New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Hearst Attacks on Allies
Denounced BY Roosevelt
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, lor all concerned is uAace w;tbor,
victory, peace without conomast !.
% %peace without indemnities. neace
without annexations.' pea'e
On March 2. 1918, Mr. Hears+ r.ao
an emolttered attack upon Janan and
~ ~ March 20 he repeated tho a+t.cL
ne spoke of the military desno+;s,,
e1 Japan of the brutal Oriental sol sell
nsnness ., In Japan's present attitude
ana ana Nnen asked the question 40 to who
"as gong to drive her from Siberia
answering it: A'''ei4a'
mot the Allies, for they are too
.h hucn occupied with their war. Not
n,t. rMe onl'ed States, because we are
bbasLl,ng basLag All III our eggs in the Allies
poss'pie which might drive Janan
o.; OUT OF Siberia, and that is Russia
'n an active and aggressive alliance
with the Teutonic empire '''''e'
would Make Russia Kaiser's Allv
these sentences amount to incite.
lnent to Russia to become the mill
.aly aliy and therefore the military
vassal of Germany, and to the effort
80 persuade our people that the war
IS IS not our war but only the war of
'he Aihes--that it is their war
Such language as this. used less
.han ! two months before Mr.. Burleson
ISSUED his challenge to me, is thou.
Iano IT.: 'imes mes more damaging to the
Shl1ed states Than anything ever said
oS ION watson or any. other of the
eSaltors OF small papers. For Mr.. Bur
leson 10 allow the paper making such
an appeal to go unchallenged, and vet
at the same time to permit without re-
ouXe the New York postoffice to attack
publication like "The Metropolitan. "
IS incompatible with the supposition
that he was thinking only of the well
fare of the country.
Mr.. Hearst's paper actually states
That it believes that our govern
ment made great mistake when it did
not meet both English aggressions and
German aggressions with armed
resistance. This was announced during
the war; yet at this very time Eng
land is protecting US from Germany.
and without that protection we would
oe given TO time in which slowly
TO make ready to protect ourselves. If
we had begun to prepare in August.
l9l4, we would have needed no protec-
tlon from others. But we refused to
prepare, and therefore we owe our
safety now only to the fact that our
friends are able to fight for us against
our enemies while we are slowly pre-
pairing to fight for ourselves. And Mr..
Hearst under these conditions ex-
presses regret that we did not go to
war against the friend who fought
Tor us! Such proposal is a proposal
IN the interest of the Renemy, who
murdered our women and children.
Dollar Placed Above Man
con September %, 1917, when the
American nation still had no troops in
the trenches, when we had only lent
money to the Allies, Mr.. Hearst touched
the nadir of the policy that puts the
dollar above the man, when he stated
that our government has the right and
power to dictate the terms of peace,
and the American people expect Eng
land and the other allied governments
to recognize that right and to accept
the terms laid down; the statement be-
ing preceded by the following: 'Hav-
ing practically exhausted the resources
of Russia, France and Italy, the Eng
llsh government now seeks succor in
our American resources. The money
OF the American people has been loaned
to the Allies in great sums. Still
greater sums are in readiness to lend
them Statements like this cannot but
aid Germany.
"In all of Mr.. Hearst's career it may
we'll be doubted whether he has ever
proposed anything more sordid than
this suggestion to the American people,
to free people with glorious past;
people proudly able and willing tc
fight for its honor. The proposal is
that we should treat having lent
money to the Allies as offsetting the
/ fact that these Allies had shed the
blood of millions of their sons in pro.
tecting not only themselves but this
country from the brutal dominion Of
Germany dominion under which, i
Mr.. Hearst's advice had been followed
this country would now be covering.