The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-01

their GNtagohlNlS. but llc aIpIIN" ton Of these assurances may not be equally clear to all-may not bC the same or both sides of the water II think it will be serviceablc if attempt Go set forth what We un' ders;and them to be.
 Want Peace Without Victory
 They imply first Of all that it must be a peace without victory. |It is not pleasant to say this l beg that I may be permitted 10 put my own interpretation upon it and that it may be understood that no other ! interpretation was in my thought. ] am seeking only to face realities and to face them without soft con. sediments. Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanQuishcd It would be made in humiliation, un. der duvcss at an intolerable sacri. flee. and would leave a string, @ ! resentment, bitter memory upor which terms Of peace would rest. not permanently but only as upOr uuicksand Only a peace between equals can last: only a peace the very principles os which is equality and g common participation in a com mon benefit. The right state of mind the right feeling between nations . Is as necessary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement Of yeXec ! questions of territory or of racia. and national allegiance.
 "The equality of nations upoT which peace must be founded, if i . is Co last, must be an equality O. rights: the guarantees exchanged must neither recognize nor imply a difference between big nations anC small, between those that are pow errul and those that are weak. Righ' must be based upon the common strength, not upon the indlyldua strength of the nations upon who's, concert peace will depend. Equal ity of Territory or of resources there of course cannot be; nor any Othel sort of equality not gained in tho ordinary peaceful and legitimate de velopment of the peoples themselves But no one asks or expects any thing more than an equality O rights. Mankind is looking now foi !. freedom of life, for cquipoise 0 . power.
 Poland Should Sc Independent
 And there is a deeper thing in volvcd than even equality of righl .mong organized nations. No pcac an last, or ought 10 last whic' 'oes not recognize and accept tho
 rinclDle ;hat governments deriy ! T their just powers from the con
 snt Of the governed, and that n | 'ght anywhere exists to hand pc { les about from sovereignty to soy
 ~oignity as if they were property.
 ike it for granted, fer instance, ]
 may venture upon a single exam ,lc. that statesmen everywhere ar
 greed that there should be a unit d. independent and autonomous Pc ' md: that henceforth an inviola0l' ,ecurity of life, of worship and O
 industrial and social dcvelopmen
 hould be guaranteed to all people
 rho have lived hitherto under tho ,ower of governments devoted {
 aith and purpose hostile to thei own.
 CT speak of this not because O my desire to exalt an abstract poll
 teal principle which has always beer ,eld very dear by those who havr
 ought to build up liberty in Ameri "a. but for the same reason that have spoken of the other condition If peace which seem to me clearly indispensable because wish frankly 70 uncover realities. Any peace which does not recognize and accept
 his principle will inevitably be up I ct. It will not rest upon the alice ions or the convictions of mankind l The ferment of spirit of whole pop rlations will fight subtly and con 5tantly against it. and all the world will sympathize. The world can be at peace only if it's life is stable and there can be no stability where r,, ,,,;II E. ip rnhaIIiOu whore therC