Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-28
WILSON STATES
BASIS OF PEACE
READY TO ASSIST
United States at Service Of Eu.
rope to End Bloody !
Struggle.
FREEDOM OF SEAS
IS VITAL ISSUE
Outlines Fundamentals of Agree
ment Warning Nations Must
Reach.

Washington, ID. c., May 27-presi.
dent Wilson declared here tonight be.
fore 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 self
ish hostility" and in service of "a com.
mon order, "a common justice and a
common peace"
He expressed the hope that the
terms Of peace, which will 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
the opportunity to do so, he included
provisions for the absolute. freedom
of the seas, a contention which has
been the keystone of all the diplomatic
discussion with Germany and Great
Britain and virtual guarantees Of ter
ritorial integrity and political inde-
pendence.
Il am sure" said the President
that the people of the United States
would wish their government to move
along these lines:
Nothing for Ourselves.
"First, such settlement with regard
to their own immediate interest as
the belligerents may agree upon. We
have nothing material of any kind te
ask for ourselves, and are quite aware
that we are in no sense or degrees
parties to the present quarrel. Our
interest is only in peace and it's fu'
ture guarantee. ii.
!, = Second. q universal association ol
the nations to maintain the inviolate
security Of the highway pf the seas
for the common and unhhdered use
Of all the nations Of the world, and
to prevent any war begun either con
trgry. TO treaty covenants or without
warhing.a and full submissions of the
causes tD the opinion Of the world
a vffttial guarantee of territorial inte.
grity ,and;bolitica1 Independence
The 'fundaine entails of a lasting peace
President Wilson said, he believed
were:
Selfish Passion. ..- ...
"Eirst, that every people has right
to choose the sovereignty under which
thew shall live. Like other nations, y
the President said, I'VE have. our.
selves, no doubt, once and again Of
Tended against that principle when for
q little while controlled by selfish pas
sion, as our ,franker historians have
been honorable 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 a right to, enjoy the
same respect for their sovereignty and
for their territorial integrity that
great and powerful naions expect and
insist upon.
"And third, that the world has a
right to be free from every disturb.
ance Of it's peace that has as it origin
an aggression and disregard of the
rights of the peoples and nations"
Wholesome Diplomacy.
The outstanding lesson Of the war,
the President said, has been that the
peace of the wtrld must henceforth
depend upon new, and more whole
some diplomacy.s IF this war has &C
complished nothing for the benefit OF
the world" said me, ''it has at least
disclosed great'moral necessity, and
set forward the thinking of the states
men of the world by whole age. Re.
peated uterances of the leading state
ments of the most of the great nations,
now engaged in war, have made j
plain that their thought has come to
this, that the principle Of public right
must henceforth take precedence over
the individual interests of particular
nations. and that the nations of the
world must in. some way band them
selves together and see that that right
prevails against any sort OF selfish
aggression; that henceforth alliance
must not be set up against alliance,
but that there must be common agree
ment for a common object, and that
at the heart of that common object
must lie the inviolable right of peo-
ples and of mankind.
Willing to Assist.
$50 sincerely do we believe in these
things" said the President, in conclus-
ion, '.that l am sure that speak the
mind and wish Of the people of Amer
lea when say that the United States
is willing to become partner in any
feasible association Of nations formed
in order to realize these objects and
make them secure against violations. I"
The President told his hearers h
had not come to discuss q program,
but only to avow creed and give
expressions to the confidence that the
world was approaching day when
some common force would be created
for "the service Of common order,
a common Justice, and q common
peace"