Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-25
ROOSEVELT FEARS
FOURTEEN>PEACE
TERMSOF WILSON
Says They May Mean Not I'm
conditional Surrender Of
Germany but Conditional
Surrender of j, S,

oyster Boy. y. Y. oct. 24.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt sent duplicate tele-
grams tonight to United States Sen
ators Lodge PoindeXter and johnson,
in which he characterized as thor
oughly mischievous" the fourteen
principles enunciated by President
Wilson if they are to be made the
basis of peace. The telegram follows:
'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 Ger
many and in favor of a peace based
on the unconditional surrender of
Germany.
Il also declare against the adoption
In their entirety of the fourteen points
of the presidents address of last Jan
uary as offering a basis for a 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
typewriters
Language Not Plain.
The language of the fourteen
points and the 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 if made the basis of a
peace such peace would represent, not
the unconditional surrender of Ger
many but the conditional surrender of
the United States. Naturally they are
entirely satisfactory to every pro-
German and pacifist and socialist and
anti-American so-called information
alist.
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 i'm
posed on Bulgaria. We ought to de-
clare war on Turkey without an
hours delay. The failure to do so
hitherto has caused the talk about
making the world safe for democracy
to look unpleasantly like mere insin-
cere rhetoric While the Turk is left
in Europe and permitted to tyrannize
over subject peoples the world is
thoroughly unsafe for democracy.
Would BE an Ally
Moreover we should find out what
the president means by continually
referring to this country merely as
the associate instead of the ally of the
nations with whose troops our own
troops are actually brigaded in bat
tie. If he means that we are some
thing less than ally of France. Eng
land. Italy, Belgium and Serbia, then
he means that we are something less
than an enemy of Germany and Aus
tria. We ought to make it clear to
the world that we are neither an I'M
friend nor an irresolute
foe. Let us clearly show that we do
not desire to pose as the umpire be-
tween 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 enemies.
when the German people repudi-
ate the Hohenzollerns, then and not
until then, it will be time to discrimi-
nate between them and their masters
| hope the senate and the house will
pass some resolution demanding the
surrender of Germany
as our war aim and stating that our
peace terms have never vet been
formulated or accepted by our people
and that they will be fully discussed
with our allies and made fully salts
factory to our own people before they
are discussed with Germany"