Arizona republican., 1917-01-23

at an intolera BILE sacrifice and would
leave sting, resentment, a bitter
memory upon which terms of peace
would rest not permanently, but only
as upon quicksand. Only a peace be-
tween equals can last; only a peace
the very principles of which is equal
ity and common participation in a
common benefit. The right state of
mind the right feeling between ma
tions, is as necessary for lasting
peace as is the just settlement of
vexed questions Of territory or of
racial and national allegiance
THE equality of nations upon
which peace must be founded, if il is
to last, must be equality of rights; the
guarantees exchanged must neither
recognize nor imply a difference be-
tween big nations and small, between
those that are powerful and those that
are weak Right must be based upon
the common strength, not upon the in
dividual strength of the nations upon
whose concert peace will depend.
Equality of territory or of resources
, there, of course, cannot be, nor any
other sort of equality not gained in the
Ordinary peaceful and legitimate devel-
opment of the peoples themselves. But
no one asks or expects anything more
than equality of rights. Mankind is
looking now for freedom of life, not
for equipoises of mower.
| And there is deeper thing in
volved than even equality of right
among organized nations No peace
can last or ought to last, which does
not recognize and accept the principle
that governments derive all their just
| powers from the consent of the gov
erned, and that no right anywhere ex-
lists to hand peoples about from sover-
eighty to sovereignty as if they We're
property. | take it for granted, for in
stance, if | may venture upon a single
example, that statesmen everywhere
are agreed that there should be a
united, Independent and autonomous
Poland and that henceforth in inviol-
able security of life, worship and of in
dustrial and social development should
be guaranteed to all peoples who have
lived hitherto under the power of gov
ernments devoted to a faith and pur-
pose hostile to their own.
Il speak of this not because of any
desire to exalt an abstract political
principle, which has always been held
very dear by those who have sought to
build up liberty in America but for the
same reason that | have spoken of the
other conditions of peace which seem
to me clearly indispensable because
| Wloli II dilhiy " uncover ItdilLitS ANY
peace which does not recognize and ac-
cept this principle win inevitably bt
upset 1t will not rest upon the affec-
tions or the convictions of mankind
!, The ferment of spirit of the whole pop
ulations will fight subtly and constant
ly against it and all the world viii
sympathize. The world can be at peace
only if it's life is stable and there car
be no stability where the will is in re-
bellion, where there is not tranquility
freedom and right
$50 far as practical moreover, ev-
cry great people, now struggling to-
wards a full development of its re-
sources and of powers, should be as
sured a direct outlet to the great high
ways of the seas. Where this cannot
be done by cesson of territory it car
no doubt be done by the neutraliza tior
OF direct rights of way under the gen
eral guarantee which will assure thu
peace itself. With a right comitv o.
arrangement no nation need be shu
away from free access to the opeI
paths of the worlds commerce.
/ And the paths Of the sea must alil<'
in law and in fact be free. The free
dom of the seas is the sine qua non o
peace equality and opinion. No doub
a somewhat radical reconsideration o
many of the rules of international
practice hitherto sought to be estab
, lished may be necessary in order t
make the seas indeed free and corn
mon in practically all circumstance
| for the use of mankind but the mo
. tive for such changes is convincing
; land cOmDelIing There can be no truS