The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-17

Washington.--President Wilson ad-
dressing Congress, delivered a re-state-
ment OF war aims in agreement with
the recent declaration by the British
premier, David Lloyd George. The
President presented a definite pro-
gram for world peace.
The President gave fourteen consid-
erations as essential in making peace
with the United States. They are:
l. Open covenants of peace without
private international understandings.
2. Absolute freedom of the seas in
peace or war except as they may be
closed by international action.
3. Removal of all economic barriers
and establishment Of equality of trade
conditions, among nations consenting
TO peace and associating themselves
for its maintenance.
4. Guarantees for the reduction Of
national ornaments to the lowest
point consistent with domestic safety.
). Impartial adjustment of all colo.
NAL claims based upon The principle
that the peoples concerned have equal
weight with the interest of the gov
ernment.
8. Evacuation of all Russian terri
tory and opportunity for Russia's po-
litical development.
7. Evacuation of Belgium without
any attempt to limit her sovereignty.
s. All French territory to be freed
and restored, and reparation for the
taking of Alsace-Lorraine.
.. Readjustment of Italy's frontiers
along clearly recognizable lines of ma
tionality.
10. Freest opportunity for autono.
nous development of the peoples Of
Austria-Hungary.
II. Evacuation of Rumania, Serbia
and Montenegro, with access to the
sea for Serbia and international guar
antees of economic and political inde-
pendence and territory integrity of the
Balkan States.
IL. Secure sovereignty for Turkey
portion of the Ottoman empire, but
with other nationalities under Turk.
1sh rule assured security of life and
opportunity for autonomous develop
ment, with the Dardanelles perma-
nently opened to all nations.
13. Establishment of an independ
ent Polish state, including territories
inhabited by indisputably Polish popu
lations, with free access to the sea and
political and economic independence
and territorial integrity guaranteed
by international covenant.
IA. General association of nations
under specific covenants for mutual
guarantees of political independence
and territorial integrity to large and
small states alike.
For such arrangements and cove
nants," said the President in conclu
sion, 1--WE are willing to fight and con
, tinue to fight until they are achieved;
but only because we wish the right
to prevail and desire just and sta
BILE peace"
Such a program, he said, removed
chief provocations for war
The President said:
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
BILE bases Of general peace. ParleyE
have been in progress at Brest-Litovsi
between Russian representatives ant
representative of the Central Powers
to which the attention of all the bel
ligerents has been invited for the pur
pose of ascertaining whether it may be
possible to extend these parleys into Z
general conference with regard tt
terms Of peace and settlement.
"The Russian representatives pre-
sented not only a 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 o.
those principles. The representative:
of the Central Powers, on their part
presented an outline Of settlement
which, If much less definite, seemed
susceptible of liberal Interpretation
until their program Of practical terms
was added.
That program proposed no conces
sions at all either to sovereignty o.
Russia or to the preferences of the
population with whose fortunes il
dealt, but meant, in a 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 a perma
nent addition to their territories and
their power.
1T is q reasonable conjecture thai
the general principles of settlement
which they at. first suggested, origi
mated with the more liberal statesmen
Of Germany and Austria, the men who
Too Much Pleasure.