Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-05-30
AT REST, BUT WATCHING.

TOday America honOrS hef dead or all wars.
President Harding will make the memorial day
address at the Arlington national cemetery. On
the grounds of the National league baseball club in
New York City, monument is to be unveiled in
memory of Captain Eddie Grant, who killed
while fighting in France. Governor John j. Corn
wall, former governor of West Virginia, has been
selected to deliver the memorial day address at
the Antietam national cemetery. Under the
pces of the French government, the day will be
marked by services the graves of $4,000
American dead in France.
These are the principal special observances
The whole nation however, will join in paying
tribute of her hero dead,
1t is good that Columbia should set aside at
least day for such an observance
But in another and broader sense, every day
should be day of homage to those who fell in
battle--homage translated in terms of deeds, in
terms of steadfast adherence to the ideals for
which they fought.
Let us go back to beginnings, and take an in
ventory of ourselves. Have held high the
torch that handed to when its early bear
could the course no more? .ss
Among the earliest settlers of the world
were they who came here in search Of political
liberty They achieved it at the cost of blood. Have
we brought their ideals to full fruition?
Let us see. We free indeed, from the yoke
of any foreign powers; but free from self
imposed Jokes?
Today, the nation is largely ruled by the big
bosses Two of the most important cabinet Of
ficers-the secretary of the interior and the at
torney general-are decided reactionaries Almost
every state--and New Mexico is excepton-has
well creased machine that represents not the
people but the interests of the elite few.
In this state, the grip of the bosses has relax
ed somewhat during the last year But it is
still tight enough to be uncomfortable to the citi
zen that wants to breathe the air of freedom with
untrammeed lungs.
What of the Pilgrims?
They too accomplished their aim--that of re-
ligious liberty, purchased with bood-letting.
Yet today there is a well organized anti
Jewish campaign in progress in this country-a
campaign that though denounced by enlightened
citizens of all creeds nevertheless is avowedly and
relentlessly sponsored by of the nations rich
est men. -.
The civil war was fought to abolish slavery
Yet today the sweatshOp still exists though fortu-
nately the national conscience is tardly being
aroused against the evil And right here in New
Mexico, large part of the native population
made of flesh and blood just like the rest of us
has been kept in Intellectual darkness so that
the masters might with greater impugnty ex-
plot them
Then came the Spanish American war 1t was
Americas first blow for weaker nation. Cuba
freed from the Spanish yoke, and given
absolute independence and autonomy.
Yet today there is a powerful clique at work
in the United States striving to impose humiliatng
terms another weaker nation to the south of us,
for the purpose of using these terms as club to
favor certain American vested interests in that
nation.
Finally we come to the latest and most slor
ious chapter in history-America's partici-
patton in the world The Prussian menace has
been lifted from northern France and Belgium,
but not from the United States. German propagan-
da is still at work in midst-so much so that
the American Legion only recently found it neces-
sary to send note of warning from coast to
coast
u We not trying to sound the minor tones of
pesslmism by these reflections, but rather to
strike the majors Of determination, that these
wholesome undercurrents shall be stemmcd in
the river of American life, e..
Let us awaken! Let us make Industrial political
and religious liberties full realities. Let see
that America shall never Cypress the weak Let us
to it that una American influences forever
banshed from to and from border to
border
The dead are watching.