The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-26
ROOSEVELT DENOUNCES
FOURTEEN PEACE POINT
DECLARES PRESIDENT WILL
SONS PRINCIPLES THOR
OUGHLY MISCHIEVOUS

Oyster Bay, n. y, Oct. 25.-rhe
odore Roosevelt sent duplicate telc
grams last night to United State,
Senators Lodge, PoindeNter anc
Johnson in which he characterized
As "thoroughly mischievous' the
fourteen principles enunciated by
President Wilson if they are to be
made the basis for peace.
The kilograms follow:
"As an American citizen, | 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 a negotiated peace
with Germany and in favor OF a
peace based on the unconditional
surrender of Germany.
Il also declare against the adop-
ton in their entirety of the fourteen
points of the Presidents address of
last January 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 typewrter-.
The language of the fourteen
points and subsequent statements
explaining or qualifying them, is
neither Straightforward nor PLAIN,
but if construed in its probable sense
many, and possibly most OF these
fourteen points are thoroughly mis-
chievous, and it made the basis OF
peace. such a peace would repre-
sent not the unconditional surrender
OF Germany, but the conditional sur
render of the United States. Natur-
allv. they are entirely satisfactory
to Germany and equally naturally
they are in this country satisfactory
to ever Pro-German and pacitist and
socialist and anti-American, So
called internationaliStS.
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 and,
have imposed on Bulgaria. we
should declare war on Turkey with
out an hours delay. The failure
to do so hitherto has caused the
talk about making the world safe Tor
democracy to look unpleasantly like
mere insincere rhetoric. w lille the
Turk is left in Europe and permit
ted to tyrannize over subject peoPIe,
the world is thoroughly unsafe Tor
democracy.
Moreover, we should lind ont
what the President means by con-
tinually referring to this country
merely as the associate instead OF the
allv of the nations with whose troops
our own troops are actually Drigad-
ed in battle. ! 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 untrustworthy TREND
nor an irresolute foe. Let us clear
" show that we do not desire to-
pose as the umpire between our
faithful and loyal friends and our
treacherous and brutal enemies, but
that we are staunch ally OF our
friends and the staunch foe OF our
"When the German people repu-
diate the Hohenzollerns, then and
not until then, it will be time to dis !
crimnate between them and their /
masters. hope the Sente and the
House will pass some resolution de-
the unconditional surren- !
der of Germany as our war aim and
stating that our peace terms have
never yet been formulated or accept
ed by our people, and that they will
be fully discussed with our allies and
made fully satisfactory to our own
people before they are discussed with
GERMANY"