New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Worse Than Folly to Pity
Armenia and Not Attack
Turkey, He Says
High Tribute Paid .
To French Envoy
Nj. Jusserand Guest of
Honor at Pennsylvania
Society's Dinner

Active warfare by the United States
hrainst all Of Germany's allies was de-
tnsnded by Colonel Roosevelt last
night a. "tho only whole-hearted way
Of aiding our allies"
In the course % an address at Che
war dinner OF the pennsylvania So
elety at the Waldorf Astoria the Col
onel denounced The giving CT words OF
announcement 70 g,inanas without
making way on Bulgaria. 'Sympathiz-
ing with Armenia and not making war
on Turkey, he said, was worse than
folly"
The dinner was turned into an un.
stinted tribute 10 France because OF
the presence Of Ambassador Jules j.
Jusseraud SIS the guest OF honor. SEN
stor Henry Cabot Lodge, James W.
Gerard. former ambassador TO Ger
many, and James u. Beck. president OF
the society, praised the stand Of the
french Republic against Germany and
advocated even more energetic meas
pres BY the United States 10 back up
the Allies generally and France par
ticulsrly.
Colonel Roosevelt greeted the French
Ambassador as an old friend. lie
threw numerous sidelights upon his re
lations with DR.. Jusserand while PreS-
dent, and said he thanked heaven that
be at last stood shoulder to shoulder
with him in the common cause of CIV
ilization.
e. Il. Pays Tribute 20 Jusserand
Colonel Roosevelt said:
we welcome our guest for the man
TINT he is and for the mighty nation
which IL is his high honor so wo-shliy
q represent. But our welcome Is
worthless except in so far as II Is an
earnest OF the tangible aid which thls
country is with ali possible speed 10
render France. WORDS are good only
and precisely as they are translated
into deeds We are in this war IN oes-
perate earnest, and we are IN honor
bound to strain every effort on oensl1
OF this nation, of France and OF all our
allies.
If our allies in this war is to just that
o~tent treacherous 10 America We
have right 10 ask of them that they
fight loyally 10 the end, and that when
we ask Of others we must ourselves 90
We came into the war very late. foI
three years France and her alheS mao
been fighting our battles for US. Ihere-
fore it is trebly incumbent on US no"
10 help them. We must render the
helm in every way. We must give
money ana food. We must give ships
end guns and airplsnes and munitions,
and we ought 70 be working literally
night and day on the guns and snlpS'
Tor our DELAYS have been fraught with
fripbtful damage. We must give our
uen we must train them as soldiers
rnd send them abroad by the millions;
There must be nothing halt-hearted
i'm our attitude in this war. Therefore,
We must not only be loyal TO all our
allies. we must also make war on al
our foes. 1t is both absurd and mis-
chievous 20 be st war with Germany
and vet not st war with Germany
Yassal allies; for it is these vassal
allies who make Germany menace 10
civilization. Austria, Bulgaria and
Turkey stand on par. we cannot 90
our full duty in the war unless we make
war on all. II is empty unwisdom TO
give verbal encouragement to Rumanla
and Serbia unless we go 20 war win
Rulparia. IL il worse than folly 10
profess sympathy for Armenia unless
we make war on Turkey. Belgium must
ne .restored and iudemnitied and
France must have back Alssce and Lor-
raine. or else We shall not secure the
kind of peace which alone ought 70 emo
this war. mi
But this is not enough. In The
Atlantic Monthly for this month l
wish nv fellow Americans would read
the article by a Frenchman, Andre
Chera6ame, on the need OF radical
treatment of the Austro-Hungarian
and Balkan and Asistic situations.
Austro- Hungary and Turkey are not
nations. They are racial tyrannles by
certain national casts which In each
case represent only a minority Of the
total population. Neither democracy
nor civilization is safe while these
Two states exist in their present form,
and when We are az war with them IL
IS on our part culpable weakness as
regards ourselves and betrayal OF the
rights of others not 90 fight for the
complete independence Of the op-
pressed nstiona,ities in each.
Should Drive Turks from Europe
Turkey should be driven from Eu-
rope; the Armonians and Syrian
Christians and Jews and Arabs should
I'll be freed. Austro- Hungary repre-
SCENTS the tyranny Of the Germans and
Magyars over their more numerous fell
low subjects Of the Hspsburg crown.
81 do not wish 20 see the MagyRrs
or Germans oppressed by anybody, nor
do wish 20 see them Cypress anybody.
Try 20 make Hungary real democracy.
let the Italians of Austria join Italy
and tho Rumanians Of Hungary join
Rumania. Let the Poles Of Austria,
Germany and Russia become great
Polish commonwealth. Let the b.
.kemians. Moravisns and S!ovaks be-
4 come an independent greater Bohemia
n Let Serbia. Croatia, Bosnia. Herzego-
Nina and the other southern Slav lands
OF Austria become Jugoslav COM