The Pulaskian., 1918-01-11
WORLD WIDE PEACE
 PROGRAM NAMED
PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES DEFl- MITE PLANS FOR PEACE CON-
 TANNING IA CONSIDERATIONS.
MORAL CLIMAX HAS COME
Freedom of Seas, Evacuation of AL eace- Lorraine To France, Reduction of Armaments Among Conditions
 United States Will Accept.

Washington.-Pre Wilson tn addressing Congress delivered a re statement of war aims in agreement with the recent declaration by the British premier. David Lloyd George.
 The president presented a definite nrosram for world peace, containing x4 specific considerations.
 ~For such arrangements and cove Taanfs," said the president in conclJl- sion, I've are willing to fight and con- tfnue 10 fight until they are achieved, bat only because we wish the right to prevail and desire a just and stable geace-"
 Such program, he said, removed chief provocations for further war.
 ssThe moral climax of this, the cu,- nafnating and final war for human lib erty. has come" said the president Tn ending his address, and they (peeple of the United States) are ready to put their own strength, their own high &at purpose, their own integrity and devotion to the test"
 Presidents Address.
 The president spoke as follows;
 Gentlemen of the Congress: Once 'nore as repeatedly before, the spokes- men of the Central empires have indi- cated their desire to discuss the ob- 5ecfs of the war and the possible bas- is or a general peace Parleys have Geen in progress at Brest-Litovsk be- tween Russian representatives and representative of the Central powers fo which the attention of all the bel Mgerents has been invited for the pur pose of ascertaining whether it may be possible to extend these parleys into a general conference with regard to terms of peace and settlement. The Russian representatives presented not only perfectly definite statement of the principles upon which they would be willing to conclude peace, but also an equally definite program of the con- crete application of those principles The representative of the Central
  line of settlement which, if much less definite, seemed susceptible of liberal interpretation until their specific pro- gram of political terms was added That program proposed no concessions at all either to soyereingty of Russia esrrfns the preferences of the population | with whose fortunes it dealt, but meant. in word that the Central empires were to keep every foot of territorv their armed forces had oc- -upied every province, every city, every point of vantage-as perma- nent addition to their territories and their power.
 It is a reasonable conjecture that ghe general principles of settlement which they at first suggested originat- : ed with the more liberal statesmen of S1sermanv and Austria, the men who have begun to feel the force of their own peoples thought and purpose, while the concrete terms of actual set clement came from the military lead prs who have no thought but to keep what they have got. The negotiations have been broken off. The Russian representatives were sincere and in earnest. They cannot entertain such proposals of conquest and domina- yFfon-
 incident of Significance.
 The Whole incident is full of signifi- ~ance- It is also full of perplexities With whom are the Russian represen- fatiyes dealing9 For whom are the representatives of the Central empires speaking? Are they speaking for the ma5orfties Of their respective parlia- sneHts or for the minority parties, that military and impefialistic minority which has so far dominated their whole policy and controlled the af- fairs Of Turkey and of the Balkan states which have felt obliged to be- come their associates in this war? Tfie Russian representatives have in sisted, very justly, very wisely and in zae true spirit of democracy that the conference they have been holding with the Teutonic and Turkish states asen should be held within open, not closed doors, and all the world has .seen audience as was desired. To whom have we been listening then? To those who speak the spirit and inten- eson Of the resolutions of the Ger man reichstag of the ninth of July aass, me spirit of intention of the lip ersa1 leaders and parties oS Germany or Co those who resist and defy that spirit and intention of insisting upon esuquest and subjugation? Or are we