The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-22
|EMPER0RS ADVISE POPE THEY
FAVOR ARBITRATION # THEY
CAN DICTATE TERMS ADOPTED
Want Disarmament After Allies Have Submitted Demands Of
Central Powers-Beieve World Amity Can Be Restored, if
Auocracy Full sway-Nohing in Either Note Which
Will Affect Stand Already Ia ken by President Wilson,
REPLIES TO HIS HOLINESS w I'LL NOT
ALTER AT TITUDE OF AMERICAN CHIEF
Thankful for
New Evidence
OF Affection


Amsterdam, Sept. zz.-The reply Of
Emperor Charles OF Austria Hun.
gary to the peace note of Pope Bene.
dist says dispatch from Vienna, was
handed to MOnsignor T. Valfre Di
BOnzo, the papal nunzio at Vienna on
Thursday.
Hope is expressed by the emperor
that the P0pes efforts may lead tO
the realization of the emperor's desire
for lasting and honorable peace for
all parties Pope Benedict's note, the
emperor says, was received with Q
| thankful heart.
The text of the reply follows:
"l10ly Father:
with due veneratiOn and deep emo
tiOn we take cOgnizance Of the new
representations your holiness, In ful.
fillment Of the holy Office -entrustel
you by God, make to US and the heads
OF tho other belligerent states with
the noble intention of leading the
heavily tried nations to unity that
will restore peace to them. 'H4e:sg- ..
| Have Looked to Pope. '+Gs =
with thankful heart we received
this fresh gift of fatherly care which
you, holy father, always bestow on
all peoples without distinction, and
from the depth OF our heart We greet
the moving exhOrtati0n which your
holiness has addressed to the gov
ernments of the belligerent peoples.
During this cruel war We have al.
ways looked up to your holiness %
IN ~ hiOhnct x.yh1 tn x,Sn
tue OF his mission which reaches be-
yOnd earthly things and thanks to
the high conception of his duties laid
upon him, stands high above the BEL
ligerent peoples and who is inacces-
sible to all influence, was able to
find way which may lead to the real
tzatiOn OF our own desire for peace,
lasting and honorable for all parties.
''Since ascending the throne of our
ancestors and fully conscious of our
responsibility which we bear before
God and men for the fate Of the Aus
trO-Hungarian monarchy, we have
never lost sight of the high aim of
restoring to our peoples as speedily
as possible the blessings of peace.
Soon after our accession to the throne
it was vOuchsafed in common with
our allies, to undertake step which
had been considered and prepared by
our exalted predecessor, Francis 10.
seph, to pave the way for lasting
and honorable peace.
Peace Desire Told.
eve gave expression to this desire
in speech from the throne deliv-
cred at the opening Of the Austrian
reichsrath, thereby showing that we
are striving after peace that shall
free the future life Of the nation
from rancor and a thirst for revenge
and that shall secure them for gener.
ations to come from the employment
OF armed forces. Our joint govern.
ment has in the meantime not fail.
ed in repeated and emphatic declara.
tions, which could be heard by all the
world, to give expression to our own
will and that OF the Austro- -Hungar-
ian peoples to prepare an end to
bloodshed by a peace such as our hol.
mess has In mind.
Happy in the thought that our de.
sires from the first were directed to-
ward the same object which your h0l1.
ness today characterizes as one We
strive for, we have taken into close
consideration the concrete and prac-
tical suggestions of your holiness and
have come to the following c0nclu-
sion: b. -. '.5&
with deep-rooted conviction We
agree to the leading idea Of your hOli.
ness that the future arrangement OF
the world must be based on the clint
nation OF armed forces and in the
moral force Of right and on the rule
or international justice and legality.
Urges Reduced Armaments.
1--WE, too, are imbued with the hope
that strengthening of the sense OF
right would morally regenerate hu-
manity. We support, therefore, your
holiness views that the negotiations
between the belligerents should and
could lead to an understanding by
which, with the creation of approprl-
ate guarantees, ornaments on land
and sea, and in the air, might be re-
duced simultaneously, reciprocally and
and gradually to a fixed limit, and
thereby the high seas, which rightly
belong to all the nations of the earth,
may be freed from domination or par
amOuntcy and be opened equally for
the use of all.
Fully conscious Of the importance
of the promotion of peace, on the
methods nronosed bv vour holiness.