The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1918, Page 8

FOURTEEN Washington, Jan. 9.—America’s pro-' bers of both houses of cot eran of war and Peace, with definite, fessed to believe that the Germans! Another reason for today’s address rms upon which the nations, great | might find the terms laid down ac-/is found in the necessity of making | and small, fighting together against} ceptable as a basis of negotiations and | some reply to the reque: ! German world domination are ready| to hope that a bona fide offer might | Trot to lay down their arms, was given to| result. : | ister, 4 p 8 i ji the world by President Wilson yester-/ "in most quarters, however, thoro| allies join tho peace racuioeteh } ngress in| was Ao suck optimism and the speech ae een, having made it a conditign . was looked upon 1 great war docu. Of any peace agreement that Russia aiingtct Lint upon the] ment—clearing the atmosphere for Should bring her co belligerents into Se aCng taper agalvine to vo the governments and people fighting the negotiations. Not having recog- Peel oun lines. the preside “g it.| Germany, heartening the disorganized nized the Bolsheviki regime as the S, D nt commit-| Russians, and furnishing a light for. Russian government, the only feasible ted the United States to fight and to 7 ‘i continue to fight until it is achieved they cant to cee it Thus he pledged the country to the! . emia allied policy of no separate peace. ‘We| PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT. cannot be separated in interest or di-j vided in purpose” he said. ‘We stand) a8 to the res together to the end.” | MORE SPECIFIC THAN GEORGE anuce so unexpectedly before S¢ pro- | themselves when In response to the universal querry son which impelled the chief executive to make his appear- con- BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE ne MAREE "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1918. REPLY TO LEON TROTZKE way of communication with it ‘appear- ed to be through a public enuncia- tion of American war aims, following the example of Lloyd George. It will be necessary to the success of this purpose that circulation of President pn’s address shall be effected in to which end the full text of The speech, heard by congress at an/ &ress again to enunciate the aims of the speech was sent by cable and hour’s notice and accepted with a|the United States and its co-belliger- wave of aproval that brought together | virtually every element of both houses, | in the opinion of President Wilson the was delivered as a direct response to| Psychological moment had arrived the German challenge in the negotia-; When it was necessary to m tions with the Russians at Brest-Lit-| a strong effort to counteract the evil ovsk. It followed closely and ap-| effects of German duplicity and dou- proved the address of the British pre-) ble-dealing on the Pussians, who had mier, but was far more specific in| been charged to meet the trained Ger- statements of terms, robbing of force; man negotiators. It is felt that no ef- in advance any German peace drive} forts should be spared to prevent a designed to confuse the Entente and resumption of the Brest-Litovsk nego- American governments and their peo- tiations by the Russians, without ear- ple, while at the same time present-| nest but kindly admonition by the al- ing the foundation for genuine negoti-| lies and America of the terrible dan- } ations whenever the Central Powers; gers to which she is exposed. are ready to talk of a just peace. GERMANY’S SUPREME EFFORT. 14 CONCRETE PROPOSALS. The President assumed in his mes- sage to congress that these negotia- tions have been broken off. Yet it is felt in official circles here that, alarm- ed at the irritating effect upon his | own people of the sudden withdrawal j of the longed for peace with their i eastern neighbor, from whom they | had confidently expected to draw vast | supplies of food and raw material | with which to relieve their sufferings, | the Germans will make a supreme ef- | fort to entice the Russians to resume | the conferences by abating their first evtreme demands or by presenting evacuation of all Russian territory them in fresh and spesious language and opportunity for Russia’s poli- | calculated to cover their real mean- tical development; evacuation of pene: Absolute freedom of the seas in 4 peace or war except as they may be closed by international action; removal of economic barriers among nations associating them- selves to maintain peace, guar- lantees of the reduction of arma- ments to the lowest point consist- ent with domestic safety; impar- tial adjustment of colonial claims based upon the principle that the peoples concerned have equal rights with the governments; ents, it was stated autoritatively that the world for distribution. wirel to all the principal capitals of | GERMAN CENSORSHIP ' Probably, in spite of the drastic German censorship rules, designed to keep the German people in ignorance of the truth, the substance of the ad- dress also will leak across the ‘Ger- man frontiers from neutral neighbor- ing states and thus strengthen the hands of the German socialiste party in its struggle with the Pan-Germans | and the military party. ; There are