Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-10-16
MUST CEASE ATROCITIES
And Really Abandon Autocracy il
AImistiCe Is to bc Granted.

German note In regard to an arms
| tice and peace follows:
"Sir: l., reply to the communica-
iton Of the German government,
! dated the 18th instant, which you
| handed me to-day, have the honor
to request you to transmit the fol-
! lowing answer:
"The unqualified acceptance by the
present German government and by
a large majority of the Reichstag
OF the terms laid down by the Presi-
dent Of the United States of Amer
lea in his address to the Congress of
the United States on January Sth,
| 1918, and in his subsequent ad-
dresses, justifies the President in
making frank and direct state
ment of his decision with regard to
the communications of the German
government of the Sth and 18th Of
October, 1918.
at must be clearly understood
that the process of evacuation and
the conditions of an armistice are
matters which must be left to the
| Judgment and advice of the military
| advisers of the government Of the
United States and the Allied govern
ments, and the President feels 1t his
duty to say that no arrangement
can be accepted by the government
Of the United States which does not
provide absolute satisfactory safe
guards and guarantees Of the MAIN
tenance Of the present military SUI
premacy Of the armies Of the United
States and the Allies in the field.
"He feels confident that he can
safely assume that this will also be
the Judgment and decision Of the
Allied governments.
+ Must Cease Atrocities.
"The President feels that it is also
his duty to add that neither t"e gov
ernment of the United States, nor, he
is quite sure, the governments with
which the government Of the United
States is associated as belliger-
ent, will consent 10 consider an arm
istice so long as the armed forces Of
Germany continue the illegal and in
humane practices which they still
persist in.
''At every time that the German
government approaches the govern
ment Of the United States with pro-
posals Of peace its submarines are
engaged in sinking passenger ships
at sea, and not the ships alone, but
the very boats in which their pas
sengers and crews seek to make their
way to safety; and in their present
enforced withdrawal from Flanders
and France the German armies are
pursuing course vi wanton uestruc-
ton which has always been regarded
as In direct violation of the rules
and practices Of civilized warfare.
Cities and villages, If not destroyed,
are being stripped Of all they con-
tain, not only, but often of their very
inhabitants.
"The nations associated against
Germany cannot be expected to agree
to a cessation Of arms while acts Of
inhumanity, spoliation and desola-
tion are being continued, which they
Justly look upon with horror and
with burning hearts.
Autocracy Must be Destroyed.
at Is necessary, also. in order that
there may be no possibility Of mis-
understanding, that the President
should very solemnly call the atten-
tion Of the government Of Germany
to the language ana plain intent Of
one Of the terms Of peace which the
German government has now ac-
cepted. 1t is contained in the ad-
dress Of the President delivered at
Mount Vernon on the Fourth OF
July last.
at is as follows:
The obstruction Of every arbi-
trary power anywhere that can be
separately, secretly and of its single
choice, disturb the peace Of the
world; or, If it cannot be presently
destroyed, at least It's reduction to
virtual impotency.'
"The power that has hitherto con-
trolled the German nation is of the
sort here described. It is within the
choice of the German nation to alter
} 1t. The Presidents words just quot
ed naturally constitute condition
precedent to peace, II peace Is to