The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-12

ne UeIers, as understand him, to Aus
tria and Turkey: and with regard I,
the agreements to be entered int,
concerRing the non Turkish peoples o
the present Ottoman empire to tn,
Turkish authorities themselves. Ate,
la settlement all around, effected il
this fashion, by Individual barter ant
concession. he would have no obiec.
ton IL correctly interpret his state.
ment. TO a league Of nations which
would undertake to hold the new bal.
ance of power steady against exter.
nal Disturbances.
General Peace.
IT must be eriden, To everyone who
understands what this war has
wrought III the open and temper OF
/ the world that no general peace, nc
peace worth the infinite sacrifices Of
these years OF tragical susferings
can possibly be arrived at in any such
fashion. The method the German
chancellor proposes is the method OF
the congress OF Nienna. We cannot
and viii not return to that What is
at stake now is the peace Of the world
What we are striving for il a new
international order based upon broad
and universal principles Of right and
lustice-no mere peace OF shreds and
patches. Is ii possible that Count Won
lIertling does not see that, does not
grasp it, n
In Dead World
rs he, in fact. living. In his thought,
In a world dead and gone? Has he ut
terly forgotten the rcichstas resolu-
ton OF the nineteenth OF July. or does
he deliberately ignore them? They
spoke Of the conditions IT IA general
peace not of national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
or of arrangements between state and
state. The peace Of the world de-
ponds upon the just settlement OF each
of the several problems to which |
advcrtcd in my recent address To the
congress. l. Of course. do not mean
that the peace of the world depends
upon the acceptance of any particular
set of suggestions as to the way in
which those problems are to be dealt
with. | mean only that those prob
lens, each and all, affect the whole
world; that unless they are dealt with
in II spirit OF unsclfish and unbiased
justice. with view To the wishes.
the natural connections, tho racial as
prati"ns, the security ana peace of
mancnt peace will 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 shut out. Whatever affects the
peace, affects mankind, and nothing
settled by military force, If settled
wrong. is settled at all. 1t win pres
entity have to be reopencd.
Court Of Mankind.
is Count Won liertling not aware
that he Is speaking in the court OF
mankind. that all the awakened ma
lions Of the world now sit In iudg-
ment OF what every public man. of
whatever nation. may say on the issues
Of a conflict which has spread to every
region Of the world? The rcichstag
resolutions Of July themselves frankly
accepted the decisions of that court
There shall be no annexations, no con.
lributions. no punitive damages. Peo-
pie are not to be handed about from
one Sovereignty TO another by inter-
national conference or an understand
Ing between rivals aud antagonists.
National aspirations must be respected,
peoples may now be dominated and
governed only by their own consent.
Self determination IL not mere
phrase.
Not Haphaxard Peace.
at is an imperative principle OF ac-
lion which statesmen win henccforth
have general peace for the asking, for
by the mere arrangements of "A peace
conference. II can not be picced to-
sethcr out OF individual understand
ing between powerful states. All the
parties to this war must join in the
settlement Of every issue anywhere
involved In il because what we are
seeking is q peace that VIC can all
mite to guarantee and maintain. and
every item of 1t must be submitted 10
lie common judgment, whether 1t be
fight and fair. an act Of Justice rather
than u bargain between soFerciEns.
The United States has no desire to in
Lerferc in European affairs or 10 &c,
as arbtsr in European territorial dis
,ut"s. SIC would disdain her own viii
ipuu another people. She is quite
ready To bc shown that the settle
ncnts sh" has, suggested are not the
t"st or the most enduring. They are
5nly her own provisional sketch Of
and OF the way III which
hey should he applied:
Was Made Partner.
But she entered this war because
'hc was made n partner. whether she
gould or not. in the suffcrings and
ndiguitics Inflicted by the military
minister's OF Germany, against the
,eace and security Sf mankind and
he conditions Of peace will touch her
Is nearly as they win touch any other
,atipu to which IN entrusted a lead
ne part in the maintenance of peace.
She cannot see her way To- peace un.
ii causes Of this war are removed,
Is withdrawal rendered as nearly as
nay be possible.
This war had its roots in the dis
egard Of the rights Of small nations
md of nationaiities which lacked the
lniOn and the force to make good their |
lain 10 determine their own al