The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-01
WILSON IS FOR
 ENFORCED PEACE
Declares for Unhindered Use of the Seas and Territorial Integrity for All Nati0ns-Protect
 the Little People.

Washington, May 27.-President Wilson declared tonight, before the League to Enforce Peace, that the United States was ready to join in any feasible association of nations to preserve peace of the world against political ambitions and selfish hostility" and in service of a common order, a common justice and a common peace" He ex- pressed the hope that terms of peace which end the present war woull include such an arrangement.
 Outlining suggestions for peace, which the president said he hoped the United States would make if it has the opportunity to do so, he in- cluded provision for absolute free dom of the seas. a contention which has been the keystone of all diplo- matic discussions with Germany and Great Britain and virtual guaran- tees of territorial integrity and political independence.
 Is He Sees Peoples Wishes.
 T am sure" said the President, that the people of the United States would wish their government to move along these lines:
 "First-Such a settlement with re- gard 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 of degree parties to the pres ems quarrel. Our interests is only in peace and it's future guarantees.
 "Second-A universal association of the nations to maintain the in violate security of the highway of the seas for the common and un- hindered use of all the nations of the world, and to prevent any war begun either contrary to treaty GOV enants or without warning and full submission of the causes to the opinion of the world-a virtnal guarantee of territorial integrity and political independence.'
 Fundamentals of Lasting Peace.
 The fundamentals of a lasting peace, President Wilson said, he be- lieved were:
 "First-That every people has a right to choose the sovereignty un- der which they shall live. Like other nations" the President said we have ourselves no doubt once and again offended against that principle when for a little while controlled by selfish passion, as our franker historians have been hon. orable enough to admit; but it has become more and more our rule of life and action.
 "Second-That the small states of the world have right to enjoy the same respect for their sovereignty 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 disturb ance of it's peace that has it's origin in aggression and disregard of the been thot the peace of the world conclusion, that l am sure that I
 The outstanding lesson of the world war. the President said. has been that the peace of the world must henceforth depend upon a new and more wholesome diplo- macy
 \ Greed, Not Program.
 "So sincerely do we believe in these things" said the President in conclusion, that I am sure that l speak the mind and wish of the people of America when l say that the United States is willing to be- come a partner in any feasible asso- citation of nations formed in order to realize these objects and make them secure against violation"
 The President told his hearers he had not come to discuss a program, but only to avow creed and give expression to the confidence that the world was approaching a day when some common force would be created for "the service of a com mon order. common justice and a