Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-10-18
WILSON REJECTS
ANY PEACE WITH
GERMAN KAISER
Says Autocracy Must Go and
Submarines Quit-End
Murder Rule.
ALLIES WILL DICTATE TRUCE
viii Make Separate Reply to the Gov
ernments OF Austria-Hungary-
President Issues Statement
Declaring Loan Failure
Spells Defeat.

President Issues Statement
Declaring Loan Failure
Spells Defeat.
Washington, Oct. f5.-President
Wilson issued this statement on the
fourth Liberty loan:
"The reply of the German govern
ment to my note of inquiry dated Oc-
tober gives occasion for me TO say
to my fellow countrymen that neither
that reply nor any other recent events
have in any way diminished the vital
Importance of the Liberty loan. Re-
Taxation now, hesitation now, would
mean defeat when victory seems to be
in sight; would mean years OF war IN
stead of peace upon our own terms.
~ earnestly request every patriotic
American to leave to the governments
of the United States and of the allies
the momentous discussions initiated
by Germany and to remember that for
each man his duty is to strengthen the
hands of these governments and to DO
it in the most important way now i'm
mediately presented-by subscribing
to the utmost of his ability for bonds
of the fourth Liberty loan.
"That loan must be successful. am
sure that the American people will not
fail to see their duty and make It sue
cesSfuI."
Washington, Oct. 15.-In a forceful
rejoinder, rejecting the Teutonic pro-
posals for a compromise, President
Wilson informed the German govern
ment that peace will be dictated by
the United States and the allies.
He made it clear that there will be
no compromise with the Huns and that
the sooner they surrender uncOndir
tionally and give adequate guarantees
of acceptance of the peace terms al
ready outlined the soumer the war will
end.
Rejects Arnistice Plea.
The president rejected the German
suggestion of the creation of a mixed
commission to arrange for the evacu-
alton of territory invaded by the Ger
mans.
He informed Berlin that the condi-
ltions of evacuation and the granting
OF an armistice would be determined
by Marshal Foch and his associated
generals
In addition, the president lays down
the condition that there can be no ar
lmistice except on terms assuring the
United States and the allies of the
maintenance of their present military
supremacy over Germany, supremacy
which will be relied upon to enforce
the allied terms of peace.
Must Stop Atrocities.
Having outlined an arInistice based
upon terms of complete surrender on
the part of the Huns, the president
went on to say that cessation of hos
Utilities would not even be considered
so long as the German armed forces
continue to perpetrate atrocities and
inhumanities on land and sea.
Before the allied nations will con-
sent to an arnistice the German navy
steamers and lifeboats containing sur
ivivors and the German army must
cease plundering and destroying cities
and villages and deporting their inhab-
itants to industrial slavery in Ger
many.
Must Dust Autocracy.
If The central powers sooner or later
obtain an armistice on these terms,
there will remain the question of the
conditions on which the United States
and the allies will enter into a binding
peace treaty with the German nation,
and to these conditions the president
i'm his reply directs the attention of the
herman people.
The PruSsian military autocracy,
with its power to disturb the peace
of the world, must go, Mr.. Wilson
says, and he reminds the German peo-
lple that it is within their power to
destroy this menace to their own real
welfare and to other nations.
When Prussian autocratic rule is
stamped out, the German people, the
president intimates, will find the road
ito peace shorter and easier.
Must Return Alsace.
One outstanding point which does
not appear in the presidents note-a
point on which the world has been
asking questions-can be answered
now.
When the president declared that
the wrong done to France when Ger
Imany took Alsace-Lorraine should be
Irighted he meant that Alsace-L Lorraine
should be returned to France.
! A separate reply to Asutria- Hun
gary is being drafted by the president,
and this answer is likely to affect
vitality the situation in the dual mon
iarchy, which appears to be on the
verge of dissolution or desertion Of
Germany or Of both.
The president having taken so firm