Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-12

He agrees the seas should DO free, but
looks askance at any limitation 70 that
freedom by international action in the
interest of the common order. lie
would, without reserve, be glad to see
economic barriers removed between na-
/, ton and nation, for that could m no
way impede the ambitions OF the military
party with whom he seems constrained
I to keep on terms.
DEMANDS RETURN OF COLONIES.
Neither does he raise objection to
, limitation of armaments. That question
will be settled of itself, he thinks, by the
economic conditions which must follow
the war. But the German colonies, he
demands, must be returned without de-
bate. He will discuss with no one but tho
representatives of Russia what disposition
shall be made of the peoples and the lands
of the Baltic provinces; with no one but
the government OF France the "condi,
tions" under which French territory shall
be evacuated; and only with Austria
what shall be done with Poland.
In the determination of all questions
affecting the Balkan States he defers, as
understand him, to Austria and Turkey;
and with regard to the agreements to be
peoples of the present Ottoman empire, to
the Turkish authorities, themselves. Alter
a settlement all around, effected IN this
fashion, by individual barter and conces-
sion. he would have no objection, II cor
rpctIv interpret his statement, to a league
of nations which would undertake to hold
the new balance of power steady against
external disturbance.
IL 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 sacrifices OF these years of tragical
suffering, can possibly be arrived at IN any
such fashion. The method the German
chancellor proposes Is the method oi the
Congress of Vienna We cannot and
will not return to that. What is at AXE
now is the peace of the world What we are
striving for is new international or
der based upon broad and universal
principles of right and justice---no mere
pesce of shreds and patches.
REFERS TO REICHsTAG RESOLUTIONS.
lis IT possible that Count Won Hert-
hing does not see that, docs not grasp
it, Is IN fact living in his thought IN
a world dead and gone? Has he utterly
forgotten the Reichstag resolutions OF the
nineteenth of July, or does he deliberately
ignore them2 They spoke of the conditions
of general peace, not of national ag-
grandizement or of arrangements between
State and State The peace Of the world
depends upon the just settlement of each
Of the several problems 70 which | advert
ed IN my rcccnt address To the Congress. |,
of course, do not mean the peace Of
the world depends upon the acceptance
of any particular set of suggestions - 10
the way in which those problems are to be
dealt with.
mean only that those problems, each
and all, affect the whole world; that unless
they are dealt with in r spirit Of unscltlsh
and unbiased justice, with view TO the
wishes. the natural connections, the racial
aspirations, the security and peace OF
mind Of tho peoples involved, no per
manent peace will have been attained.
They cannot be discussed separately or
IN corners. None Of them constitutes
\ private or separate interest from
which the opinion OF the world may
be shut out Whatever affects the peace
affects mankind, and nothing settled by
military force, if settled wrong. Is settle G