Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-28
WILSON APPEAL
IS insult SAYS
CHAIRMAN HAYS
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| into battle, 10 1urnlSn at least Hail
of the army and far more than hall
of the money for winning of the
war, but they are not considered
good enough to have voice in the
settlement of the war.
"Whyl Are not their sacrifices as
great as others? Have not they as
much at stake in the future? Mr.
Wilson says he has, mo thought OF
suggesting that any political party is
paramount in matters of patriotism"
but he does suggest it, and he sug-
gests further that he alone is para
mount in intelligence.
Seeks Power Over War.
But Mr.. Wilson's real purpose
has nothing to do with the conduct
of the war. He has had that from
the beginning, has it now, and no
body dreams of interfering with his
control. He wants just two things
One is full power to settle the war
precisely as he and his sole, un-
elected, unappointed, unconfrmed
personal adviser may determine.
THE other is full power as the
'unembarrassed spokesman in at
fairs at home as he actually de-
mands in his statement, to recon-
struct in peace time the great in
dustrial affairs of the nation in the
same way, in unirhpeded conformity
with whatever socialistic al doctrines,
whatever unlimited government
ownership notions, whatever hazy
whims may happen to possess him
at the time, but first and above all
absolute commitment to free trade
with all the world, thus giving to
Germany out of hand the fruits OF
a victory greater than she could
win by fighting 100 years. A re-
publican congress will never assent
to that. Do you want congress
that will? Germany does.
Wilson's Pledge to Germany.
Germany looks to Mr.. Wilson to
get it for her, as he pledged himself
to do in one of the few of his ia
nous articles which is applicable.
Germany understands that See tie
New York World, spokesman Of the
administration, of last Saturday and
read the testimony of Henry c. En-
cry, former head of the tariff COM
just returned from seven
months in Germany.
1.-The German people, he says,
seemed to realize that in President
Wilson lay their only salvation.
They have turned to him in the be-
Ii: that he is the one great political
leader who can be trusted to make
permanent peae which shall per-
NIT equal economic development
He is.
Germany Must Say.
"All others demand that the Ger
mans shall pay the full penalty OF
their crimes. What worse than nom
sense then is the democratic cam
paign cry that the election of a re-
publican congress, pledged to un-
conditional surrender, and protection
of American industries and Ameri-
can working men, instead of a DEM
ocratic congress ready to assent to
negotiated peace and free trade,
would bear cheer to Germany.
Such claims would be uldicrous
if they were not so seriously unpa-
triotic. They are as unfair, as un-
true, and as utterly impossible as
their claim that our allies would be
cast down by the election of such a
congress in the face of
the world-known republican record,
past and present, and in the face of
the recent acclaim abroad of repub-
lican senators, as reported in the
Paris cable to the democratic New
York Times on October 9, IN these
words, The debates in the American
senate share first pages with the
news of the great military victories
on the west front. Senators Nc
Cumber, Nelson and Lodge are as
highly thought of in France today
as are the American generals
Unconditional Surrender.
"Mr. Wilson calls upon the repub-
licans of the country to fepudiate
their representatives. in congress who
have proved true and loyal patriots.
Are you going to do it. Answer
with your votes.
"Mr. Wilson forces the republican
party to lie down or fight. ] say,
fight, answer with your votes.
Mr.. Wilson is for unconditional
surrender-yes for the unconditional
surrender to himself of the republic
can party, of the country, of the al
lies-all to him, as the sole arbiter
and master of the destinies of the
world. Do you stand for thatl An
swer with your votes.
"The war is a democratic asset,
said Vice President Marshall, and
they have made every effort to
make it so, despite the earnest re-
publican insistence that we have no
contest as to anything that touches
the war except that contest as to
who best can serve, who most can
give.
Harness Both Horses.
Republicans have insisted that
with the great war load to haul both
political horses should be harnessed, |
eacvh striving to see which can pull