The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-21
The END Of AUsTRIA.HuNcARY,

HE END OF AUS Ae4AAsk1JNlfAAlr
IN very few words President Wilson dspOses Of the
false pretense Of the Austoungaran government that
it is meeting the aspirations Of its peoples when It grants
them autonomy" He CURLY disrnisses the Hapsburg
offer to conclude an immediate armstce and ito enter
Immediately upon negotiations for peace" The Presi-
dent tells AustraHungary that be is not at liberty to
accept the mere autonomy Of the czechO-slovak and
Jugoslav nations as basis Of peace He informs the
Hapsburgs that they must satisfy the czecho-sOvak
and JugOslav nations if they desire peace
The Hapsburgs cannot satisfy either nation in any other
way than by recognizing their complete independence
The Czecho-sovaks have declared their independence
and are rapidly gaining it The JugOsIavs struggling
for it and are soon to obtain it. through the heroic eff
forts of their brethren, the Serbs whom they will
be united in the new kingdom Of the Serbs croats and
Slovenes, under the terms Of the pact Of Corfu.
President Wilson'S note is brief and to many Ameri-
cans it will not to be anything than refusal
to enter into peace negotiations It is, however, war
message of terrible import to the Hapsbugs The note
will be read and analysed from one corner Of Austria
Hungary the other and in every part by every people
it will be recognized the death knel Of the Hapsburg
empire as at present constituted
When the victorious armies Of the allies about to
crush the German power it is evident to every in
Austria and Hungary that the Hapsburg government
must accept the win of the allies or be crushed, Now,
as the will of the allies is that the oppressed peoples
of Austria Hungary shall be the judges of what action
the part of the Hapsburg government will satisfy
their aspirations and their conception of their rights and
destiny as members of the family Of nations the Haps
burg government must concede and recognize the abso
Lutte independence Of all subject peoples who desire in
dependence. Out Of Austria Hungary must emerge
tons fullfedged as independent France the United
States of America If the present Of Austria
Hungary will cooperate in this process of liberation and
nation-buldng it obtain peace If it will not then
the nation-buding will be accomplished by means Of
in which there are no Hapsburgs to disturb it and no
AustroHungarian empire to Cypress subject peoples.
There is some apprehension among the Polish and Rou
manian subjects Of Austria Hungary who number many
Millions that the reference to the CzechoSlovaks and
JugosIays by President Wilson MEANS by implication
that those two peoples alone to be recognized by
the allies entitled to absolute independence But that
is baseless apprehension, There is favortsm by
God nature in the dspensation of liberty to man. and
the allies will not begin to discriminate. All peo-
Piles entitled to independence, just born
equal and with equal rights AS the monstrosity called
AusriaHungary about to disappear the peoples within
its boundaries will have their independence No nation
will take away another's freedom or lose its own.
What every lover Of liberty in the world longs for
the early consummaton of what has been decreed
by fate and determined upon by the armed civilized
world with its foot its PROSTATE foe The world
eager to the prompt determination of the Hohen-
zolern and Hapsburg personnel and systems bag and
baggage How they make their exit is of little import
Once the yare swept into the rubbish heap, the
reconstruction of the nations on the basis of liberty and
independence nproceed rapidly--W Washington Post