The Prescott daily news., 1918-02-12
NJ TURNING BACK
 UNTIL AUTOCRACY
 OF ARMS CRUSHED
President Wilson Warns Central Powers United States Has Only Begun to Take Part in Great War.

Wilson, appearing unexpectedly be- fore Congress again today, replied to the recent speeches by Count von Hertling, the German chancellor, and Count Czernin, the Austrian foreign minister, by reminding the statesmen of the central empires that peace can only be discussed on the basis of per manency and essential justice, and broadly warning the people of the central empires that the participation of the United States in the war for the emancipation of humanity only has begun.
 Plainly the President warned the German military autocracy that there was to be no pausing in the mobiliza- tion of Americas vast military re- sources now steadily on their way to the battle fronts and that if peace were to be discussed it would have to be on basis of sincerity.
 Otherwise, the President made it plain there was to be no turning back until military autocracy was crushed by force of arms.
 Count Czernin's speech, the Presi- dent openly regarded sympathetically, but he considered the Austrian for eign minister restrained by the en- barrassment of Austria's alliance and her dependence on Germany.
 Count Czernin,' said the President, seems to see the fundamental ele- ments of peace with clear eyes and does not seem to obscure them"
 Chancellor von Hertling's speech, however, the President characterized as "very vague and confusing" and ''full of equivocal phrases" leading nowhere clearly.
 The aim of the German chancellor, as judged from his speech, the Presi- dent thought, evidently was to secure a peace advantageous to the aims of the military autocracy and then sub- scribe to an international covenant to make it secure.
 Count Hertling, the President de- clared, evidently was seeking such peace as was made at the congress of Vienna.
 What is at stake now" said the President, lis the peace of the world. What we are striving for is new international order based upon broad and universal principles of right and justice-no mere peace of shreds and patches. Is it possible that Count von Hertling is in fact living, in his thought, in a world dead and gone"
 "A general peace,' said he, "erect- ed on such foundations could be dis cussed Until such peace can be secured, we have no choice but to go on."
 In conclusion, the President warned the central empires that the vast re- sources of the United States would accomplish in the end what might be accomplished by peaceful negotia- tion.
 "Our resources are in part mobil- ized now" said he. land we shall not pause until they are mobilized in their entirety. Our armies are rapid ly going to the fighting front and will go more and more rapidly. Our whole strength will be put into this war of emancipation-emancipation from the threat and attempted mastery of sell fish groups of autocratic rulers whatever the difficulties and partial delays. We are indomitable in our powers of independent action and can in no circumstances consent to live in world governed by intrigue and force.
 "The power of the United States is menace to no power or nation. 1t will never be used in aggression or for the aegrandizement of any selfish in- terest of our own. It springs out of freedom for the service of freedom
 The President was interrupted by applause at every reference to the United States standing steadfastly against patched-up peace. Probably