3- TTTE 3IORNIXO OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1918. FEARS PRESIDENTS WE DISAPPOINTS SOME mxziQ Uranh ffllottB WILSON'S REPLY RECOGNIZED AS ADROIT POLITICAL MOVE Seme Newspapers See Responsibility Placed Directly on Germany; Others Think President's Note Should Have Demanded "Unconditional Surrender. OF Civilian and Military DERNBERG HUMILIATION HUN Threat of Fight to Bitter End Made in Address. PRINCE MAX IS PRAISED New Chancellor Declared to Repre sent "Old German Ideal, What Is Right 3Ioral. AMSTERDAM. Oct. 8. "Militarism has not attained Us aim of peace by annexation, violence and oppression a peace by understanding is coming: in stead," said Dr. Dernbergr, former Ger man Minister of colonies, speaking: at Chemnitz. Saxony. "With Prince Maximilian," he added, "the old German ideal comes to the fore 'not what is useful, but what Is riht and moral.' Such a peace 'will bring a new era and new and better times will dawn for Germany and the world based on justice in thought and action. A new era means a funda mental revolutionary transformation of governmental systems for the entire future". "Militarism is an expression of violence without the restriction of authority. It terrorizes the entire state life. Important Condition Raised. "President "Wilson's 14 old and five new points can be 'accepted by us If put forward honestly without humilia tion for Germany. We shall not ac cept an unjust, humiliating peace. The new ministry is not only a ministry of peace, but. if necessary, a ministry of national defense, and, if it must be, to the bitter end." COPENHAGEN,-Monday. Oct. 7. The Lokal Anzeiger . of Berlin says that two of President Wilson's points must be considered rejected the separation of Alsace-Lorraine from Germany and the incorporation in independent Po land of Prussian Poland. LONDON. Oct. 8. The German gov ernment, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph Company, intends to grant pardons to a number of politicians imprisoned since the war began, including the So cialist. Dr. Karl Liebknecht, and Wil heim Dittmann. ' A general amnesty, the dispatch adds, probably will be granted to po litical offenders. Dr. Karl Liebknecht is one of the few Socialist leaders in Germany who have consistently stood against the govern ment in its war policies. Dr. Liebknecht was arrested May 1, 1916, on the charge of participating in riots that day in Berlin. In the fol lowing month he was tried on the charge of attempting high treason, sross insubordination and resistance to the authorities. The Socialist leader was sentenced to 30 months' penal serv itude and dismissed from the army. Dr. Liebknecht for several years rep resented Potsdam in the Reichstag. Deputy Wilhelm Dittmann is an In dependent Socialist. His name was linked in October. 1917, with those of Deputies Haase and Vogtherr, other So cialists, with the mutiny in the German fleet. Dittmann was arrested in Berlin in February when he attempted to address a crowd in a Berlin suburb. He was . sentenced to five years' imprisonment for inciting to high treason and was Siven two months additional for re sisting public authority. FRENCH DRIVE FOE FAR (Continued from First Page.) desperate energy all day. To prevent the French crossing the river, they have attacked on the line between Pont Givart and Berry-au-Bac, throw ing large units into action on the cen ter of this front. In spite of the vigor of the enemy's resistance, however, the Aisne has been crossed at Berry-au-Bac, the whole village on the north bank of the river being in the hands of the French, who have also made some progress beyond it. The Germans have also been fight ing fiercely along the Ames. "WITH THE FRENCH ARMY AT RHEIMS. Oct. S. (By the Associated Press.) The last shells fell upon Rheims on Friday, after which the Ger mans retired over the hills to save the guns that fired the parting shots, one of which hit the cathedral. "The crash of it," said an eye-witness to this last blow of brutal force at the inanimate product of supreme art. "sounded like an explosion of im potent rage." Town Is In Ruins. A few more stones fell from the ragged edge of an old breach in one of the arches of the ceiling: another cloud of dust and smoke rose out of the skel eton structure, and German effort at the destruction of the ancient capital of the Rem! was ended. There is little more the Germans could hav-3 done, for Rheims today is in utter ruin, as complete a symbol as even the Germans would wish to leave behind them of the ruthlessness of war as they have waged it. Only the build ires in the outskirts remain erect, and not one of them was left untouched. Toward the center of the town noth ing but the ragged remnants of walls remain standing, while around the ca thedral and other churches even the walls have been reduced to heaps of debris. The cathedral, which required more than 200 years in the building, has been reduced to ruins in four years of more or less constant bombardment. The walls are standing, but daylight shows through them in many places. Great holes in the ceiling are growing larger as the unsupported masonry crumbles find falls. The Way Get Rid of It In Henne tne Cause. The fact that rheumatism depends en an excess of uric acid in the blood, af- lecung tne muscles and Joints, produc ing inflammation, stiffness and pain, is well established. This excess is due xo borne oeiect in tne processes of dl gestlon and absorption, and to torpidity or sluggishness of the liver, kidneys and skin. 