The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-12

IT TO GO ON"
In face OF the toll of the Transport
Tuscan!a and the announcement that
Russia has definitely quit and Ukraine
had signed a separate peace with the
central powers the president told a
cheering audience that more Amerf-
car troops and always more would 20
On to France until a Just peace was
attained
We can never turn back he de.
GARD from course chosen upon
principle. Our resources are In part
modified now, and we shsu nos
pause until they are modified I'm their
fhire1g. Our armies are rapidly 60
ING 10 the lighting front. and will gc
more and more rapidly. Our whole
strength win be put into this war os
t5hancfpation--enian from the
threat and attempted mastery Of self.
ism groups Of nutocrnttc wuIer~-whaf.
ever The difficulties and present par,ta,
oeiays' We are indomita BILE In our
power or independent action ard can
In no circumstance consent q, live sy
force" "'i'
The soeech WAS put forward frsnk-
~ as another step in that persistent
Piopa ganda of public discussion
when President Wilson started al
the outset of Am erica's entry into the
conflict. Again tt was his pt.rnose to
emphasize before the world IN gem
eraI and the enemy peoples In nor.
dcular that the enemies Of German
military rule are battling for the
highest principle OF liberty and free
dom
The trsgfcal circumstance In ns
declared. that this ore party In Ger.
many Is apparently willing and able
10 SEND millions OF men to their death
10 prevent what all the world now
sees 10 be just
The reply OF Count Czarnin. the
Austrian premier, TO his speech OF
January 8. the president declared had
tone"
CScFnin sees Clearly.
Cgernin. ne said. Seems 10 se@ the
fundamental elements Of peace with
clear ewes, and does NOT seek 10 OBS
Scure them Seeing and concedfne "a
he does. the essential principles In
yolved and the necessity of ca.ndtdtv
applying them he naturally feels that
Austria can respond to the purpose OF
peace as expressed bv the United
states with less embarrassment than
could Germany. He probably woufd
'fN'C SSkt~ tNi litN4 klEtU II not OSG1 TOT
me ernbarrassments OF Austria's al
ltances and of her dependence upon
Germany"
In the speech ~ Count Won Hert
ing the German chancellor, deltver~s
January %. the same day that Ger
min spoke, the president declared he
could find no such basis OF possible
understanding with the United States
Won Hertlirg ne described as very
vague and very confusing
His discussion and accertanr@ cr
our general principles lead him 10 no
practical conclusion. He refuses to
apply them to the substantive items
which must constitute the body OF
any final settlement. He In Jealous
OF international action and OF inter
counsel. II (Hertling's re-
piyl. confirms, am sorry to say,
rather than removes. the unfortunata
impression made by what we had
learned Of the conferences at Bress
Litovsls'
Draws Sharp Contrast.
From this contrast between tha
speeches of the Austrian and German
premisrs, the president proceeded to
hold up the striking contrast between
the demand Of the German chance,-
lor that the world at large shall noe
concern itself with individual terrific
rial adjustments at the close of tina
war, and the clear struck note ot
the reichstag resolutions OF last Ju-
ly, Declaring that all the awakened
nations of the world now sit In judg-
ment' on the issues of the conflict.
the president referred to the fact THAI
the rHfchstag had itself accepted the
decisions OF that court In stipulating
in its resolutions that there shall hs
no anneNattors, no contributions ma
punitive damages that peoples ara
not to be handed about from cna
sovereignty to another by an interna-
ttoual conference or an understands
ing between rivals and antagonists.s
that national aspirations must be re-
spected," and peoples NAV now be
dominated and governed only by their
own consent"
Self Determination n Principle.
Self determination is not a mere
phrase" declared the president IT
is an imperative principle OF action.
which statesmen will henceforth will
gnore at their peril, We cannot have
a general peace for the asking. or by
the mere arrangements Of q peace
It cannot be pieced TO.
gethar ont of Individual undArntnrA.
jngs between powerful states. All tn
parties 70 this war must jain ~ -