The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-02-15

now engaged in the war, must be
discussed and settled, not in gen.
eral council. but severally by the
nations most Immediately concern
ed by interest or neighborhood.
He agrees that the seas should
be free, but looks askance at any
limitation to that freedmen by in
ternatiOnai action in the interest of
the common order. He would,
without reserve, be glad to see eco
nomic barriers removed between
nation and nation, for that could
in no way impede the ambitions of
the military party with whom he
seems constrained to keep on terms.
Neither does he rise objection to a
limitation of ornaments. That
matter will be settled of itself, he
thinks, by the economic conditions
which must follow the war.
But the German colonies, he de-
mands, must be returned without
debate. He will discuss with no
one but the representatives of Rus
STA what disposition shall be made
of the peoples and the lands of the
Baltic provinces; with no one but
the Government of France the con-
ditions under which French terri.
tory shall be evacuated, and only
with Austria what shall be done
with Poland.
"In the determination of all
questions affecting the Balkan
states he defers, as understand
| him, to Austria and Turkey; and
with regard to the agreements to
be entered into concerning nom
Turkish peoples of the present Otto
man Empire to the Turkish author
tiles themselves. After settle
ment all around, effected in this
! fashion, by individual barter and
concession. he would have no OBJ
lection, if / correctly interpret his
statement to a league of nations
which would undertake to hold the
new balance of power steady
against external disturbance
ut must be evident to every one
who understands what this war has
wrought in the opinion and temper
of the world that no general peace,
no peace worth the infinite sacri-
fees Of these years of tragical
suffering, can possibly be arrived al
in any such association. The
method the German Chancellor pro
poses is the method of the Congress
of Vienna. We cannot and will not
return to that. What is at stake
: now is the peace Of the world
What we are striving for is new
international order based upOr
broad and universal principles o.
right and justice-no mere peace
of shreds-and patches.
us it possible that Count vor
Hertling does not see that, does no
grasp it, is in fact living in hi
thought in a world dead and gone
Has he utterly forgotten the Reich
stag resolutions of the 10th o
July, or does he deliberately ignor'
them? They spoke of the condi
! tions of a general peace, not o
, national ACKNOWLEDGMENT or of ar
rangements between state ant
state The peace of the world de
ponds upon the just settlement o
, each of the several problems t
, which 1 adverted in my recent ad
dress to the Congress.
Ill II, of course, do not mean tina
the peace of the world depend
I upon the acceptance of any partic
: ular set of suggestions as to tn
| way in which those problems are t
r be dealt with. / mean only tina
y those problems each and all affec
t the whole world; that unless the
: are dealt with in spirit of unset
fish and unbiased justice, with
view to the wishes, the natural cor
nections, the racial aspirations, tn
e tsecurity and peace of mind of tn
I peoples involved, no permaner
d peace will have been attained.
II They cannot be discussed sci
l. larately or in corners. None {
n them constitutes a private or SCI
b. arate interest from which the Opil
Y ion of the world may be shut on
Whatever affects the peace affec
Il mankind, and nothing settled
l. military force. if settled wrong,
q settled at all. 1t will present
le have to be reopened.
d, "Is Count Won Hertling not ava
l. that he is speaking in the Court
II mankind; that all the awaken
r. nations of the world now sit
IN Judgment on what every publ
IL man. of whatever nation, may 81
es en- the issues of conflict which h