Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-02-15

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Turkish peoples of the present Ottoman
empire, to the Turkish authorities them
| selves. After settlement all around.
| affected In this fashion by individual bar
| ter and concession, he would have no
| objection, II l correctly interpret his
statement, to a league OF nations which
| would undertake to hold the new balance
| Of power steady against external dis
1t must be evident to every one who
| Iftinderstands what this war has wrought
lin the opinion and temper of the world
| that no general peace, no peace worth the
! Infinite sacrifices of these years of
at IN any suc.i fashion. The method the
! German chancellor proposes is the meth
cd OF the congress of Vienna.
I fe-f ste Cannot Accept.
We cannot and will not return to that.
What Is at stake now is the peace Of
| the world What we are striving for Is
Fa new international order based upon
broad and universal principles of right
and Justice--no mere peace of shreds and
| pasches Is it possible that Count Won
| Hertling does not see that does not grasp
IT. Is in fact living in his thought in a
| world dead and gone? Has he utterly
forgotten the reichstag resolutions of the
18th of July, or does he deliberately ig-
i more them? They spoke of the conditions
grandizement or of arrangements between
state and state.
i The peace of the world depends upon
i eral problems TO which adverted In my
lreeent address To- the congress. /. Of
l course Z do not mean that the peace of
/ the world depends upon the acceptance
of'any particular set or suggestions as to
| the way in which those problems are to
| he dealt swith AI<meanN only tnat those
/ problems each and all affect the whole
| 4 spirit of unselfish and unbiased justice,
| with a view to the wishes. the natural
connections the racial aspirations, the
security. and the peace of mind OF the
peoples involved, no permanent peace
4 VIII have been attained. They cannot
be discussed separately or in corners.
| None of them constitutes a private or
separate. interest from Which the opinion
Of the world may be smut Out. xss
mankind and nothing settled by military
force, IL settled wrong, is settled at al.
1t will presently have to be re-opened.
Is Count Won Hertling not aware that
that all the awakened nations Of the
/ world now sit in Judgment on Nhat every
4 public man. of whatever natlon, may
| spread to every region of the Eorld1 =
T. The reichsiag resolutions OF yuly them
4 selves frankly accepted the DECISIONS OF
that court. There shall be no annexa-
Ations, no contributions, no punitive dam
/ ages. Peoples are not to be handed about
| from one sovereignty to anoher by an
standing between rivals and antagonists.
ed tfl peoples may DOW be DOM mated d'si and
4 tfEOFerned only DyN IHelT OWN cDuSent.
! aSelf determination" is not mere
i phrase. It is an imperative principle of
!. action. which, .statesplen viii henceforth
ignore at tlieir, perikt we cannot have
mere Arrangements of a 1peaee confer5
epee, II cannot the lpieced together out
/ Of indiyidial Understandings between
4 t---'-'4-'- --'.'''---A All Must JOIN m.
| All the parties TO this war must join
in the settlement of every issue any-
where involved in it, because whatl we
nIts seeans III u Rssss fa aad
every iteni. 6if Il Inust be, Submitted to
the common judgments whether i be
bright and fair, an actSof ejustice. rather
ra The tfated statss mas n9 desira to
interfereE N Euroge2n affairs or to sact
ps pntes. a.' Il weld S5sslp % taks sad-
S5s vantage any iri YEA M|11 A|nesa npos 81 sis
Shown ptiia( De ssettlasin ssfs she has $ug-
gested ate not the best Or tile most FEN
The, they kre only her own provisional
sketch of principles and of the way in
which they should be applied. But sshe
entered this war because she was made
4 the sufferings and indignities inflicted
Il byl the. mill tary masters OF Germany
4 against the peace and security of man,
tahei he 1q iler as ass nearly as they viii ouch
n any. other. nation to which is entrusted a
\ leading part in the maintenance of qvi-
4 lization. rShe ca mot see her. way to peace
Until the catses OF this war are removed,
l1be impossible. S'stn "a
gard of the rights bf small nations And
of natonalites,, which, lacked the ppion
i and the force to- naHke good their clpim
tR tRe Sssss%Ps nw sts ssfis ostpsieai qS fe
wSSS TSE'9an'sa %if aeRGsf %Hs' RsS
for ths St Sad shoss Of ali %
nations that love justice and are Ml4lhg llg
to- ma intain II at any COST If territqrlai
: settlements and lthe' political relatlops OF
! ygleat popdlations when Fhaye nqg s5ne sa
I jrganized power to resist are TO be Sde-
; / terniined by the, contracts OF the power
], tfth governments which :. consider pntm
selves most directly AFFECTED, as C0unt
Won lHertring proposes, Why may not geo
nomic questions also? Il
i iItl has come about in the altered wgrlc
4 in which iwe'sn find ourselves lhai
justice and the rights OF peoples aHect
the whole field of international des4i e a ny n ],
i as much as access to raw materials Rnd
| fair and equal conditions OF trade: coun'
se yJnssFssf Msss!sE ans iasssss ss Sss Ss
safeguarded by common agree14nt Pnd
ss he srtaes of s re
N not handled In bie same way az items
!, in the final accounting. He ca1mt ASK
the benefit of common agreemenI IN the
J one field without according 1t IN fthe
! other 4
IL IHakeFit for granted that he SIS sha'
Esepnrata and selfish compacts Nth Sre-
gard 10 trade and the essential ~ teFals
4 of manufacture would afford no PuI3da-
tiop for peace. Neithers he may Hst as
pacts with fegafd toaprovinces Nd geo
; RllEsc;sst essrniksaA.ass ne thMuada.
mental elements of peaee with clAtr yves
! and does not sssk t2 xQbscqtre, to,, em,s ] +. !.
} up of all the indisputably PolishV PEOPLES
/ 1enatter Of Eurnpean concern an nfist
!. az course, be, conceded; that spela4un
4 must be evacuated and restored&po mat
ter VIVA. sacr.l.css anu eo.I,ess = ..sn-, ~.