intimations, though no of- ficial admission, that President Wil- son and the British premier spoke with a full understanding as to what ; Was to be said and that the president who said today there is no confusion of counsel among the adversaries of the central powers made his address supplementary to that of the British premier. { i ALLY CO-ORDINATION i Lloyd George’s speech was pre- pared before the abrupt termination of the Brest-Litavsk negotiations and he took a rather honeless view of Rus- sia’s future, declarisg that ‘if Russia act independently, we cannot help the catastrophe.” President Wilson is much more opti- mi ,of the Russi SPECIFIC PURPOSES torial waters at the south of the Scheldt, Issues of Life and Death. ‘The issues of life and death hang upon these definitions: ‘There is moreover a voice calling for these definitions of principle and of Leon’ ment of aims of Germany’s enemies 4, y, the Bolsheviki foreign min-| today as compared with preceding ut- of Mi fonts mied. le the volce that America and the entente: terances of President Wilson and even trate and all ae helpless Tie ne eala conferences, ' of the recent declarations of Lloyd seem before the grim power of Gor: N George are noticed, but it is stated many which has hitherto known no {hat these are unimportant and not de-: relenting and no pity. Their power, Se eae Sieibiee sarect oF weaken apparently, is shattered, and yet their; i ‘ soul is not subservient. They will not basis for any peace that might be con- yield either in principle or in action. sidered. n The conception of what is right, of EVACUATION ANDO RESTORATION. | What is human, and honorable for| them to accept, has been stated with One instance is the use of the term| 5 frankness, a’ largeness of view, a “Evacuation and restoration” by Pres-' ident Wilson in regard ‘to Belgium in- ; generosity of spirit and a universal; human sympathy which must chal-| stead of ‘restoration and reparation.’ ‘lenge the admiration of every friend This ‘restoration” the president is! of mankind, and they have refused to said to hold, must be at the expense of Germany and not of all of the war- |; compound jiuelr Weal me aie | ring states as proposed by the Rus- sians, so the difference in phrasing is not regarded as substantial. Open and Above Board. ' ‘It will be our wish and purpose that the proposals of peace, when they The third article in the president’s gre begun, shall be absolutely open’ program, declaring against economic and that they shall involve and per- warfare, is regarded here as in line mit henceforth no secret understand- with the better reasoned conclusions jngs of any kind. of the entente ministers at present,| quest and aggrandizement is gone by; ‘though on its face it is in conflict with a 22 4 we The day of con- so also is the day of secret covenan’ the declarations of the Paris confer-/ entered into in the interests of par- ence. ITALIA IRREDENTIA The demand for the readjustment of Italy’s frontiers along national lines ticular governments, and likely at! some unlooked for moment to upset the peace of the world. j Violations of Right. “We entered this war because vio- is expected to be welcomed by the jations of right had occurred which Italians as full recongition of their cyt ys to the quick and made the life ‘Italia Irredentia” aspirations, some- 9¢ our own people impossible unless thing heretofore not forthcoming from they were corrected and the world se- America. In his article providing for an in- currence. cured once for all against their re- What we demand in this dependent Polish state, the president war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to is said to mean that freedom shall be ourselves. It is that the world be) given not only to Russian Poland, but made fit and safe to live in; and par- to the Poles in Austria:and Germany. ticularly that it be made safe for FERGUSON RATES SHIP PRODUCTION otttalt which Germany has dug rot purpose, which is, it seems to me, : | more compelling than any of the mov- Some slight difference in the state- ing voices with which the troubled air: | ewport News Expert Places An- nual Tonnage Production at 3,000,000. ESTIMATES FROM 5 TO 8 Lack of Housing Facilities at Building Stations the Great Obstacle. Washington, Jan 9.—America’s pro- bable output of merchant ships ini 1916 was put at thre million tons by Homer L. ‘Ferguson, president{ and general manager of the Newport; News Shipbiulding company in testify- he did not condemn the wooden ship program, Mr. Ferguson said that ho doubted if the vessels after they were Suilt would be fit for trans-Atlantic service. They could be used to great advantage, he said, on coastwise runs. FIREMEN BURIED IN DEBRIS OF CHICAGO PICTURE. THEATRE Chicago, Ills, Jan. 9.