The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-02-15
NO PATCHWORK
PEACE---WILS0N
PRECEDENT o9go HOPE IN Aus
TRAN BUT NONE At ALL IN
oGRMANv's ANsWER.
PEACE MUST Be FOR ALL
Declares Every Nation Must De Given
Voice Upon Every Issue involved
u Conflict 10 settled 9th
Justice to All.

u Conflict 10 settled 9th
justice to All.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WashingtoE.-President Wilson ad-
dressed . joint session of Congress
Monday with the topa OF ending the
war. The full text OF his address fol-
lows:
Gentlemen Of the Congress:
On the 9Th Of January l had the
honor Of addressing you on the OBJ
5ects Of the war. as our people CON
ceive them. The prime minister of
Great Britain had spoken in similar
terms on the 5th OF January. To these
addresses the German chancellor re-
piled on the oath. and Count Czernin
for Austria on the same day. 1t IL
gratifying to have our desire 10
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 IL d.
rected chiefly to my own address on
the Sth Of January. Is uttered in a
very friendly tone.
He finds In my statement a suffi-
GENTLY encouraging approach to the
views of his own government to JUS
tify him in believing that it furnishes
= basis for a more detailed discussion
Of purposes by the two governments.
He is represented to have intimated
the views he was expressing had been
communicated to me beforehand and
that was aware Of them at the time
he was uttering them; but In this l
am sure he was misunderstood. l had
tended to say. There was, of course,
no reason why he should communi-
cate privately with me. am quite
content to be one of his public audi
ence.
Count Won Hertling's reply is, must
say, very vague and very confusing.
1t IL full Of equivocal phrases and
leads 1t is not clear where. But 1t is
certainly in different tone from that
of Count Czernin and apparently of
an opposite purpose. 1t confirms. I
am sorry to say. rather than removes,
the unfortunate impression made by
what we had learned of the confer
ences at Brest-Litovsk. His discussion
and acceptance OF our general priuci-
pies lead him to no practical conclu-
sions..
hertIins's Views Too General.
He refuses to apply them to them to
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CONSTITUTES .ue oooy OF any iinai set
tiement. he 10 Jealous OF interna-
tional action and Of international coun-
sci. He accepts, he says, the principle
Of public diplomacy. but he appears to
insist that II he confined At snv rate
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auos..ons VI tsE-
'ieoiy 1no sose!elSnty' tne several
questions upon whose settlement must
depend the acceptance Of peace BY the
twenty-three states now engaged In
the war, must be discussed and set
tied not in general counsel. hut eev.
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He agrees that the seas should be
free, but looks askance at any limita-
ton TO tnat freedom by International
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