Viewing page 7 of 30

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

or leg may be painful, but [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] it at least feels secure, now the bowls chief end is to run and squirm out if possible. This is what I imagine. 

I got the story all right. I hope you see it in print some time and with an illustration by the author. This time may be in the far distance however. 

Yes Pres. Wilson does express his utopian, and to me impracticall ideas, in very good form. I believe that Wilson is endeavoring to ingratiate himself with the German people; he is deaf and cold to the terrible suffering and need of France: he is ballyhooing the League of Nations before Germany is punished, and for the express reason, to protect the German nation from paying for their sins.

He preaches freedom of the seas at the peace conference, and insinuates England must disarm; at the same time Daniels announces we will have a larger navy than Gr.B. If that is not hypocrisy what is? Why not let France as represented by Cleamceau say what shall be done with the Germans. You know that Wilson would not go to the destroyed portions of France, fearing this might unbalance the delicate metephysical state [[strikethrough]] in wich [[/strikethrough]] of ideas in which he lives. No doubt everyone wishes a legue of nations; but any sane person would know that Germany must be made to suffer now, or Legues upon Legues will not bury this neglected justice. The world is still in an inimical state of mind and [[strikethrough]] has [[/strikethrough]] no policy but force will hold it together in peace. Therefore how can Germany be allowed to go unpunished