Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-02-02
Peace Lasting Through ALI Time
Should Recognize Equality of
All, Declares President.
WAYTOSEAOPEN TOALL
New Monroe Doctrine Urged in
Plan for League to Stop Clash
of Armed Forces.
western Newspaper union News Service.

Washington, Jan. PA free Poland,
10 one Of the necessities Of peace.
when belligerent Europe sits down TO
make a treaty, Woodrow Wilson told
the Senate Monday. And that peace,
the President declared, must be CIV
en- by some definite concert Of power
which will make 1t virtually impossi-
BILE that any such catastrophe"-the
war-'should overwhelm us again."
To that end, said the President, dis
cussing his idea of a World League to
Enforce Peace, the people of America
should add their authority and their
power to the authority and force of
other nations to guarantee peace and
justice throughout the world"
such a settlement" he added, "can.
not now be long postponed" but, he
declared, any treaty which ends the
var must be mot merely a peace that
will serve the several interests and
immediate aims of the nations en-
gagged" it must be a peace without
victory. He realized, he declared,
that mere terms of peace between
the belligerents will not satisfy the
belligerents themselves" and thus
brings the need Of a World Peace
league.
Victory" declared the President,
would mean peace forced upon the
loser, a victor's terms imposed upon
the vanquished," and, he asserted,
only a peace between equals can
last" When the war ends, he said,
"the paths of the sea must, alike in
law and fact, be Free" because "the
flee, constant, u-nthreatened inter
course of nations is an essential part
in the process Of peace and develop
ment."
German Reply to Note is Indefinite.
The President spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Senate: On the
18th of December last | addressed an
identical note to the governments of
the nations now at war, requesting
them to state more definitely than
they had yet been stated by either
group of belligerents the terms upon
which they would deem 1t possible to
make peace. l spoke on behalf of hu.
manity and of the rights of all neutral
nations like our own, many of whose
most vital interests the war puts in
constant jeopardy.
The central powers united in a re
ply which stated merely that they
were ready to meet their antagonists
in conference to discuss terms OF
peace.
The entente powers have replied
much more definitely and have stated
in general terms indeed, but with suf
ficient definiteness to imply details
the arrangements, guarantees and
acts of reparation which they deem tc
be the Indispensable conditions of
satisfactory settlement.
Peace only by Union Of Powers.
We are that much nearer a definite
discussion of the peace which shall
end the present war. We are ina
much nearer the discussion of the in
ternational concert which must there
after hold the world at peace.
In every discussion of the peace
that must end this wal 1t is taken foI
granted that peace must be given by
some definite concert of power which
will make it virtually impossible tina
n catastrophe should ever over
whelm us again. Every lover OF man
kind, every SAN and thoughtful mai
must take that for granted.
l have sought this opportunity Il
address you because l thought that
owed it TO you, as the council associ
ated with me in the final determine
ton of our International obligations
to disclose to you, without reserve, thu
thought and purposes hat have beef
taking form in my mind in regard t
the duty OF our government in thesl
days to come, when 1t will be neces
sary to lay afresh and upon a new
plan, the foundations Of peace amonl
the nations.
America to Play Part In Peace.
It is inconceivable that the peopl
Of the United States should play n
Part in that great enterprise. To TAX
part in such a service will be the OF
p~ortunity for which they have sough
to prepare themselves by the YER
principles and purposes Of their pc
ity and the approved practices Of thei
government ever since the days whel
they set up a new nation in the hig.
and honorable hope that It might, /
all that 1t was and did, show mankin
the way to liberty. They cannot, 1
honor. withhold the service to whrc.
they are now about to be challenged
They do not wish to withhold II. Blu
they W 1t to themselves and to tn
other nations of the world to state tn
conditions under which they will fec
free to render 1t.
That service is nothing less tina
this-to add their authority. and thei
power, to the authority and force G
other nations to guarantee peace an
Justice throughout the world. Such
settlement cannot now be long pos
poned. II is right that before it come
this government should frankly form
late the conditions upon which
would feel justified in asking u pee
pie to approve its formal and solem
adharauna IN a League for Peace.