El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-22
FIGHT THE ALLIES OF GERMANY;
GO TO WAR WITH ALL OF THEM
H.

~OL. ROOSEVELT is right In asserting that ought
to declare the allies of Germany simply because
- they the allies Of enemy and not because they
have given rs any grounds for offence by their behavior
otherwise. The United States deal thoroughly
with the espionage problem while Austrans Bugarans
and Turks their legations and consuates open and their
SPY agencies this country working In behalf Of THEN
ally And United States never can give the
operation in the var long as its operations can be d
Teetsd against one bsgeIsnt only and are etoPPed from
being directed against the other belligeTents.
For instance, let suppose the issue Of the
deicately poised that victory defeat hinged
tie campaign IN Italy and that we had and materials
ready to throw in the scale We could not do It pres
eut status because properly could fight only the Ger
mans the Italian front Lacking declaration Of war
scarcely would engage Austria Bulgaria or Turkey and
al three Of those nations have armies the Italian front
It Is tue that declarations Of be made quickly, but
they ought to be enacted sufficiently in advance to permit
Of unhampered action IN Just such instances the Italian
campaign, where situation develops with great rapidty
and utmost haste IN counter preparation is essential
As relations stand cannot participate the
Macedonian front IN MeSOpOtamia Palestine the
southern front in Russia It Is well enough to say that
probably sphere Of military operations land VIII
confined to France and Belgium In Of kaleidoscope
changes such this do know today what may be
the essential course Of action tomorrow.
Let suppose another England is losing approx
aely 1000 officers awee in the present minor Op
e-atons Suppose sudden emergency arose and Engezd
asked the assignment temporarily of few hundred OF
thousand o. our Officers putting them IN commands Operat
ing against Germany German divisions are shifted ana
Ausnans take ther place. It would be decidedly er-
RAISING for everyone concerned except Germany and Aus
such treatment by Officers Of friendly power If the fore
going too improbable let It be remembered that not
only are United States army medical corps officers
serving by assignment with the British army but also Unit
cd States artillery, engineer and signal corps officers.
Declaring Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey would be
rather peculiar that the United States does not want to
fight any Of those countries Neither any Of them want
10 fight Austria and Turkey downright friendly in
their regard FOR American citizens well treated IN
Austria today Notwithstanding that Austria has
broken relations with US and complaint of Ill treat
men Of an American citizen has out of COnstannopIe
On the contrary, Americans who have come out of Turkey
following the break with Germany have said they we're
tended al the usual 00uees and that Turks were ten
times as civilized IN their treatment Of Americans as were
the Germans. It VIII be rebered that Vienna in break
ing relations with the Unite lte did with obvious re-
get saying in almost many words: 1--WE hate to do II
but we have TO because Of our allegiance
In other words these allies Of Germany realized that they
could not stay the fence with respect to the United
States They had 70 be side other and in fact
II had to be the German side.
So with We cannot afford to stop with the half av
measure Of formal breach Of relations with the allies
CT Germany When they side with our enemy they side
against US and become our enemies also The AustroHun
ga2n ambassador Dr. Constantn Dumba proved that bv
his plotnqs IN the United States We recognize the necs
sites Of the time and dive foremost into the war
against all Gemanys aids and abetOrs as well as against
Germany.