The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-27

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viii possibly give rise to dificultie
but these difficulties will be overcome
with regard to Rumania, too, tn
guiding principle will be that we mus
and desire to convert into friends tn
states with which on the basis Of tn
success OF our army we now conclud
peace.
Talks on Poland.
Il will say word regarding Poland
in behalf OF whom the entente ant
President Wilson have recently ap
peared specially to interest them
selves, as a we'll known country liber
ated from oppressive dependence OF
Czarist Russia by the united force.
of Germany and Austria. Hungary, fol
the purpose of establishing an indie
pendent state, which, in unrestricted
development of its national culture
shall at the same time become pillar
Of peace in Europe"
This clause, too can be uncondi'
| tionally assented to. Indeed, one
wonders that the president of the I'm.
tied States considered it necessary to
emphasize it anew This clause con.
tains polemic against conditions
long vanished, views against cabinet
politics and cabinet wars, against mix
ing state territory and princely and
private property, which belong to a
past that is far behind US.
But Wilson'S Wrong.
II do not want to be discOurteOus,
but when one remembers the earlier
utterances of President Wilson; one
might think that he is laboring under
the illusion that there exists in Ger.
many an antagonism between an auto.
cratic government and a mass of PEG:
pie without rights.
vox Populi Noiseless.
And yet President Wilson knows
as, at any rate the German edition OF
his book on the state proves-German
political literature, and he knows,
therefore, that with us, princes and
governments are the highest members
OF the nation as a whole, organized in
the form of state, the highest men,
bers, with whom the final decision
lies. But, seeing that they also, as the
supreme organs, belong to the whole,
the decision is Of such a nature that
only the welfare of, the whole Is the
guiding line for a decision to be taken.
It may be useful expressly to point
this out to President Wilson's country
men.
New Method Needed
"Now, in the fourth clause, he de-
mands that all we'll defined national
aspirations shall be accorded the ut
most satisfaction that can be accorded
them without introducing new or per-
petuating old elements Of discord and
antagonism that would be likely in
time to break the peace of Europe and,
Of the world. Here, al
so, l can give assent in principle, and
| declare, therefore, with President !
Wilson, that general peace on such
a basis is discussable.
-. ...t So It's All Wrong.
."Only one reservation is to be made.
These principles must not be proposed
by the president of the United States
alone, but they must also be recog
nized by al states and nations. Presi
dent Wilson, who reproaches the Ger
man chancellor with certain amount
of backwardness, seems to me in his
flight of ideas to have hurried far in
advance Of existing realities"
Two extracts from Chancellor Won
Hertling's reichstag speech follow:
Majority's Wrong, He Says
"But that aim has not yet been
reached. There does not yet exist a
court of arbitration set up by all ma
tons for the safeguarding of peace
in the name of justice. When Presi.
dent Wilson incidentally says that the
German chancellor is speaking to the
court of the entire world, must, as
things stand today, in the name of the
German empire and her allies, decline
this court as prejudiced, joyfully as
would greet it, If an impartial court of
arbitration existed and gladly as
would cooperate to realize such
ideals.