The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-05-31
NATION READY TO
JOIN FOR PEACE
Declares Wilson, Outlin-
ing Suggestions.
THINKS STRUGGLES END NEAR
Respect of Territorial Integrity
Also Desired By Chief
Executive.
NEW DIPLOMACY Is NEEDED

Washington, May 27.-President
| Wilson declared here tonight before
| the League to Enforce Peace that
| the United States was ready to join
in any feasible association of nations
to preserve the peace of the world
against political ambition and sell
| fish hostility" and in service of "a
| common order. common justice
and common peace" He express
ed the hope that the terms of peace
which end the present war would
include such an arrangement.
Outlining suggestions for peace,
which the President said he hoped
the United States would make if it
has opportunity to do so, he includ-
ed provision for absolute freedom OF
the seas, a contention which has
been the keystone of all the diplo-
matte discussions with Germany and
Great Britain, and virtual guaran-
tees of territorial integrity and po-
litical independence.
Officials interpreted the Presi-
dents address as a preliminary feel
er for peace in Europe. He outlir-
ed the conditions on which the Unit
ed States would move if it made Q
formal mediatory offer with the
idea, it was understood, of learning
how such suggestions would be re-
ceived abroad.
Il am sure" said the President,
that the people of the United States
would wish their Government 20
move along these lines.
"First-Such settlement with
regard to their own immediate inter
ests as the belligerents may agree
upon. We have nothing material of
any kind to ask for ourselves, and
are quite aware that We are in no
sense or degree parties to the pres
ent quarrel. Our interest is only in
peace and its future guarantees.
"Second-An universal associa-
ton of the nations to maintain the
inviolate security of the highway of
the seas for the common and IN
hindered use of all the nations of
the world. and to prevent any war
begun either contrary to treaty COW
enants or without warning and full
submission of the causes to the opin-
ion of the world--a virtual guaran-
tee of te' ritorial integrity and po-
ltical independence
The fundamentals of lasting
peace President Wilson said he be-
lieved were:
"First-That every people has a
right to choose the sovereignty I'M
der which they shall live. Like 9TH
er nations" the President said, 1--WE
have ourselves no doubt once and
again offended that principle when
for little while controlled by selfish
passion as our franker historians
have been honorable enough 10 ad-
nit, but it has become more and
more our rule of life and action.
"Second-That the small States
of the world have a right to enjoy
the same respect for their sovereign
ty and for their territorial integrity
that great and powerful nations ex-
pect and insist upon.
And Third-That the world has
right to be free from every dis
turbance of its peace that has It's
origin in aggression and disregard
of the rights of peoples and ma
tons"
The outstanding lesson of the
world war, the President said, had
been that the peace of the world
must henceforth depend upon "a
new and more wholesome diploma
cy."
Thinks Peace In Sipls.
Berlin, May 26 via London, May
27.)-United States Ambassador
James Gerard is convinced that
peace is in sight, according to an in
terview published in a Munich news
paper to-day from its Berlin CORES
pendent. Mr.. Gerard is quoted as
saying: Nothing can shake my
confidence that peace is on its way"
Sometimes a woman sticks up for
her worthless husband as LOYALTY as