The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-25
T. R. URGES SENATE
TO BAR APPOINTS
Warns Peace Based on Them
Would Not Be Uncondi-
tiOnal Surrender.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt sent yester-
day to Senator Henry Cabo. Lodge in
a telegram which embodied
his comments on President Wilson's re-
ply to Germany. Duplicates were sent to
Senator Miles Poindexter and Hiram
johnson because, as the former President
expressed II. he desired ito make my
appeal to the representatives of the
American people from one ocean TO the
other" The telegram to Senator Lodge
follows
AS an American citizen / most ear
nestly hope that the Senate Of the United
States. which is part OF the treaty maxi
ing 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 sur
render of Germany.
IT also earnestly hope that on behalf
of the American people IL will declare
against the adoption in their entirety of
the fourteen points OF the Presidents ad-
dress OF last January az offering a basis
for a peace satisfactory to the United
States. ..
Wilson's Phrases Not Plain.
Let us dictate peace by the hammer
ing Of guns and not chat about peace
to the accompaniment Of the clicking
OF typewrters.
THE language Of the fourteen points
and the subsequent statements explain
ing or qualifying them Is neither
k..t,t 20 tatw a.,,t
strued In its probable sense. many and
possibly most of these fourteen points
are thoroughly mischievous an IL made
the basis OF a peace such peace would
represent not the unconditional sur
render OF Germany. but the conditional
surrender OF the United States.
Naturally they are entirely satsfac-
tory to Germany and equally naturally
they are in this country satisfactory to
every pro-German and paclfst and So
cialist and anti-American so-calied In
ternationallst.
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 aid. have imposed on
Bulgaria.
1--WE ought 20 declare war on Turkey
without an hours delay. The failure to
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making the world safe for democracy TO
look unpleasantly like mere insincere
rhetoric. While the Turk Is left in Eu-
rope and permitted TO tyrannise over
the subject people the world is thor
oughly unsafe for democracy.
Ally, Not Associate.
Moreover we should ind out what
the President means by continually re-
ferring to this country merely AZ the
associate instead OF the ally OF the ma
tons with whose troops our own troops
are actually brigaded In battle. II he
means that We are something less than
an ally OF France. England. Italy, Bel
GUM and Serbia. then he means that we
arc something less than an enemy Of
Germany and Austria We ought TO
make II clear to the world that we are
neither an untrustworthy friend ror an
irresolute foe.
Let us clearly show that we do not
desire to pose az the umpire between
our faithful and loyal friends and our
treacherous and brutal enemies. but that
We are the stanch ally Of our friends
and the stanch foe OF our enemies.
when the German people repud!ate
the Hohenzollerns then. and not until
then, II will be time TO discriminate be-
tween them and their masters.
"I hope the Senate and the House will
pass some resolution demanding the I'M
conditional surrender of Germany as our
war aim and stating that our peace
terms haze never yet been formulated
or accepted 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"