Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-14

France the conditions under which
French territory shall be evacuated,
and only Austria what shall be done
with Poland.
In the determination of all ques-
tions affecting the Balkan states he
defers as / understand him to Austria
and Turkey, and with regard to the
agreements to be entered into con-
cerning the non Turkish peoples of
the present Ottoman empire, to the
Turkish authorities themselves.
After a settlement all around, eff
,fected in this fashion, by individual
barter and concession, he would have
no objection if I correctly interpret
his statement, to a league of nations
which would undertake to hold the
new balance of power steady against
external disturbances.
No Such Peace Possible
1t must be evident to every one
who understands what this war has
wrought in the opinion and temper
of the world that no general peace,
no peace worth the infinite sacrifice
of these years OF tragical suffering,
can possibly be arrived at in any such
fashion.
The method the German chancellor
proposes is the method Of the congress
OF Vienna. We cannot and will not
return to that
What is at stake now is the peace
of the world.
What we are striving for is new in
sternatfo foTial order based upon bread
and universal principles Of right and
justice no mere peace of shreds and
patches
1t is possible that Count Won Hert-
ling does not see that, does not grasp
it. Is he, in fact living in his thought
in a world dead and gone?
Has he uttefly forgotten the reichs-
tag resolutions of the nineteenth of
July or does he deliberately ignore
them?
They spoke Of the conditions Of a
general peace not of national aggrand-
sizement or Of arrangements between
state and state. The peace of the
world depends on the just settlement
of each fthe several problems to
which adverted in my recent address
to the congress.
Problems Affect Entire World. &
/, of course. do not mean the peace
OF the world depends on the accept
ance Of any particular set Of sugges-
Itions as to the way in which those
problems are to be dealt with.
I mean only that those problems,
each and all, affect the whole world
that unless they are dealt with in a
spirit Of unselfsh and unbiased JUS
tice with a view to the wishes, the
natural connections, the racial aspira
ations, the security and peace Of mind
of the peoples involve no permanent
peace viii have been attained.
They cannot be discussed separate
III or IN corners None Of them con
stitutes q private or separate interest
from which the opinion of the world
may be shut out Whatever affects
the peace affects mankind, and moth
ing; settled by military force. il set
tied WRONG Il settled At All. It will
presently have to be re-opened.
Nations 81 II Judgment.
Is Count yon Hertling not aware
that he Is speaking n the court Of
mankind, that all the awakened na.
tions of the world now sit in judgs
ment on what every public mar, q
whatever nation. may NV Oh the he
IIsues of 4 conflict which has spread
~ eyery region q the world 1'he
sstchstAg resoluti Ions of Jnly them
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