—Several fire- men were buried in the ruins when a burning moving picture theatre col- lapsed Tuesday. The audience had left the theatre before the fire started. ' Many fire companies were called, | but were handicapped on their run by the snow filled streets and the blaze was practically unmanagable when they arrived. Police and private ambulances were rushed to the scene. It is not known how many. firemen were caught by the falling walls. ‘Three were rescued. and are in hospit- als. Their condition is reported crit- ical. Police said that several other persons probably were caught in the ing at the senate ship building in-j collapse. quiry. Estimates frequently made of; from five to eight millions he declared were misleading and should not be permitted to go unchallenged. The greatest obstacle now in the way of rapid construction, Mr. Fer- guson said, is poor housing facilities for shipyard workers. His story of housing conditions at New port News so stirred the committee that ya sub- committee . comprising Chairman Fletcher and Senator Harding was ap- pointed to confer tomorrow with the proper government bureau with a view to obtaining immediate relief there and elsewhere. Ferguson Makes Impression. The testimony of Mr. Ferguson made a visible impression on the com- It also is stated that the demand for every peace-loving nation, which, like mittee. He did not hesitate to criti- “free and secure access to the sea” our own, wishes to live its own life, | for the new Polish state does not determine its own institutions, be as- mean that Poland should extend her sured of justice and fair dealings by soveignty over eastern’Prussia to the the other peoples of the world as Baltic sea, but simply that she should against force and selfish aggression. be given the right to free communica-; All the peoples of the world are in ef- tion with the Baltic sea ports, a pri-, fect partners in this interest, and for ic and hopeful of the awakening vilege similar to that enjoyed by Ger- | our own part we are very clear that ans to the dangers of the many in traversing Holland's terri- | unless justice be done to others it Belgium; evacuation of French territory and righting of the Al- sace-Lorraine wrong; readjust- ment of Italy’s frontiers along rec- cognizable lines of nationality; free opportunity for autonomous | development of the people's of | Austria-Hungary; evacuation of | Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro, and guarantees for all the Balkan states; sovereignity for Turkey's portion of the Ottoman empire and autonomy for other national | an independent Poland with a } cess to the sea; and general as- | sociation of nations for muitual | | | fuarantees of independence and | | |GERMAN PRISONERS | | | | territorial integrity to large and small states alik SYMPATHY FOR RUSSIA A notable feature of the address; was the sympathetic atitude of the, president toward the Russian repre-| sentatives who dealt with the Ger-) mans at the peace confernce—the| Bolsheviki—often execrated for their defection from the entente and for| permitting themselves to be drawn in- to the Teutonic peace trap. The Rus-| t sians, he said, presented a perfectly clear statement of the principles upon; which the ywould be willing to con-| ‘ clude peace, were sincere and in ear-| nest, and when they found that the ac-| tual German terms of settlement came/ from the military leaders who had no! thought but to keep what they had) taken, the negotiations were broken off. PRUSSIAN FAITHLESSNESS Upon the question of whether the Russians and the world are to listen * to the military and imperialistic min- | f ority which so far has dominated the! RE Teutonic policy, or to the liberal lead- 3 Be ers and parties who speak the spirit; fae and intentions of the Russians adopt: | i ed by the German reichstag last July, | the president declared, must depend | i the peace of the world. This was in| line with his previous declaration that | the word of the present rulers of Ger-) many could not be taken for anything | worth while; but he took care to dis- | i claim any intention ‘to suggest a change in German institutions. | PEACE OR WAR SPEECH? Everywhere in Washington it was agreed that the president had made al great address and had given expres sion to the views of the American IN UNITED STATES MAKE Ei iestes ’ 7 TOY SOLDIERS LIKE THE KAISER’S OWN BIRNOUIST REFUSES anc mini member of the Prinz Eitel Frederick, prisoner of war at Fort MePhe:sou, Ga., who has spent his idle moments making toy sol- clic fashioned after the well known German model, helmet all. Other prisoners make toy battleships, sailing vessels and ature cannon. | will not be done to us. The program | of the world peace, therefore, is our program. 10 CONFIRM RUMOR RELATING 10 LIND St. Paul, Jan. 9—Governor Burn- quist last night continued to refuse to either deny or confirm insistent re- | ports that former Governor John Lind , had resigned from the State Public Safety commission. “Governor Lind might have. some- | thing to say about the matter,” he i suggested, declining to make any com- , mittal statement himself. Many Uses for Palmyra Palm. | There are said to be about 800 uses for the palmyra palm, which grows throughout tropical India. MOTHERS, 00 THS— When the Children Cough, Rub | Musterole on Throats and Chests | No telling how soon the symptoms may develop ‘into croup, or worse. And then’s i when you're glad you have a jar of Mus- | terole at hand to give prompt, sure re- lief. It does not blister. As first aid and a certain remedy, Musterole is excellent. Thousands ct | mothers know it. You should keep a jar in the house, ready for instant use. 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