Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-01-27
PRESENCE OF WOODROW WILSON At PEACE
CONFERENCE HELD NECESSARY To AMERICA

A letter from an United States
sailor stationed at Killingholme, Eng
land, conveys d very clear idea of how
the visit OF President Wilson TO the
peace conference s taken across the
pond, and how the majority of people
believe that his attendance at the
peace conference was absolutely
necessary The name Of the sailor.
is not given for the reason that the
receiver of the letter requested that It
be not published The letter was
written to Il. S. Chadwick, Of the
Idaho state Life Insurance company.
II reads. in part, as follows:
1T is a strange thing TO me to read
Of the half-hearted criticisms Of Presi-
dent Wilson for his past and present
policies, and particularly, his trip over
here to the peace conference. You
know how stand on politics, so am
not at all fearful Of telling You how
the situation looks from over here.
To begin with, I'll ten YOU why
every man with whom l have talked
over here. is convinced that President
Wilson's attendance at the peace con-
ference was absolutely necessary.
SCORES ENGLAND.
Admirable though England has al
ways been when fighting with her
back to the wall, she's the poorest
winner in the world. The unanimity
OF the British press has been so
marked for the past three months, has
been so marked on certain phases of
the situation as to be suspicious. Over
six weeks before the close Of the war,
the press-unanimously- the
public a resume OF German colonial
methods. The inhumanities of Ger
man rule were played up In a master
full fashion until the poor reader was
lead to believe that the Germa% was
nothing but a human butcher. Every
article was headed. why Germany
Cannot Have Her Colonies Back" The
climax cane simultaneously In every
paper I've been able to see, and was
in tho form OF a map showing the
spheres of action that submarines,
with bases in the German colonies,
would have. Then that particular
propaganda ceased the men that pull
ed the strings evidently being of the
opinion that public sentiment would
demand that all German colonies be
retained. not in the nature Of spells
OF war, but to prevent further Ger
man cruelties. Then we saw the in
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