Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-10-23
NO ARM|ST|CE TO
BEASTS, PRESIDENT
TELLS THE ENEMY
President Rejects Any Peace
With the Prussian Kaiser.
EMPEROR MUST STEP OUT
Declares Autocracy Must Go, Subma
rines Quit and Murder Rule End
Allies Will Dictate Any Truce
Must End Atrocities.

Washington, Oct. 10.-ln fOrceful
rejoinder, rejecting the Teutonic pro
posals for a compromise, President
Wilson informed the German govern.
ment that peace will be dictated by
he United States and the allies.
Wilson's Answer to Note.
The text of the presidents answer
follows:
1.-THE unqualified acceptance by the
present German government and by a
large majority of the reichstag Of the
terms laid down by the president OF
the United States of America in his
address to the congress of the United
States on the Sth of January, 1918, and
in his subsequent addresses justifies
the president In making a frank and
direct statement of his decision with
regard to the communication of the
German government of the Sth and
18th of October, 1918.
at must be clearly understood that
the process of evacuation and the con-
ditiOns of an armistice are matters
which must be left to the judgment
and advice of the military advisers of
the government of the United States
and the allied governments, and the
president feels it his duty to say that
no arrangement can be accepted by
the government of the United States
which does not provide absolutely sat
isfactory safeguards and guarantees of
the maintenance of the present mill
tary supremacy of the armies of the
United States and the allies in the
field.
Huns Must End Crimes.
"He feels confident that he can safe
ly assume that this will also be the
Judgment and decision of the allied
governments.
1.-The president feels that it is also
HE duty to add that neither the gov
eminent of the United States nor, he
is quite sure. the governments with
which the government of the United
States is associated as a belligereRt,
will consent to consider an armistice
so long as the armed forces of Ger
many continue the illegal and inhu-
name practices which they still per-
sist in.
"At the very time that the German
government approaches the govern
ment of the United States with pro-
posals of peace its submarines are en-
gagged in sinking passenger ships at
sea, and not the ships alone, but the
very boats in which their passengers
the crews seek to make their way to
safety; and in their present enforced
withdrawal from Flanders and France
the German armies are pursuing a
course of wanton destruction which
has always been regarded as in direct
violation of the rules and practices of
civilized warfare.
"Cities and villages, if not destroyed,
not only, but very often of their very
Inhabitants.
1.-THE nations associated against Ger
many cannot be expected to agree to a
cessation of arms while acts of inhu-
manity, spOIiation and desolatlOn are
being continued which they justly look
upon with horror and with burning
hearts.
at is necessary, also IN order that
there may be no possibility of misun-
derstanding that the president should
very solemnly call the attention of the
government of Germany to the Ian
guage and plain intent of one of the
terms of peace which the German gov
eminent has now accepted. 1t is con-
tanned in the address of the president
delivered at Mount Vernon on the
Fourth of July last.
Must End Atrocities.
at is as follows: The destruction
of every arbitrary power anywhere
that can separately, secretly and of its
single choice disturb the peace of the
world; or, if it cannot be presently de-
stroyed, at least its reduction to vir-
tuaI impotency.'
1.-The power which has hitherto con-
trolled the German nation is of the
sort here described. 1t is within the
choice of the German nation to alter
it. The presidents words just quoted
naturally constitute a condition prece-
dent TO peace, if peace is to come by
the action of the German people them
selves.
1.-THE president feels bound to say
that the whole process of peace will,
in his judgment, depend upon the def
initeness and the satisfactory charac-
ter of the guarantees which can be
given in this fundamental matter.
"It is indispensable that the govern
tments associated against Germany
should know, beyond peradventure
with whom they are dealing.
''The president will make a separate
reply to the royal and imperial gov.
fernment of Austria-Hungary.
Accept. sir, the renewed assurances
of my high consideration.
fSiopadN ap nDEpT LANSING