Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-03-07
GERMAN PAPER5
ATTACK WILSON

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PRECEDENT is "ARRoeANT AND
ClSHoNEsT'-cAPlTOL sHAHE-
LEssLY DzsEc5ATE08 IT ADDS
Eoilia, March 7-Callms Pr25iden,
wilson the most unjust and dishoa.
al man vino ever was head OF u great
na.;ol. the LoEn Anzeiger made 4
yis tclic attack upon the Presidents
inauga al address
"EZae.ly the same day a hundred
ye-rs aso, James Monroe was iuaugu
rated president, said the Lokal An
2eiger ms successor Wilson, in the
oarito, at Washington, tore to pieces
the document upon which the foreign
policy Of the United States has been
based for The last hundred years, the
sc-Called Monroe Doctrine.
The whole speech is nothing else
but an attempted JUSTIFICATION OF the
new law born a his mead by which
he seeks 10 impose upon the people
Of the whole world the forms within
ana by which in the future interna-
tioEal relations shall be regulated
This arrogance which Is akin 10 meg
icmaaia. is happily also in reverse
proportions To the means at his dis
posa for the realization OF his pro-
gram
Put that is not the most outrage
Gus feature Of his speech The wora.
Is lLo apparent intention to shine as
a great peace maker by insidiously
twisting or yelling the truth a a mo
ment when he is about to enter the
world war without the slightest need,
after he has been guilty OF prolonging
il wantonly by Ango-Phlneutralily
and by unnardonabie sins OF omission.
Never has Washington's capitol
been SO shamelessly desecrated Dy a
speech than by that OF Wilson's, who,
in every sentence, demands for him
SELF the title Of the most just and
mos, honest OF moitals and az the
same time reveals himself as the
most unjust and the most dishonest
man who ever was head OF a great
nation Ald if, as he says nothing III
the world viii change his ideas, his i'll
tcnticns, the million-iold answer will
echo across the ocean:
No threat with armed ships, no
declaration Of war will open our block
ade to American mulitiGn traders. y
South America Paper In Denial.
Buenos Ayres March Editors CT
the Argentine newspaper laFreEZa TO-
day denied that they had ever pub
llshed an article. charging President
Wilson with attempting TO array the
South American neutrals against Ger.
mary, thru formation OF pan-Ameri'
can Alliance IN his explanation OF
the German plot to draw Mexico and
Japan into war against the United
States, the German foreign secretary,
Dr. Zimmerman. justified Germany
scion partly on the grounds that the
United States was plotting against
Germany. He quoted LaPrenza as au-
thority
L.aPrensa, the editors explained, did
publish an article stating that Presi-
dent Wilson was attempting to form
continental alliance, But the object
Of this alliance. the newspaper de-
/ clared, was to resist European or pos
sibly Japanese aggression 1t is be-
/ ieved that cable excerpts from this
article reached Germany in distorted
form and gave pr Zimmerman the
wrong impression.
Berlin Praises FiIiorsters
Berlin. March Tinted States
Senators who lea the dlibustcr that
defeated President Wilson'S armed
ship bill are hailed as Fine Ameri-
cans" by the Frankiurter Zc!tung, q
view that is concurred in by most o.
the German newspapers.
"The example of these fine Ameri,
cans Who remained uncontaminated by
Wilson'S blind devotion 10 England
was bound to make 4 deor impression
especially in the west where the peo'
pic could see no glory in being killed
for tho cake Of tic Union jack, sald
the Zeitung.