New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1918, Page 10

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WILSON and Statesmanlike” Chicago, Il, Feb. 22.—At the open- ing session of the National Security league's great ‘“Congress Service” at Medinah temple vesterday, the following letter from Elihu Root, honorary president of the league, was read to the delegates. Mr. Root, who expected to preside at the congress, Wwas prevented from doing so by ill- ness. His letter read: “I regret very much that I am un- Security meeting, and I send you my best wishes for an inspiring strengthening conference. “There are several thin tended to say. One is ab I had in- t the r ! 1ation between peace talk and fighting. discus- | There has been much sion of terms of peace the belligerents, but by sovernments making addresses to their own pcople. There have been two recent addresses to congress by our own president stating in the most admirable and atesmanlike way what the people of the United S are fighting for and will insist Of course, the newspapers with discussions of thesc with headlines from which one might infer that negotiations for peace are going on. Such an inference would be a great mistake. Such addresses are primarily designed to make the peo- ples of the respective belligerents un- derstand clearly the position occupied by their own governments. In the meantime, the position which Ger- assumes does not come within a thousand miles of that assumed by the government of the United St and agreed to by our th 5 which we are fighting for and will insist upon Germany will not con- sider or discuss at all. The things which German will insist upon we will not consider or discuss at all. There is not only no negotiation, but there is no basis for negotiation. It is, moreover, perfectly clear that Ger- ! many will not abandon her present | position and recede to a position | which will make peace negotiation possible until she has had a thorough whipping, which we and our allies must. give hert, and will give her: but that can be done only by tremendous fight- ing .and great loss of life and suffer- ing and sacrifice, and to do this fight- st strain every nerve and our powers. We must not forget that the statements of our ! peace terms mean not peace but war until Germany is beaten into accepting them. We must be careful that new | paper headlines about peace terms do not distract our attention from the in- tense concentration of effort upon war necessary to carry our country through the supreme test of her power to maintain her liberty. Let us be warned by poor Russia’s present posi- tion. The Bolsheviki were very elo- guent about peace ‘“without annexa- tion or indemnities,” and they filled the minds of Russian soldiers and workmen with that idea to such an ex- tent that they stopped fighting and making munitions, but when they got to Brest-Litovsk they found what the leaders probably knew all along— that Germany had no intention of making any such peace. She wanted the Baltic provinces of Russia, and she seized them and proposes to kecp them: and, Russia, having stopped | fighting in favor of the kind of peace she admired, finds herself in a position | where, for the present, she has noth- ing whatever to say about the kind of peace there shall be. We must be- ware of anything in the remotest de- grec approaching that. Criticism. “Another thing I wanted to say was about the ~ffect of criticism on the conduct of the war. Of course, there have been mistakes and shortcomings. It would be a miracle if there were not. Everybody agrees to that. Nor is there any doubt that when there arc m es and shortcomings it is a good thing to have them pointed out. Sin- cere and constructive criticism of executive conduct is a very useful thing. But we must all be careful that neither shortcoming nor criticism tends in the slightest degree to divert or decrease the heartiness with which we all support and re-enforce the president and his civil and military officers in carrying on this war. “Abraham Lincoln said something on this subject during the Civil War which is worth recalling now. He was speaking to the 164th Ohio Infantry in September, 1864. He said: ““There may be mistakes made Sometimes things may be dane wrong, while the officers of the governme do all they can to prevent mistakes; but I :beg of you as citizens of this great Tepublic not to let your minds be rried off from the great work we have before us. “ ‘The struggle is too large for you to be diverted from it by any small matter. When you return to vour | homes, rise up to the dignity of a generation of men worthy of a free government and we will carry out the work we have commenced.’ Petty Prejudices, “That is the great thing—not to allow small irritations and petty preju- dices and personal predilections to weaken our main purposc and prevent us from rising to this great occasion This war must be fought'and won by the power and momentum of this people moving solid and Whole heart. ed bchind the president at Washing- ton, and not otherwise. This is to Lo the big hour of American life, Goq grant we may all be fit for it. Ma, the spirit of the Second Inaugural rest upon your meeting. “Fondly do we hobe, fervently do we pray that this mighty scourge of war may soon pass away. “‘Yet, if God wills that it continye until all the wealth piled by tph, bondsman's two hundred and fig, years of unrequited toil shall be sup); and until every drop of blood drawy recent not between the heads of are addres: | eharity i let us strive Clls Addreéses ‘io‘st Laudable | of National avoidably detained from the National | and | by the lash shall be paid drawn with the sword, a said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ‘“The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous alto- gether. With by another malice toward all, with as God gives 1 none, firmness in the to see the right, on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for 1 have the battle, and for his widow his orphans; to achieve and cher peace among ou nations.’ » for Tight, him who s and for which may t and lasting and with all When (St er Was in St. Louis. Louis Post-Dispatch) There are Louis who 13 men in St hould have known, in advance, L Secretary Baker was going to give his congre: sional questioners an earful. These 13 men are the members of the board of freeholders, who wrote the charter of St. Louis in 1913, Baker, who was then mayor Cleveland, spent one Novembo noon with the frechoiders, talking modern methods of city government, They heard him first for an hour the City club dining room; t to the municipal he was at it after- en courts buildin again in the room. After talking an hour there, stopped long enough to ask if might sit down, and if someone had a ciga. 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