The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-13
A NEW EMANCIPATION
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President Wilson's reply to the Vatican peace pro posals can be compressed into five words "No peace with Prussian autocracy"
 The President makes that issue fundamental, sweeping all other questions aside. Everything can be left to compromise and adjustment except the safety and security of civilization There must be guarantees for that. This agony must not be gone through with again" And there can be no guarantee while the present Government of Germany endures. As the President defines the issue:
 The object of this war is deliver the free peoples of the world from the and the actual power of vast military es- tablishment controlled by an irresponsible Government, which, having secretly planned to dominate the world proceeded to carry the plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty the ongestablished practices and long-cherished principles of in ternatonai action and honor which chose its time for the war; delivered its blow fiercely and suddenly; stopped at barrier, either of law or of mercy; swept whole continent within the tide of blood-not the blood of soldiers only, but the blood of inno- cent women and children also and of the helpless poor; and now stands baked but not defeated the enemy of four-fifths of the world. This power is not the German people. It is the ruthless master of the German people. people came under it's control submitted with temporary zest to the domination of it's purpose, but it is business to that the history of the rest of the world is no longer left to it's handling.
 The aims and objects of the United States in particular again defined in square with
 
 The purpose of the United States in this war are known to the whole world-to every people to whom the truth has been permitted to come. They do not need be stated again We seek material advantage of any kind We believe that the intoerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial Germany Govern ment ought to be repaired. but the expense the sovereignty of any people rather a vindicatiOn of the sovereignty of those that are weak and of those that strong Punitive damages. the dismemberment of nf fch opdo elusive economic leagues, deem nexped- lent and in the end than futile, no proper basis Tor a peace of kind, least Of all an endearng peace. That be based upon justice and fairness and the con- rights of mankind.
 And this is the test of such a peace:
 Is it based upon the faith of all the peo- pies involved or merely upon the word of an ambitious and intriguing Government on the one hand and group of free peoples on the other?
 Again has the President proved himself the great spokesman and interpreter of modern democ racy.
 His note to the Vatican is a new Characterization Proclamation emancipation for the German people themselves if they will accept it. no less than for the peoples that already crushed or menaced by ruthless military A peace that should rest upon the rights of peoples not the rights of Govern ments. and upon their equal rights to freedom security and selfgovernment and to partcipation in fair terms in the economic opportunities of the world that is the very cornerstone true civiliza tion Unless that is won out of the blood and weer or this war all is lost, and lost the Germans themselves as well as to the rest of mankind