Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-01-11
Must Restore AIsace End Belgi-
UNI, Is Declaration of the
President.
OUTLINES FOURTEEN STEPS
ReoreanIze Countries on Lines Of Ma.
slonaIities or Fight to Death, VIII
son Says Of Peace-Insists on
Evacuation of Russian
Territory.


washington, Jan. 9.-Open and free
consideration of covenants of peace is
the only way permanent peace can be
secured. President Wilson told a spe-
cial session of congress.
He restated specifically and emphat-
fcs!ly the peace aims of the allies. so
ssf as the United States is concerned
for the benefit of the Russian people.
The president spoke as follows
"Gentlemen of the Congress: Once
more, as repeatedly before. the spokes-
men of the central empires have intll-
Gated their desire to discuss the oh
jects of the war and the possible basis
of a general peace.
@Parleys have been in progress at
Brest-Litovsk between representatives
Of the central powers TO which the
attention of all the belligerents has
been invited. for the purpose of ascer-
tanning whether 1t may be possible to
extend these parleys into a general
conference with regard to terms of
peace and settlement
Presented Definite Statement.
"The Russian representatives pre-
scented not only a perfectly definite
statement of the principles upon which
they would be willing to conclude
peace, but also an equally definite pro-
gram of the concrete application of
those principles.
The representatives of the central
powers. on their part presented an
outline of settlement which. if much
less definite, seemed susceptible of lib
eral Interpretation until their specific
program of practical terms was added.
"The program proposed no conces-
sions at ALL either to sovereignty of
Russia or to the preferences Of the
population with whose fortunes it
dealt, but meant, in word, that the
central empires were to keep every
foot of territory their armed forces had
Occupied-every province, every city,
every point of vantage-as perma-
nent addition to their territories and
their power.
Full Of Significance.
THE Russian representatives were
sincere and In earnest They cannot
entertain such proposals of conquest
and domination.
THE whole incident is full of sig
niaeance. Il is also full of perplexity.
'The Russian representatives have
insisted, very justly. very wisely, and
in the true spirit of democracy, that
the conferences they have been hold
Ing with the Teutonic and Turkish
statesmen should be held within open,
not closed, doors, and all the world has
been audience as was desired To
whom have we been listening then?
TO those who speak the spirit and in
tention of the resolutions of the Ger
man reichstag on the 9th of July last,
the spirit and intention of the liberal
leaders and parties of Germany, or to
those who resist and defy that spirit
and intention and insist upon conquest
and subjugation? Or are we listening
In fact to both unreconciled and in
open and hopeless contradiction?
These are very serious and pregnant
questions.
World Peace at Stake.
Upon the answer to them depends
the peace of the world.
But whatever the results of the par
aeys at Brest-Litovsk, whatever the
confusions of counsel and of purpose
IN the utterances of the spokesman of
the central empires, they have again
attempted to acquaint the world with
their objects in the war and have
again chaIlonvod 4hofr advarSa rios II,
say what their objects are and what
sort of settlement they would deem
Just and satisfactory.
There is no good reason why that
challenge should not be responded to
and responded to with the utmost can
dor. We did not wait for 1t. Not once,
Dut again and again we have laid our
whole thought and purpose before the
world, not in general terms only. but
each Zine with sufficient definition to
make it clear what sort of definitlve
Terms of settlement must necessarily
spring out of them.
Lauds Lloyd Georges Speech.
Within the last week Mr.. Lloyd
George has spoken with admirable can
dor and in admirable spirit for the peo-
PIE and government of Great Britain.
There Is no COZ -aslon of counsel
among the advers, 'es of the central
powers, no uncertainty of principle, no
Nagueness of detail
The only secrecy Of counsel, the
only lack OF fearless frankness. the
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