The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-24
CAN BE NO PEACE
WITH The KAISER
President Wilson Tells German
People That Aut0cratIc Gov
eminent Must Go.
HUN ARMIES MUST SURRENDER
= Military Leaders Of Allies Will Dictate
Terms of Armistice When Time
Comes, Wilson Tells
Germany.

Washington, D. C.-President Will
sou has answered Germany's peace
proposal with a decision which not
only fulfills the expectations of sup
porters of his diplomacy but also dis
pels the fears Of those who predicted
he would substitute victories at arms
with defeats at diplomacy.
No peace with kaiserism, autocracy
must go; no armistice can even be
thought Of while Germany continues
her atrocities on land and sea; one
cannot be considered unless it fully is
dictated by the Allied commanders in
the field in such terms as absolutely
provide safeguards and guarantees
that Germany's part will not be a
scrap of paper. This in a few words
is the Presidents reply.
Surrender or a Revolution.
Beyond question it speaks for the
Entente Allies as well as the United
States.
If it does not bring a capitulation
which may be more than an uncondi-
tional Surrender Allied diplomats and
American officials believe it may
cause a revolution in Germany.
The dispatch of the Presidents re-
ply was followed by the issue of this
formal statement at the White House
by Secretary Tumulty:
1.-THE government will continue to
send over One-quarter million men
with their supplies every month and
there will be no relaxation of any
kind"
Quite outside Of the formal phrases
of a diplomatic document was Presi-
he had no thought of stopping the
fighting at this stage.
Reply Pleased the Senators.
The Senate chamber rang with ap-
plause of senators as the Presidents
answer was read. few minutes after
it had been announced at the State
Department.
Presidents Reply.
The text OF the Presidents answer
to the latest German peace communi-
cation as transmitted yesterday by
Secretary Lansing to the Swiss charge
d'affaires in charge of German inter-
ests in the United States, follows:
"Sir: In reply to the communica-
ton of the German government, dated
the 18th instant, which you handed
me today. have the honor to request
you to transmit the following answer:
''The unqualified acceptance by the
present German government and by a
large majority of the Reichstag of the
terms laid down by the President OF
the United States of America in his
address to the Congress of the United
States on the 9Th of January, 1918,
and in his subsequent addresses, JUS
titles the President in making a frank
and direct statement OF his decision
win regard to the communications of
the German government of the 9Th
and 18th of October, 1918.
cit must be clearly understood that
the process of evacuation and the con-
ditions of an armistice are matters
which must be left to the judgment
and advice of the military advisers Of
the government of the United States
and the Allied governments, and the
President feels it his duty to say that
no arrangement can be accepted by
the government of the United States
which does not provide absolutely sat
isfactory safeguards and guarantees
of the maintenance 0f the present
military supremacy OF the armies of
the United States and the Allies in
the field.
HE feels confident that he can safe
1y assume that this will also be the
Judgment and decision of the Allied
governments.
1.-THE President feels that it is also
his duty to add that neither the gov
eminent of the United Safes nor, he
is quite sure, the governments with
which the government Of the United
States is associated as a belligerent,
will consent to consider an armistice
SO long as the armed forces of Ger
many continue the illegal and inhu-
name practices which they still per
sist in.
''At the very time the German gov
eminent approaches the government
of the United States with proposals OF
the United States with proposals OIL
peace, its submarines are engaged il
sinking passenger ships at sea, and