WILSON’S BOASTFULNESS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15128, 24 January 1917, Page 4

WILSON’S BOASTFULNESS.

According to the New York Sun, President Wilson’s latest Note advocating a Peace League, and declaring that “the peace that must come in Europe must be a peace without victory or the victor’s terms imposed on the vanquished,” has excited amazement and irritation, mingled with amusement. Republican leaders say the speech was ill-timed and utterly impossible of accomplishment, while Colonel Roosevelt sarcastically reminds President Wilson that it is ridiculous for him to talk of world-peace when he is unable to force peace in Mexico. The ex-President might-have added, too, that the Allies are not to be blustered into, frustrating their intentions because President Wilson aspires to a world-dictatorship. His views might have, received a courteous consideration had ue raised his voice in firm and dignified protest against the sinking of the Lusitania, the murder of Nurse Cavell and Captain Fryatt, the bombarding of open towns, the use .of liquid fire, the use of asphyxiating gas, the murder of non-combatants and women, the ravaging of-women, the poisoning of wells, the use of non-combatants as a shield to German troops, the pillage of towns and houses, the murdering of wounded, the mutilation of women and children, (the torture of prisoners, the destruction of art treasures and historic towns, the massacre of priests, and wholesale deportation and enslavery. As head of a great State, whose predecessors proudly vied Vith each other in upholding the principles of liberty and freedom, upon which the American, Republic was founded, who has so utterly and lamentably failed to maintain those principles. President Wilson must not be surprised if his latest Note is treated with the scorn and derision which it merits.