Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-10-29
ROOSEVELT cRITIcIsEs WILSON,
Former President Says the Fourteen
PRINCIPLES" Are Misehievous.

Principles Are MlschieVous.
Theodore Roosevelt sent duplicate
kilograms last Thursday night to Unit
ed States Senators Lodge. Poindexter
and johnson. in which he characteriz-
ed as thoroughly mischievous" the Il
principles enunciated by President
Wilson, il they are to be made the ba-
sis Of peace. The kilograms follow:
LAS an American citizen. 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 based on
the unconditional surrender Of Ger
many.
II also declare against the adoption
in their entirety Of the IA points OF the
presidents address of last January as
Offering a basis for peace satisfactory
to the United States. Let us dictate
peace by the hammering guns and not
chat about peace to-the accompanying
of clicking typewriters.
satisfactory to Germany"
THE language of the IA points and
the subsequent statements explaining
or qualifying them is neither straight
forward nor plain, but II construed in
its probable sense many and possibl!
most Of these IA points are thoroughly
mischievous and IL made the basis OF Q
peace, such peace would represent. not
the unconditional surrender Of Ger
many, but the unconditional surrender
Of the United States Naturally the!
are entirely satisfactory TO Germany
and equally naturally they are in this
country satisfactory to every pro-Ger'
man and pacifist and socialist and an.
|ti-American so-called internationalist
THE only peace offer which We
time Is an offer to accept such terms
as the Allies, without our aid. have i'm.
posed on Bulgaria. We ought to de-
clare war on Turkey without an hours
delay. The failure to do so hitherto
has caused the talk making the world
safe for democracy to look unpleasant
ly like mere insincere rhetoric. While
the Turk is left in Europe to tyrannizt
over the subject people, the world l:
thoroughly unsafe for democracy.
Associate" vs. ALLY"
Moreover. we should find out what
the president means by continually re-
ferring to this country merely as the
associate instead of the ally of the ma.
tions with whose troops our own troops
are actually brigaded in battle. II hi
means that we are something less thar
ally Of France, England. Italy, Belgium
and Serbia. then he means that we are
something less than an enemy of Ger
many and Austria. We ought to make
1t clear to the world that we are neith-
er an untrustworthy friend nor an ir.
resolute foe. Let us clearly show thai
we do not desire our faithful and loyal
friends and our treacherous and brutal
enemies. but that we are staunch ally
Of our friends and the staunch foe OF
our enemies.
when the German people repudiate
the Hohenzollerns, then. and not until
then, it will be time to discriminate
between them and their masters.
hope the senate and the house will
pass some resolution demanding the
unconditional surrender Of Germany
as our war aim and stating thato ur
peace terms have never yet been for
mulated or accepted by our people and
that they will be fully discussed with
our Allies and made fully satisfactory
to our own people before they are dis
cussed with Germany"