Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-18
PRESIDENT STATES
PEACE TERMS OF
UNITED STATES
Alsace Must Be Restored to
France and Belgium Must
Be Freed.
wilson Outlines Fourteen Steps To.
ward Cessation of Warfare-Re-
adjustment of ltaIy's Frontier
and Evacuation of Russia.

Washington, Jan. 9.-President VIII
son In an address before joint SEES
sion OF congress presented a definite
program for world peace containing
FOURTEEN specific considerations. It was
restatement of war aims in agreement
with the recent declaration of Premier
Lloyd George.
Inc president spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress: Once
more, as repeatedly before, the spokes
men OF the central empires have indi
Gated their desire to discuss the OBJ
jects Of the war and the possible basis
or general peace.
"Parleys have been In progress al
Brest-Litovsk between representatives
or the central powers to which the
attention Of all the belligerents has
been invited, for the purpose of ascer.
tanning whether 1t may be possible tc
extend these parleys into a general
conference with gegard to terms OF
peace and settlement.
Presented Definite Statement.
THE Russian representatives pre-
sented not only perfectly definite
statement of the principles upon which
they would be willing to conclude
peace, but also an equally definite pro
gram of the concrete application OF
those principles.
1.-The representatives of the central
powers, on their part, presented ar
outline Of settlement which, If much
less definite, seemed susceptible of lib
eral Interpretation until their specific
program of practical terms was added
The program proposed no conces
s1ons at all, either to sovereignty OF
Russia or to the preferences of the
population with whose fortunes II
dealt, but meant, in a word, that the
central empires were to keep every
foot Of territory their armed forces had
occupied-every province, every city
every point of vantage-as a perma
nent addition to their territories and
their power.
Full of Significance.
"The Russian representatives were
sincere and in earnest. They cannot
entertain such proposals of conquest
and domination.
"The whole incident is full of sig
nificance. 1t IS also full of perplexity
1.-The Russian representatives have
Insisted, very justly, very wisely, anC
In the true spirit Of democracy, that
the conferences they have been hold
Ing with the Teutonic and Turkish
statesmen should be held within open
not closed, doors, and all the world has
been audience as was desired. Tt
whom have we been listening then
To those who speak the spirit and in
tention of the resolutions of the Ger
man reichstag on the 9th of July last
the spirit and intention Of the liberia
| leaders and parties of Germany, or tt
those who resist and defy that spiri
and intention and insist upon conuues
and Subjugation? Or are we listenins
In fact to both unreconciled and il
open and hopeless contradiction
These are very serious and pregnan
! questions.
World Peace at Stake.
upon the answer to them depend.
| the peace Of the world.
But whatever the results of the par
| legs at Brest-LitOvsk, whatever the
confusions of counsel and of purpos,
In the utterances of the spokesman Of
the central empires, they have agar
| IN Il
| their objects in the war and have
| again challenged their adversaries t
say what their objects are and wha
sort of settlement they would deem
Just and satisfactory.
There is no good reason why tina
challenge should not be responded t.
and responded 20 with the utmost can
dor. We did not wait for 1t. Not once
but again and again we have laid oul
whole thought and purpose before tn,
world, not in general terms only, bu
| each time with sufficient definition Il
make 1t clear what sort of defnitivt
| terms of settlement must necessarily
spring out of them.
Lauds Lloyd Georges Speech.
"Within the last week Mr.. Lloyt
George has spoken with admirable can
dor and in admirable spirit for the PEG
pie and government of Great Britain
There is no confusion of counse
AMONG the adverSaries of the centra
powers, no uncertainty of principle, nc
yagueness of detail.
''The only secrecy of counsel. the
only lack of fearless frankness, the
only failure TO make definite statement
Of the objects of the war, lies witt
Germany and her allies.
1.-THE issues of life and death hang
upon these definitions. No statesman
who has the least conception Of his re
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