Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25
WILSON PLANS TO
FORCE AUSTRIA OUT
Of WORLDS STRIFE
PRESIDENT HOLDS LONG CON.
FERENCE WITH COL. HOUSE
WILL USE INFLUENCE TO STIR
RUSSIANS INTO ACT ON
AGAINST TEuTONS.

AGAINST TEUToNS.
Washington. Feb President
Wilson and Col. E. NJ House have
heen in conference over the Russian
situation at the executive mansion in
the last twenty-fOur hours.
No announcement has been made.
but similar discussions have preceded
every important diplomatic move by
the president since the beginning Of
American participation in the war
A high authority said today sign
ing of a peace agreement between
the Bolsheviki and the German mill
tarists will not change the policy OF
the United States one iOta. The pO-
litically demoralized and war-stricken
Russian peoples will not be abandon,
ed
No matter what kind of a German
yoke is forced upon Russia by the
irresponsible leaders Of the present
time, the struggle for freedom thru
"A republican form of government will
be given both material and moral sup
port.
To Encourage New Leaders.
President Wilson is understood t
regard the latest negotiations be
tween Petrograd and Berlin as mere
incidents of the revolution which is
still in highly transitory stage
Should the Soviet capitulate to
to Germany and become nonexisent.
another government body, representa-
tive of the conservative democratic
elements is expected to appear
To stimulate such a development
every agency at the command of the
Washington government will be EN-
ployed to encourage and give impe.
tus to the wave of liberalism which
is sweeping over Europe
This attitude toward Russia is in.
separable from the plan to drive
political wedge between Austria.Hun-
gary and the German war lords. It
is SAID the one ray of hope in today's
developments IS the strong probabil.
ity Austria Hungary will resume i'm
mediately negotiations for peace. such
as were REFLECTED in the recent speech
of Count Czernin, the Austrian For
eign Minister
Austria Realizing Aims,
This situation was summarized by
an administration official as follows
Austria has realized her aims in
this war more than any other power
BY successes against the armies of
Russia, and finally by the Russian
revolution and disintegration, Austria
has abeen relieved of the Russian
menace, under which she has lived for
more than a century.
Serbia and Roumania, whose arms
clashed with hers, have been render
ed impotent There are no signs of
renewal Of aggressive aims from
Italy
1T is definitely known in Washing.
ton that the Austro. Hungarian peo.
pies have been asking ever since
kussi aceased to represent solid
resistance, why they should be ex.
pected to undergo the hardships Of
longdrawnout war juist to realize
Germanys aims in Belgium, or in the
southern provinces Of Russia"
Food Menace to be Brief
rms authority considered il Ger.
tam that a revulsion Of political feel
ing against the German tactics in
dealing with Russia will develop in
Austria The movement against i'm.
perlalsm and in favor of democracy
IN Austria Hungary was declared so
advanced as to make impossible any
compromise with the group which has
permitted Berlin to dictate the poli
cies Of the Viennese government