace nor reconstruction. Barren
of achievement, shameless in waste
OF time and money, the record of
the present congress is without
parallel for its incompetencies
failures and regulations. Are the
American people so unjust or so
lacking in discrimination that they
Will reject the service of a party
which has kept its word, and place
trust in a party which merely re-
news the broken promises of a
previous campaign?
Attacks Upon the President.
Republican leaders have been
moved by a strange and inexpli-
cable Jealousy of the president.
Their feverish luminosity, expressed
in gross abuse and through secret
intrigue, has been productive of
one of the most unhappy chapters
in American history, recalling the
similar experiences of Lincoln and
Washington. Political malice fol-
lowed the president to the peace
table. A senatorial round robin"
was widely circulated Every de-
vice which partisanship could de
velop was employed for the pur-
pose of weakening the influence OF
our commission at Paris, and maxi
ing the task there still more diff
cult. At a time when every in
stinct of fairness pleaded for
whole-hearted support of the res
ident, political antagonism and
personal envy controlled the mite
administration forces.
The president made every sac
rifice for the cause of peace. TheI
long continued strain while com
posing differences abroad; the eH
penditure of nervous vitality and
intellectual force in building pev
order of human relationships uuaa
the ruins of the old, laid heavy OH
upon his reserve powers. Than
came the return in triumph, oalgl
to find here widespread pro
ganda of opposition, making it ri
perative that he take uD In
own country struggle for L
preservation of that which h
been won at such incalculable CO
Following the superhuman labc
of seven years of uneXampled sc :
vice, this meant the wreck of +
health, sickness for months upon
bed of pain, and worse than Il
physical sickness, the sickness G.
heart which comes from tt
knowledge that political adversal
les lost to the larger sense tEl
things, are savagely destroying noti
merely the work of mems hands /
but the worlds hope of settleds
peace. This was the afflietion--I
this the crucifixion.
AS he lay stricken in the White |
House, the relentless hand of NAL
ice beat upon the door of the sick
chamber. The enemies of the
president upon the floor of the
senate repeated every SANDER that
envy COulu lHNtlit, anu tiltS touhu
scarcely control the open manifes-
tation of their glee when the great
man was stricken at last. The
was in session for months
while the president lay in the
White House. struggling with a
terrifying illness and, at times,
close to the point of death. He
had been physically wounded just
as surely as were Garfield and
McKinlev and Lincoln, for. 1t Ia
but difference of degree between
fanatics and partisans. The con-
gress, during all this period, when
the whole heart of America ought
to have been flowing out, in love
and sympathy, did not find time,
amid their chickering's, to pass one
resolution Of generous import or
extend one kindly inquiry as TO
the fate of the president of their
own country.
And what was his offense?
Merely this-that he stroye to re-
deem the word that America had
given to the world; that he sought
to save a future generation from
the agony through which this gem
Grafton has passed; that he had
taken seriously the promises that /
all nations had made that they
would unite at the end of the war
n compact to preserve the peace
If the world; and that he relied {
upon the good faith of his own |
people. If there was any mistake,
t was that he made too generous ,
estimate of mankind, that he be- 9
ieved that the idealism which had I
made the war a great spiritual VIC {
DRY, could be relied upon to Sc {
cure the legitimate fruit of the I
xar-the reign of universal peace. I
In one sense, it is quite inmate {
'ial what people say about the d
PRESIDENT. Nothing we can say can
i'd or detract from the fame that @
will flow down the amending chan e
lels of history. Generations yet C
Unborn will look back to this era [