Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-13

| ton so long as II is an organization
of any particular treaty, or COM
mitted to attainment Of special
aims of any nation or group of ma
| tons.
The American aspiration, indeed,
| the world aspiration. was an asso-
citation of nations. based upon the
duplication Of justice and right,
binding us in conference and CO.
operation for the prevention of war
and pointing the way to a higher
civilization and international fra
ternity in which all the world mighs
! share. In rejection the league
covenant and uttering that rejec-
ton to our own people, and to the
world, we make no surrender of
our hope and aim for an associa-
! ton to promote peace in which we
would most heartily join. We
wish it to be conceived in peace
land dedicated to peace, ana will re-
| linquish no effort to bring the ma
tions of the world into such fellow
ship, not in the surrender Of ma
tional sovereignty but rejoicing in
a nobler exercise of it in the adj
| yancement of human activities
amid the compensations of peaceful
achievement
! Fayors Peace Resolutions.
In the national referendum to
which | have referred, we pledged
our efforts toward such association,
and pledge will be faithfully kept.
! In the plight of policy and per-
| Torrance, we told the American
people we meant to seek an early
establishment of peace. The Unit
ed States alone among the allied
and associated powers continues in
| a technical state of war against
the central powers of Europe. This
anomalous condition ought not be
permitted to continue. To estab-
| lish the state of technical peace
without further delay, should APP
prove a declaratory resolution by
congress to that effect, with the
qualifications essential to protect
! all our rights. Such action would
be the simplest keeping Of facts
with ourselves, and could in no
sense be construed as a decision
of those with whom we shared our
sacrifices in war, for these powers
are already at peace.
Our Attitude Is Known.
Such a resolution should under
| take to do more than thus to de-
clare the state of peace, which all
America Graves. 1t must add no
| difficulty in effecting, with just
| Preparations, the restoration for
which all Europe yearns, and up
on which the worlds recovery
must be founded. Neither former
| enemy nor ally can mistake Ann
erica's position, because our atti-
/ tude as to responsibility for the
war and the necessity for just re-
| parations already has had formal
and very earnest expression.
| 1t would be unwise to under
! take to make statement of flu
ture policy with respect to Euro
pean affairs in such a declaration
of q state of peace. In correcting
| the failure of tho executive, in ne
gotiating the most important treaty
in the history of the nation, to
| recognize the constitutional pow
ers of the senate, we would go to
| the other extreme, equally objec-
! tionable, if congress or the senate
| should assume the function of the
executive. Our highest duty is the
| preservation of the constitution
and constituted powers of each
and promotion of the spirit of
| cooperation so essential to our
common welfare.
Can't Ignore the Old World.
| 1t would be idle to declare for
| separate treaties of peace with the
! central powers on the assumption
| that these alone would be ade-
| quate, because the situation is so
| involved that our peace engage
ments cannot ignore the old world
relationship and the settlements
alreday effected, nor is it desirable
to do so In preserving our own
| rights and contracting our future
| relationships.
The wiser course would seem to
! be the acceptance of the con-
| firmation of our rights and inter-
ests as provided and engage the
existing treaty, assuming of course,
that this can be satisfactorily ac-
complished by such explicit reser-
vations and notifications as will
secure our absolute freedom from
| inadvisable commitments and safe
|
| Neither congress nor the people
need my assurance that a request
Ito negotiate needed treaties OF
peace would be as superfluous and
unnecessary as it is technically in
effective, and l know in my own
heart there is none who would
wish to embarrass the executive
in the performance of his duty
when we are all so eager to turn
disappointment and delay into
gratifying accomplishment
Our Foreign Problems.
Problems relating to our for
eign relations bear upon the pres
ent and the future and are of such
a nature that the all-important
future must be deliberately con-
lsidered, with greater concern than
mere immediate relief from I'M
happy conditions. We have wit
messed, yea, we have participated
in the supremely tragic episode of
war, but our deeper concern is in
the continuing life of nations and
the development of civilization.
We must not allow our vision
to be impaired by the conflict
among ourselves. The WEAKNESS
at home and the disappointment
to the world have been compensat-
led in the proof that this republic
will surrender none of the heritage
Of nationality, but other rights in
international relationship have tc
be asserted; they require estab.
, lishment in compacts of amity; our
part in readjustment and resora-
ton cannot be ignored and must
. be defined.
League Rejected.
With the super governing league
definitely rejected and with the
world so informed and with the
, status of peace proclaimed at home
, 1--we may proceed to negotiate tht
, coveted relationships so essentia
: to the relation of all the right:
! everywhere of our own nation ant
Iplay our full part in joining tn,
lneOpleg of the world in the MIR