Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-25
[SON'S TERMS
I'D Points as
chievous'' in Mes
sage to Senators
rs CONGRESS TO ACT
BGlares Unconditional Sur
lender Is Only Peace Offer
U. S. Can Accept
IS CONGRESS TO ACT
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a4 Oyster Bay. y. ", Oct. 25.
Xheudore Roosevelt has sent duplicate
skrAms to United States Senators
~, Poindexter and Johnson in which
n characterized as thoroughly mis-
Il 8n!0vUus" many of the fourteen points
Snciated by President wilson If they
- 70 be made the basis of peace Mr..
\ Roosevelt says:
\, VAS an American citizen I most earn
Y lily hope that the Senate of the United
3tetes. which Is part of the treaty
4. making pcwer of the United States, VIII
<&ke affirmative action against neEo'
ttafed peace with Germany and | favor
s . peace ba sed on unconditional surren-
Ter Of Germany
lisI4 II, also declare against the adoption
x ~ their entirety of the fourteen points
9of the Presidents address of last Janu-
sANFy AS offering a basis for peace sat
v iDfActcry to the United States. Let us
dictate peace by the hamme9ng of guns
4 ana not chat about peace TO the accom-
p4nin1ent of the clicking Of typewiiters,
Terms Satisfactory to Germany
y The language of the fourteen points
and the subsequent statements cNpldln-
ling or qualifying them is neither
straightforward nor plain, but If con-
etrued in it's probable sense many, ana
possibly most, of these fourteen points
are thoroughly mischicvous and II made
the basis of peace such peace would
represent not the unconditional surron-
der of Germany but the conditional sur
render of the United States. Naturally
they are entirely satisfactory to Ger
many, and equally naturally they are in
this country satisfactory 10 every pro
Serfnan and pacifst and SOCIALIST ann
anti American so-called in'efnationalist.
THE only peace offer which we should
i cOnkfder from Germany at this time is
an offer to 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
ALLURE to do so hitherto has caused the
talk about making the world safe for
democracy to look unplo asantly like mere
inslncere rhetoric. While the Turk is
left in Europe and permitted to tyran-
ntxe Over the subject people the world
~ thoroughly unsafe for democracy
Presidents Language Vague
a ssMoreover. we should find out what
the President means by continually refer
ring to this country merely as the asso-
ciate instead of the ally of the nations
with whose troops our own troops are
actually brigaded in battle. If he means
that we are something less than ally of
France, England, Italy, Belgium and
thing less than an enemy of Germany
and Austria. We ought to make it
clear TO the world that we are neither
an untrustworthy friend nor an irresO-
lutte foe Let us clearly show that we
DO mot desire to Lrse Is the umpire be-
tween our faithful and loyal friends and
AHr treacherous and brutal enemies, but
that We are stanch ally of our friends
and the stanch foe of our enemies.
" when the German people repudiate
the Hohenzolerns then and not until
Then, 1t will be time to discriminate be-
.tween them and their masters. | hope
AAs Senate and the House viii pass some
.reS01laion demanding the unconditional
|eurr4nder of Germany as our war aim
md Mating that our peace terms have
never vet been formulated OF accepted
~ our people and that they will be
fully discussed with our allies and made
fully satisfactory to our own people he
6ore they are discussed with Germany"