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British Writer Criticises
His People and Praises
President Wilson.

President wilson.
London. Eng. Jan. 5.-Horatio Bot
tomIey, one Of the most popular OF
British editors, says; There can be
no denying 5t-peace IS in the air.
and adds that even the most lugu-
brious and dismal u Jsremiahs now
talks OF nothing worse than q winter
OF respite, with the end in the spring
and at the same time guards himself
with ali kinds OF reservations about
a possible collapse OF the enemy be-
fore then
John Bull must get ready for the
peace conference" he adds. John
Bull must 20 to the peace conference
with his sleeves turned up and MS
whip in his hand; and he must open
the proceedings with some suCH
speech as this: Now, you Hun devlls,
" hat have you to say for yourselves
What reparation do you offer Tor the
crimes you have committed; Wnat
practical proof do you bring me OF
your repentance and contrition-
They viii understand that kind OF
talk-anything else will be waste
upon them That. then, is the correct
atmosphere which we must BRING
about And now IS the time 70 do II
Don't wait till Haig has them on the
run Do It now
Goodbye, Russia.
Don't let US worry ourselves about
Russia She is finished. so Tar as the
war is concerned. She has missed an
opportunity Of national salvation
which may never come again
Il do not condemn her-she has
been the dupe Of Germany Her rev
oIutiou' was premature She should
have shot the spies and traitors-and
got on with the war Then she could
have had a voice in the terms OF
'As Il Is, she must remain sand
WICKED between Germany and Japan,
10 await her fate. There IS an irony
in the fact that, having shaken OH
the shackles Of the ROmanorf cespot-
ism, she should find herself manacled
TO the autOcraCy Of the HohenZollerns-
= nd to think that Russia was the ma
ton for whose liberation France barred
the sword and Britain made honor
bic cause, Yet she left US at the very
moment when. but for her detection.
victory was within our grasp,
PyEmy Statesmen Everywhere.
Look where you will. you find
uygmies and pinchbeck creatures
an almost beginning to wonder
whether history will not tell US that.
amid them all, president wilson
stands out head and shoulders the
biggest With all his hesitancy and
in spite OF those weary months OF
what looked like indecision, he had
a policy and he pursued it; he had
plan and he waited patiently for the
hour and opportunity I cannot for
give him for delaying so long. Had
America come into this war Of liber-
alton u months ago what q differ
eucs IL would have made-how many
q
I'VE could have starved Germany
long ago
To-day America IS playing her heroic
part in denying Germany -ytning
she needs. There is now no excuse
LOT lnls couItTy 70 shO" me SlllSlLesl
consideration Tor the neutral who Is
bathing in the blood Of the fighting
nations and growing rich out OF their
extremity.
4 can't get out OF my head an old
song about Britannia ruling the
waves. and all that sort OF thing. And
I am beginning 10 WOnder what the
grand fleet IS doing. We have recently
been celebrating Trafalgar day-and
I am thinking about the Nelson
touch
can It be that our naval command
ers are not giving q free handZ II so,
I would respectfully advise the admir-
atty to look Up a certain dispatch
IN the records signed Nelson It tells
the government OF the day that,
81 lille they are making up their minds,
ne intends to keep the enemy under
observation, and II necessary, follow
them to the Antipodes.' That was
quite SIS stiff Job, in those times s
clearing mine fields and fighting sub
marines IS today.
Germany Suffering.
The enemy does his best 70 keep
from Us his internal condition. But
we know that he is suffering from
shortage Of food He pretends that We
are worse off; his people are told that
the whole Of our coast is hlockaded.
and that We are starving. But lies do
not fiji empty stomachs.
They have been told that the q
boat would starve Us out. First one
month. then the next, and then the
one after that, has been the appointed
time for = famished Britain TO sue for
peace. But the months 20 on, and,
although We suffer minor discom-
forts and the need for food economy
is real and pressing, famine Is far
off, and, compared with the bare cup
boards Of Germany, We live in a land
Of roaring plenty.
Could Have Starved Germany.
"Of course, II we had played the
game. Germany would today be liter
any starving mink OF IT. Last year
we allowed Sweden and Norway, Den
mark and Switzerland, TO import ten
million pounds more tea than IN the
year before the war. And today our
own people stand IN long tails at the
grocersl Whit madness, what want
onness on the part OF B itish official
dOmi Now when the mischief has
been done; when. too, the sand and
gravel and cement for the making OF
these concrete forts, those deadly spll
boxes which, thank God. We have now
learned how to smash-have been
passed through with inpudent impun-
ity TO Germany, the government has
taken actioni
Il don't care whether Petrograd
falls, or what happens in the near
east The war began and will finish
IN the Mest-and there the Earman Is