Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-04
WANTS SHOWDOWN
OF COUNTRY AIMS
Senator Hale Charges Ideals of
Wilson Are Not Those
of Nation.
NO UNDERSTANDING, HE SAYS
At War Because Danger Threat
ened, Not for Presidents
Ideas, He Declares.

WASHISGTON, Feb. 3.-The United
States went TO war because it was
believed the country was in danger.
not to carry out the Ideals of Presi-
dent Wilson, declared Senator Hale
OF Maine. in a speech In the Senate
to-day. lie demanded the Immediate
conclusion of peace, return OF Amcri-
can soldiers and return 10 prcwar
conditions.
Senator Hale called for show
down" as 10 whether or not the ma :
ton entered the war for the purpo ses
proGlaimed i'm BY the President.
then let US make a peace that is in
conformity with such Humanitarian n
purposes. and in the future let US gov
world in the spirit of sacsifce that
those high and extremely unsei.ish
PURPOSES demand. We may have 10
we may have TO maintain armies in
AL parts OF the world; wo may have
so.fI;i, to finance e, and Sc; UPON their feet and
the world. Ii that Is ali In the pro
gram we would make IL poor shoVir, =.
If we baked al any OF these things"
Goneernins @ ,hc Presidents ideals.
iieTe the majority of the people either
understood them or accepted them
MASS OF AMERICAN PEOPLE
RIDING TINE FOR ACTION
The wonderful, catch words and
phrases OF the President caught the
ear OF the people but did not ca;ch
their understanding" he continued.
ina, they were binding themselves
any bu; the Presidents closest ado d.
vise:s.
pie especially who never would have
nad US TO go into the war. are now
In the from, line trenches loudly and
lenium. Bu, underneath all this the
great still mass OF the American peo-
PIE Is awaiting its time. They are
have consented to so TO var had they
not believed their country 10 he in
danger. And now that the job is done
the American people want peace and
tEat they want /; without further
''ficy wan. their boys back IN ,,us
country, and ,hey want to get them
back 10 the work They were doing be.
T, tore the war. risy want and they eS-
the
onicIsly as i,nssiSle and they wo,TTG
ike 70 have those Representatives look
AFTER the material interests of tho
United states just as The mnterinl in
ts.es's OF tho allies are being looked
after by their representatives.
WILL NOT SUBMIT TO ANY
fihN 'TFFtTING SOVEREIGNTY
The American people Will not sta nd
for any Pan that in any way afcct ts
o. commits them to any policy OF in
tcrnn;ionaiizing their sovereignty as. a
nation. The American people arc for
America first and they have no desire
nor intention to wander very far from
the faith and the teachings of their
fathers"
Senator Moses. of New Hampshire
drew parallel between the present
peace conference and the congress at
Vienna, after tne fail cf Napoleon. At
that congress. he said. there was the
same sort OF declaration as obtains TO-
day, but when the conference was end
ed there was no confederation q:
Europe BY which the sovereignty or
any peoples has been surrendered"
Senator Moses said he had no fea.S
respecting the Versailles conference
and no doubt that the outcome o: the
conferences now going on in the Hall
OF Mirrors will be any different in their
ultimate results from those which took
place u century ago"