The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-08
UNTIL GERMANY
COMEDIES THESE
U. S. WILL FIGHT
President Surprises Congress
With Definite Outline.
COrrObOrates Lloyd Georges
Recent Peace Terms.
COMMENDS SPIRIT OF RUSSIA
Slavs PROSTATE Before Grim
Power of Germany.
Yet Their Peace Demands Elicit
Admiration of World.
IN WAR TO AVENGE WRONGS
We're In Because Violations of
Rights Cut Us to the Quick.
Day of Conquest and Selfish
Aggression Dead and Gone.
ALLIES Open And ABOVE BOARD
10 Confusion Among Aims OF
Ger5nany's Adversaries.
But Kaiser Still Refuses To Tell
World His Aims.
We're In Because Violations OF
Rights Cut Us to the Quick.
Day of Conquest and Selfish
Aggression Dead and Gone.
ALLIES Open AND ABOVE BOARD
10 Confusion Among Aims of
Cer5nany's Adversaries.
But Kaiser Still Refuses To Tell
World His Aims.

Washington, Jan. S.-With state
1lent of war aims, approving the re-
cent declaration of the British pre-
mier. Lloyd George, President wilson
today presented to congress and the
world a specific declaration of the
terms on which it would be possible
to make peace with the German n1li17
tarv autocracy. The presidents pro-
eror,7 is composed of fourteen separate
articles and provides for restoration
ard reparati IN, guarantees for terri
torres and nations alike, freedom of
the seas and access to them, reduc-
tions of armament and guarantees
for the sanctity for the agreements be-
tween nations.
IL word, the president said the
pi gram removes the chief provoca-
tions to war.
War Aims-Rather Than Peace Aims.
But in order that this pronounce
ment should be definitely understood
as one of war AIMS rather than peace
aims. the president declared:
For such arrangements and COW
Iants we are willing to fight and to
continue fighting until they are
achieved.
that the world wars only upon Ger
man crazed by war not upon Germany
of peaceful pursuits no matter how
ever great they may be.
I'VE wish her only to accept a place
of equality among the peoples of the
world" said the president. the new
world in which we now live-instead
of a place of mastery
These aims, the president declared,
shared by the co-belligerents, were the
i afr,1a Of ha Ar,11 1f
the United States, for which they are
willing to sacrifice everything.
The moral climax of this, the
eliminating and final war for human
liberty, has come, said the president
in conclusion, land they (the people
of the United States) are ready to put
their own strength, their own highest
purpose, their own integrity and devo-
tion to the test
The program for world peace, re-
moving as the president said, the chief
provocation for war, and therefore,
the only possible program he pre-
Cheer wildly for France.
The practical agreement of funda-
mentals in the presidents program
with those expressed by the British
premier me- de an immediate and pro-
found impression upon all who heard
him.
Coming at a moment when Ger
many faces the demands of her So
cialists for abandonment of any pro-
gram of anneXations and indemnities
and also faces the failure of the peace
negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, the
presidents pronouncement developed
its tremendous Importance as he spoke
1t word by word to crowded cham
ber of legislators, diplomats and Off
ciaIs who gave him the closest atten-
tion% Altho the address was punc-
tuated literally by applause, there
was one great demonstration when the
president declared France must have
right for the wrong in Lorraine. At
that. rthe entire assembly rose, ap-
plauded and cheered loudly.
Otherwise, the presidents address
was delivered in the silence which de-
notes the rapt attention of an audi
ence which realized tnat it was pass
ing thru a great quarter of an hour
in the life of the world.
To the German people the president
gave reinsurance that there was no
aim to impair their peaceful greatness.
Must Deal With German People
I'VE have no jealousy of German
greatness he said, land there is
nothing in this program that impairs
it. We grudge her no achievement or
distinction of learning or of pacific
enterprise such as have made her rec
ord very bright and very enviable. We
do not wish to injure her or to block