Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-05

be the bases of law and OF COW
cnant for the life of the world
we shall be willing and glad to
I pay the full price for peace and
pay it ungrudgingly. We know
what uhat price will bc. IL will
be full. impartial justice--justicc
done at every point and To every
nation the final settlement must
affect, our enemies as well as our
friends.
You catch with me the voices OF
humanity that are in the air. They
grow daily more audible, more articu-
late. more persuasive, and they come
from the hearts of men everywhere.
They insist that the war shall not end
In vindictivc action of any kind: that no
nation or people shall be robbed or
punished because the irresponsible
rulers Of q single country have them
selves done deep and abominabIc
wrong. IL Is this thot that has been
expressed i'm the formula, no anncxa-
lions. no contributions. no punitive in
IDENTITIES Just because this crusade
formula expresses the instructive judg-
lncnt rs 10 right OF plain men every
where Il has been made diligcnt use of
by the masters OF German intrigue to
lead the people Of Russia astray--and
the people OF every other country their
agents could reach I'm order that n pre-
mature peace might be brought about
before autocraCy has been taught its
final and convincing lesson and the
people of the world put in control of
their own dcstinlCs.
But the fact that a wrong use has
been made OF Just idea is no reason
why right use should not be made OF
I II ought to be brought under the
IA a. fril gFs .,f 60 raa fYf ..Ta2p OF h.
said again that autocracy must first
be shown the utter futilty OF its
Glazing 70 power or leadership In the
modern world. 1t is impossible to
apply any standard of justice as long
as such forces are unchecked and un-
defeated as the present masters OF
Germany command. Not until thai
has been done can right be set up as
arbiter and peace maker among the
nations. But when that has been done,
as when--God willing 1t assuredly
will be-we shall at last be free to do
an unprecedented thing and this is the
time to avow our purpose to do II.
We shall he free 10 base peace on
generosity and justice, 10 the cxclu-
sion of all selfish claims TO advantage
even on the part of the victors.
Let there be no misunderstanding
Our present and immediate part is to
win the war and nothing shall turn
MS aside from n until II Is accom-
plishcd. Every power and resource
we possess, whether of men, OF money,
of materials, Is being devoted and will
continue To he devoted to that purpos
until Il is achieved. Those who desire
20 bring peace about before that pur-
pose is achieved. | counsel to carry
their advice elsewhere. We will not
ma lot " I,yl n..l
as won only when the German people
say to us, thru properly accredited
representatives, that they are ready TO
agree to a settlement based upon just
ice and the reparation OF the wrongs
their rulers have done. They have done
n wrong TO Belgium which must be
repaired. They have established a
power over other lands and peoples
than their own, over the great empire
Of Austria Hungary. over hitherto free
Balkan states, over Turkey and within
Asia-which must be reinquished
Germany's success by skill, by knowl-
edge, by enterprise. we do not Judge
or oppose, but admired rather. She
had built up for herself n real empire
of trade and influene, secured by the
peace Of the world. We were content
TO abide the rivalries OF manufacture,
science and commerce that were in
volved for us in her success and stand
or fall, as we had. or did not have, the
brains and the initiative to surpass
her. But at the moment when she had
conspicuously won her triumphs of
peace she threw them away to estab-
lish in their stead what the world will
no longer permit to be established
military and political domination by
arms. by which to oust where she
could not excel the rivals she most
feared and hated. The peace we
make must remedy that wrong. Ii
must deliver the once fair lands and
happy people of Belgium and northern
France from the Prussian conquest
and the Prussian menace, but IL must
also deliver the people of Turkey. alike
In Europe and Asia, from the impu-
dent and alien domination of the Prus-
Sian military and commercial aptoc-
racy.
We owe II, however, TO ourselves to
say thaf we do not wish in any way
10 impair or 10 rearrange the Austro-
Hungarian empire. Ii Is no affair Of
ours what they do with their life.
either industrially or politically. We
do not purpose TO or desire to, dictate
to them in any way. We only desire
TO see that their affairs are left in
their own hands, in all matters, great
| or small. We shall hope to secure for
the peoples of the Balkan peninsula
and for the people OF the Turkish en-