New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

way Of preserving their own power
than to set to work deliberately TO
destroy the liberty Of small and de-
pendent nations, which kept alive the
vision Of liberty among their oppressed
brothern and which blocked the way
to Constantinoplc and the East.
I'm tho opinion, therefore, of the
Allied and associated powers, it is i'm
possible to admit the plea Of the Aus
trian delegation that the people Of
Austria do not share the responsibility
OF the government which provoked the
war, or that they arc to escape the
duty of making rcparation to tho ut
most of their capacity to those whom
they and the government they sus-
tanned have so grievously wrongcd. The
principles upon which the draft treaty
is based must therefore stand.
Still Considered Enemy
"Untl the signing Of peace the peo
pie of Austria arc and will remain an
enemy people. Upon its signature they
will become state with whom the
Allied and associated powers hope and
expect to maintain friendly relations.
"(2) The Austrian delegates have fur
ther protested against the arrange
ments under the treaty governing their
relations with the new states formed
out Of the late Austro-Hungaran
monarchy
"The Allied and associated powers
feel bound to point out that the dis
abilities from which Austria will suf
fer will arise, not from the provisions
of the treaty, but mainly from the
have pursued in the past. Had the
policy of Austria Hungary been one OF
liberty and justice to all it's peoples
the upper Danube states might have
remained in friendly economic and
political unity. AS it was, the policy Of
asccndancy produced one of the cruel
est tragedies of the late war, when
millions Of the subject people of
Austria-Hungary were driven, under
pain of death, to fight against their
will in an army which was being used
to ,perpetuate their own service, as
we'll as to compass the destruction of
liberty in Europe.
Protection for Independents
MANY of these peoples protested
against the war, and for their pro-
tests suffered confscation, imprison
ment or death. Many more, who were
captured or escaped, joined the armies
of the Allies and played their part in
the war Of liberation, but they arc
now one and all determined, and right
ly determined, to set themselves up as
independent states. They will trust
Vienna no more. The policy of as
cendancy has borne its inevitable
is this partition which lies at the root
of Austra's troubles to-day.
"Domination caused Dissolution"
"Vienna was made the economic and
political centre Of the empire, every
thing was artificially contrated there.
Outlying districts and railways were
starved in order that the ca pital
might thrive. The breakup of Aus
tria Hungary, cutting these centralized
economic filaments in two, can hardly
fail to inflict the severest blows upon
the state Of Austria and its capital
But the dissolution of the monarchy,
with its consequences, is the direct
outcome Of that fatal policy Of domina-
ton for which the people of Austria
are themselves principally to blame.
"(3). The Allied and associated
powers, however, have no wish to add
to the hardships of Austria's position.
On the contrary they are anxious to
do all in their power to assist her
people to accommodate themselves to
their new position and to recover their
prosperity, provided always that it is
HOl at tne expense OF tne new states,
formed out of the late empire.
Economic Notifications
"The breakup Of the monarchy has
given rise to many difficult problems to
the relations between the new states,
which, under the treaty, are its heirs
1t has been recognized as reasonable
that the relations between the citizens
of the succeeding states should be reg
ulated in certain respects differently
from the relations between the clti-
zens Of Austria and those of the other
Allied and associated overs, and in
view of the observations Of the Aus
trian delegation, the Allied and asso-
Gated powers, while adhcring to the
general lines Of the treaty, have made
con iderablc notifications in its eco
nomic provisions"
"The property of Austrian nationals
In territories ceded to the Allied pow
ers is to be restored to it's owners free
from any measures of liquidation, for
hdden s ince the armistice and is guar
anteed similar freedom from seizure or
liquidation in the future. Contracts