The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-17

cohuhue ther lleSal practices.
Washington, d. c, Oct. l4-Autocracy must go before a peace
This condition was laid down by President Wilson today in a note
armistice could be considered while GERMANY continues bb Illegal
inhumane practices on land and sea.
The note to Germany was a decision - it did not permit of dis
cussion as such.
Satisfactory safeguards and guarantees of the maintenance of
the present military supremacy of the American allied armies must
be gwen dma as a preliminary 'rsnna ha to any s arr ST, arrangement and the mill
announced by Secretary Lansing today and submitted to the Swiss
ment, dated the 18th instant, which you handed me today, | have the
honor " t. !ps ssa "ssu sGH TO t asssptan ,tss t sns tss present German govern
ment and by a large majority of the German rechstag of the terms
address to the congress of the United States, on the 9Th of January,
iYa !, and fran in mis- mis- subsequent %;%s, tats addresses Sc n ius dadsd the pr, president in max.
communicaiions of the German government of the 9Th and 10Th Of
1T must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation
and the conditions of an armistice are matters that must be left to the
the United States and the allied governments, and the president feels
it his duty to say that no armisties can be accepted by the govern
factory safeguards and guarantees of the maintenance of the present
in the field, He feels ' confident tn tt he e e"n safely aMES assume s ne TN that a, ths
will also be the Judgment and decision of the allied governments.
the government of the United States nor, he is quite sure, the govern
a DC gere %" will i eo sSeptD tn considers Uia n s am arm Estates !, IS " isns as tn s
armed forces of Germany continue the illegal and inhuman practices
AT the very time that Germany approaches the United States
with proposals of peace its submarines are engaged in sinking passen-
ger ships at sea, and not the ships alone, but the very boats in which
their passengers and crews seek to make their way to safety:
France the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruc-
ton which has always ben regarded RI in direct violation of the rules
and practices of civilized warfare.
''Cities and villages, if not destroyed. are being stripped OF all
they contain, not only that, but often of their very inhabitants. The
nations associated against Germany cannot be expected TO agree to a
cessation of arms while acts of inhumanty, spoliation and desolation
are being continued, which they Justly look upon with horror and
with burning hearts
"'It is necessary, also, in order that there may be no possibility
of misunderstanding, that the president should very solemnly call the
attention of the government of Germany to the language and plain
intent of one of the terms of peace which the government has now ac-
opted. 1t is contained in the address of the president delivered at
Mount Vernon on the 4th of July, last. tt as follows:
1.-THE destruction Of every arbitrary power anywhere that can
separately, secretly, and Of its single choice, disturb the peace Of the
world; or ifit cannot be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to
virtual impotency.'
1.-The power which has hitherto controlled the German nation il
of the sort here described. II is within the choice of the German ma
ton to alter it.
1.-the president words inst quoted naturally constitute a con
dition precedent to peace, if peace s to come by the action of the Ger
people themselves. The. presidnt feels bound to say that the
whole process of peace will in his judgment depend upon the definite
ness and the satisfactory character of the guarantees which be
given in this fundamental matter. 1t is indispensable that the
ernments associated against Germany should know beyond peradyeu-
ture with whom they are dealing.
" The president will make a separate reply to the royal and i'm
perial government of Austria -Hungary'"