The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-30
WILSON DECLARES FOR
WORLD PEACE LEAGUE
INTO SENATE CHAMBER
w. ,ru STATEMENT OF HIS
,,rys MONROE DOCTRINE

m,cHINGTON, D. C.-Whether
Irni+od States shall enter a world
'n' 90 league and thereby abandon its
I.a5tional policy of isolation was
/ ia souarely before congress and the
Slu 4ru nv President Wilson in a
eersonal address to the senate :,
ror the first time in more than a
! ,.a3rod years a president of the
r r' States appeared in the senate
1n,bpr to discuss the nations for
-. relations after the manner of
Washington, Adams and Madison.
rbo effect was to leave congress, all
na;oI quarters and the foreign dip
I onv,ts amazed and bewildered. I'M
lo onJ;stelv there arose sharp division
1 lIeo union over the propriety as well
VI + tbn substance Of the presidents
pJ While the president was speaking
.onies of his address had been for
s aaprdpd to American diplomats in all
We, W" halligerent countries for the in
tnr of the foreign Offices and
r ly being prepared for representa-
.;ros Of neutral governments here.
For International Sanction.
Rack of the fundamental proposal
for some sort of International sane
t; vl for preservation of the future
noacp of the world, now already ac-
esnted in principle by both sets of
bsHgerents in their replies to Presi-
dsnt Wilson's peace note, lies the pos
aEIity, which the president Monday
s menly expressed that thereby may
he laid the groundwork upon which
an approach may be made to the end
of the present conflict.
In public utterances the president
has hitherto expressed the conviction
HAT the present was the last great
n var in which the United States could
be neutral; that it no longer could
remain in the position of being "half
in and half out Of world affairs. In
i his speech accepting his second NOM
nation, and in other public addresses
he had touched upon the same senti-
ment which found it's full develop
ment in his address Monday.
"The American people," the presi-
dent told the senate, "can not in
honor withhold the service to which
they are about to be challenged"
They owe it to themselves" he
said and to the other nations of the
world to state the conditions under
which they will feel free to render it.
am here to attempt to state those
= conditions
From his utterances all the presi-
dents hearers drew the common con-
clusiOn that he was holding out to
the Old World a warning that if it
would command the potent influence
n the new for the future peace of
Il, the settlement of the war must
nvolye concession and sacrifice,
quality Of rights, freedom of the
eas, and in his own words, "inviol-
Die security of life, of worship and
Industrial and social development
to all people who have lived
therto to a faith and purpose hostile
their own" He specifically men
oned that the statement of all the
elllgerents have agreed that there
Mould be "a united, Independent and
utonomous Poland" but his words
Rere construed to apply to Alsace,
Orraine, Belgium, the Italian por-
ions of Austria and the mixed ma
lonaIltles of the Balkans, as well.
Comment Is Varied.
Some Of the senator's who dis
greed with the president openly re-
erred to this portion of his address
an attempt to parcel out Eu-
ope and an interference in the af-
al rs OF the eastern hemisphere.
MEMBERS of congress generally do
W regard the presidents proposals
calling for any action at this time