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If the German offer was not made in good faith, but was simply a hook baited for suckers, the truth will now speedily be known. Salt Lake Tribune Germans' can ob tain peace by accepting the terms laid down by President Wilson in his ad dress of last January and subsequent addresses, and by withdrawing her forces from occupied territory. But it must be the people of Germany and not the Kaiser and his military advisers who accept the terms and make the necessary promises. The President stands upon his former utterances. Salt Lake Herald We cannot help but regret that the President's note to Germany was not more decisive. ' It should bar any disposition to argue a matter that in the interests of the civ ilized world admits of no argument. Seattle Post-Intelligencer President Wilson's note is consistent with the President's declarations of American aims in the war. Our terms of peace must be accepted without subterfuge or quibble and must be accepted by a German government in which the Kai ser and the junkers have no greater part than the humblest citizen of the empire. Baltimore Sun Probably no one else in the country would have answered the Chancellor in the manner adopted by the President. The general feeling, if the press and other comment on the matter is to be taken as an indication. was that the right answer would be simply a. hot demand for unconditional surrender. But, now that the thing has been done, everyone, we believe, will recognize it as the logical, straightforward thing to do. Indianapolis Star It goes without saying that the reply is not what we have all expected and hoped for. . . . Most of us would wish to see the sin cerity of Germany frankly indicated and our minimum demands set out in naked simplicity and severity. It is the part 6f wisdom, however, to conclude that the President is right, knowing more than we can know. Philadelphia Inquirer If the Nation expected that the President would re turn as the answer to Germany's peace proposals two words unconditional surrender it will be disappointed. Ap parently the time to proclaim that ulti matum (in the opinion of the President) has not yet come. But if Germany sub mits to the requirements of the Presi dent before he will advise our allies to halt the armies in their smashing blows . . . . Germany will have virtually surrendered just the same. Idaho Statesman (Boise) The ques tion as to whether the Chancellor rep resents the German government which has conducted the war, seems to be the most important part of the President's note, in view of the fact that he has repeatedly stated that "we cannot come to terms with them. They have made it impossible." New York World In dealing with the German offensive. President Wilson has employed the same tactics that Foch used in breaking the German military offensive a counter offensive. The President has simply shifted the Issue 'back to Germany and left the German government to get out as best it can of the trap which was so care fully laid for the United States and the allies. Rocky Mountain News, Denver. President Wilson's answer is but the beginning, we fear, of diplomatic cor- WILSON'S 14 TERMS OF PEACE WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. President Wilson's programme of world peace, stated in 14 terms in his address to Congress last January 8 and which the German Chancellor now is asked to say whether he accepts without qualifica tion before the President replies to latest peace proposals, are as follows: 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after' which there shall be no private international understanding of any kind, but diplomacy shall pro ceed always frankly and in the public view. 2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the eeas. outsiae lerruonai waters', alike in peace and in war ex cept as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international cov enants. 3. The removal, so far as possinie. of all economic barriers and the estab lishment of an equality of trade condi tions among all nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance. 4. Adeauate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. S. A free, onen-mlnded and abso lutely Impartial adjustment of all colo nial claims, based upon a strict ob servance of the principle that in deter mining such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations con cerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be aetermmea. 6. The evacuation of all Russian ter ritorv and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will se cure the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her "an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity lor tne in dependent determination of her own po litical development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing: and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment ac corded Russia by her sister nations In the months to come will be the acid test of their good will ot their com prehension of her needs, as distin guished from their own interests and of their intelligent and unselfish sym- Pa7blRelirium. the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored without any attempt to nmn inn en STEVENS CRITICALLY ILL Olympla Man Suddenly Stricken "While Delivering- Al4reM. YAKIMA. Wash.. Oct. 8. While speaking at the unveiling of a pioneer monument near Goldendale. General Hazzard Stevens, of Olympia. became suddenly ill.' His seizure was attributed by" physicians to brain hemorrhage. His condition is reported critical. British Casualties Announced. 