The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-10-10
MAX SAYS
WILSON IS MODEL
WILLING TO ACCEPT TERMS OF
JAN. 8, OR SEPT. ct.
VERY LIKELY TO Be SPURNED
AS Was Austrias Peace Offer. Presi.
dent Wilson's Fourteen Point
Peace Program Outlined Be-
fore Congress in January.

copenhagen, Oct. 7.-Prince Maxi
milan of Baden, the new German i'm
perial chancellor, announced yester-
day that he had sent a note through
the Swiss government to President
Wilson, in which he had requested
Mr.. Wilson to take up the question
OF bringing about peace and to com.
municate with the other belligerents
regarding the subject.
The chancellor told the reichstag
he had addressed his. note to the
president of the United States be-
cause Mr.. Wilson in his message TO
congress on Jan. s, 1918, and in his
later proclamations, particularly his
New York speech on Sept. 81, has pro-
posed q program for a general peace
which Germany and her allies could
accept as basis of negotiations.
The Presidents Terms
Washington d. c., Oct. 7.-Presi-
dent Wilson's proposed terms of
peace as outlined on January s, 1918
follow: ''..a ~ss...t
l. Open covenants openly arrived
at with no ensuing secret treaties.
2. Freedom of the seas in peace or
war except as closed by the interna-
tional actions for consideration of the
international covenants.
3. Trade equalities among the ma.
lional council 10 all people.
4. Refinement of ornaments.
5. Impartial adjustments of the
colonial claims outlined by the voice
of the inhabitants.
8. Evacuation of all Russian terri
tory, and cooperation for political and
economical development
I. Evacuation and restoration of
Belgium.
8. Evacuation of the French terri
tory and right for the wrong done to
the French by the Prussians in 1871.
8. REIMBURSEMENT of the Italian
frontiers on basis of nationalities.
10. Much autonomy development
for Austria-Hungary.
IL. Nv uINdNlOll anu lNSNOl dlIblI vi
Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro,
with access to the sea for Serbia. Re-
lations to several of the Balkan states
to be determined on by the frontier
council.
Il. Sovereignty for the Turkish
positions in the Ottoman empire with
autonomy for all the other nationali-
ties under the Turkish rule, and the
permanent freedom of the Darda-
nelles.
IS. Indepe Adence of Poland with
access to the sea.
IA. Association of nations for mu-
tual guarantees of independence and
territorial integrity for nations both
large and small.
The Sept. 27 Speech
New York Oct. THE articles re.
ferred to by Prince Max as delivered
by President Wilson on Sept. 81, were
those contained in the Presidents
Liberty Loan speech in this city.
hCSt were, lie Sdlu.
First, the imperial justice melted
out must involve no discrimination
between those to whom we do not
wish to be just. 1t must be justice
that plays no favorites and knows no
standard but the equal rights of the
several pc lples concerned.
Second. no special or separate in
terest of any single nation or any
group of nations can be made the
basis of any part of the settlement
which is not consistent with the COM
mon interests of ali.
Third, there can be no league or
alliance or special covenants and I'M
derstandings within the general and
common family of the league of ma
tions.
Fourth and more specifically, there
can be no special, selfish economic
combinations within the league and
no employment of any form of eco
nomic boycott or exclusion except as
the power of economic penalty by ex-
clusion from the markets of the world
may be vested in the league of ma
tions itself as a means of discipline
and control.
Fifth, all. international agreements
and treaties of every kind must be
made known in their entirety to the
rest of the world
Former Reply to Austria
Washington, d. c., Oct. TN re-
plying to Austria's peace note of two
weeks ago the President said:
The government of the United
States feels that there is only one
reply which it can make to the sug-
gestion of the imperial Austro-Hun-
garian government. 1t has repeatedly
and with entire candor stated the
terms upon which the United States
would consider peace and can and
will entertain no proposal for a con-
ference upon matter concerning
which it has made its position and
purpose so plain"