Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-12
CLEARS AIR IN DISCUSSION 0N TERMS 0F PEACE Is Direct Reply to Czernin's and Hertling5s .Ad-
 dresses. NOTICE THAT U. S.
 WILL NOTFALTER Nation Will Continue Carrying Out War Endeayors Despite Peace 'IaIk of Teuton Statesmen.
 Hertling Arraigned.

Washington, Feb. 11.--President Wilson addressed congress today to clear the atmosphere of any confusion resulting from the recent sneeches of peace terms by the German cham cellor and the Austro-Hungarian-fo fore Ign minister, and do reiterate that. until the military mJasters of Ger many are ready to consider peace on principles of justice, the United States will continue the fight it Is just Beginning for the safety of it. self and mankind. In the speech of Count von Hertling, the German chancellor. the president found no approach to the path of peaca, but rather proposal to end the war OIL German terms, and to set un league Of nations to maintain the balance of powier so established Count Ger ming, the Austrian spokesman, the pfesident said, employed a very friendly tone, seemed to see the fund amental clements of peace with clear eyes, and probably would have gone much further if it had not been for Austria's alliances and her depend ence on Germany.
 U. s. Will Not Turn Aside.
 Members of congress accepted the address not as a peace message, but as notice to the central powers that the United States cannot be turned aside from the object for which it is fighting, and warning to congress and the American people that the task of sending hlhe nations fighting force to the front must noi be inter- feared with by equivocal and mislead- ing utterances of Teutonic statesman. The president was warmly received and cheered as he concluded, and leaders, without respect to party, eX- pressed hearty approval of his words.
 The address had been prepared af- ter conference during the past few days with Colonel E. M. House who headed the American mission to the inter-allied conference. As usual the president announced his coming only far enough in advance to permit of for a joint session in the house chamber.
 To Stop Speech Making.
 While in official and diplomatic quarters today there was disposition to let the presidents address speak for itself without interpretation, there was no division of opinion on the point that his prime object was to bring the "eNtra official ne- as some observers have ternIed the Speech making of the chief statesment of the nations war back to the fundamental issues. The settlement of each question on principles of justice the cessation of barter of provinces and peoples, the settlement of territorial questions for the benefit of the populations con cerned and finally, the recognition of national aspirations as basis pf permanent peace. Another purpose served, it was pointed out, is to re- mind the German reichstag of the great distance that Count von Hert- ling has travelled from it's resolutions of last july, regarding self determin- ation of the rights of small nations and peoples, no anneXatiOns, con- tributions or punitive damages. Re- spOnsive echoes among the German socialists and liberals may in the end bring culminative pressure to bear upon the war lords at present con trolling the fate of Germany. Still another purpose of the haddress, it is suggested, was to serve notica in advance that any peace treaties re- sulting from the Brest-Litovsk con ferences would not of necessity be as binding upon American and the entente allies.
 "We cannot have general peace for the asking or by the mere arrange nent of peace conference" Mr.. Will on said: "It cannot be pieced togeth- ar out of individual understandings between powerful states. All the parties of this war must join in the settlement of every issue anywhere involved in it, because what we are seeking is peace that we can all mite to guarantee and maintain. and every item of it must be submitted to the common Judgment. whether it ,e right and fair, an act of justice.