Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-25
IA PEACE POINTS
ARE MISCHIEVOUS,
ROOSEVELT SAYS
n ~ Early CbrJhnas Shopping Is Wartime Duty
Former President Protests
Against Principles as a
Basis For Peace

Oyster Hay. y. y, Oct. 25.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt sent duplicate teie-
grams last night TO United states
senators Lodge. PoindeXter and John
son in which he characterized as
thoroughly mischievous" the four
teen principles enunciated by Presi-
dent Wilson If they are to be made
the basis of peace. The kilograms
follow;
AS an American citizen I most
earnestly hope that the Senate OF the
United states. which is part of the
treaty-malling power of the United
states. will take affirmative action
against a negotiated peace with Ger
many and l favor a peace based on
uncoudition surrender of Germany.
Il also declare against the adoption
i'm their entirety of the fourteen points
of the Presidents address of last jan
uary as Offering basis for 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 fourteen
points and the subsequent statements
explaining or qualifying them rs
neither straightforward nor plain,
but if construed in its probable sense
many. and possibly most, of these
fourteen points are thoroughly mis-
chievous and If made the basis OF
peace. such peace would represent,
not the unconditional surrender OF
Germany. but the conditional sur
render of the United states. Natur-
ally they are entirely satisfactory
to Germany and equally naturally
they are in this country satisfactory
to every pro-German and paeihst and
Socialist and ant!-American so-caIled
internationalist.
The only peace offer which we
should consider from Germany at
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 failure TO do so
hitherto has caused the talk about
making the world safe for democracy
TO look unpleasantly like mere insin-
cere rhetoric. While the Turk is left
in Europe and permitted to tryannize
over the subject people the world is
thoroughly unsafe for democracy
An Ally. Not Associate
Moreover We should find out what
the President means by continually
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 to make it clear
to the world that We are neither an
untrustwortny friend nor an irreso-
Lutte foe. Let US clearly show that we
do not desire TO pose as the umpire
between our faithful and loyal friends
and our treacherous and brutal en-
of our friends and the staunch foe
Of our enemies.
When the German people repudi-
ate the Hohenzollern, then and not
until then 1t will be time to discrim-
mate 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 that our
peace terms have never yet been
formulated or accepted by our peo
pie and that they will be fully dis
cussed with our allies and made fully
satisfactory 10 our own people be-
fore they are discussed with Ger
many