Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-11-01
DECLARES PEACE
MUST Be CERTAIN
PRESIDENTS REPLY SHOWS THAT
THE TEuToNs CAN NOT Be
ALLOWED TO FARLEY.
ARMlsTlCE PLEA DECLINED
vntIi People Rule In Germany War
Must Go on-No Further Peace
Negotiations Wanted-surren-
der Il The Thing.


der Il the Thing.
Washington. President Wilson has
submitted the German plea for an arm
tstice and peace to the allies, and al
ne same time has informed Berlin
that there can be no armistice except
upon terms that would make 1t impos.
atbie for Germany to renew hostilities.
While consenting to deal further
with the present authorities in Ger.
many, the president has given them
this warning:
III II (the United States) must deal
with the military masters and mon
archical autocrats Of Germany now,
Or II It is likely to have to deal with
them later in regard to the interna.
fiOnal obligations Of the German en-
pire, It must demand not peace nego-
tations, but surrender. Nothing can
be gained by leaving this essential
thing unsaid."
The text Of President Wilson's reply
70 Germany is as follows:
Department Of State, Oct. 20.
Sir--I have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your note of the
twenty-second transmitting a commu-
ntcation under date of the twentieth
from the German government and to
advise you that the president has in
structed me to reply thereto as fol.
lows:
Having received the solemn and ex-
plicit assurance Of the German govern.
ment that It unreservedly accepts the
terms of peace laid down in his ad.
dress to the congress Of the United
States on the eighth Of January, 1918,
and the principles Of settlement enup-
Ciated in his subsequent addresses,
particularly the address of the twenty.
seventh Of September, and that 1t de.
Hires to discuss the details of their
application, and that this wish and
purpose emanate not from those who
have hitherto dictated the policy and
conducted the present war on Ger
1nAny's behalf, but from ministers who
Hpeak for the majority Of the reichstag,
and for an overwhelming majority Of
the German people, and having re-
cGived also the explicit promise Of the
present German government that the
humane rules Of civilized warfare will
be observed, both on land and sea, by
the German armed forces, the presi-
dent Of the United States feels that
he cannot decline to take up with the
governments with which the govern.
ment Of the United States is associated
The question Of an armistice.
He deems it his duty to say again,
however, that the only armistice he
would feel justified in submitting for
consideration would be one which
should leave the United States and the
powers associated with her In posi-
dion to enforce any arrangements that |
may be entered into and to make re-
nswaI Of hostilities on the part of Ger.
many impossible.
The president has, therefore, trans.
mitted his correspondence with the |
present German authorities to the gov |
ernments with which the government |
OF the United States is associated as a
belIigerent with the suggestion that |
q those governments are disposed to
sETect peace upon the terms and prin- |
eiples indicated, their military advisers |
and the military advisers Of the United |
Etates be asked to submit to the gov.
BEnments associated against Germany
the. necessary terms Of such an armis-
afce as will fully protect the interests
b the peoples involved and insure to
the associated governments the unre.
stricted power to safeguard and en-
force the details of the peace to which
the German government has agreed,
provided they deem such an armistice
possible from the military point Of
view. Should such terms of armistice
be suggested, their acceptance by Ger.
many will afford best concrete evil
fence Of her unequivocal acceptance Of
me terms and principles Of peace from
which the whole action proceeds.
The president would deem himself
acking in candor did he not point out
n the frankest possible terms the rea.
Ion why extraordinary safeguards
must be demanded Significant and
important as the constitutional changes
,ee1n to be which are spoken of by the
German foreign secretary in his note
4 the twentieth of October, it does
lot appear that the principle Of gov.
,rnment responsible to the German
,eople has yet been fully worked out,
4 that any guarantees either exist or
re In contemplation that the altera-
lens Of principle and Of practice now
lartiaIly agreed upon will be perma-
ent. Moreover, 1t does not appear
hat the heart Of the present difficulty
as been reached 1t may be that fu-
gre wars have been brought under the
ontrol Of the German people, but the
resent war has not been. and It is
nth the present war that we are deal
81. Il is evident that the German (
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