The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-12

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Wilson's words yesterday were cabled b
The government TO all the principle cal
itals of the world In this way the 90,
ernment hopes to get his answer 10 Vo
Hertling and Czernin, and to the ears @
the people OF Germany, Austria and Rus
STA
President Wilson spoke as follows;
Gentlemen of the Congress: On IN
eighth OF January | had the honor of ad
dressing you on the objects of the wa
as our people conceive them. The prim
minister of Great Britain had spoken il
similar terms on the fifth of January
10 these addresses the German clfancel
Tor replied on the twenty fourth ant
Count Czernin for Austria on the sam,
day. 1t is gratifying to have our desir,
so promptly realized that all exchange,
| OF view ON this great matter should b,
made in the hearing of all the world.
Count Czernins reply, which is di
rected chiefly to my own address, on The
/ eighth OF January, is uttered in very
friendly tone. He finds in my statement
a sufficiently encouraging approach to
the views of his own government to ius
fifty him in believing that it furnishes a
basis for more detailed discussion of
purposes by the two governments. He
is represented to have intimated that
the views he was expressing had been
communicated TO me beforehand. and
that | was aware of them AT the time he
was uttering them; but in this / am
sure he was misunderstood. / had re-
celved no intimation of what he intended
to say. There was. of course, no reason
why he should communicate privately
with me. | am quite content to be one
of his public audience.
Count Won Hertlings reply is. I musf
say, very vague and very confusing. II
IS full of equiyocal phrases and leads it
Is not clear where. But il is certainly
IN very different tone from that of
Count Czernin, and apparently of an on
posite purpose, II confirms. am sorry
To say, rather than removes, the unfortu-
nate impression made BY what we had
learned OF the conferences at Brest Ii.
Lovsk. His discussion and acceptance of
our general principles lead him to no
practical conclusions. He refuses to an.
ply them TO the substantive items which
must constitute the body of any final
settlement, He il jealous of information
II action and of international council. |
lie accepts, he says, the principle of pub
ic diplomacy. but he appears to insist |
hat it be confined, at any rate in this
ase, to generalities, and that the several |
PARTICULAR questions Of territory and |
overelgnty, the several questions upon
whose settlement must depend the ac. t
eptance OF peace by the 20 states now
ngaged IN the war must be discussed
nd settled. not in general council, but |
eyerally by the nations most immediate
Y concerned by interest or neighborhood.
lie agrees that the seas should be free.
mt looks askance at any limitation to
hat freedom by international action in
he interest of the common order. He
7ould without reserve be glad TO see
barriers removed between ma
ion and nation, for that could in no way u
npede the ambitions of the military
arty, with whom he seems constrained !
} keep on terms Neither does he raise
bjection to limitation OF armaments. {
hat matter will be settled OF itself, he |
links, by the economic conditions which
ust follow the war But the German 7
'lonies, he demands, must be returned c
ithout debate. He will discuss with
, one but the representatives of Russia il
hat disposition shall be made of the t
'oples and the lands of the Baltic PROV X
ces; with no one but the government v
France the conditions" under which o
'ench territory shall be evacuated, and t
le with Austria what shall be done b
It'll Poland In the determination of D
questions affecting the Balkan states Il
defers, as | understand him, to Aus il
Ia and Turkey, and with regard to the il
reements to be entered into concerning Al
e non Turkish peoples of the present A
toman empire to the Turkish author p,
es themselves. After a settlement all W
Dund effected in this fashion, by in. m
iidual barter and concession, he would m
We no objection, if ] correctly interpret bi
statement, to a league of nations OF
Itch would undertake to hold the new al
lance OF power steady against exter- eli
disturbances. II
IL must be evident to everyone who oil
derstands what this war has wrought az
the opinion and temper of the world
1t no general peace, no peace worth m
, infinite sacrifices of these years of iu
gical suffering, can possibly be arrived su
in any such fashion. The method the br
rman chancellor proposes is the meth
of the congress of Vienna. We can nc
and will not return to that. What err
at stake now is the peace of the mi
rid. What we are striving for is a tn
Y international order based upon broad of
universal principles of right and
tice-.no mere peace of shreds and vo
ches. Is 1t possible that Count Won ini
rtling does not see that, does not tic
sp it, is in fact living in his thought m,
a world dead and gone? Has he ut ella
" forgotten the Reichstag resolutions
he nineteenth of July, or does he de- asl
rately ignore thems They spoke of sal
conditions of general peace, not of wi
ional aggrandizement or Of arrange old
ats between state and state. The IN,
ce of the world depends upon the just pei
lement Of each of the several prob wo
$ TO which | adverted in my recent
ress to the Congress. !, of course. do for
mean that the peace OF the world de a !
ds upon the acceptance of any par
lar set Of suggestions as to the way =
which those problems are to be dealt .