The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-12
BLACKLIST KAISER
Allies Won't Talk Peace With
HOhenZOllernS.
War Goes On Until Dynasty Is
Eliminated.
DEAL WITH PEOPLE, NOT GOVT
Little Nations To Determine
Their Own Destinies.
President Left Peace Door
Open, but It's Guarded.
BY ROBERT j. BENDER.

Washington Sept 12.-Full suffrage
for a Germany rid of Hohenzollernism,
right of disputed territories to speak
for their own futures and restitution
and restoration for those countries
trodden under foot during the war.
means peace. Nothing short of this
can terminate the war.
To clear up the confusion created
| by the state department recent an
nouncement in apparent conflict with
President Wilson's reply to the pope,
| the United Press sought and obtained
today a semi-official Interpretation of
the Administrations actual attitude, an
Interpretation vouched for by the
| highest authorities
The allies cannot talk peace with
| the Hohenzollerns in the opinion of
administration officials. The German
people should act promptly to elimin-
ate entirely this dynasty and abandon
all militaristic rule, if the war is not
/ to go on Indefinitely.
Bluff Reforms Don't Go.
Bluff reform, such as merely max
ing the chancellor subject to the will
of the reichstag, is not sufficient.
among the allies of full responsibility
of the Germanic powers to their peo-
pie.
! Acceptability of Germany's internal
reforms will not depend upon the de-
ciSion of the United States, or Eng
land, or France, but must be such as
the other peoples of the world would
be justified in accepting"
| This point, 1t is stated, is one of the
most important in the presidents re-
| ply to the pope. 1t means in fact that
| the United States believes all the allies
and the rest of the world shall sit as
a court of judgment on Germany's in
ternal reforms.
The United States will be guided in
| its peace opinions largely by nations
| which have had the most experience
with Germany-France, for example.
France believes it would be madness
to enter peace negotiations with the
kaiser. So does the United States.
Peace Rests With People.
| When President Wilson said peace
must rest upon the rights of people,
great and small-not upon govern
ments-he meant it literally, and that
| point applies directly to his utterance
against Acknowledgement of empires.
| 1t is declared that Alsace-Lorraine,
| Bosnia Herzegovina- Schlesweg-
Holstein wrested by Germany from
| Denmark in 1866-do not constitute
integral parts of the body and soul of
| Germany and Austria. Bosnia and
Herzegovina were assumed by Austria
by executive order in 1908. Alsace-
Lorraine was part of the Teutonic
spoi1s of the war of 1870.
| The administration holds these
should be given the right to express
| themselves on the question of whether
| or not they shall remain under the
| military heel of the Germanic powers,
| return to their mother countries
! France. Denmark and Serbia-set up
autonomous governments and rule
| themselves, or attach themselves to
| other nations.
Put SIav States Together.
Bosnia herzegovina, for instance, Is
| understood to desire a berth in the
proposed jugo-Slav state, the nucleus
| of which is Serbia and Montenegro. AT
| the same time Dalmatia, Fiume,
Istria, Trieste and Gorilla, upon which
Italy has designs, also desire entrance
| into this state-and the official view
| here is that these states also should
| be allowed to determine their respec-
tive fates.
There must, of course, be autonomy
| for Poland and restoration and resti-
tuition for Belgium, naturalization of
| the Dardanelles and some rein on
| Turkey.
The president has left the door to
! peace open, but it is well guarded
and the Teutons cannot come in with
| guns in their pockets
| Free grant of full power to the Ger
man people, willingness to let disputed
| territories speak for their own future
and grant of restoration and restitu-
ton for over-ridden small countries
means peace. Anything short of this