Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-02-14
PRESIDENT SPURNS
PEACE TERMS AS
OFFERED BY FOE
Attacks Germany's Attitude as
Voiced by Hertling.
SAYS AUSTRIA WANTS PEACE
Wilson Tells Congress Count Czernin
Sees Principles of Issue With Clear
Eyes-AIIy for Settlement by
Conquest-U. S. Will Con-
tinue War to the End.

Washington, Feb. 12.-President
Wilson, in another address to congress
on the question of possible peace by
negotiation, vigorously attacked Ger
many's attitude toward peace as
voiced by Chancellor Won Hertling,
characterizing Austria's attitude as
voiced by Count Czernin as uttered in
friendly tone" and concluded by say
ing that this nation would never lay
down it's arms until peace could be es-
tablished with justice to all nations,
large and small alike.
Text of Wilson's Address.
The presidents address in part, fol-
lows:
"Gentlemen Of the congress:
"On January s / had the honor Of
addressing you on the objects of the
war as our people conceive them.
The prime minister of Great Britain
had spoken in similar terms on Janu-
airy 5. To these addresses the German
chancellor replied on the Oath and
Count Czernin for Austria on the same
day. 1t is gratifying to have our de-
sire so promptly realized that all eX-
changes Of view on this great matter
the world.
Count Czernin's reply, which is di-
rected chiefly to my own address on
January s, is uttered in q very friend
ly tone
Sees Basis for Discussion.
"He finds in my statement a suffi-
cient encouraging approach to the
views of his own government to JUS
tify him in believing that it furnishes
a basis for more detailed discussion Of
purposes by the two governments.
Count Won Hertling's reply is, l
must say, very vague and very con-
fusing. It is full Of equivocal phrases
and leads it it not clear, where. But
it is certainly in very different tone
from that of Count Czernin and appar-
emily Of an opposite purpose. 1t con-
firms, I am sorry to say, rather than
removes, the unfortunate impression
made by what we had learned of the
conferences at Brest-Litovsk. His dis
cussion and acceptance Of our general
principles lead him to no practical con-
clusion.
Accepts Principle Of Diplomacy.
"He refuses to apply them to the
substantive items which must con-
stitute the body of any final settle
ment. He is jealous of interna-
tional action and of international
counsel. He accepts, he says, the
principle of public diplomacy, but he
appears to insist that it be confined,
at any rate in this case, to generali-
ties, and that the several particular
questions of territory and sovereignty,
the several questions upon whose set
tlement must depend the acceptance
of peace by the % states now engaged
in the war, must be discussed and
settled not in general council, but sew
orally by the nations most Immediate
ly concerned by interest or neighbor-
hood.
Foe for Barter and Concession.
'In the determination of all ques
tons affecting the Balkan states he de-
fers as I understand him to Austria
and Turkey; and with regard to the
agreements to be entered into con-
corning the non-Turkish peoples Of the
present Ottoman empire to the Turk
ish authorities themselves. After
settlement all around, effected in this
fashion, by individual barter and con-
cession, he would have no objection If
correctly interpret his statement, to
a league of nations which would I'M
dertake to hold the new balance of
power steady against external dis
turbances.
"It must be evident to every one who
understands what this war has
wrought in the opinion and temper of
the world that no general peace, no
peace worth the infinite sacrifices of
these years of tragical suffering, can
possibly be arrived at in any such
fashion.
Peace of World Is at Stake.
"The method the German chancel-
lor proposes is the method of the con-
gress of Vienna. We cannot and will
not return to that. What is at stake
now is the peace of the world. What
we are striving for is new interna-
tional order based upon broad and uni
versal principles of right and justice
no more peace of shreds and patches.
The peace of the world depends upon
the Just settlement of each of the sew
eral problems to which l adverted in
my recent address to the congress.
.'They cannot be discussed separate
ly or in corners.
Refers to Reichstag Resolutions.
"Is Count Won Hertling not aware
that he is speaking in the court Of
mankind, that all the awakened ma
tons of the world now sit in judgment
on what every public man of whatever
nation may say on the issues of a con-
fict which has spread to every re-