The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-12
Czernin's Proposals Please
President but Germany's
Terms Criticized.
GIVES HIS PRINCIPLES
Speech Before Congress Is
Warning to People Not
to Be Fooled.

4 '"iNahy from All oI inc ancient and
accepted practices of diplomacy. They
point out that peace negotiations on n
| great scale actually are going on. pnIv
| instead OF being conducted in tho So !.
crecy of the round table conference
which was the aim of the central pow
crs in the early stages of the war. tho
great war issues are now being ex-
rounded and critically analysed in the
light OF publicity and the worlds for
um.
Speech Sent Broadcast.
PresidQpt Wilson himself today
seemed to recognize and call attention
TO the fact that when he inquired SIS
Count Won Hertlny not aware that he
IS speaking in the court of mankind,
mat all the awakened nations of the
world now sit in Judgment on what
every public man of whatever nation
may say on the issues of the conflict
which has spread to every region OF
the word?t
AS has been done IN the past. ,bn
presidents speech today was promnt,v
tab'ed TO all the principal capitals Of,
inc word for tclcgraphic distribution
Spoke as Follows. s
President Wilson spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the congress--On the
eighth of January / had the honor
of addressing YOU on the objects of
the war as people conceive them. The
prime minister of Great Britain had
spoken in similar terms on the fifth
OF January. To these addresses the
German chancellor replied on the
twenty-fourth and Count Czcrnin for
Austria on the same day. 1t is graft
Tying to have our desire so promptly
criticized that all exchanges of view
on this great matter should be made
in the hearing of all the world.
Count C2ernin's reply, which ii di-
rected chiefly to my own address on
the eighth of January, is uttered in
very friendly tone. N
Favor Czernin's Speech.
He finds in my statement a suffi-
GENTLY encouraging approach to the
views of his own government 10 ius-
fifty him in believing that it furnishes
a basis for more detailed discussion
or purposes by the two governments.
He is reported TO have intimated
that the views he was expressing had
and that was aware of them at the
time he was uttcring them. but in this
am sure he was misunderstood. /
had received no intimation Of wha, he
Intended to say. There was, of course.
no reason why he should communicate
privately with me. / am quite con-
tent to be one Of his public audience.
Won Hertins Vague.
g.. Count Won Hertling's reply is, ii
must say, very vague and very confus-
ing. II Is fun of equiyocal phrases
and leads, 1t is not clear where But
Il Is certainly in very different tone
rom that of Count Czernin and APP
of an opposite purpose 1t
confirms, | am sorry to say. rather
han removes, the uniform impression
BY what we had learned of the CON
'crences at Bres: -Litorsk. His discus
sion and acceptance Of our general
principles lead him to no. practical
Chancellor Jealous. !.
lie refuses TO apply them TO the
items which must consti-
.ute the body Of any final settlement.
lie Is jealous Of international action
tnd of international counsel. lie ac-
,cpts, he says, the principle Of pub
lie diplomacy, but ne appears to fnsist
nat II DC confined, at any rate ia this
:asc, 10 Geueraiities and that thessey-
raj particular questions IF territory
ipnn whose settlement must depend
hc acceptance of peace by the .2y
states now engaged in the war must
te DISGUISED and settled. not IN scn Il
'ral council but separately by the ma
ions most Immediately concerned by |
interest or neighburhood. He agrees |
hat the seas should he free, but looks |
iskance at amy limitation To that free |
iom by International action in the In !
crest Of the common order, lie would |
Without reserve lie glad to see eco
i2mic barriers removed between ma
ion and nation, for that could in no
.ay impede the ambitious of the MIL
AIRY party with whom he seeing corr !
strained to keep on terms. Neither |
ioes be raise objection to limitation |
If ornaments. --s !
: Must Follow War.
That matter will be settled of 20 |
ieH, he thinks, by the economic con- /
iltions which must follow the war |
But the German colonies. he demands. |
must be returned without debate. He |
viii discuss with no one but the rep
'Esentatiyes of Russia what diEposi