Connecticut western news., 1918-01-10
Evacuation of All Russian Terri tory, Also Belgian and French Territory and Restoration
 of AIsaCe-Lorraine.
REDUCTION OF APARTMENTS.
No Economic Boycott on Germany After the War-No More Secret Treaties-Scas to Be Open.
 The Kaiser to Keep
 No conque5ts.

peared before Congress and in clear and unequivocal language stated the war aims of the United States and the conditions which this country deems essential to just and permanent peace.
 The President declared not only that Belgium and northern France must be evacuated and retored, but that AIsace- Lorraine should be returned to France. He demanded freedom for Serbia, Ru- mania and Poland and the return by Germany of all conquered Russian ter rItory. He said there must be no moro secret diplomacy and denounced the plan for an economic boycott of Ger many after the war.
 The Presidents Address.
 The Presidents address follows:
 "Gentlemen of the Congress:
 "Once more, as repeatedly before, the spOkesmen of the central empires have indicated their desire to discuss the objects of the war and the possi- ble basis of a general peace. Parleys have been in progress at Brest-Litovsk between representatives of the central powers, to which the attention of all the belligerents has been invited, for the purpose of ascertaining whether 1t may be possible to extend these par leys into a general conference with regard to terms of peace and settle ment.
 "The Russian representatives pre- sented not only perfectly definite statement of the principles upon which they would be willing to conclude peace, but also an equally definite pro- gram of the concrete application of those principles. The representatives of the central powers, on their part, presented an outline of settlement which, if much less definite, seemed susceptible of liberal interpretation until their specific program of prac- tical terms was added. That program proposed no concessions at all, either to the sovereignty of Russia or to the preferences of the populations with whose fortunes it dealt, but meant, in word, that the central empires were to keep every foot of territory their armed forces had occupied-every province, every city. every point of vantage-as permanent addition to their territories and their power.
 Sees Hand of Military Party.
 ''It Is a reasonable conjecture that the general principles of settlement which they at first suggested originat- ed with the more liberal statesmen of Germany and Austria, the men who have begun to feel the force of their own peoples thought and purpose, while the concrete terms of actual set clement came from the military lead CTS, who have no thought but to keep what they have got. The negotiations have been broken off. The Russian representatives were sincere and in earnest. They cannot entertain such proposals of conquest and domination.
 'The whole incident is full of sig nificance. It is also full of perplexi- ty. With whom are the Russian rep resentatives dealing? For whom are the representatives of the central em- pires speaking? Are they speaking for the majorities of their respective Parliaments or for the minority par ties, that military and imperialistic minority which has so far dominated their whole policy and controlled the affairs of Turkey and of the Balkan states, which have felt obliged to be- come their associates in this war?
 'The Russian representatives have insisted, very justly, very wisely, and in the true spirit of modern democracy, that the conferences they have been holding with the Teutonic and Turkish statesmen should be held within open not closed doors, and all the world has been audience, as was desired. To whom have we been listening then? To those who speak the spirit and inten tiOn of the resolutions of the German Reichstag of the 9th of July last, the spirit and intention of the Liberal leaders and parties of Germany, or to those who resist and defy that spirit and intention and insist upon conquest and subjugation? Or are we listen ing, in fact, to bOth unreconciled and in open and hopeless contradiction? These are very serious and pregnant questions. Upon the answer to them uepeLuS Ille pedCe oI lllS "olAu.
 But whatever the results of the parleys at Brest-Litovsk, whatever the confusions of counsel and of purpose in the utterances of the spokesmen of the central empires, they have again attempted to acqualnt the world with their objects in the war and have again challenged their adversaries to say what thoIr OhiectS ora and what sort of settlement they would deem just and satisfactory. There Is no good reason why that challenge should not be responded to, and responded to with the utmost candor. We did not wait for 1t. Not once but again and again we have laid our whole thought and purpose before the world, not in