Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
Topeka (Kan.) Capital.

The President kicked the peace Dali
into the circle and kicks it back when
Kansas City (Mo.) Star.
In the plan for a league to enforce
peace President Wilson undoubtedly
has presented to the country lofty
ideal and one that must arouse tne
sympathetic attention of the worio.
The practical obstacles in the
way of such a league are so great as
to seem insurmountable.
Boston Advertiser.
Declarations about guaranteeing
peace and justice throughout the world
don't mean much coming from man
who in one of the greatest crises OF
the world history lamentably failed to
undertake the fulfillment of such guar
antees.
In dealing with the conditions upon
which the present war must be settled
II this country is to join in guarantee
the Presidents statement smacks very
strongly of German influences
Boston Journal.
Mr.. Wilson has offered not one prac-
teal idea toward ending the present
war and preventing the wars OF the
future The great truth in this war
and future. is that nations live to COM
pete and compete to live. Mr.. Wilson
had offered to rebuild the universe.
me Senate gapes at him, Europe will
pity him.
Toronto Globe.
Forced to defend their national rights
and the liberties of Europe while in
state of unpreparedness for war the
allies are now asked. in the third year
or war. by the head of a neutral to
allow the aggressor to escape the con-
sequences of his unparalleled crimes
against civilization and to spare him
President Wilson has not aided the
cause of peace in Europe by his in
PREVENTION at this stage
Boston Herald.
While not disposed to regard the two
sets OF combatants as on a parity in
responsibility for the war, we believe
PRESIDENT Wilson's philosophy of a
peace without victory essentially sound
IN the light of human experience. II
MS plan for concert of nations to
make the Monroe doctrine a policy ap-
piicable to all peoples has any vitality
IL must rest on foundation more Sc
cure than that which the hatreds re-
sulting from complete vanquishment
OF the Teutonic powers would produce.
He is arguing for a cause almost as
Old as human history, but, we believe,
one that is destined to ultimate tri-
umph, because so necessary if civiliZa-
ton is to persist in the western world.
Buffalo Express.
We do not anticipate that this ad-
dress will contribute to an early peace
or that it will urge the United States
nearer to the brink of war. but it
gives the United States better posi-
ton in world politics than 1t had occu-
pied since August 1. 1914, and it should
give to a great many Americans whose
efforts to be neutral in thought" have
led them into strangely un-American
pathways a better idea than they have
yet had Of how they ought to think.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The principles laid down by Wash
ington against entangling alliances
have a bearing on the ambitious scheme
of the President which includes parti-
tioning Europe so as to insure racial
peace and tranquility, the limitation OF
armament and the assurance of direct
outlets to the highways of the sea for
every great people, and which involves
to the belligerents on either side "a
peace without victory" Our entrance
into a council of nations for the real
ization of these objects, praiseworthy
as some of them may seem, would place
upon US the obligation of dedicating
our resources of every description to
their enforcement.