The Arvada enterprise., 1916-06-01
6ASIs FOR E':DIATl0k
Speech Before League to Enforce
Peace Outlines what He viii
Propose II Oher OF Mediation
Is Made by America to Bel
Igererts.

li9eTents.
Western Newspaper Union News Service,
Washington, May 30.-Prcsidcnt
Wilson declared here Saturday nigh,
before the League to Enforce Peace
that the United States was ready to
JON in any leasibie association OF ua.
TORS to preserve the peace OF the
world against political ambition an.
selfish hostility" and in service OF -
CO" mon order, n common justice and
Common peace" lie expressed the
nope mat the terms OF peace whCa
end the present war would include
slch an agreement
Outlining suggestions for peace,
which the President said he hoped the
United States would make if it has
opportunity to do so, he included the
pr vision for absolute freedom OF the
seas, a contention which has been the
keystone OF all the diplomatic discus.
sions with Germany and Great Brit.
ain, and virtual guarantees OF terri
torial integrity and political indopend.
ence.
Officials interpreted the President s
address as n preliminary fcelcr for
I ace in Europe lie outlined the
conditions on which the United
States would move If it made n for,
nal mediatory offer with the idea, it
was understood, of learning how
such suggestions would be received
abroad.
Outlines Peace Proposal.
Il am sure" said the President
that the people of the United States
would wish their government to move
along these lines:
First, such settlement with re,
gard to their own immediate inter.
ests as the bclligercnts 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. n universal association OF
nations to maintain the inviolate sc
curity OF the highway of the seas for
the common and unhindcred use OF
all the nations of the world and &c
prevent any war begun either con
,rary to treaty covenants or without
warning and full submission of the
causes to the opinion OF the world
a virtual guarantee of territorial in
tegrity and political independence"
The fundamentals of lasting
peace, President Wilson said he be
lieved were:
First, that every people has n right
10 choose the sovereign under which
they shall live.
Same Liberty for All Nations.
Liz" other nations" the President
| said, have ourselves no doubt
| once and again offended against that
principle when for a little while con
trolled by selfish passion, as our
rranker historians have been honor
| able enough to admit. but 4, has be
come more and more our rule of lifC
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 expect
and Insist upon.
And. third. that the world has n
right to be free from every disturb
1ncc OF IT. peace that has Us origin
II aggression and disregard OF tho
rights of people aud nations"
Tho outstanding lesson OF the world
war. the President said, had been that
tho u"nc" OF the world must hence
forth depend upon a new aud more
wholesome diplomacy"
III this war has accomplished moth
ing else for tho benefit OF tho world.
said he, 1T has Mt least disclosed q
great moral necessity and set for
ward the thinking Of tho statesmen
Of the world by Who'll" uFu Repeat,
ol uttcTpnCoa Of the leading states
men OF most Of the great nations nov
engaged In wnr have made IA plain
'hpi their thought has come to this.
That the principle Of public right
must hcncoiOrth take precedence oroI
tho Individual interests OF particular
nations, and that tho nations OF tho
world must In some WnN band Thorn
elves together 10 nee that that Tigh,
prevails nGnin7t an" sort rf selfish
aggression. that h0nCpforih alliance
must not be set up against alliance
but there must bc common agree
ment for q common object. and that
Ut the heart Of that common object
must lie the iuyiOlnhlo rights Of poO
pics and of mankind
80 sincerely do we believe In those
'hinpH," said the President IN con
cluslon, that am sure TINT I speak
the mind and wish OF the people Oi
America when ! say that the United
States Ia willing TO become u partner
IN any feasible association Of nations
formed I'm order 80 realize these on
l"rt8 unh max" them r"cur" against
wInlriipn
The President told his hearers ho
had not come 10 discuss program
but only TO 1yOw cfroI md gvt
oppression 10 tho confidence that iho
world wAp approaching 1Hv whom
'pu" common forcn would be- cruH'rl
for Hthn sgrylfg IA common yvITV