Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-01-26
PRESIDENT URGES
PEACE LEAGUE
QUESTION PUT UP soUARELY TO
THE COUNTRY IN AN ADDRESS
BEFORE THE SENATE.
Says Lasting Peace in Europe Can
Not Come Through Victory and
America Must Join Concert of
Power.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the United
States shall enter world peac,
league and, as many contend, there
by abandon its traditional policy o.
isolation and no entangling alliances
were laid squarely before congress
and the country on January % by
President Wilson in a personal ad
dress to the senate.
For the first time in more than a
hundred years, president of the
United States appeared Inc the senate
chamber to discuss the nations for.
eign relations after the manner OF
Washington, Adams and Madison.
The chief points of the presidents
address were:
That lasting peace in Europe can
not be peace of victory for either
side.
That peace must be followed by a
definite concert of power to assure
the world that no catastrophe of war
shall oyerwhelm it again.
That in such a concert of power
the United States cannot withhold its
participation to guarantee peace and
justice throughout the world.
That before peace is made the
United States government should
frankly formulate the conditions upon
which it would feel justified in ask
ing the American people for their for
NAL and solemn adherence.
1T is clear to every man who
thinks" the president told the SEN
ate, that there is in this promise no
breach in either our tradition or our
policy as nation, but fulfillment
rather of all that we have professed
or striven for.
Il am proposing, as it were, that
the nations should, with one accord,
adopt the doctrine of President Mon
roe as the doctrine of the world; that
no nation should seek to extend its
policy over any other nation or peo-
pie, but that every people should be |
left free to determine its own policy, |
its own way of development, unhind- |
cred, unthreatened, unafraid, the lit |
tie along with the great and power
full.
Il am proposing that all nations
henceforth avoid entangling alliances
which would draw them into compe-
titions Of power, catch them in a net
of intrigue and selfish rivalry, and
disturb their own affairs with in1u-
ence intruded from without. There is
no entangling alliance in a concert of
power. When all unite to act in the
same sense and with the same pur-
pose. all act in the common interest
and are free to live their own lives
under a common protection.
Il am proposing government by the
consent Of the governed; that free
dom of the seas, which in interua-
.ional conference after conference rep
of the United States
lave urged with the eloquence of
hose who are convinced disciples of
liberty, and that moderation of arma-
nents which makes of armies and ]
lavies power for order merely, not :
IN instrument of aggression or of
elfish violence
These are American principles,
american policies. We could stand 4.
or no others. And they also are the =
Principles and policies of forward !,
boxing men and women everywhere
t every modern nation, of every en- '
ghtened community. They are the :,
rinciples of mankind and must pre-
ALL
While the president was speaking .
opies of his address had been for :,
arded to American diplomats in all .,
lie belligerent countries for the in :,
'rmation Of the foreign offices and =,
ere being prepared for representa-
YES of neutral governments her.