Connecticut western news., 1917-01-25

world can suffice 10 keep the future safe against war. and yet there is only one sort of peace that the peoples of America could j-in in guaranteeing
 The elements of that peace must be ele ments that engage the confidence and sat isfy the principles of American govern ments. clements consistent with their po litical faith and with the practical convic tion which the peoples of America have once for all embraced and undertaken to defend
 Peace. the president continued. must be guaranteed Ey force greater than the force of any nation now engaged or any alliance formed OF projected.
 Both groups of belligerents. he re lfted have said that they did not de sire to "crllSh their antagonists"
 ''These assurances imply" he said. first of all that it must be a peace without victory.
 "Fictory would mean peace forced upon the loser, victor's terms forced upon the vanquished. Only a peace between equals can last.
 "No peace can last or ought to last which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed and that no right exists anywhere to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property
 Poland and Sea Outlet.
 Here the president instanced the case of Poland. which he said. all states ch hn imous state.
 Any peace." he continued. which does not accept this spirit will inevita bly be upset The ferment of the spir- it of the whole population will fight subtly and constantly against it and all the world will sympathize.
 'So far as practicable" continued the president. every great people now struggling toward a full development of its resources and of it's powers should be assured direct outlet to the highways of the sea"
 Where this cannot be done by -ssion of territory it can no doubt be done by the naturalization of direct rights of way un- der the general guarantee which will as- sure peace itself
 And the paths of the sea must alike in law and in fact be free. The freedom Of the seas is the sine qua non of peace. equality and cooperation
 No doubt a somewhat radical reconsider. atiou of many of the rules of international Lractice hitherto thought to be established may be necessary to make the zone indeed 1: ee and common in practically all crcum stances for the use of mankind, but the motive for such changes i3 convincing and compelling.
 Tla fro mt fInfh into course of nations is an essential part of the process of peace and of development. It need not be difficult to define or to se- cure the freedom of the seas if the gov ernments of the world sincerely desire to come to an agreement concerning it.
 Limiting All Armaments.
 It is a problem closely connected with the limitation of naval armam ments and the cooperation of the navies of the world in keeping the seas at once free and safe. And the question of limiting naval arma- ments opens the wider and perhaps more difficult question of the limitation of all armies and of all programs of military preparation.
 1 Difficult and delicate as these questions are they must be faced with t. utmost candor and be considered in spirit of real accommodation if peace is to come with healing in its wings and come to stay. There can be no means of safety and equality among the nations if great pre- pondering armaments are henceforth to continue here and there to be built up and maintained. The statesmen of the world must plan for peace, and nations must ad- just and accommodate their policy to it. ] as they have planned for war and made ready for pitilcss contest and rivalry. The question of the armaments on land or SCI, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the flu nf nf
 '"These are American principles American policies" he said in closing We could stand for no others And these are also the principles and poll. cies of forward looking men and wo men everywhere, of every modern na tion, of every enlightened community l. They are the principles of mankind and must prevail.'
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