'LONDON. Oct. 8. British casualties reported in the week endjng today respondence between Washington and Berlin regarding construction of phrases that may give the enemy time to mend the break along the fronts. . . . The German government la try ing to save for itself something from the wreck of defeat. ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC President Wilson's reply to the German peace note, though cloaked In the language of polite inquiry, is nothing less than a demand on the Hun for unconditional surrender. And there is no doubt that Berlin and the rest of the world will read it in that way. Surrender without conditions. Those are the terms of America and her allies. ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS The Hun government has been outmaneu vered. Since it has chosen, like Hln denburg and Ludendorff, to resort to subterfuge and indirect attack, the President, like Foch and Pershing, has answered his adversary In kind he has adopted "'tactics" rather than point blank fire. SPOKANE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW The President's manner of disposing of the German peace venture probes deeply and unerringly into the weak points of the enemy's position. It cuts away all the cobwebbery with which the Germans love to surround their diplomacy and makes impossible any thing but a frank and straightforward proposal. DES MOINES REGISTER The ques tion is, did the) German Chancellor really mean it? If he did. the way to further negotiations is plain. If he did not mean it. but was bidding merely for home sympathy in face of what he hoped to picture as irreconcilable allied aggression, then the President has adroitly foiled him. If the Chancellor is in earnest and speaks with author ity, no door Is closed to him. If he is playing for position, then he has been outwitted. NEW YORK STAATS ZEITUNG The reply of President Wilson to the re cent peace proposal of the German Chancellor opens a possibility for end ing the war. ... In his answer Pres ident Wilson gives proof that the an nihilation of Germany is not his in tention: that he solely desires sufficient guarantees for a permanent peace. . . We are convinced that Prince Maximilian can and will, in a short while, accede to President Wilson's de mands. FORT WORTH RECORD President Wilson's message tears to tattersthe Teutonic camouflage for a negotiated peace and carries the warning to the German people that annihilation awaits their armies In the field and destruc tion of their fortified cities and towns unless the rulers of Germany step aside and permit representatives of government that can be trusted to speak for the empire. PUEBLO (COLO.) CHIEFTAIN The President has sent a thoroughly Yan kee answer to the German Chancellor "Whattdya mean, peace?" LINCOLN STATE JOURNAL The Wilson reply 1b on a level with his pre ceding state papers. It voices the firm ness of the allied nations in rejecting a premature cessation of the war and it leaves the way open for the central powers to apply once more when they are in a mood to ask a peace that the rest of the world can afford to grant. The President does not shut the door in the face of an honorable peace. New York Herald. Americans feel that there should be nothing that savors even remotely of diplomatic weakening. Unfortunately the PresI dent's note of inquiry is likely to be so construed. . . . Peace is a long way off. for there can be no peace until there is unconditional surrender oy tne enemy We have just begun to fight. New York Times It is open to Ger many to say that this is a demand for surrender. That is what it amounts to and the President speaks v hat is iq the minds of the American people when he makes the surrender of Germany a necessary preliminary to any talk about peace. ereignty' which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to . restore confidence among the na tions in the laws which they them selves have set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of inter national law is forever impaired 8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions re stored and the wrong done to France by Prussia In 1871 In the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly 60 years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. 9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. 10. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development. 11. Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro should be evacuated: occupied terri tories restored: Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality: and international guarantees of the politi cal and economic independence and territorial Integrity of the several Bal kan states should be entered Into. 12. The Turkish portion of the pres ent Ottoman empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now unde Turkish rule should be assured an un doubted security of life and an abso lutely unmolested opportunity of au tonomous development, and the Dar danelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and com merce of all nations under Interna tional guarantee. 13. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include th territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to th sea and whose political and economic Independence and territorial integrit should be guaranteed by international covenant. 