South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25
TEDDY'S RAWLINGS.

OYSTER BAY. y. Y. oct. 25-
Theodore Roosevelt sent duplicate
kilograms tonight TO United States
Sens. Lodge, Poindexter and Johnson
in which he characterized as thor
oughIy mischievous" the "A prinCi-
pies enunciated 10y Pres't Wilson II
they are TO be made the basis Of
peace The kilograms follow:
AS an American citizen. l 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 d negotiated peace with Ger
many and in favor of a peace based
on the unconditional surrender OF
Germany.
Il also declare against the adop-
tion in their entirety Of the IA points
of the presidents address of last
January as offering a basis for a
peace satisfactory 10 the United
States Let us dictate peace by the
hammering guns and not chat about
peace TO the accompaniment of the
clicking Of typewriters.
Surrender of America?
THE language of the IA points
and the subsequent statements eX-
planning or qualifying them is neither
straightforward nor plain. but if
construed in its probable sense.
many, and possibly most, Of these Il
points are thoroughly mischievous
and if made the base OF such peace
would represent not the uncondi-
tional surrender of Germany, but the
conditional surrender OF the United
States Naturally they are entirely
satisfactory to Germany and equally
naturally they are in this country
satisfactory TO every pro-German
and pacifist and socialist and anti
American so-caIled internationalist.
The only peace offer which we
should consider from Germany at
this time is an offer 10 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 fail
ure TO do so hitherto has caused the
talk about making the world safe for
democracy to look unpleasantly like
mere insincere rhetoric. While the
Turk is left in Europe and permitted
TO tyrannize over the subject people
the world is thoroughly unsafe for
democracy.
Prefers Word "AlIy."
Moreover, we should find out
what the president means by con-
tinuallv 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 hattie. If he means that we are
something less than an ally or
France. England. Italy, Belgium and
Serbia. then he means that we are
something less than an enemy OF
Germany and Austria. We ought 20
make it clear to the world that We
are neither an untrustworthy friend
nor an frresoIute foe. Let US clearly
show that we do not desire tc pose
as the umpire between our faithful
and loyal friends and our treacher-
GUS and brutal enemies but that we
are the staunch ally of our friends
and the staunch foe Of our enemies
BcsccChcs Congress.
When the German people repudl-
ate the Hohenzollerns. then and not
until then. it will be time 10 dis
criminate between them and their
masters. I hope the senate and the
house will pass some resolution de
handing the unconditional surrender
OF Germany as our war aim and
stating that our peace terms have
never yet been formulated or &C
cepted by our people and that they
will be fully discussed with our al
lies and made fully satisfactory 10
our own people before they are dis
ousead NTH Germany"