The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-10-31
BY Frank H. simonds..

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lcopyriohs, 1918. New York Tribune.)
The movement Of events has carried
ali peace talk past the points set out
JanuaryMhnoWn IS the Il SrInsipiss
of a permanent peace. He has himself
since that memorable speech furnished
addenda Which can noy be overlooked.
The generals Of the allies have fur
nished other conditions. All the allied
governments with armies In the field
have recognized the claim @oas the
Czecho- Slovaks to liberty. This means
mas as 81 I'D aasS;adEiEapall ally
and retired from the fleIds This clint
mates practically the whole Balkan
question as it was conceived at the mo
nnent Of the presidents January ad :
dress. There was before chat and COM
tinues to be. general agreement among
the allies that the future Turkey shall
be limited to what is known as the
present Anatolian provinces. Only the
details of the status of Constantlnople,
the DardeneIles, sea OF Marrnora and
the Bosphords are left to settle. The
i ths y g21sa Esssszs r0.,sh zsa's and
= TO set up a Jugo- Slovak state in the
present confines of Austria, probably
means the utter destruction of Aus
tria. II Germany is prepared to ac-
cept this. she accepts 1t with the
mental reservation that the German
and probably the Hungarian portions
OF the present Austrian empire will
eventually fall completely under her
sway.
: In the presidents contemplation OF a
government of the Poles, he naturally
expected to make a nation strong
HS,o RI n nj nj ~ a IA
what has beeh fi5wh as Fdssian 20.
land will be added to the new state
and considerable section taken out
of Germany, at least out of the Silesia
which Frederick the Great wrested
from Maria Theresa. Continuing the
discussion Of this matter, <. Mr.. Sim
President Wilson's response to the
German notes has cleared the atmQs
phere and placed squarely upon the
shoulders Of the German government
the responsibility for the success or
the failure of its effort to get an arrnis-
tice. With the preliminary conditions
outlined in Mr. Wilson's two notes, the
German has to comply if he desires to
continue his application for an armis-
tice II he continues his application,
then it will be the duty Of the presi-
dent to transmit any further aEplica-
lon to the governments of our allies,
ana, IN concert With them, frame re-
Spouse What we shall next have, In.
case the German is ready to surrender,
Is formal request made of the presi
dent or made Of the allied governments.
colIestiVely, for an armistice
AS TO Turkey, we in America have no
legal right to enter into any discussion
OF the Turkish and Bulgar questions,
because We have not made war upon
q col ir,1e, krH
Are simple and logical. We may expect
TO see Bulgaria get back her Thracian
province, north of the Enos- Midia line,
won In the first. Balkan war and lost
IN the second; We may expect Ito sec
her old Dobrudja province, also lost
OF Rumanla now become a really
considerable state. The International
ization Of the Dardanelles and Of Con-
stantinople which Is a part of Mr.
Wilson'S progra nj is equally part OF
the program Of the allies. The, re-
striction of the Turk to the Osmanli-
peopled regions Of Anatolia exists In
protected Armenia AS to Mesopo-
tania and Syria, the French and Brit
ish who have liberated them are likely
to stay. with the full approval of the
Inhabitants: Palestine may be an in
ternationalized state, and the balance
OF the Arabian districts have already
achieved independence under their
own sovereign.
Polish Question Difficult.
There is left the question of Poland
and 1t is the most difficult Of ALL If
you give to the new Poland, which
will indubitably include Russian and
Austrian Polish districts and thus be-
come state Of upward of $4,000, 900
people, those German, or rather rPrus-
sian.- circles in which the Poles are
clearly a majority, you will deprive
Z Germany of much OF Silesia. all Of
Posen and considerable fraction Of
both East and West Prussia. East
Prussia will be isolated from the main
German mass by strip OF territory
extending down the west bank OF the
Vistula to the Baltic and Danzig; a
hostile frontier will be carried almost
to Frankfort on Oder, AMI this with
in striking distance of Berlin itself
Silesia, so far as it is Polish. the new
Poland will be incomplete. and there
will survive Polish question. And
without Danzig and window on the
sea the new Poland will be economi-
cally and industrially at the mercy of
. Germany, exactly as Serbia was at the
mercy of Austria Hungary in the evil
times before the present war. And the
Serbian grievance was one OF the
causes of the world cunflagrat1on.
Finally, nowhere In Europe has the
persecution Of q subject race been more
brutal than in the Polish circles of
Prussia. TO turn the Prussian Poles
back to the old slavery would thus be
to do violence to all the spirit OF the
Presidents declaration.
Mr.. Wilson'S program Of peace, as
modified by events which kave occur
red since his January declaration (the
IA principles Of a permanent peace).
II divides itself into the re1reSSing of
the immediate wrongs of the present
conflict expressed in the conquest and
devastation of countries attacked by
Germany and Austria, the abolition of
certain wrongs surviving from 1866 and
1871. in the case Of Italy and France,
which belong actually in the category
of the more recent crimes, and finally
the liberation Of subject races and
fractions of races all over Europe and
. Asia Minor. and thus the removal Of
all the more familiar causes OF all wars.
Once these things have been written