Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
Clean Up Conclusion

first be recognized
Will Continue War
In reiterating the intention of the
American people to continue the war
until a new international order de-
void of government by intrigue and
force is realized, the President an
swered the statements made recently
by Chancellor Won Hertling for Ger
many, and Foreign Minister Czernin
for Austria Hungary. A proposal to
end hostilities only on German terms
is seen in Won Hertling's utterance,
while Count CZernin, the President
said, spoke in a friendly tone, seeing
the basic elements of peace with
clear eyes.
GIorilies Might
The German emperorS reply to
congratulations on the peace agree
ment with the Ukraine glorifies the
policy of might. Germany, he said,
shall seek in every way to bring
peace to the world, but those who
refuse the German terms must be
forced to have peace" while ac-
knowledging the power of the Ger
man sword.
Washington, Feb. 12.-In his
speech to Congress yesterday, Presi-
dent Wilson spoke as follows:
The Address
The Presidents speech follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:-On
the eighth of January, L had the
honor of addressing you on the OBJ
jects of the war as our people con-
CeiVe them.
THE Prime Minister of Great
Britain had spoken in similar terms
on the fifth of January. To these
addresses the German Chancellor re-
piled on the twenty-fourth and
Count Czernin, for Austria, on the
same day.
1T is gratifying to have our de-
sire so promptly realized that all eX-
changes of view on this great mat
ter should be made in the hearing
of all the world.
Count Czernins reply which is
directed chiefly to my own address
on the eighth of January, is uttered
in a very friendly tone. He finds
in my statement sufficiently en-
couraging approach to the views OF
his own Government to justify him
in believing that it furnishes a basis
for a more detailed discussion or
purposes by. the two Governments.
Count Misunderstood
"He Is represented to have inti-
mated that the views he was eN-
pressing had been communicated to
me beforehand and that l was aware
of them at the time he was uttering
them; but in this | am sure he was
misunderstood. l had received nc
intimation of what he intended to
say.
There was, of course, no reason
why he should communicate private
ly with me. l am quite content TO
! be one of his public audience.
Count Won Hertling's reply is, l
must say, very vague and very con-
fusing. 1t is full of equivocal phras-
es and leads it is not clear where.
But it is certainly in very different
tone from that of Count Czernin and
apparently of an opposite purpose.
| 1t confirms, 1 am sorry to say,
! rather than removes, the unfortun-
ate impression made by what he
| had learned of the conferences at
Erest- -Litovsk. His discussion and
acceptance of our general princi-
! pies lead him to no practical con-
| clusions. He refuses to apply them
| to the substantive items which must
constitute the body of any final set
| tlement.
Jealous of Counsel
HE is jealous of international
! action and of international counsel
| He accepts, he says, the principle
OF public diplomacy, but he appears
| to insist that it be confined, at any
! rate in this case, to generalities and
| that the several particular questions
! of territory and sovereignty, the sew
| eral questions upon whose settle
ment must depend the acceptance CT
peace by the twenty-three states
now engaged in the war, must be
discussed and settled, not in general
council, but severally by the nations
most Immediately concerned by in
terest or neighborhood. He agrees
| that the seas should be free, but
| looks askance at any limitation to
| that freedom by International action
! in the interest of the common order
"He would without reserve be
! glad to see economic barriers re-
] moved between nation and nation
| for that could in no way impede
| the ambitious of the military party
with whom he seems constrained tc
| keep on terms. Neither does he
raise objection to a limitation oi
| armaments. That matter will be
settled of itself, he thinks, by the
| economic conditions which must fol-
| low the war. But the German colo
nies, he demands, must be returned
without debate. He will discuss
| with no one but the representative;
J of Russia what disposition shall be
! made of the people and the lands
| OF the Baltic provinces; with no one
| hut the Government of France the
Conditions" under which Frencr
territory shall be evacuated; anC
ony with Austria what shall be done
with Poland.
League of Nations
I'm the determination of all ques'
tions affecting the Balkan States, he
defers, as 1 understand him, to Aus.
tria and Turkey; and with regard tC
the agreement to be entered into
concerning the non-Turkish people
| of the present Ottoman empire, Il
the Turkish authorities themselves
After a settlement all around. eff
fected in this fashion by individual
barter and concession, he would have
no objection, If / correctly interpre
his statement to league of nations
| which would undertake to hold the
new balance of power steady agains
external disturbance.
"It must be evident to everyone
who understands what this war hai
wrought in the opinion and tempel
of the world, that no general peace
no peace worth the infinite sacrifice
of these years of tragical suffering
can possibly be arrived at in an!
such fashion. The method the Ger
man Chancellor proposes is tn
method of the Congress of Vienna
We cannot and will not return L
that What is at stake now is tn
peace of the world. What we ar
striving for is q new internationa
order based upon broad and uni
versal principles of right and justic
no mere peace of shreds an
patches.