Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1918 — ROOSEVELT HAS OPPOSING VIEWS [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT HAS OPPOSING VIEWS

WOULD DEMAND UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER—I 4 PRINCIPLES “MISCHIEVIOUS.” Washington, Oct. 24.—Theodore Roosevelt sent duplicate telegrams tonight to United States Senators Lodge, Poindexter and Johnson, in which he characterized as “thoroughly miscEievious” the fourteen principles enunciated by President Wilson if they are to be made the basis of peace. The telegrams follow: “As an American citizen, I most earnestly hope that the senate oftthe United States, which is part of The treaty making power of the United States, will 'take affirmative action against a negotiated peace with Germany and in favor of a peace based on the unconditional surrender of Germany. - “I also declare against the adoption in their entirety of the fourteen points of- the President’s address of last January 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. “The language of the fourteen points and these 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 mlschievious, and if made the basis of a peace such peace would represent not the unconditional surrender of Germany, but the conditional surrender of the United 'States. Naturally they are entirely satisfactory to Germany and equally naturally they are in this country satisfactory to every pro-German and pacifist and socialist and anti-American, so-called internationalist.

“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 Imposed on Bulgaria. We ought to declare war on Turkey without an hour’s, delay. The failure to do so hitherto has caused the talk about making the world’ safe for democracy to look unpleasantly like mere insincere rhetoric. While the Turk is left in Europe and permitted to tyrannize over tbfe subject people the world is thoroughly unsafe for democracy. “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 battle. If be means that we are something less than an ally of France, England, Italy, Belgium and Serbia, then he means that we are something less than an enemy of Germany and Austria. We ought to make it dear to the world that we are neither an untrustworthy friend nor an irresolute foe. Let us clearly show 'that we do not desire to pose as the umpire between our faithful and loyal friends and our treacherous and brutal enemies, but that we are the staunch ally of our friends and the 3taunch foe of our eneirifGs. “When the German people repudiate the Hohenzollerhs, then and not until then will it be time to discriminate between them and their masters. I hope the senate and the house will pass some resolution demanding the unconditional surrender of Germany as our war aim and stating that our peace terms have never yet been formulated or accepted by our people, and that they will be fully discussed wibh our allies and made fully satisfactory to our own people before they are discussed with Germany.”