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Show jyjg London Globe Flays President Wilson and Whole United States 4 1 1 For Foolish Dream of Peace ' it hatcher 3 Newspaper With Fierce Invective Assails American Chief Executive for S.'t Cowardice and Inhumanity in Lusitania Case and the Seeking of Votes o lMte While Cries of Drowning Countrymen Are Smothered Beneath Tinkling of Piling of Dollars. nt Part ier k i the an. . 'f the London. Jan, 23, 1:15 p. m. The ' Utah Globe asking President Wilson what be had done for "Justice and human Ity, for the rights of the weak or tho ng the honor of tho strong that you should r she now presume to school us in the winter mighty conflict to vrhich we are com-Chip. com-Chip. niltted and from which you most care fully have held aloof," says he did not protest against the invasion of Bel-turned Bel-turned glum and wrote a note when the Cun-spend- ard liner Lusitania was torpedoed. r Par- Continuing, the newspaper says-arf says-arf "And then you wrote a second note ' and then a third, because you were) ( ft.k:nc tho suffrage of electors in! whose ears the last crie3 of their I drowning countrymen were smothered 1 beneath the tinkling of piling dollars ' I "You did not dare resent the piracy! I and murder and now. forsooth, wei I who have given our best and bravest T by tho hundred thousand and treaury K by the thousand millions io save the -world, we must, at your bidding, lay HS down our arms and dream with you your foolish dream of peace. You and tho great nation whose 1 chief magistrate you arc, stirred no finger to save public law from being violated. You may say, and say truly, that the United States had not tho power. How then can you ask us to I truet our lives and liberty, the future of the race, the safety of our empire and the destinies of all mankind to j the flimsy guarantees with which you would buckle the peace of the world?! "The men who tore up tho scrap of1 paper; the men who laughed at your notes and sank fresh ships while you j were thinking of fresh phrases will ro spect force and respect nothing else."' President's Speech Astounding. The Standard refers to President Wilson's speech as astounding and, speaking of German claims to victory,! continti' t : ' In other words, mediation Is premature pre-mature and if persisted in could be interpreted in-terpreted only as a desire to help the! party which already claims to have l won. Moreover, it is not clear by what title, legal or moral. President Wilson assumes that he has some right to shape the destinies of the European continent. "He did not protest against the infringement in-fringement of The Hague conventions. He has never expressed the small sympathy sym-pathy with the suff.rin.c of Prance, Belgium. Serbia or Poland. We have hoard his voice raised on behalf of suffering humanity only since Germany Ger-many seemed visibly on the decline." No Word From Germany. Washington, Jan. 23 It wag stated officially today that President Wilson has received no word from Germany that she and her allies were willing to lay their terms of peace, een confidentially, before him. The statement was made in re sponse to recently published intlma Hons that the Oorman terms had already al-ready been secretly placed in the president's hands. |
