Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-25
ROOSEVELT DECLARES
POINTS MISCHIEVOUS
Asserts II Terms OF Wilson IL Made
Peace Basis Would Mean Our
Conditional Surrender.
WIRE REPUBLICAN LEADERS
Former President Outlines Position
In Tclcgrams To Senators Poln-
dexter. Lodge and johnson.

OYSTER BAY. oct 2i--Theo-
dore Roosevelt sent duplicate telc-
grams tonight to United States Sen.
ators Lodge Poindextcr and John
son in which SO characterized AS
thoroughly hicvous' tho II
principles enun.. tied by President
Wilson II they are TO he made the
basis OF peace.
The kilograms follow:
AS an American citizen. ! most
earnestly hope that the senate Of
the treaty making power Of the
United States, will take affirmative
action against a negotiated peace
with Germany and in favor OF a
peace based on the unconditional
surrender OF Germany.
II also declare against the adop-
tion in their entirety OF the Ia points
Of the presidents address OF last
January as offering n basis for n
peace satisfactory to the United
States. Let us dictate peace by the
hammering guns and not chat about
peace To the accompaniment OF the
clicking of typewriters.
THE language of the Ia points and
the subsequent statements explain
ing or qualifying them is neither
STRAIGHTFORWARD nor plain, but II con-
strued In its probable sense, many
and possibly most OF these II points,
are thoroughly mischievous and II
made the basis OF peace, such
peace would represent, not the un-
conditional surrender OF Germany,
hut the conditional surrender of the
Nat,,ruIlxg a
entirely satisfactory to Germany and
equally naturally they arc In this
country satisfactory TO every pro-
German and pacifist and socialist
and anti-AmericaDs so-called inter
nationalist.
The only peace offer which we
should consider from Germany nj
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 fail
ure to do so hitherto has caused the
talk about making the world safe
for democracy to look unpleasantly
like mere inslncere rhetoric. While
the Turk is left in Europe and per-
mitted to tyrannlze over subject peo-
pie the world is thoroughly, unsafe
for democracy.
Moreover, we should find out
what the president means by con-
tinually referring TO this country
merely as the associate instead OF
the ally OF the nations with whose
troops our own troops are actually
brigaded in battle. II he means that
we are something less than ally OF
France, England, Italy, Belgium and
Serbia, then he means that we are
something less than an enemy OF
Germany and Austria. We ought "a
make II clear to the world that we
are neither an untrustworthy friend
nor an irresolute foe. Let us clearly
show that we do not desire to pose
as the umpire between our faithful
and loyal friends and our treaeher-
GUS and brutal enemies. but that
we are staunch allies Of our friends
and the staunch foe of our enemies.
when the German people repudi-
ate the HohenZOllerns, then and not
until then, II will he time to discrimi-
nate between them and their mas
ters hope the senate and the
house will pass some resolution de-
manding the unconditional surrender
OF Germany az our war aim and
stating that our peace terms have
never yet been formulated or ac-
cepted by our people and that they
will be fully discussed with our allies
and made fully satisfactory 20 our
own people before they are discussed
with Germany"