The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-10-30
Roosevelt HTleks Sole
DEcI,AREs FOURTEEN TERMS
ARE usCHIEyoUs.
Telegrams Sent i'll Duplicate to SEN
ators Lodge, Poindexter and Jom-
son at Washington.

oyster Bay Oct 24.-Theodore
Roosevelt sent duplicate telegrams@
might to United States Senators
Lodge. Poindexter and Johnson IN
which he characterized as thorough
" mischievous'' the Il principles
enunciated by President Wilson as
they are to be made the basis OF I
peace.
The telegram follows: -,
AS an American citizen I most
earnestly hope that the senate OF the
United States, which is part OF the
treaty making power Of the United
States. will take Affirmative action
against a negotiated peace with Ger
many and in favor Of peace paseo |
on the unconditional surrender OF
Germany.
IT also declare against the adop-
rion in their entirety Of the IA points
OF the presidents address of last jan
uary as offering basis for a peace
satisfactory to the United States. Let
rs dictate peace by the hammerlng
guns and not chat about peace 10
the accompaniment of the clicking
of typewriters.
The language of the IA points
and the subsequent statements eA-
planning or qualifying them is neither
straightforward no:. plain, but II con-
strued in its probable sense many
and possibly most OF these IA points
are thoroughly raischievous and II
made the basis of a peace such peace
would represent, not the uncondltaon-
al surrender Of Germany, but the
conditional surrender OF the United
States. Naturally they are entirely
satisfactory to Germany and equally
naturally they are in this country sats-
factory to every rro-German and
| m1cidst and socialist and anti-An1er-
ican socalled. internationalist.
The only peace offer which we
should consider from Germany at this
time is an offer to accept such terms
as the allies, without our aid, have
imposed on Bulgaria. We ought to
| declare war on Turkey without an
hours delay The failure to do so
hitherto has caused the talk about
ma king the world safe for democracy
to look unpleasantly like mere In
sincere rhetoric. While the Turk IS
/ left IN Europe and permitted to
tyrannize over the subject people the
world is thoroughly unsafe for democ-
racy.
Moreover, we should find out what
/ the president means by continually
referring to this country merely as the
associate instead Of the ally OF the
nations with whose troops our troops
are actually brigaded in battle. II he
| means that we are something less than
! ally of France, England, Italy, Bel
GUM md Serbia, then ne means that
we are something less than an enemy
of. Germany and Austria We ought
ia make it clear to the world that we
/ are neither an untrustworthy friend
I nor an irresoiute foe. Let us clearly
show that we do not desire to pose as
the umpire between our faithful and
lIcyaI friends and our treacherous and
brutal enemies. but that we are
staunch ally of our friends and the
/ stauncIl foe OF our enemies.
/ sWhen the German people repu-
ciate the Hohenzollerns, then and not
Until then, it viii be time to discrinl-
.t-nate between them and their masters
I hope the senate and the house vii
mass some resolution demanding the
i unconditional surrender Of Germany
as our war aim and stating that ouI
1 peace terms have never yet been
! formulated or accepted by our people
1 and that they Will be fully discussed
with our allies and made fully salts;
1 factory to our own peor1e before thes
are discussed with Germany. z
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