Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-15
WILSON REPLIES TO CzERNIN
Peace Only Upon the Principles Oh
Justice.


President MAKES POSITION CLEA
United States Has Not Consulted Al
lies; But is in a Position to Spea
For Itself, and President Wiiso
Acts as Spokesman in Way Tha
Leaves Nothing More to be Said.
President Wilson on Tuesday wen
before congress with another addres
setting forth the position of the TINT
ell States with reference to the re
cent addresses of Count Won Hertiln
the German chancellor and couh
cZernin, spokesman for Austria as L
the issues involved in the world wa
50 far as the United States is con
cerned. The full text OF the pres
dents address is as follows:
On the eighth Of January | had tn
honor OF addressing you on the oh
jects of the war as our people con
ceive them. The prime minister U
Great Britain had spoken in smila
terms ON the 9Th Of January. To thes'
addresses the German chancellor re-
piled on the 24th. and Count Germ
for Austria on the same day.
II is gratifying Ia have our desire
so promptly realized that all eN
changes OF view on this great matte
should he made in the hearing of al
the world.
Count CZcrnin's reply. which is di
rected chiefly To my own address %
the eighth of January. is uttered II
u very friendly tone. He finds in my
statement Il sufficient encouraging al'
proach to the views of his own gov
ernment to justify him in believing
that il furnishes basis for Il more de-
tailed discussion of purposes by th'
two governments. He is represented
to have intimated that the views h,
was expressing had been commune
Gated TO me beforehand and that
was aware of them ut the time h,
Was uttcring them: but in this ] an
sure he was misunderstood. | ha'
received no intimation Of what ht
intended to say. There was. Of cours"
no reason why he should communicat,
privately with me. / am quite con
tent TO he one OF his public audience
Won Hertling Very Vague.
Count Won Hertling's reply is.
must say, very vague and very con-
fusing. 1t is full Of equivocal phrases
and leads it is not clear where. But
it is certainly in II very different ton,
from that of Count CZernin, and ar'
parently of an opposite purpose. II
confirms, l am sorry to say. rather
than removes, the unfortunate imprcs.
sion made by what we had learned "i
the conferences at Brest- Litovsk. Hi'
discussion and acceptance of our gen.
eral principles lead him to no prac.
teal conclusions. He refuses to ap.
ply them to the substantive itema
winch must constitute the body Of any
final settlement. He is jealous Of in
ternationul action and Of international
counsel. He accepts, he says. the
principle Of public diplomacy, but he
appears to insist that IL be confined
;t any rate In his case, TO gencralitics
and that the several particular ques-
tons of territory and sovereignty, the
several questions upon whose settle
mcnt must depend the acceptance oi
the war. must be discussed and set
tied. not i'm general counsel, but sew
orally by the nations most immedi
atcly concerned by interest or neigh
burhuodS. He agrees that the seas
should be free, but looks askancc at
any limitation to that freedom by
action i'm the interest OF
the common order He would without
reserve be glad to see economic bar
ricrs removed between nation and
nation. for that could in no way I'M
pede the ambitions Of the military
party with which he seems constrain.
ed to, keep on terms. Neither does ht
raise objection to Il limitation Of arm.
That matter will be settled
of itself, he thinks, by the economic
which must follow the war
Hut the German colonies, he demands
must be returned without debate. He
will discuss with no one but the rep
rcScntatives of Russia what disposi.
tion shall he made OF the peoples ant
the lands of the Baltic provinces
with no one hut the government oi
France the conditions" under which
French territory shall he evacuated
and only with Austria what shall bt
done with Poland.
In the determination Of all ques'
tions affecting the Balkan states ht
defers, as l understand him, to Aus
tria and Turkey: and with regard tt
the agreement to be entered into con
corning the non-Turkish peoples o.
the present Ottoman empire, to III:
Turkish authorities themselves. Aftel
4 settlement all around, effected II
this fashion, by individual barter anC
concession, he would have no objec
tion, il | correctly interpret his state
ment, to league of nations whicl
would undertake to hold the new bal
ance Of power steady against interna
disturbance.
No Peace on Such Basis.
1t must be evident to everyone wht
understands what this war ha
wrought in the opinion and temper o
the world that no general. no peace
worth the infinite sacrifices OF thes'
years of tragical suffering. can pos
sibly be arrived at in any such fash
ion. The method the German chan
cellor proposes is the same method
of the congress of Vienna. We can
not and will not return to that. Wha
is at stake now Is the peace Of th'
world.
What we are striving for is.a new
international order based upon th'
broad and universal principles Of righ
and justice-no mere peace Of shred
and patches. Is 1t possible that Coun
Won Hertling does not see that? Doe
not grasp it, is in fact living in hi