Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-10
.LAGG|NG LOAN AID
DONATIONS FOES
President, Firm for Peace
Terms, Needs Full Back
ing at Home.
CRITICAL. MOMENTS HERE
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

downright, 1918, by the New York Evening
Post 1nc.)
The critical nature of the moments
through which the United States gov
ernment is passing today cannot be
exaegerated. Nor when the situation
is uroperly understood will any true
American cavil or quibble over
words. but be concerned over the
tremendous moves being made by the
enemy to slacken the speed of the
allied war machine, and the forces
that are at work in one of the al
lied countries to confuse entente cour-
sells and becloud the main issues of
the war.
These are days when everything
that is known in Washington isn't
printed. These are days when the
President of the United States must
foreeo the pleasure of hip-hip-hurrah
answers of defiance to the enemy
itself, whose depredations entiue her
to no politeness or courtesy-these
are days, indeed, when the greatest
diplomatic game in the WORLDS MS
Tory Is DtlHS pay VI.
President "Best Informed"
The President is the best Informed
man in the United States on what is
happening inside of Germany and
Austria, as we'll as in the allied
countries. If ever there was need of
a united nation behind him it is in
these critical hours. Support elven
the military measures na her1.o,9rG nnwerf ADOPT
He requires today the help of a
,nitcd neople so that nowhere in
Europe shall it be supposed that ms
hand in America is weak, that ne
cannot control the forces under his
command.
New War Phase Arrives.
A new phase of the war has arrived.
The political moves are on a parity
with the military moves and will
.,row even more important as peace
e. brought near by military victory
But, as has often happened IN history,
a war can be won or lost at the peace
tohIe ,s we'll as on the battlefield.
prasident Wilson has announced
fo,,rtean terms of peace, based upon
The idealism and traditional unseinsn-
ness of the American people He
means to SUCK Uy lhoSS tS iii.'' -
means to suffer no modlncatlon OF
them by friend or foe, He speaks Tor
the liberal forces of the world Ihat
is why he must be able to speak 1or
united nation.
There is no concealment in executive
quarters of the dlsappolntment 1elt
Nv the President and his associates at
tba attitude assumed by Senator
Iodre. the republican leader in the
Ssnate. and Representative Fess of
Ohio the chairman of the republican
cnneressional campaign committee,
H.bo within few hours after Mr..
wilson dispatched his message of in
nnirv to Germany expressed their dis
sent.
Loan Campaign Says.
There is no doubt that the liberty
loan campaign is sagglng. Not many
nsonle in the government believe it
~ due to peace talk, for if this were
,be last loan called for, no security
,,to,,ld LIZ be a better investment in our
.ntic economic condition than a lib
entW bond. The people need to be
st;nouIated to understand the impor-
lance of holding tight while the dip
iomatic moves are being made.
The feeling in Washington is that
Germany will by her reply to Amer
ica give Mr.. Wilson the material for
an emphatic rejection. There is to
be no prolonged debate. Mr.. Wilson
had to use forbearance in his mes
sage so as to prevent the German peo-
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