Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-01-26
PRESIDENT URGES
PEACE LEAGUE
QUESTION PUT UP SoUARELY TO
THE COUNTRY IN AN ADDRESS
BEFORE THE SENATE.
Says Lasting Peace In Europe Can
Not Come Through Victory and
America Must Join Concert Of
Power.

Washington. Whether the United
States shall enter world peace
league and, as many contend. there
by abandon its traditional policy OF
isolation and no entangling alliances,
were laid squarely before congress
and the country on January 20 by
President Wilson in a personal ad-
dress to the senate.
For the first time in more than
hundred years. president Of the
United States appeared In the senate
chamber to discuss the nations for
eign relations after the manner OF
Washington, Adams and Madison.
The chief points of the presidents
address were:
That lasting peace in Europe can
not be peace of victory for either
| side.
That peace must be followed by a
| definite concert OF power to assure
the world that no catastrophe of war
shall overwhelm 1t again.
That in such a concert or power
the United States cannot withhold its
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| justice throughout the world.
That before a peace is made the
United States government should
frankly formulate the conditions upon
which 1t would feel justified in ask
ing the American people for their for
NAL and solemn adherence.
1T is clear to every man who
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ate, that there is in this promise no
breach in either our tradition or our
policy as a nation, but fulfillment
rather of all that we have protested
or striven for.
81 am proposing, as II were, that
the nations should, with one accord
adopt the doctrine of President Mon
roe as the doctrine of the world; that
no nation should seek to extend Its
policy over any other nation or PEG
pie, but that every people should b'
left free to determine its own policy
it's own way Of development, unhind
cred: unthreatened, unafraid. the lit
tie along with the great and power
full.
henceforth avoid entangling alliances
which would draw them into compe
titions OF power, catch them in a ne
of intrigue and selfish rivalry, an
, disturb their own affairs with inf,
r ence intruded from without. There
!. no entangling alliance In concert q
3 pow1r. When all unite to act In tn
same sense and with the same pul
pose, all act In the common interos
and are free to live their own live
under common protection.
81 am proposing government by IN
consent of the governed; that fret
dom Of the seas, which In interni
tional conference after conference rel
resentatives of the United State
have urged with the eloquence {
those who are convinced disciples {
liberty, and that moderation OF arms
ments which makes OF armies an
navies a power for order merely, NJ
an instrument of aggression or
selfish violence.
"These are American principle
American policies. We could star
ior Ho otnSlS' anu they aiso arc u
principles and policies OF forwal
looking men and women everywhe
\ Of every modern nation, of every g
q lightened community. They are Il
3 principles of mankind and must pr
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"a While the president was speakii
q copies of his address had been fc
warded TO American diplomats in G
n the belligerent countries for the
81 formation of the foreign offices al
were being prepared for represent
"a lives of neutral governments her.