Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-09

we assert and protect the Monroe
doctrine against Europe as We
must for our own safety we mus
also accept and fulfill the duties
and responsibilities which that doc.
trine impresses.
The president has been unable
or unwilling to do anything for
Mexico, where civil war has ragged
for years, where anarchy exists and
where the people are suffering. But
he thinks 1t our duty to take q
mandate for Armenia, which would
involve our sending an army there
for an indefinite time and which
would cost, including the army and
civil expenditures, $275,000,000 for
the first year. besides entanglinl
us in all the quarrels and intrigueS
of Asia Minor and the surrounding
countries. Mexico lies at our doors
1t is primary duty for US to deal
with it under the Monroe doctrine
but nothing has been done and yet
we are asked to take a mandate
for Armenia. The American people
have a deep sympathy for Armenia.
They have already given over
$40 100000 for the relief of those
starving and suffering people, a
brave and gallant people who de-
serve assistance and who have es-
tablished a government. We are
anxious to help Armenia in all
reasonable ways and no doubt shall
do so, but to take a mandate to
control, protect and govern that
NJ xvyn,,1l iptr11trn pnnA ~
our sons and brothers to serve and
sacrifice their lives in Armenia
for an indefinite time. This is a
mandate which we in the senate
Of the United States think should
not be undertaken. It is a plan to
get us involved in the responsible
ties of the league of nations and all
the wars in which it may be en-
gagged, without our being member
OF the league. To such a PROPOSE
ton the only answer Is plain re-
fusal On the other hand what the
president has neglected. like
condition among an unfortunate
people at our very doors-we must
take up and by a wise and firm
policy restore Mexico to the posi-
ton which she ought to occupy and
thereby help and relieve her peo-
pie and so benefit the world and
extend the reign of peace.
AS the great war in Europe
pushed Mexico into the back
ground and turned the thoughts
of all away from it, so there is
at this moment another great
question Of our relations to the
civilized world which overshadows
every other, When the armistice
with Germany was signed the
course to be pursued was clear.
1t was urged by the republican
senators before the armistice and
Immediately afterwards. That
course was to make the peace
with Germany at onoe and then
take up for reasonable consldera-
ton the question of establishing
such future relations with our as
sociates in the war as would make
for the future peace of the world.
If this had been done we could
have had full peace with Germany
three months after the armistice.
This Mr.. Wilson prevented lie
went to Europe with the greatest
opportunity for large service to
the world ever offered to any ore
man, He insisted on going MINI
self, for he trusted no one else.
We then had the confidence, the
gratitude and the friendship OF
every European nation, which
thanks to the president, we pos
sess no longer. If Mr.. Wilson nae
said: 1--WE came here to help you
win this war in defense of civ.
ilization. The war is won. All
we now insist upon is that Ger
many shall be put in such po-
sition as not to be able again to
threaten the peace and freedom OF
mankind. Our own questions IN
the American hemisphere we VIII
care for ourselves. We have IN
terests in the Far East which we
shall wish to have protected. but
your own European questions you
must settle and we will accept the
settlement to which yon agree.
We are not here seeking territory
or to dictate what you shall DO
in regard to either territory or
boundaries" Then indeed we
should have been entitled to the
gratitude of the world not only
for our decisive services in the
war. but for generous assistance
in making lasting peace. But MIR:
Wilson did not do this. He had
only one aim. to be
the maker of league of which
he should be the head. He was
that there should be
a league of nations then and there
and in order to nullify the powers
of the senate given by the consti-
tuition of the United States he de-
cided to make the league an in
tegral part Of the treaty of peace
with Germany. Thus he present.
ed to the senate, and intended to
present, a dilemma from which he
there was no escape. In
order to have peace with Germany
he meant to compel the senate
to accept it with the league or
nations. 1t was indeed a difficult
situation which he thus created.
But republican senators believed
their duty to be clear before them
and did not shrink from fulfilling
it. Thirty-nine of them in March,
1919, signed a statement setting
forth that the first draft of the
league as Mr.. Wilson brought it
back, announcing that is must be
taken Just as it stood, could not
be accepted by the senate in that
form. The president returned to
Europe with this warning before
him and before the world He
admitted few slight changes in
the covenant, for the most part
and some of which
made the second draft worse than
the first. He forced the allied
and associated powers to yield TO
his demand that the covenant of
the league should be interviewer
with the treaty of peace. To &C
complish this he surrendered the
principle of the freedom Of the
that may have
Great Britain, and he
made promises and concessions to
yet fulfilled - which
him the French support.
Having thus carried his point
a broad he brought the treaty with