Show 1 False Prophecies H ire Vo e enter this war only where we arc are clearly l forced into it because there are arc no other means of or defending our rights T THE HE HE foregoing words were uttered by President Wilson Vilson Yil Wil- son in in appearing before before Congress for the declaration declara- declara tion Hon marking our entry into the great war The statement state stale ment menu was the end of a n shameful and embarrassing as toler- toler 1 ance anre of Prussian insolence It was the beginning of o our lr lri c i determination det to end such outrages as were reflected III in inthe the sinking of or the time Lusitania In Tn appearing before Congress with his bis vision vision o. o from abroad Thursday the President said The TIle United States entered the thear war ar upon a different different different differ differ- ent footing from every even other nation except our associates associates associates as as- 0 on this side of the seas We Ve entered it not because our material interests were directly threat threat- tined ened or 01 because any special treaty obligations to which we were parties had 1181 been violated but hut 0 only y ly because we saw the supremacy and even cen the validity of right everywhere put in jeopardy and free go e govern govern- n ment likely to be he everywhere imperiled by the Intolerable in intolerable intolerable in- in In- In tolerable aggression of a power which respected neither ri right nor obligation Th The latter statement is more than evasive it evasive it is misleading misleading mis mis- lendin leading if not actually deceptive c It fails to stand th the test of a repetition of his statement on which the le declaration of war was actually based President Wilsons Wilson's Wilson's Wilsons Wil Wil- d. d sons son's latest interpretation robs his administration o oi of l i much of the credit of war It leads back to the deceptions of 1010 1016 when his party exercised every ever effort to show what the President now claims to be e a fact fact that that America had no vital mate material al interest in the great war var How much the new nm statement dovetails with the one j made by President President Vilson Wilson before our entry into the tho con flirt filet The quotation is notorious and is as follows i We are areat at peace with all the world No one who 1 r speaks counsel based on fact or drawn from a just and candid interpretation of realities can cnn say that J e is an any reason to fear that from an any quarter i our pur independence or the integrity of our territory is threatened More than this proposed at nt this t f t time p permit me to say would mean merely that wo we 4 y had lost our or self-possession self I that we wo had been thrown I off our balance b by a war with which We have bave n nothing noth- noth thing th- th I F. F ing to do whose causes cannot touch us Tine The f fact ct remains however howe tb that t we went rent to war because be- be j cause our rights were not only threatened but openly violated President W Wilson lson admitted this before Cont Con t gress Tess on the momentous day when this country decided to toS S t. t enter cuter the conflict Visions cannot alter nIter the facts and i prophets must take cognizance of their false promises Mr Ir Wilson Vilson is the foremost advocate ad in the world for tor J t the league of nations To 10 this end enl he ho distorts the un un- t d deriving causes of our participation in the gre great t war 5 v Hee talks of ot the rights of small nations and weak I t I peoples coples The document itself is an obligation to great treat i I nations It is a guarantee of their dominion over o the I J weak It is not reflective e of the spirit which made madeI I America the most loved nation in the world It robs us ns usI I 4 lr of the power of self-possession self the time greatest power of j 5 good Jol before the world worl for tho the last years rears President Wilson pilson evaded c these important elements clements in his llis eulogy V o of the tho league covenant co before Congress lIe He was silent j with respect to Shantung and Fiume He lie had hind thin nothing to tor f r sa say of Korea Koren of Ireland of Egypt He ne' is is unmindful o or of such statements as co come e from Henry y Pate of the 3 French rench cl chamber of deputies who declares it is a wari war i treaty treaty not not not a peace treaty t J t Is 15 it ah absolutely necessary to mako make the time United States the international goat goal under false pretenses Americas America's I national honor has hns been vindicated on the battlefield r after it had been heen tra trailed m u n the he dust h b by y the same false j v prophets who now pretend to defend it b by substituting an nn international cult for the file constitution and that cult w i controlled cOntrolled t by y the political war makers of Europe Four st 1 mi million hon men and thirty billion dollars is not a b bad ad rec- rec record r or ord l and back of it all nIl was ras ono one hundred million A Am American fr 0 hearts who were not too proud iron d to fight fig There is no need need- t r. for vis us to to sign 81 a plc pledge g-e g to do the i n. n fighting for n nan any ny Euro Euro- L A. p can an o or Asiatic Asahe nation that chooses to start it There Thereof is IS no occasion to alloy the pure gold old of Ameri Americanism WIth the and the Bolshevism of Eur European Ita hatred tred and distrust c is occasion for or us 3 to lend nd a helping ping hand to any nation of the earth h ear be it weak or stron that strong honin lione lion hon e desires to set its house in order n after the fas fashion ion that 1 has 3 lh ide America mer oa the greatest ent nation of liberty liberty- Z IV o AU r air pc people on ou the face ac of f the time globe l Wo le e c C can n do all nil this r w without s surrendering 51 per cent of stock to a n foreign o our n corporation I f Surely President VilI Vilson Wilson Wil Wil- son himself s senses the tho danger dang when he Bays Bays' t 14 says It It nas as not CaS easy to graft tho the new order of ideas the old 11 on and some o of the trio fruits of the thc grafting I 1 fear for a time be he bitter ne br may mav Y President Wilson Vilson has had bad glory enough h to satisfy the most ambitious ambitions He has been twice elected President dent of f the he United States Under the tho has ms been given more arbitrary stress of war he be than power any ruler ever dreamed Ire or-he has been wined ined and dined b by the cr crowned heads of Europe while American business and American industry drifted with t the he tide of li on n. n Now let hi hits i t take ke a dee 1 ep breath of the air of his Ilia land and nd realize that the solid this his nation was foun founded ed is l labeled II America rock upon for which Amer- Amer leans and brooks mer- mer no p Ka 1 11 |