Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-17
PRESIDENT SPEEDILY DisPoses
o. AusrRlA's PEACE PRO. =
PosAl.
ATTITUDE en- PEACE
HAS NOT CHANGED
President Sees Hypserisy in Spaeestio"
That Warning Nations Send Dele
oates TO Unbindins Peace Conference
War Must BE Won by Victory AZ
Arms and in No 0thsr Way.
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posal for peace parley.
His reply Is perhaps without a
precedent in history. II was made pup
lie within half an hour after the
Swedish minister delivered the official
text Of the note to the state depart
ment.
The presidents answer was issued
in the form Of q statement from Sec
rotary of State Lansing.
The president, it is assumed. again
spoke for the allied world and in so
doing Nrote fins" to the Austrian
move. His answer oouched in the
plainest language, consisted Of exactly
sixty eight words as compared with
the several thousand words that made
up the long and ambiguous statement
from Austria
Goes to Austria Today.
Today the message. save for dip
lomatic embellishments, will be given
over 10 the Swedish minister in exact
ly the same terms as ii appeared last
night, for Transmission TO Austria.
Chronoloyically. the answer consti.
tutes the fastest chapter in this coun-
try's war history, and there is reA.
son for il. II is that the United States,
m common with its allies, saw thru
the hypocrisy OF the Austrian note and
the thin veneer that hardly hid Ger
many's hand in the proposal, and
therefore wished to dispose of 1t as
rapidly as possible.
Ii was SEQ o'clock when the Swed-
ish minister. w. A. F. Ekengren, ar
rived at the safe department with the
note. Two minutes later he left the
office of Secretary Of State Lansing
and thirty-three minutes later Mr..
Lansing gave an audience to newspa-
rer correspondents and made public
the presidents reply.
"No Talk in Working Hours"
Throughout the tabloid drama was
enacted in much the same manner as
desired by certain American citizen
who sent a telegram TO the White
House His message was addressed TO
the President and said
Sincerely hope your answer to
Austria peace proposal will be that
We Americans do not talk during work
ing hours
Reply Squeiehes Move"
President Wilson's reply IS suffi-
cient evidence of the fact that he con-
siders that the present are working
hours" His answer, in the belief nf
high officials here. will bring the
American nation right about face 10
the business in hand and the business
of winning the war. There was. no
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gotten but the Austrian note, it is init
mated. was sponsored primarily forithe
obstructive effect 1t would have on the
allied mind The president. however.
does not even give it this opportunity.
Future peace proposals from the
central powers must come around to
the presidents way Of thinking, as he
definitely points out in his sixty eight
words. He has given his peace pro-
gram to the world. and it stands as a
bulwark against all sniping peace pro-
posals which may emanate either, from
Germany or Austria.
Wilson's Fourteen Terms.
II was on the Fourth Of July. at Mt.
Vernon, beside the tomb Of Washing
ton. that the president spoke OF peace
and said:
There can be but one issue. The
settlement must be final. There can
be no compromise. No halfway deci-
sion would be tolerable. No halfway
decision is conceivable. These are ends
for which the associated peoples Of
the world are fighting and which mvst
be conceded them before there can be
peace"
II. The destruction Of every ar
| bitrarv power anywhere that can
separately, secretly and Of it's single
choice disturb the peace Of the world:
or II 1t can not be presently destroyed.
at least it's reduction to virtual i'm
potence.
"2!The settlement Of every question.
whether of territory. Of sovereignty. Of
economic arrangement or Of political
relationship. upon the basis Of the free
acceptance Of that settlement by the
people Immediately concerned, and not
upon the basis of,the material interest
| o4advantage of any other nation or
| people which may desire q different
settlement for the sake OF its own
| exterior influence or mastery.
3'The consent OF all nations to be
| governed in their conduct toward each
other by the same principles Of honor
] and resnect for the common law nf
civilized society that govern the in
dividual citizens Of all modern states
| in their relations with one another: to
the end that all promises and coven-.
ants may be sacredly observed. no
plots or conspiracies Matched. no SELL
fish injuries wrought with IMMUNITY
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handsome foundation Of mutual re-
spect for right. Z
- The establishment Of an organi-
cation of. peace which shall make GER
tain that the combined power Of free ma
tions will check every invasion Of right
and serve to make peace and justice
/ the more secure by according a de-
/ finite tribunal Of opinion to which all
must submit and by which every in
tcrnational readjustment that can not
be amicably agreed upon by the peo-
j pie directly concerned shall be sane
toned"
i These four principles. which have
been app1auded by every allied nation,
show the long distance either Of the
i central powers will have to travel be-
n fore anything they say concerning
peace will he received with attention
4 by the allies At the same time, the
four principles tear at the yitals Of
i everything odious in the central pow
ems and procla.ms again the fact thai
i the war will be won and peace vii
\ come onlyfw With decisfve military tri-
urnpA q the part q the allied armies
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