Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-29
Lack Of Efficiency Charged With Delay in Equpng Army and
Thereby Prolonging Hostili,ies Unconditional Sur.
render of Germany and Vassal Allies Demanded

the slogan effective. Ambassador Gerard's
| disclosures and other evidences Of Prus-
| eian intrigue and inso1encc. subsequently
given 10 the public. show the true facts
| 81 our veSatiens with Germany as fae
back ~ the sinking ~ the Lusitania.
This concealment OF facts showing the
fixed and sinister purposes of Germany
and the failure for more than two years
to make adequate preparation inn
| measurably increases the price in blood
and money we must now pay for victory
| This is the sound doctrine to which all
good Americans should subscribe.
when II comes to the peace neGotia.
tiO1s we should emphatics1y repudtate
| the famous fourteen points announced
by the President last January. One Of
them he has himself repudia ted. but the
remainder are either 80 mischievous tina,
| they ought to be repudiated without
| further defintion or else we should insist
upon having them defined in order to
know lust exactly what they mean. They
| have been greeted with enthusiasm by
| Germany and by all the pro Germans on
| this side OF the water especially by the
| Germanized Socialists and by the Boil
shevists Of every grade and for this
reason good Americans should regard
| them with suspicion. For example, the
may be interpreted as meaning what
Germany contends. and II so no patriotic
American can support IL. The first need
In freeing the seas Is to free them from
the German practice of murder of in
nocent women and children.
Would Make L. $. a Dump
Again. we ought 10 know just what
the President means When he speaks OF
dntvn
| he means that he proposes 70 allow Ger
| many to dump her manufactures on us
without restriction we ought to he
aGainst II. and neither buslNessma..
nor workinsman can sfford to accept II.
We ought to insist on keeping in our
hands the complete right to handle our
tariff as the vital interests OF our own
| citizens and especially our own working
| men demand IF these two points mean
| anything they mean that the seas are
| to be free for our enemies use in. time
| of war and our home markets free for
| our enemies trade in time of peace.
Again If the Presidents Language
means anything, one OF these fourteen
| points is a proposal TO guarantee that
| every nation shall reduce its armament
| to point sufficient to preserve domestic
order II this language Is to he taken
| according to us necessary meaning,
navy and reduce its army to n police
| force capable only Of putting down riot,
| and would have to trust 10 n league OF
nations for protecting II agninst out
| side agRression..
| Either tho Presidents language means
this or it means nothing. But II 1t
means this. every high-rnded and far
| sighted patriotic American citizen should
he against the proposal. According to
1 ;s, i,,oI in hn g
fourteen points. under this proposal Ger
many, Austria, Turkey and Russia
would. as part Of the league Of nations.
have the say-so as to Americas future,
and America would have nothing but a
| small poIice force with which 10 protec
it's own right.
Internationaiism Danger
| 1T is hard for me to speak patiently
| of such a proposition. II 1t were made
by any one except the President 1t would
| he considered as foolish as the widest
folly uttered by the professional pac'-
| fists prior to the occurrence of this great
| war. The conduct Of the Powers above
named shows that whenever it was to
| their interest they would treat any
agreement they made with us as scrap
of paper The simple fact is that no
league of nations or any other scheme
Of that kind should be accepted as any
| thing but an addition to, and never as
a substitute for, the development for our
own defense Of our own strength and its
preparedness in advance. International
ism 10 q curse II It IL sought to make u
as q substitute for nationa'isni. We
have to be good Americans first before
| we can be good citizens of the world !:
we must behave justly to all other
nations, but we must remember In the
first place our duty to our own wives
and children and to the generations that
are to come after US in this fair and
mighty land. There are p.enty of ques-
tions. such as our territorial integrity,
our right to control immigration, our
right TO establish our own tariff policy
and the like. which I trust we will never
| surrender to the safekeeping OF any
league of other nations.
| Remember one or two obvious facts.
my friends. Remember that In Asia
there are about ten times as many peo-
pie as there are in the United States
II the league ~ nations means anything.
| and II Internationalism is substituteti
for nationalism. this means that tho
Asiatics in such y league would have
ten votes for every American vote. and
that they would have the right to decide
such questions as the admission OF un-
checked Asiatic immigration to the
United States and Of the refusal to
permit us to build up any barriers for
the keeping up OF the standard Of our
people and our distinctive American ma
tionalty and American social and in
dustrial life.
"WhoeveP advocates the aubme rRing
of nationality In internationalism In
either hypocriticai or else he advocates
Just precisely and exactly what have
above outlined. With all my heart and
!, I od 1,