Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-23

lJhESlDEN- WILSON, in his address to the
Senate yesterday. struck mighty blow
Tor the security and happiness of the world.
His appeal is not for peace. merely, but for
the peace which shall endurc-thc peace
which has its foundations in justice and right.
which considers tho small nation with the
great and which has behind it the physical
force. as we'll as The moral sanction. of
civilized m2nkind
The President assumes that after the war
t-erc must be league TO enforce peace aud
he assumes also that America will be called
on 10 bear conspicuous part in that high
enterprise. His address states the conditions
on which America will be willing to respond
10 that call This people is concerned vitality
ne says. in the manner in which the war is
chded. so lar as our participation in guar
anteeS ol future peace is concerned.
II is 10 be expected that throughout the
nations OF the entente the Presidents declara-
ton OF American principle will meet with
terce antagonism. for he says in so many
words that the peace this nation will be will
ing TO assist i'll guarant eeine must be a
peace without victory He asserts that vic
90! would mean peace forced upon the loser
"a vlciors terms imposed upon the van
quished. Such peace. he says would be
accepted IN humiliation. under duress. at an
lntolclable sacrifice. and would leave ii sting
resentment, a bitter memory. upon which
terms OF peace would rest. not permanently.
but only as upon quicksand'
There can be no question about this Much
as w, may dislike To face the fact il mus, be
apparent that peace dependent OH TIN, com
plete triumph OF either sci OF hcligerents and
followed by Il victors rearrangement of the
map OF Europe. could be preserved ONLY nv
the constant menace OF the same overwhelm-
lnG force which attained il. II would carry
within itself the germs Of its own dissolution
lha' the United States Of America would
enter a league of nations. banded together
TO repress the pleadings of subject races and
reverse all the laws Of economic devclop-
ment, is unthinkablc. NO peace can last. or
ought 10 last says the President (which
does not recognize and accept the principle
that governments derive all their lust powers
from the consent OF the governed and that
no right anywhere exists TO hand peoples
about from sovereignty To sovereignty as if
they were property"
Al any rate, America recognizes these
principles and America will not undertake
10 Snarantc" status founded on their over
'hro"' Nh"h peace shall come. and what
terms IN" hclligerents must say. but they
KNOW now the terms on which the United
states viii act with them in wars aftermath
Government with the consent OF the gov
rrncG, the freedom Of the seas and the limi-
ia'lon OF ornaments. assured by a mighty
union OF free peoples, is the Presidents peace
h'ah h"se are American principles
American policies. he says. we can stand
Tor NO others And they are also the pr,n-
cipies and policies OF forward looking men
and women everywhere OF every modern
nation. OF every enlightened community
lhcy are the principles OF mankind and must
prevail.
me MoNcan Constitutional Assembly has
approved an article giving preference to Mcxi-
cans III the matter OF concessions. Doubtless
the idea is that any graft possible ought TO
go to true patriots.