The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1918-02-14
Reiterates Aim of u. S. to Secure
just and Lasting Peace.
THE ATMOSPHERE
Until Military Masters of Ger
many Are Ready to Consider
Peace on Principles of Justice
United States Will Continue the
Fight.

recent speeches. on peace Terms Dy III
the German chancellor and the Aus tt
reiterate that until the military mas w
tiers of Germany are ready to con- Of
slider peace on principles of justice r!
the United States will continue the s.
fight it is just beginning for the safe II
ty of itself and mankind. G.
His address follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:
On the eighth of January l had the +
honor of addressing you on the OBJ
jects of the war as our people con- q
ceive them. The prime minister of Q
Great Britain had spoken in similar r
terms on the 5th Of January. To these i
addresses the German chancellor re- 9
piled on the oath and Count Czernin I
gratifying to have our desire so I
promptly, realized that all exchanges |
of view on this great matter should be
made in the hearing of all the world.
Count Czernin's reply, which is di-
rected chiefly to my own address OF
the eighth of January, is uttered in a
very friendly Tone He finds in my
statement a sufficiently encouraging
approach to the views of his own gov
eminent to justify him in believing
that it furnishes basis for a more
detailed discussion of-purposes by the
two governments. He is reported to
expressing had been communicated to |
me before hand and that was aware |
of them at the time he was uttering
them; but in this I am sure he was
misunderstood. I had received no in
timation of what he intended to say.
| There was, of course, no reason why
he should communicate privately with
me. I am quite content to be one Of
his public audience.
Count Won Hertling's reply is, l
must say, very vague and very con-
fusing. 1t is full of equivocal phrases
and leads, it is not clear, where. But
it is certainly in a very different
tone from that of Count Czernin, and
apparently Of an opposite purpose.
It confirms, am sorry to say, rather
| than removes, the unfortunate I'M
preston made by what we had learn
ed of the conferences at Brest-
Litovsk.
His sdlscussion and acceptance CT
our general principle lead him to no
practical conclusions. He rtfase's to
apply them to the substantiatlve
items which must constitute the body
| Gus Of international action and OF IN
ternational counsel. He accepts, HI
says, the principle of public diplomacy
- but he appears to insist that it b.
confined, at any rate, in this case, t
generalities and that the several par
- ticular questions of territory and SOY
! ereigrtv. the several questions upol
whose settlement must depend the &C
ceptance of peace by the twenty -thre
| states now engaged in the war, mus
be discussed and settled not in gen
raj counsel but severally by the ma
lions most Immediately concerned b.
interest," or neighborhood. he agree
that the seas should be free but look
askance at any limitation to that free
dom by international action in the II
terest of the common order. Il
would without reserve be glad to sc
economic barriers removed betwee
nation and nation, for that could
no way impede the ambitions Of til
military party with whom he seem
constrained to keep on terms. Nelthe
does he raise objection to limit;
ton of ornaments. That matter WI
be settled of itself, he thinks, by tt
economic conditi which must fc
-- low the war. But the German col
MES. he demands, must be retufn'
- without debate. He will discuss wi
no one but the representatives OF Ru
STA what disposition shall be made
the peoples and the lands Of the b
\, tic provinces; with no one but the go
eminent of France the CONDITION
under which French territory shall
evacuated, and only with Austria VIII
shall be done with Poland.
In the determination Of all QUE
lions affecting the Balkan states,
defers as I understand him, to Al
tria and Turkey and with regard
the agreements to be entered II
concerning the non-Turklsn Peep
Of the present Ottoman Empire, to
Turkish authorities themselves. A
er settlement all around, effected
this fashion, by Individual barter q
concession, he would have no obj
:. ton, if I correctly interpret his sta
ment, to a league Of nations, VIII
would undertake to hold the new b
ance of power steady against ext
nal disturbance.
It must be evident to every one v
understands what this war
- wrought in the opinion and temper
the world that no general peace,
peace worth the infinite sacrifices
these years of tragical suffering,
possibly be arrived at in any s.
fashion. The method the Germ
chancellor proposes is the method
!. the congress Of Vienna. We can
and will not return to that Wha
+ at stake now is the peace Of the wo
What we are striving for is a ]
;. international order based upon br
- and universal principles of right
u iustice-no more peace Of shreds
patches Is it possible that Count
Hertlirg does not see shat, does
grasp it, is in fact living in n
thought in world dead and 60
Has he utterly forgotten the Re
Pc Pc stag resolutions Of the 18th of ]
% or does he deliberately ignore thu
They spoke of The conditions q
.. general peace, not of national
grandizement or of arrangements
tween state and state.