Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-05

itself. by processes which would as
surcdly set in.
WRONGS COMMITTED IN THIS WAR
WILL HAVE TO BE RIGIITED
The wrongs, the very dccp wrongs.
! committed in this war will have to be
riEhtcd. That. or course But they
cannot and must not. be rghted by tire
| commission of similar wrongs against
Germany and her allies. The world
will not permit the commission of
similar wrongs as Il means OF rcpara-
ton and settlement. Statesmen must
! by this time have learned that the
! opinion OF tho world is everywhere
wide awake. and fully comprehcnds the
| issues involved. No representative OF
any sclf-c ovcrncd nation will dare dis
! regard it by attempting any such
covenants OF Sclishness and com
| promise as were entered into Mt the
! congress OF vienna. The thought of
! the plain people hero and everywhere
! throughout the world the people who
enjoy no privilege and have very sim
pie and unsophISticatcd standards or
right and wrong. is tho air all govern
mcnts must hcncciorth breathe il they
would live. II is in the fun disclosing
! light of that thought that all policies
must be conceived and executed in this
midday hour Of the worlds life. Ger
man rulers have been ah'r to upse; tho
peace of the world only because the
German people were not suffered, un-
der their tutclaE". to share tho COM
radeship Of the other peoples OF the
world. either in thought or in purpose
, They were allowed 10 have no opinion
OF their own which might be set TN
as rulc OF conduct for those who
exercised authority over them But
the congress that concludcs this war
VIII feel the fall strength Of the tides
that run now In tho hearts and con-
sciences of free men everywhere its
conclusions will run with those tides
All these things have been true from
the very beginning OF this stupcndous
war; and | canmo, help thinking that
/! they had been made plain at the
very outset. tho sympathy and en-.
thusiasln OF the Russian people might
have been once FOR all enlisted on the
side of the ailio2. suspicion and dis
trust swept away. and a real and last
ing union OF purpose effected Had
they believed these thiues at the very
moment OF their revolution and had
thcy been confirmed III that belief
since. the sad reVcrScs which have
recently marked the progress Of their
affairs towards an ordered and stable
government OF free mon might have
been avoided. The Russian people have
been poisoned by the Very same false
moods that have kept tho German poo
pi" in the dark. and tho poison has
been administered by the very same
hands. The only possible antido:c is
the truth II cannot be uttered too
plainly or too often.
SEEMS HIS Duty TO SPEAK
DECLARATIONS or pURroSE
from every point of Wow. therefore.
II has seemed TO he my duty to sneak
these declarations or purpose to add
these specific Interpretations to what
| took the liberty Of saving TO the
senate in January. Our entrance into
tho war has not altered our attitude
towards tho settlement that must come
whom it is over When / said in Jan.
uary that the nations OF tho world
We're entitled not only 10 free path
Ways upon the sea, hut also 10 assured
and unmoicst"d access to those path
ways, was thinking and am ,hirk-
inS now, not Of The smaller and
weaker nations alone. which need our
count"nancc ana support but also of
the great and powerful nations ana OF
our present enemies as well as our
present associates in the war. was
thinking. and am thinking now, of Aus
iria herself, among the rest. as well as
or Serbia and OF Poland Justice and
equality Of rights can nc had only n.
" freat price. We arc seeking per