Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-20
ACCEP PTANCE Of
THE PACT WITH
AMENDMENTS IS
URGED BY ROOT
New York Man Gives Resume
of What, In His Opinion,
the Republicans Should
Ask the Voters to Support
RIGID GOVERNMENTAL
ECONOMY ADVOCATED
Noted Statesman and Law
yer Fires What Is ConSid-
cred To Be Opening Gun
of the National Campaign
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New York, Feb. 19.-Elihu Root
outlined at the republican state
here tonight the plat
form upon which he believed the
party should go to the polls In No
yember. Most striking of his pro-
posals were:
Decentralization of the eN-
ecutive powers which have
made the president ''more au-
tocratic than any sovereign in
the civilized world"
Ratification of the peace
treaty with senate amend
ments 'long before the presi-
dental elections"
Reform of the league of ma
tions covenant by congress
of nations at the call of IA re-
publican president immediate-
ly after March, 1921" to estab-
lish "the rule of public right
rather than the rule OF mere
expediency."
Rigid governmental eCon-
omy and the adoption of an
executive budget.
Limitation of the right to
strike at y point where IL con-
flicts with self-preseryation of
the community; establishment
of a labor tribunal with power
to enforce It's mandates.
Revision Df the system of
taxation (which involves the
tariff"
Americanization and the
elimination of "a lot OF boil
shcvili or bolsleyild sympa-
thizers" from public office,
Universal military training.
Mr.. Roots ADDRESS was regarded
as the opening gun of the cam
paign.
More important than all" Mr..
Root said. sis the necessity that we
shall restore our republican form
OF government, with the liberty of
the individual citizen preserved by
upon official power.
ard put an end TO the dictatorship
which we created, in order to carry
on the war. BY a series of statutes
unprecedented in scope and liber-
ality, with singleness of purpose
and patriotic devotion worthy of
all praise, the American people
conferred upon the president
powers broader and more auto
cratic than were possessed by any
sovereign in the civilized world. !.
Peace has come. In fact, IL not
technically; but the war powers or
the executive still continue. They
should be brought to an end. 1t is
not simple thing, for new con-
ditions have been created, which
should be dealt with at the same
time by new statutes adapted TO the
conditions Of peace and subject TO
the limitations upon power OF our
constitutional system.
There is q double immediate
purpose to be served, One. to re-
store the habit of freedom. 1t is
dangerous for a people to acquire
the habit of bowling to power with
out limits. They soon became sub
servient, and then character essen
tai to freedom degenerates. The
other is to stop a multitude of in
references, ill-judged although
well meant, with the natural course
of business through which alone
natural laws can operate to restore
rormal conditions"
The appeal of President
Wilson In October, 1913, for
the election of democratic
congress, he declared, was
mot merely an injustice TO the
republican senators and reps
resentatives who with splendid
loyalty had supported every
forward step of the adminls-
tration," but sit was a demand
for the continuance of supreme
power by the election of u con-
gress which would submit IT.
self to the orders of an execu-
tive acting at once as n party
leader i'm politics and dictator
in government. It was the In
stinct of American democracy
that rcpelled the demand.
THE presidents defense OF
the authority of the senate to
advise upon the covenant of
the league of nations and to
give or withhold its consent to
the ratification of the treaty
containing it," he continued.
was u challenge to the right
of any officer of the United
States government to exercise
his powers I'm any way which
had not the approval of the
chief executive"
The treaty, Mr.. Root deciar-
ed, twas fatally defective in
several respects, not only from
the standpoint of the vital in
terests of the United States, but
considered as an Instrument
designed to secure the future
peace of the world"
''The reservations adopted
by the senate" he insisted,
'remedy, so far rs the United
States is concerned, the chief
objections to the treaty. They
prevent our entrance into the
league of nations from being
an abandonment OF the Monroe
doctrine, with irreparable in
jury to the United States and
no benefit TO the rest of the
world" HNa
Especially important. asserted