The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-14

OASIS OF future peace negotiations
based upon broad and universal prin-
ciples Of right and justice-no mere
peace of shreds and patches. Is 1t pos
sible that Count Won Hertllng does not
see that does not grasp it, is in fact
living in his thought in a world dead
and gone? Has he utterly forgotten the
reichstag. resolutions of the 10th of
July, or does he deliberately ignore
them? They spoke of the conditions OF
general peace, not of national ag-
grandizement or of arrangements be-
tween state and state. The peace of
the world depends upon the just settle-
ment of each of the several problems to
which adverted in my recent address
to the congress. /. of course, do not
| mean that the peace of the world de-
ponds upon the acceptance of any par
ticular set of suggestions as to the way
in which those problems are to be dealt
with. mean only shat those prob
/ lens, each and all, -caffect the whole
world; that unless they are dealt with
II spirit of unselfish and unbiased
ifs.ilstice. with q view to the wishes. the
natural connections, tie radical aSpi-
rations; the security anG e of mind
1 OF the peoples involved, ~ ornament
peace will have been attained They
cannot be discussed separately or in
! corners None of them constitutes q
| private or separate interest from which
the opinion OF the world may be shut
/ out. Whatever affects the peace, af-
fects mankind. and nothing settled by
| military force, il settled wrong, is set
/ tied at ALL 1t will presently have to be
| reopenad.
Riddles Hertling's Ideas.
Els Count Won IIertling not aware
that he is speaking in the court of.
| mankind, that all the awakened nations
of the world now sit in judgment on.
whatever, public uian, OF whatever ma
ton, may say on the issues of q con-
i5of the world? The reicistag resolu
4 tons of July themselves frankly ac-
Ycepted the decisions of that court
There We're no annexations, no con-
tributions, no punitive damages. Peo-5
pies are not to be handed about from
one sovereignty to another by inter
national conference of an understands
ing between rivals and antagonists.
National aspirations must be respected,
peoples may now be dominated and
governed only by their own consent.
Self determination is not a mere
4 phrase. 1t is an imperative principle
a of action which statesmen will hence
forth ignore at their peril. We cannot
have general peace for the asking, or
by the mere arrangement of peace
conference 1t cannot be pieced to-
gether out Of individual understandings
between powerful states. All the
att, ,,,,,, ,,,,,e,+a io;,, 41e
rattlarnant of ewa,v issue anywhere
involved in it. because what we arc
| seeking is q peace that we can all
mite tn guarantoe and maintain and
every, item, of II must be submitted to
the common judgment whether it be
right and fair, an act of justice, rather
than q bargain between sovereigns
The United States has no desire to in
: tnrafara in European affairs or to act
e nc ayl,ite. in E,,1ropean territorial dis
E mites We would disdain to take adj
i vantage OF any internal weakness oil
!, disorder to impose her own will upor
= another people. She is quite ready tx
t be shown that the settlements she has
}, suggested are not the best or the mos
: end,,ring They are only her own pro
: yisional sketch of principles and OF TIL,
q vav in, which they should be applied
: INT she entered this war because sh,
:, was made "a partner, whether she woul,
q ar not. in the sufferings and indigni
I tias inflicted by the military master
|. Of Germany against the peace and Sc
!, cIrity of mankind; and the condition
q IF neace will touch her as nearly a
l. tbev will touch any other nation t
u which is entrusted leading part in tn
n maintenance of civilization. She can
y not sec her way to peace until tn
u causes of this war are removed, its re
It nawal rendered as nearly as may b
IS i1npossible.
e The Cause of the War
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