Consider that!
The President goes in person to tell th©
Senate, that in December 1916, he had taken
it upon himself, on behalf of all the neutral
nations, (and mankind) to write the same
note to all the belligerents—Germany, Aus
tria, Turkey, and Bulgaria, as well as Eng
(land, France, and Italy—asking them “to
state . . . the terms upon w’hich they would
deem it possible to make peace.”
Stop a moment, right there!
In w’riting this “identic note” to all th©
belligerents, the President must necessarily
have been honest, in his professions of a de
sire to act as peacemaker.
You must likewise take it for granted that
he had an honest desire to make peace, els©
his action was incredibly impertinent and un
justifiable. \
But see what you do to the President’s
present attitude, when you credit him for,
honesty and earnestness, in January.
If he could have succeeded with his peace
efforts, in December and January, he would
have left mankind in the lurch, unredeemed*
unregenerated, unemancipated from univer*
sal Militarism and other thralldoms.
