The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
PRESIDENT PUTS
VON HERTLING
IN DENSE CLASS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE DECLARES Won
KUEHLNIANN DOES NOT SEEM
TO REALIZE MODERN WORLD.
COMPLIMENTS AUSTRIAN
Declares Czernin Sees the Fundamental
Elements of Peace With Clear Eyes
and Does Not Seek to Obscure Them
War TO Finish.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Pres-
ident Wilson, appearing unex-
pectedly before congress again
today, replied to the recent
speeches by Count Won Hert-
ling, the German chancellor,
and Count Czernin, the Austo-
Hungarian foreign minister,
by reminding the statesmen of
the central empires that peace
can be discussed only on the
basis of permanency and essen
tial justice, and broadly warn
ing the people of the central
empires that the participation
of the United States in the war
for the emancipation Of hui
manity only has begun.
Plainly the president warned
The German military autocracy
that there was to be no paus-
ing in the mobilizing of Amer
ica's vast military resources
now steadily on their way to
the battle fronts, and if peace
were to be discussed it would
have to be on a basis Of sim
2erity.
Otherwise, the president
made it plain, there was to be
no turning back until military
autocracy was crushed by force
IF arms.
Count Czernin's speech, the
president openly regarded
sympathetically, but he consid-
cred the Austrian foreign min
lster restrained by the condi-
ton of Austria's alliance and
her dependence on Germany.
Says Austrian Sees Clearly.
Count Czernin," said the president
seems to see the fundamental ele
ments of peace with clear eyes anl
does not seem to obscure them"
Chancellor Won Hertling's speech
however, the president characterized
as very vague and confusing" ano
full of equivocal phrases" leading no
where clearingly
The aim of the German chancellor
as judged from his speech, the presi
dent thought, evidently was to secure
peace advantageous to the aims OF
the German military autocracy and
then subscribe to an international
covenant to make it secure.
Won HertIing Is Ancient.
Count Won Hertling, the president de
clared, evidently was seeking such {
peace as was made at the congress OF
Vienna.
What is at stake now" says the
president, sis the peace of the world
What we are striving for is new in
ternational order based upon broad
and universal principle of right anC
iustice-no mere peace Of shreds anC
patches. Is is possible that Count Vor
Hertling is in fact living, in his thought
in a world dead and gomez
The president was interrupted by ap
plause at every reference to the United
States standing steadfastly against {
patched-up peace. Probably the great
est applause broke out when the presi
dent declared that the militarsts o
Germany were the only element nov
preventing a world peace. When III
concluded after speaking twenty min
utes the entire audience as usual ros,
and cheered.
Text of Presidents Message.
President Wilson spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress. On tht
eighth of January I had the honor o
addressing you on the objects of th'
war as our people conceive them. ThC
prime minister of Great Britain haC
spoken in similar terms on the fifth o
January. To these addresses the Ger
man chancellor replied on the oath anC
the Count Czernn for Austria on tn,
same day. 1t is gratifying to have oul
desire so promptly realized that all eX
changes of view on this great matte
should be made in the hearing of all tn,
world.
Count Czernin's reply, which is direct
ed chiefly TO my own address on th