Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-11
u. S. ANSWERS
CENTRAL POWERS
PEACE PLEA
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constrained 10 keep undisWrbed.
Neither does he raise objections 10 e
limitation of armaments That skill
De settled Of itself rs the economic
conditions which follow the war. H.
demands thar the German colonies
must be returned without debate He
will discuss with no one bur the rep
resentatiyes oil Russia what dispasi-
ton shall be made ot The people and
the lands OF the Baltic provinces, with
no one but the government Of France
the conditions under which French
territory shall. be- evacuated. and with
only Austria what shall be- done with
Poland The determination OF an ques-
tons affecting the Balkan states be
deferred. as | understand. 20 Austria
agreements to be entered into con
corning the nOn-Turkisa peoples OF
the present Ottoman empire 10 the
Turkish authorities themselves. After
a settlement all around. effected in
this fashion by individual barter and
concession. he would have no objec-
don. if correctly interpret his state.
ment 10 league OF nations that
would undertake To hold the new bal
ance OF mower steady against external
disturbance.
II must be evident 10 everyone 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
be possibly arrived al IN amy such
fashion The method the German
chancellor proposes is the method of
the congress of Vienna. We cannot
and viii not return to that. Wha, is
4 stake noW is the peace Of the
world What We ARE striving for is
; a new international orucr based on
broad and universal principles OF
/; right and jus,icc-no mere peace OF
, threads and patches 1t IS possible
that Count IIcrtling does not see that
does not grasp il. is in fact living
in his thought in a world dead and
gone. Has he utterly forgotten the
, reichstag resolution. Of the 18th OF
July; or does he deliberately ignore
them? They spoke OF the conditions
Of general leaco, not of nationa
between cmfewtahy opinrsrb bgkqtaC
acknowledgements or Of Arrangement
: between state and state. The peace
Of the world depends ulDn a Just set
Elements of each of the several prob
? lens to which | referred in my recon
? address to Congress |, of course, Dc
not mean that the peace OF the Worl'
depends upon the acceptance OF an,
+ particular set OF suggestions as to tn
! way in which those problems are I
. he death with. mean only TIA
those problems each and all, affect til
whole world; that unless they al
dealt with in spirit OF unselhsh an
unbiased Justice. with a view to tn
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