The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-19
Il WHICH We ARE AGAIN CRITICIZED.

A subscriber whose thinking must be casual and 81.
perhcial infcrs that we blow hot and cold in our support
oi The presidents war ana peace policy. lie says thar
NJ. Wilson's intention IA his last answer is to convey the
idea that Germany must surrender Internationally.
Again We insist that the president language contained
nothing OF unconditional surrender We believe in shirt
sleeve diplomacy; in CALLING A SPADE a SPADE
We yield to no one in our respect for the president and
our admiration for his Incompatible dialectics, but we
have not yet reached The stage where We address him
as Your Majesty" Ours is 4 democratic form OF gov
eminent The immortal declaration of independence
made all men equal The president Of The United states
is nothing but a servant OF the people. In this war he
has had the unceasing. unfolding and enthusiastic sup
port Of this newspaper, but II Will be a sorry day for the
American people when right TO criticise their president
is denied them. BECAUSE WE PRAISED MR.. WILSON
\ MONDAY rs NJ SIGN We ANNOT CRITICIZE
HIM II NENT MONDA
All the influence We have. and We admit FOR the sake
Of argument that it may be nominal. determines that
there must be no peace with Germany by negotiation.
a million dead Britons and a million dead Frenchmen;
ii fouryear rayaged Belgium. Serbia and Poland: a bleed
ing Italy and Roumania are the ones who have premier
right 10 say WHAT KIND OF A PEACE WE SHALL
HAVE. A contemporary editor speaks about the EEK
tremely volatile nature Of our war policy" It is a strik
ing and true phrase.
We want TO call the attention OF our correspondent
TO some facts and then if he is a thinking man. he can,
as the sporting men say, write his own ticket as to
allies declared for the freedom of the Czech-Siovaks. On
September 5rd Washington recognized the sovereignty OF
Bohemia and Sloyakia. HAT MEANS THE DISMEM
BERMENT OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Now lust as Mr.. Wilson before his reelection fought
to keep US out of a war we should have gone in when
the Lusitania was sunk. and after he was elected got us
into a war which no red-blooded man regrets other Of his
war or peace policies have been shifted. Eight months
after Mr.. Wilson asked congress to declare war he said.
we do not wish in any way to impair or re-arrange the
Austro-Hungarian empire" on August ., 1917. three
months before that. the president wrote that punitive
damages, the dismembe1ment of empires. etc, We deem
i1axpadicrt ~ VET II Nh Wilson meant what he said
about Bohemian independence last month he meant moth
Ing less than the disruption of the Austrian empire.
We ask our blind worshipper Of Mr.. Wilson II that
was not a shift in policy. L is no criticism Of the man
for changing his viewpoint. however. It may be states
manship for Nj. Wilson 70 do this. but WHAT Is
TO PREVENT HIM FROM CHANGING THE POLICY
AGAIN2
What is a people or a press but servfle that does not
analyze and scan Carefully these notes that go out to
the world from Washington? Must We take them for
granted We decline to do so. We refuse TO be num-
bered with those having eyes who see not. It is easy
TO talk about Remembering the Austrian empire. but
VIII Mr.. Wilson push that policy 10 the end when il
sounds the utter and everlasting doom Of the HohenzoL
lerns as well as the Hapsburgs for they both lie in the
same bed?
Men who are determined on the unconditional sur
render OF Germany know that this death-knell must be
sounded If THE WAR LASTS FIVE YEARS LONGER,
and if we spend every dollar and lose every soldier we
have. but will Mr.. Wilson be equally as firm and uncom-
promising in the answer he sends TO the next German
peace whine that is on its way2
Somehow we have a fear OF the consequences of
Mr.. Wilson's diplomatic notes. They are wonderful and
Incompatible paragons of writing, maelstroms of thought
couched in the language Of ice. There have been So
many of them during his administration.
Is it too much to anticipate and hope that the next
will strike Germany cold and dumb in hopelessness. or will
it just lead to another and then stin another?
THERE IS A SCYLLA y CHARYBDIS IN PEACE
AS WELL AS IN WAR.