The Pascagoula chronicle. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1905-1920, 1918-10-19
SAYS NO PEACE
WITH kAlsERIsM.
President Wilson's Answer to Germ
any's Peace Proffer Invites German
People to Get Rid Of Autocrats.

POuSC PlOHCl Will HOtC uCCiuiA Alt
anew that there can be no peace will
a German government controlled b!
a military autocracy, and no though
Of an armistice while German afro
cities continue on land and sea.
When the time to consider an arm
istice come, the President said, the
military advisers of the United States
and the Allies will be consulted and
no military advantages of the armies
fighting the Central Powers will be
lost,
The text Of the Presidents ansew
follows:
I'm reply to the communication OF
the German government, dated the
18th instant, which you handed me
today have the honor to request to
transmit the following answer:
"The unqualified acceptance by the
presnt German government, and by
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 9th 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 commune
cations of the German government
of the Sth and 18th of October, 1918.
1T 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 dones not provide absolute
satisfactory safeguards and guaran-
tees of the maintenance of the presnt
military supremacy of the armies of
the United States and the Allies in
the field He feels confident that he
can safely assume that this will also
be the judgment and decision of the
Allied governments.
"The President feels that it is also
his duty to add that neither the. gov
1erlmcs: s. 'l..e Ua.f'ei ts.teeg qtste' ao,r ~. ~
is quite sure, the governments with
which the government of the United
States is associated as a belligerent,
will consent to consider an armistice
SO long as the armed forces of Germ
amy continue the illegal and inhumane
practices which they still persist in.
"At the very time that the German
government approaches the govern
ment of the United States with pro-
posals OF peace it's submarines are en-
gagged in sinking passenger ships at
sea, and not the ships alone, but the
very boats in which their passengers
and crews seek to make their way to
safety; and in their present enforced
withdrawal from Flanders and France
the German armies are pursuing al
course Of wanton destruction which |
has always been regarded as in direct |
violation of the rules and practices
of civilized warfare. Cities and will
ages, if not destroyed, are being
stripped of all they contain, not only,
but often of their very inhabitants.
The nations associated against Germ
many cannot be expected to agree to
a cessation of arms while acts of in
humanity, spoliatior and desolation
are being continued which they justly
ook upon with horror and with burn
ng hearts.
1T is necessary, also in order that
here may be no possibility of mis-
understanding, that the President
should very solemnly call the atten-
ion of the government of Germany to
he language and plain intent of one .
If the terms of peace which the {
,erman government has now accepted.
t is contained in the address of the r
President delivered at Mount Vernon |
N the fourth of July last. 1t is as
ollows:
1.-The destruction of every arbitrary |
over anywhere that can separately [
nd of its single choice, disturb the
eace of the world, or, if it cannot @
g presently destroyed, at least its re- t
uction to virtual impotency.'"
"The power which has hitherto con- n
rolled the German nation is of the C
ort here described. 1t is within the C
hoice of the German nation to alter
!. The Presidents words, just quot .
d, naturally constitute a condition b
recedent to peace, if peace is to !,
ome by the action of the German S
eople themselves. The President
,els bound to say that the whole pro-
sss of peace will, IN HIS judgment, de- P
end upon the defniteness and the Fl
,tisfactory character of the guaran- r
,es which can be given in this fund 8
mental matter. 1t is indispensable /,
lat the governments associated
,ainst Germany should know beyond I,
peradventure with whom they are o
ealing. Il
tSigned) ROBERT LANSING. h
The President will make a separate
ply to the royal and imperial govern
ent of Austria Hungary.
Accept, sir, the renewed assuran- =