The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-02-01
Vim J. Bryan Dissents.

a
fully eloquent appeal to the nations a,
view at Madison, Wis, ian. 23d. 'In
gests terms of agreement, it is entirely
sound and reflects " hat believe to be an
almost unanimous sentiment, but | dis
sent entirely from the proposition that
this nation should join in movement tC
effect peace in Europe.
eff | know the sentiment of the Ameri-
can people, it is inconceivable that they
should be willing to put the American
ternational council which would neces-
sarily be controlled by European nations
and allow that council to decide for US
when we would go to war.
Il have more faith in our people to
help them by example, than have in our
country to help Them by endorsing the
European plan of relying upon force and
terrorism.
In the Presidents appeal to them, be
presents the philosophy of brotherhood
and cooperation and this is inconsistent
with the proposition that it be backed up
by "a large display of force. In other
words, the President has sown wheat and
LdItS tOSelueI. hopS tHdl tDe osIidt e
will approve of the wheat and reject the
tares.'
The Voice of the American Press
Louisville Courier Journal st is in
deed staggering formal, actual
proposal of a transcendental dreamer for
the instant, practical establishment by
force of the millennium of mankind and
the Courier-J Journal has not the heart at
the moment of first impressions to pro-
coed into an analysis of its fatal incon-
sistencies, fantastic illusions and limit
less possibilities for misfortune and mis-
chief
New York Tribune: 'In our opinion
the mixing in advance into the details of
the coming peace compact in Europe is
highly imprudent. 1t puts the United
States in false position and cannot but
excite the resentment of the European
belligerents. from whose quarrel Presi-
dent Wilson. so long as it suited him to
do so, insisted that we must stand rigid
ly aloof."
New York Herald: when Mr.. Will
son energies from the dreamland of his
fancy and essays to deal with the cold,
hard facts of a situation which finds
great nations battling for a righteous
peace he shows that proper realization
of the sentiments impelling those peo-
pies to sacrifice their all for liberty has
no more found Its way into the secluded
cIoisters of the White House than has a
real understanding of the sentiments Of
the American people,"
Providence Journal: 1.-The mountain
has brought forth a very small mouse.
What single thought is there in all this
cornucopia of words that was not fully
stated, in an infinitely more direct and
honest form, by Mr.. Balfour several
days ago? Mr.. Wilson beckons the bleed
ing and suffering nations of the world
towards him with his schoolmaster'
cane and delivers prize Grafton on the
millennium, while civilization and the
liberty of the world are battling for life
in the shamhles of hundred bloody
fields"
Hartford Courant: 1.-The address init
mates that our country, without army
and with navy that under this Admin
istration has become a joke, is going to
walk across the ocean and dictate to the
warning nations what they must agree
to. By what authority does he interfere
and who gives him any right to dictate
terms of peace to those engaged? If bis
speech is not Objectionable to the Allies,
We shall be surprised. They will resent
his pretension in walking into the situa-
ton and will question his declaration
that there must not be victory.