The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-23
THREE STIRRING DAYS

Events of momentous Importance crowded the recent
three-day holiday. Following the Ukrainian peace, Russia sur
rendered herself Internationally to the Huns. Stripped o.
camouflage, that is the meaning of the Bolshevik governments
declaration that a state of war with the Teutonlc ahles ho
longer exists, and the order to demobilize all Russian armies
except of course, those engaged in fighting other RUSSIANS
OF equal importance was President Wilson'S peace address TO
congress, which was really a message to our foes that may
split the Teutonic alliance by pointing to its weaker members
the way to end the war.
Trotzky and Lenine have thrown Russia to the wolves.
The Bolsheviki have Internationally surrendered to the Prus-
slams, without even a scrap of paper to define what the KAISER
will take and hold. His armies occupy all of Russian POLAND
and Courland and control Lithuania. By treaty with Ukralnla
he has cut the heart out of Russia by giving to the new republic
the famous black lands that produce twothirds of the wheat OF
the Russia that was, and the richest gardens and livestock
herds as well. Russia is torn by civil war and is open to the
Huns to take what they choose on a plea of restoring order and
checking indiscriminate massacres. Finland is In a state 0
anarchy which may call Sweden into the field to protect nr
subjects and the Firms from Bolshevik marauders. what
Germany and Austria will take from Russia under various pre-
texts will be measured only by their greed.
At this crisis in the affairs of eastern Europe President
Wilson Unexpectedly replied to the speeches Of Count Won
Hertling, the German chancellor, and Count Czernin, the Aus
tro-Hungarian premier, rejecting the formers proposal and
calling the latter's tone friendly. To Germanys allies he Of
fers a just peace, but not a German peace. The German chan
cellor has offered nothing worth the infinite sacrifices of
these years of tragical suffering" while Count Czernin seems
to see the fundamental elements of peace with clear eyes and
does not seek to obscure them"
In this subtle way the president tries to drive a wedge into
the Teutonic alliance that may sever Germany from those
whom she treats as vassals and seeks to reduce to the level of
satrapies. The president promulgates four principles as Il
foundation upon which peace can be discussed and based. His
ultimatum is that until such a peace can be secured we have
no choice but to go on"
Austria Hungary is now free from danger on her Russian
frontier. Her various peoples are sick of war, and, now that
they have won peace in the east, they have no more to gain for
which they care. The kaiser is in a different position, for he
set out to dominate the world and to establish the Mittel-
Europa empire over all the lands that lie between the North
Sea and the Persian Gulf. President Wilson's peace would end
his autocracy and dreams of world empire. 1t is not peace, but
something after peace, that curdles the blood of the kaiser
and his Junkers and Prussian militarists. If they cannot gain
a German peace, they must reckon with the people whom they
have sacrificed by the million upon the affairs of the gods of
war without working the promised miracle. The kaiser's
thaumaturgy will either destroy him or make him a demi-god,
New York Commercial.