Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-29
PEOPLES WAR.
NOT WILSON'S.
SAYS COLONEL
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and has Sullenly ana sometime!
maliciously sought to punish the met
who by their truth telling have
forced it into action"
in a word" the colonel said, 9Th,
democratic party under the lead O.
the administration, has carried par
tisan politics during the last eighteen
months to an extreme never before
known in this country in a time o.
war, as among loyal upholders Of
the war" 1t has come dangerously
near creating a condition of one.
partyism."
Much Time Lost.
THE test insisted upon has been
not loyalty to our allies and hostil,
tiles to Germany, but adherence to
the administration" he declared
~dding that Presid vt Wilson's re-
quest of October IA, that citizens
should subscribe to the loan, but
leave to the government of the
Uniter States and of the allies the
m ~mentous discussion initiated by
Germany. 1t could be interpreted
as meaning they should both put up
and shut up" Colonel Roose, .
asserted that IF the admin tration
had used with moderate efficiency
the results CT lavish generosity of
ross our army and the allied
armies would have been doing last
March what they are actually doing
now in October"
After asserting that this war must
be put through to our last man, and
our last dollar" the Colonel declar-
ed that I'VE should accept no peace
not based on the unconditional sur
render of Germany and her vassal
states"
Notes Are Boomerang
He asserted that the Presidents
latest notes had placed him in such
a position that he had either to sac
rlfice America and humanity" or to
respond in such a manner as to
stultify his own diplomacy and re-
pudiate his own implied offer"
1T was not a pleasant thing for
America that he should have put
himself and the nation behind him,
in the position of inviting a PROPOSE
ton which when accepted he repudi-
ated." declared the colonel. For
the reason that | abhor Germany's
trickery, treachery and bad faith, |
am most anxious that Americans
shall not initiate her in these mat
tiers"
IA Points Dangerous
Asserting that peace would be
settled not by the president alone
but by the president acting in con-
junction with two-thirds of the
senate, the colonel continues:
When it comes to the peace nego-
-iations, we should emphatically re-
1udiate the famous fourteen points
announced by the President last
January. One OF them he has HIM
self repudiated and the remainder
are either so mischevous that they
ought to be repudiated without fur
Their definition or else we should in
sist on having them defined in order
10 know exactly what they mean.
They have been greeted with en-
by Germany and by all
pro-Germans on this side of the
water, especially by the Germanized
socialists and BY the bolshevils of
every grade and for this reason good
Americans should regard them with
Support of War
Contrasting the presidents ap-
peal with Lincoln's outright re-
Iusal, even in, the darkest days OF
the civil war to apply any party
lest to fitness for Office" the colonel
said that Lincoln appealed to al!
oval men of all parties and asked
that candidates for congress be
Judged, not by the standard of adj
1erence to his personal administra-
ton, but by their unconditional sup
port of the war"
THE statement about President
Lincoln sufficiently answers the
claim of the democratic organiza-
ion that President Wilson at this
lime occupies a position CORE
spending to President Lincoln"
continued Mr.. Roosevelt, "a claim
which is entitled precisely to the
consideration we would give to a
statement that President Buchanan
n lS60-6l stood where Presi-
lent George Washington did in
1890 because each announced
hat he was for the union.
Not the Same.
"The same organization also pro-
esses to see similarity between
ny plea in 1898, at the time of the
spanish war, for a republican con-
sress because the republican party
vas pro-war and Mr.. Wilson's plea !