Newspaper Comments

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1917, Page 1

Newspaper Comments

' NEW YORK, Jan. 23. The “Now Yory Sun” says that tno Wilson administrative inefficiency failed to secure peace with Mexico now mounts the rostrum where it was nothis business to he and lectures the world on the terms of peace for Europe. Wilson should be more modest. His view of his responsibilities to mankind as set out in his specc-u w.ii excite amazement and irriation, mingled with amusement. The “New York Herald” says if “peace without victory” means anything it means that Wilson favours a pence made in Prussia. Tho German-American press praises the speech. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Republican leaders says the speech is ill-timed and utterly impossible of accomplishment. NEW YORK, Jan. 23. 'The “New York Times’” says that by one stroke the President removes, many obstacles. A peace guaranteed by the world proposal of the universal adoption of the Monroe doctrine would create a moral transformation.

Will the empires contest stand sun ... their tracks. The proposal would bestow iirnncp.o benefits on mankind. The allusion to a “peace without victory" is a matter of most extreme * delicacy. President Wilson unconsciously, or intentionally, records an eloquent protest against militarism. His ideas as to the limitation or armaments would leave no national maritime supremacy.