Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-04-11
STRICT ACCOUNTABILITY

II we have thrown away what we
have won in the war. IL Germany en-
erges from the turmoil still defiant.
still unconquered. the responsibility
rests .echnicly upon the Peace Confer
ence which has not made peace. Actu-
ally it rests upon Woodrow Wilson.
He will then have won that for which
he contended from the first He will
have attained his beloved Peace
Without Victory"
When the Huns came. hat in hand,
to Marshal Foch and begged for an ar
mistice they were defeated. They
knew it. Three days later they would
have received a blow. already planned
to the last detail with that deadly cer-
tainty of success characteristic of the
great French General. which would
have wrecked Gerfnany's powers of re-
sistance IN toto. For the Hun armies
there would then have been left moth
ing but unconditional surrender
The road TO Berlin would have been
wide ope1 Thither, the Allied forces
could have swept unimpeded- There,
right in the pestiferous centre OF all the
scoundre.ly plottings and lntrigulngs
which brought this horror upon the
world rishL there in the Huns own
Sodom. a peace could have been die
tated which would have brought the
hrntes to their knees whinningiy
grateful for terms which would nave
rendered them impotent again to or
eanize world wide brigandage RAIDS
for untold generations to come. Ihe
black threat of the renewal OF the
world war would then have been re-
moved.
This would have cost precious ives
thousands OF them. We are not gums
10 condemn the decision which saved
those lives. Far from it, But. IN the
.,larrnine mass to which things nave
-, r,fsrn,itted to come during the
,,,aat,s and months which have peeh
s-;++ered away over Mr.. Wilson's Wis
-, - a ve rid super Government WIN
,',a,s - ,t tho head of it in the crit
;oal status which this pottering ns.s
,-,,. ,ho,,t in our relations Win
a C,ermany daily increasing IN uetei
r,,;,a+ion to resistance the questloh VI
,hosa nrecious lives really nave pee
'.a,.ed I,.v be flirly raj sed. III ,Hes
=. yat have to be sacrlrceH
Germany is brought to that conscious.
-ness of utter, hopeless defeat "i.nou'
which we shall not rave won eha' w.
e.. r,.bich mili;o.s of men gave uo
their lives = ,,,,-e the
IT., so,,I down to it's foulest depths
..oc-,+lv asked the question VINO are
49, ,,ictors in this great war Sueh
(,,,estion answers itself. If such queS
- ~, eron DIR. Hill is possible IlNe
,,,ontbs after the Hun hordes lay heip-
~ - u,,ot,e Grip of steel, then the an
;s that up to the present al
- +ha victory is with the hun
80 oitber total Hun defeat. in terms
u = 80 md in ironclad conditions
= l1-,aliza+ion made secure, or II IS "
~, victory. There Is no
nun ,,bs war was fought to wreck
p, dae+roI- once and for all the mus
fornidabfe organization OF u Diis'tI,. 49,
the world has ever known Oii' -.
hos been done, unless thitt oI
has been exterminated root anu A-'-ti. -,
&c an organization. then 'he 'pi,s-s.iS s"'-,.-e.
socrifices civilization has nlaue '1-i lt5 -
fo,,r wears of agony have pee" "'''~'>
in vain ..os,,1+ comes
If any such iisasterous result co'ttes tI,s
from the precious time lost, ns iIo.n ~,
i;eD,,fe- and chickering's piSSAP- :
= s,,ti1e International conclave. theh' %
= certainty. somebody is goins u Oe
y = "a I 80 a @strict accountability"
As to who that somebody is ,theTe
C not the remotest doubt. 1t Is WOOL
roxv, Wilson. But for him. peace W..
,';ctorv complete and triumpnan'
,,,igbt 'rs have been proclaimed by MO mlu
Ianuarv. A President of the CnisIu
States wrongfully absent from ms
So Of duty at a time when such an
serce meant. ard has resulted IN -
s,,sion and worse to his country, Jus'
vs. resident of the United states
- mated by sheer vanity OF OPINION
: with inordinate egotism anu |
o,aad oUtna''to for power just that President
So nobody else. is responsible for tne
60 80, fiasco to date and will be heiu
pe.,S lp1os,eo,sible for failure to attain the
a,ds for which the war was fougiN'
5,1 III and he alone will be held to thae
re ,.Dtr;ct S.tO aceountabiiity' about which
be was twittering so sweetly & IN .ne
5avs of his "May-I-not" fmgersil''Nins
~ the Hun who was then muruei4ns
-, ~ ,nan women and children on the
1igh sens.
rTat.,-evs Weekly.