Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-04 | Page 4 | Teddy is Too Nearsighted

ji TEDDY IS TOO i j NEARSIGHTED. j II Our friend Theodore Roosevelt dc- Mm clares the American soldier boys did a i' not know they were fighting for the h i fourteen principles enunciated by Pres- lll ident Wilson, which have been accept- i pjll I cd as the basis of peace. fl j j . We take issue with Teddy. The over- j Jj III whelming majority of the soldiers j fl If knew they were fighting for exact jus- ifw lrj tice and, inasmuch as Wilson's princl-pies princl-pies are wholly within the circle of fill I justice, all our soldiers battled for i'jufl those principles. I! , And that is what the President 11 1' roeant when he said he was going over llll to see to it that the sacrifices of the ijilj , American troops were not In vain. . Teddy's vision is too circumscribed iWui' to see mucl1 o tlie all-embracing good-Ill good-Ill II neSS Sn the mirnoses and thoughts of 18 j other men who do not look out on the llill world through his heavy glasses.