The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-04
THIS COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE
 SECOND NAVY IN WORLD
fhls Country. the Former President Asserts, Should Keep its Absolute Economic independence and Raise Or Lower It's Barriers as lls Inter ests Demand

Now York, Dee Asserting tha, tho United states had not done nearly so much as the British nary aud the
 British. French and Italian armies to
 bring about tho downfall OF Germany Theodore Roosevelt declared in a statement here tonight that it ia "our business to stand O. our allies at the peace conference"
 He declared it sheer nonsense" to say the American army was Gghine for President Wilson's famou5 'fout teen points, He made the assertion that "thcre was not one American sol. dler in every thousand who had eyee Beard e them
 "rhe ih1ish cnpro mperativel needs the greatest navy in the woIli and tns we should !AAantly concode said the Co'Cnel 'Dr Leed for t s2olt nay comea reNt tc her, and WI sa5ull lave ,he eaolll ssYs- l.--Tia-,. H7rld France pcc4s greater militarf ~trantA than We da, .ut VIC AhoulG hava all our yoanE HeL traiue1 to mm au llw general lAe5 of the sw,s8 systam
 The freedom of the seas is d phrase that may mean anything OF nothna If h is to be interpreted as Germany intorprct5 1t. i- is thoroughly mis chieyous. There must be no >.erpre tatlon of the phrase that would p1e Vent the English navy In the event Of any future var from repeating tho tremendous service it has rendered tn this war
 "Ino British must keep the coiuuics they have conquered
 'As for this nation, l. must keep Us absolute economic independence and raise or lower :ts economic barriers as ita interests demand, for we have Co look atter the welfare of our own woriineneu We must insist on sh1 Of the Monroe doctrin Wo must Keep the way te close the Panama canal to our enemies in war time and we must rot lnter:&re In European matters with which wo ought To have properly no concern"
 Declaring that "Presldeut Wilson has not given tle slightest intimatlon of what his views are or what he is going abroad for. but he is reported for any division among the An'erlcan people az regards the peace conference at this time
 He has never permitted tho Ameri- can people to pass on his peace pro pos2ls, nor has he ever made ta8se proposals straight forward AS faf the II points. so far as the American poo plo hare expressed any opinion upon them, 1t was on November 1, when tLey rejected them" he continued. adding that "the American army was fightins 10 smash Germany" and "the Ameri can people wanted Germany smashed
 The allies have never accepted the 1f points" he continued The United states has never accepted them Ger many and Austria enthusiastically ae cc9,ed them Here certain indlvid- uals, incudius President Wilson, Mir Hearst. Mr. NierecE, and. as I under stand jt. q number of pro-Germans and baclfis,s and international socialist have accepted them, but neither the American people, noe the American coneress has accepted them
 The colonel declared that "AIr Nll- son himself has rejected at least ona oe the If outright and has interpreted aaother in tho directly opposite sense ot its plain and obvious meanirs. z and added that some Of the II points are thoroughly mischieyous under any iR- torpretation.' and most of the others are vague and ambiguous.
 'Inasmuch as Mir Wilson is goins over it is eariiestly to be hoped that 1t is his business not to try and Dc an umpire. between our allies and QlkS enemies. but ac: loyally as one of allies said Inc colonel We Rae not suffered anything like as much ang we have not rendered as much seryie1W as the leading allies It is the Bri. ish navy and the French, British and tar.Arr4rrrF~raFa nkF nAIta rs4x4ss Fefst