Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-06
.LOWDEN IN FAVOR
OF TREATY WHEN
SAFELY MODIFIED
Illinois Governor Believes In
Prompt Ratification When
ever League of Nations Is
Properly Safeguarded.

Chicago, Jan. 5.-"While the league
of nations, even as modified by the
reservations adopted does not takl
the form which | believe it should,
namely, judicial rather than political,
! think it is the part of wisdom now
to ratify it with such reservations as
adopted by the senate" said Governor
Frank Q. Lowden in a letter today,
replying to United States Senator w.
r. Borah, of Idaho, who had request
ed Governor Lowden's position on the
league of nations.
Governor Lowden's letter in part
follows:
"On April %, 1919, in a speech ]
made before the Sixth National For
eign Trades convention at Chicago,
among other things | said;
owe want friends everywhere, but
we are not looking for partnership
with any other nation on the face OF
the globe.
We want our flag going into
every port on terms of amity with
every nation on the earth; but nation
ism and not internationalism must
still be our dominant note
America, too, has done more to
develop the idea of arbitration and Of
close international relations than any
other country.
No Transfer of Sovereignty. e
The Hague conference, made
great progress and we would be re-
ereant to the cause of humanity If
now we failed to take advantage of
this opportunity to extend the work
of those conferences toward "A more
definite and a larger international law
and better international under
standing
."'All our people have believed in
that ideal and we hope now that this
ideal IS TO be realized. but our peo-
pie are not for transferring the SOW
oreignty of America from Washington
to any other place, we are also going
to cling to our Monroe doctrine; and
we are going to keep our flag floating
above the dome of the capitol
To a great many people in these
days there seems to be new flag
coming out of the sky a flag so re-
mote that it hardly can be seen. To
me it seems the white flag Of peace;
to others it seems the red flag OF
carnage and anarchy. Whichever it
may be, it is not going to take the
place in America of that other flag
that flag under which we have made
All our progress toward tne realization
of our national ideals
Favors Reservations.
1.-THE League of Nations as submit
ted to the senate, seemed to me to be
subject to grave objections. These OBJ
jections in the main | think, have
been removed by the reservations
adopted by the senate. The instru-
ment as so modified. as | understand
IT, does not bind the United States to
participate in the racial and dynastic
battles of thes old world nor does it
involve 'entanglmg alliances or part
nerships with foreign powers nor
does it authorize interference by for
eign powers in American affairs | do
not believe the time has come when
we should abandon the policy of no
entangling alliances 1t may be that
America again will deem 1t her duty
to participate in some foreign war as
ishe participated in the last. but think
she can be depended upon, when that
time does come, to decide for herself,
through constitutional means, where
her duty lies. just as she did before.
modified by the reservations adopted,
does not take the form which l be-
lieved 1t should, namely, judicial rath-
er than political. ! think i Is the part
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