Evening star., 1917-01-22
TEXT OF PRESIDENTS
ADDRESS TO THE SENATE

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believe that | am in effect speak
ing for liberals and friends of
humanity in every nation and Of
every program of liberty? l
would fain believe that l am
speaking for the silent mass of
mankind everywhere who have as
yet had no place or opportunity
to speak their real hearts out con-
cerning the death and ruin they
see to have come already upon
the persons and the homes they
hold most dear.
"And in holding out the ex-
pectation that the people and
government of the United States
will join the other civilized ma
tions of the world in guarantee
ing the permanence of peace upon
such terms as | have named l
speak with the greater boldness
and confidence, because it is clear
to every man who can think that
there is in this promise no breach
in either our traditions or our
policy as a nation, but fulfllment
rather of all that we have pro-
fessed or striven for
II am proposing, as it were,
that the nations should with one
accord adopt the doctrine of
President Monroe as the doctrine
of the world: That no nation
should seek to extend its policy
over any other nation or people,
but that every people should be
left free to determine its own
polity, it's own way Of develop
ment, unhindered, unthreatened,
unafraid, the little along with the
great and powerful.
Il am proposing that all ma
tons lenceforth avoid entangling
alliances which would draw them
into competitions of power, catch
them in net of intrigue and self
ish rivalry, and disturb their own
affairs with influences intruded
from without. There is no en-
! tangling alliance in a concert of
power. When all unite to act in
the same sense and with the same
purpose all act in the common in
terest and are free to live their
own lives under a common pro-
lection.
Il am proposing government
by the consent of the governed !;
that freedom of the seas which in
international conference after con-
ference representatives of the
United States have urged with
the eloquence of those who are
the convinced disciples OF liberty !;
and that moderation Of arma-
ments which makes of armies and
navies power for order merely,
not an instrument OF aggression
or of selfish violence.
These are American prin-
ciples. American policies. We
can stand for no others. And
they are also the principles
and policies of forward-look-
ing men and women every
where, of every modern nation,
of every enlightened community.
They are the principles Of man
kind and must prevail"
Is the present war struggle
for a just and secure peace, or
only for new balance of power?
| If it be only a struggle for a new
balance of power who will guar
antec, who can guarantee, the
stable equilibrium of the new ar
rangement? Only a tranquil Eu-
rope can be a stable Europe.
There must be, not balance of
power, but community of pow
er; not organized rivalries, but
an organized common peace.
Fortunately, we have received
very explicit assurances on this
point. The statesmen of both of
the groups of nations now ar
, rayed against one another have
said. in terms that could not be
misinterpreted, that it was no
part of the purpose they had in
mind to crush their antagonists.
But the implications of these as
surances may not'be equally clear
to all-may not be the same on
both sides of the water. / think
it will be serviceable if | attempt
to set forth what we understand
them to be.
"They imply first Of all that it