14. A general association of nation must be formed under specific cov enants for the purpose of affordln mutual guarantees of political inde pendence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. listed the names of 37.S48 officers and men, divided as iohows: Killed or died of wounds: Officers, 35; men. S150. Wounded or missing: Officers. lZ3a: men, 30.156. Totals: Officers. 1600: men. J S4. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears, the ' Opinions in Congress Differ on Reply to Germany. BLUNT REJECTION ASSUMED Prediction. Generally Made. How ever, That Final Answer Would Bo Blunt Enough. "WASHINGTON. Oct. 8 Sr.ecilt President Wilson's note of inquiry to the Imperial German government was received by Coneress with mixed feel. ings. It came as somewhat of a dlsan- polntment to some Senators and Rep resentatives, who had hoped that the President would reDlv to Germanv with the same blunt rejection to which he reated the Austrian peace proposal several weeks ago. But the prediction as generally made that his final an- wer to Germany would caual their ex pectations. Administration leaders and others pointed out that the note must not be regarded as a reply, but merely as an inquiry. They explained that it was prepared undoubtedly to test the sin cerity of the German proposal and to uimy any advantage the German cov- rnment might have gained with its wn subjects by appearing consclen- iously desirous of peace. "Wine Hies," Says Hitchcock. Senator Hitchcock. of Nebraska. chairman of the foreign relations com mittee, made this statement: The President's Dreliminarv answer is well calculated to devrlon the issue. l win prevent Germanv from conceal ing or disguising the real issue. I be lieve it to have been a wise steD on the part of the President before replying to the note of Prince Maximilian to learn exactly the intention of the Gr- government before framing his reply to the Chancellor. 'The interpretation I would nut unon the President's preliminary answer would be that he intends to reject the German overtures unless Germany ac cepts all the conditions heretofore laid own and at once evacuates all occu pied territory." Complete Withdrawals Possible. I interpret it to mean with regard to tnese evacuations a German with drawal from Belgium. France, Italy. Rumania and Serbia and perhaps also Russia and that thereafter the con ference shall deal exclusively with the details Incident to Germany's un qualified acceptance of the conditions laid down in the President's speech of January 8. 1918. and subsequent sirp plementary conditions stated by him. i interpret tne note also to mean that by the use of the word 'accept' he President means to accept the conditions variously laid down by him ana not to accept them simply as a basis of further negotiations." Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. Re publican leader and senior minority member of the Senate foreign relations committee, and Representative Fess. of Ohio, chairman of the Republican Con gressional campaign committee, ex pressed keen disappointment in the course taken by the President. Lodge la Disappointed. I am keenly disannointed." aid Senator Lodge, "that the President should at thia stage enter into a discus sion with the imperial German govern ment, as he has done in the note signed oy Mr. l.ansing. in his first and second paragraphs he asks for further information and in vites further discussion. It la true that in the last paragraph he inquires whether Prince -Maximilian of Baden represents merely the constituted au thorities of the German empire. Prince Maximilian is the Chancellor of the German empire, appointed by the Kaiser. I do not understand what he can possibly represent except the constituted authorities, which represent the German empire and the German people, unless a revolution has occurred of which the world has as jet no knowledge. Personally I adhere to the statement of the President made In his speech of September 27. in which he said: Compromise Held Impossible. 'We are .all agreed that there can be no peace obtained by any kind o bargain or compromise with the gov ernment of the central empires, becsuse we have dealt with them already and have seen them deal with other govern mnts that were parties to this struggle at irest-Litovsk and Bucharest. . . , The President, answering the sug gestion or tne imperial German gov ernment of an armistice, says the good faith of this proposal rests on the con sent of the central powers to withdraw their armies from invaded territory, Are they to withdraw unattacked from Belgium and Northern France burning and robbing and destroying as they go to positions behind the Rhine, where they will have time and oppor tunlty to refresh their armies and re plenish their munitions? Alsaco and Lorraine are not invaded territory. "I cannot but feel a painful tnxiety as to what effect this note will have upon the allies, upon our armies, upon our soldiers who are fighting and dying and conquering in order to 'crush the thing' with which the President is opening a aiscussion. Conclusive Peace essary. In expressing his disappointment Representative Fess said the President had taken the step "against which the country has been warned." The way has been opened.' said Mr. Fess, "for Germany to save herself by withdrawing her armies within her own border by agreement rather than by retreat under fire, as she has been forced to do the past few weeks. "Peace discussions with Germany be fore our armies are on her soil will not insure the future. I had hoped that no step would be taken to transfer the discussion from the field to the table. 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