The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-06
Only Complete Overthrow of
Germany Can Assure Peace.
Dissolution of Austria and Tur-
key Also Are Requisites.
OUTLINES GEOGRAPHICAL LINES
Make Poland Independent; Also
Free Balkan Slavs.
Crush the Turks and Give Lib
erty to Armenia and Arabia.

Kew York, Oct 6.-Theodore
Roosevelt goes Premier Lloyd George
one better The British premier's ia
nous war ultimatum was that the
conflict must go Ito a knockout" or
the allies cause would DE failure
In an address here last night before
national service mass meeting,
Roosevelt asserted that to insure a
world peace in the future Germany,
Austria and Turkey must be complete
~ overthrow.
Included in the program he outlined
were free Arabia and Armenia, Pc
land and Lithuania with an independ-
ent Czech commonwealth and a Jugo-
Slav state.
Peace Rumors Injurious.
Continually we hear rumors of
peace" he said. Il think the circula-
ton of such rumors is injurious to
America and 60 the cause of decency
and democracy. We should make it
clearly understood that the conduct of
Germany has been such that we re-
gard as enemies of mankind all people
who would strive to bring about
peace based on treating Germany.
Austria and Turkey, on the one hand,
and the allies. on the other, as stand
ing on a footing of equality. The
only peace that will make the world
safe for democracy is a peace based
upon complete overthrow of Germany
and the dissolution of Austria and
Turkey.
'IJnless we have used the phrase in
a hypocritical and insincere manner,
this is the way to make the world safe
for democracy, and the only way, and
this means that the only peace we
can accept is the peace of overwhelm-
ing victory. Turkeys conduct toward
the Armenian and Syrian Christians
has been such as to make it evident
that the Turk must not only be driven
out of Europe, but the empire de-e
stroyed. Give Arabia freedom, give
Armenia freedom. Establish a free
city at COnstantinople and keep the
straits absolutely open for the Rus
SLAMS and everyone else.
Perhaps Free Finland, Too.
MAKE a great Independent Poland
and probably a great independent Fin
land, too. Give the Luthuanians at
least autonomy. Make an independ-
ent Czech commonwealth, to include
the Bohemians, Moravians and SIo-
walks Make a Jugo-Slav common
wealth to include on a footing of en-
tire equality, Croats, Serbians and
sSlovaks, whether orthodox, Catholics
or Mohammedans. Restore Italian
Austria to Italy, and Rumanian Hun
gary to Rumania.
LAS for Belgium, she is not only en-
titled to restoration but to the heaviest
kind of indemnities Let France have
Alsace-Lorraine; let Poland include
the whole Baltic coast to which she is
entitled. Let the English and the
Japanese keep the colonies they have
won.
No Conquest by U. S.
LAS for the United States, we wish
nothing except to have it clearly I'M
tderspoOd that the Monroe doctrine is
TO be upheld in the future as in the
past. South of the equator this doc
trine can be left to Brazil, Argentina
and Chile, who are strong enough to
maintain it and whom we will aid in
smaintaining it(only when they so de-
sire.
But around the Caribbean and at
the points bearing upon the ap-
fproaches to the canal, we must our
selves maintain it.
I'VE do not desire to see Germans
or Magyars oppressed by anybody; but
we do not intend that hereafter they
shall Cypress others.
Peace should come along the lines
thus roughly indicated. Then do
whatever treaties and agreements can
DO to make the peace permanent and
minimize the chances. of war in the
future. But avoid folly and hypocrisy
and do not make believe that anv ma :
der scheme will bring the millennium
or abolish all chances of future war
After we have done all we can do by
Hague conferences and arbitrat ton
agreements and treaties. let US profit
by the lessons of the last three and
a quarter years and remember that
be an utterly insufficient safeguard
Tor peace against alien aggression.
Our Lesson Is Preparedness.
There is but one permanent meth
cd of securing safety for this nation
and that is by training our strength
in time of peace by preparedness. The
only effective preparedness must rest
on system of universal obligator
military training for all our young
men; a training which is against war
for it will render it most unlikely that
there ever will be war; a training
which will also Immediately increase
the self-respect and patriotism and
the moral and physical fitness OF
young men for the tasks of peace"
Referring to the Bolo Pasha reve-
iahons, he declared that statements
already published disclosed that the
German ambassador for the last two
years prior to the breaking of diplo-
matte relations, was engaged in a cam.
paign in this country to influence pub
lie opinion thru the press, thru pacif-
ist organizations and similar bodies
How large the corruption fund tina
was spent in America was, we do no
Yet know. But it was certainly very
large Enough has been shown Il
make us certain that the acceptance
Of bride money for the German gov
eminent was one of the most import
ant factors and perhaps the most, i'm,
portant factor in keeping alive pro
German agitation fbfc -