The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-31
BY Frank H. Simonds.

Copyrights, 1918, New York Tribune
The movement OF events has carried
all peace talk past the points set GU
by President Wilson in his speech las
January--known as the Ii principle:
OF q permanent peace lie has himself
since that memorable speech furnished
addenda which can no. he overlooked
The generals Of the allies have fur
nished other conditions. AL the allied
governments with armies in The field
have recoGn zed the claim ca The
-Slovaks to liberty. This means
the d~isintegration of Austria. bulgaria
a since surrendered Internationally
and retired from the field. This clint
mates practically the whole ljalkar
question as 1t was conceived at the mo-
ment OF the presidents January adj
dress. There was before that and con
tinucs to be, general agreement amOne
n allies that the future Turkey shall
be limited to what Is known as the
present Anatolian provinces. Only the
details of the status Of Consta ntinople
the Dardenclles. sea OF Marmora and
the Bosphorus are left TO settle. The
main thin to be considered now Ia
the Polish matter-a Polish state and
It's boundaries.
To set up a J~ugo-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 it with the
mental reservation that ...e German
and probably the Hungarian portions
OF the present Austrian en- pirc will
eventually fall completely under her
sway.
In the presidents contemplation Of a
government of the Poles, he naturally
expected to make a nation stror.g
enough to maintain itself. This mean
tina Galicia will go to Poland. thrt
what has been known as Russian Pc
iand will be added to the new state
and a considerable section taken out
or Germany, at least out of the Silesta
which Frederick the Great wrested
from Maria Theresa. Continuing the
discussion OF this matter, Mr.. Sim
onds adds:
President Wilson's Response to the
German notes has cleared the atmos-
pnere and placed squarely upon the
shoulders Of the German government
the responsibility for the success or
The failure of Its effort to get an arms
ticc. With the preliminary conditions
outlined in Mr.. Wilson's two notes. the
German has to comply IL he desires to
continue his application for an armis-
tice. III he continues his application,
then it will be the duty OF the presi-
uent TO transmit any further arplica-
tion to the governments Of our allies,
ana. In concert with them, frame a re-
Spouse. What we shall next have, in
case the German Is ready to surrender,
Is a formal request made Of the presi-
dent or made Of the allied governments.
collectively. for an armistice.
AS 10 turkey, we In America have no
legai right to enter into any discussion
or the Turkish and Bulgar questions,
because we have not made war upon
either. But the solutions to be expected
are simple and logical. We may expect
In Gaa IgJ1pnvin rAt L.-y- -. VI -
province. north Of the os-Midia line.
won. in the first Balkan wal and lost
IN the second: we may expect to see
her old Dobrudja province, also lost
III 1913, but unnecessary to the safety
or a Rumania now become n really
considerable state. The International
1zaton OF the Dardanelles and Of Con-
stantinople, which Is a part of Mr..
Wilson'S program. is equally a part of
the program OF the allies. The re-
striction of the Turk to the Osmanli-
peopied regions Of Anatolia exists in
both programs. as does a liberated and
protected Armenia. AS to MeSopo-
tamia and Syria, the French ana 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 it Is the most difficult OF all. If
you give to the new Poland. which
will Individually include Russian and
Austrian Polish districts and thus be-
come a state Of upward OF IS, COG. 600
people. those German. or rather Prus-
sian, circles in which the Poles are
clearly a majority, you will deprive
Germany OF much Of Silesia, all of
Posen and a considerable fraction of
both East and West Prussia. East
Prussia will be isolated from the main
German mass by a strip Of territory
extending Town h west bank OF the
Vistula to the Baltic IN Danzig: "A
hostile frontier will be ca .rried almost
to Frankfort-on-Ode AMI this with
in striking distance OF Berlin itself.
But by contrast, with Posen and
Silesia. 80 far as IT Is Polish, the new
Poland will be Incomplete, and there
will survive a Polish question. And
without Danzig and q n 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 u OF the
causes of the world c,nflagration.
Finally, nowhere in Europe has the
persecution of a subject race been more
brutal than in the Polish. circles of
Prussia. To turn the Prussian Poles
hack to the old slavery would thus be
to DO violence to all the spirit OF the
Presidents declaration.
Mr.. Wilson's program o! peace, as
modified by events which kave occur
red since his January declaration (the
IA principles of a permanent peace).
1t divides itself into the redressing 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 rongs 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. II thus the removal of
all the more familiar causes o. all wars.
Once these things have been written
into a treaty OF peace, then Mr.. Wilson
has formulated a program for the or
g~anization OF the already reorganiZed
world on the basis of a league OF peace.
But all programs for such an organi-
zation must derive their authority from
the league OF nations, when constituted,
and are not details in the restoration
of peace at tine present moment.
Having sad these things. returp