Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-05
PLEA FOR PEACE OF
WORLD SOUNDED BY
PRESIDENT WILSON
Isoltion of America Thing
of the Past, Declares Exc
cutive in His Second In
augural Address, in Which
He Puts Forth Set of
American Principles.

Washington, March s.
President Wilson sounded a
new doctrine of internation-
alism and world peace in his
inaugural address today but
in the same breath warned
that the United States may
require "a more immediate
association" with the war
than mere armed neutrality.
He spoke of a unity of
American thought, spirit and
action and voiced the view
that this must be an Amer
icanism stepped in world
spirit-instead of the iso-
lated national view of the
past.
FOR WORLD PEACE.
His principal plea for world peace,
spoken before the thousands attend
ing his second inaugural called for:
Limitation. of world armaments.
Equal interest and responsible
ity of all nations for maintenance
of peace.
Equality of nations in all mat
ters of right or privilege.
Destruction of the armed bal
ance of power"
That all the world should sup
port no other power than the view
that governments derive all their
just powers from the consent of
the governed"
Freedom of the seas equal to
all.
Crushing of any attempts with
In a nation to organize or assist
revolution against another ma
tion.
PEACE COMING SOON.
Electric with the spirit of patriotism
of Americanism, of a new world unity,
the speech solemnly suggested that
despite the war fires raging and de-
spite the possibility that this nation
must take a broader hand, still that
peace is coming soon.
"The shadows that now lie dark up
on our path will soon be dispelled," the
president declared.
Armed neutrality is our stand, he
said yet this may not suffice.
I'VE have been obliged to arm our
selves to make good our claim to
certain minimum of right, and of free
dom of action" he declared, on this
subject.
NO OTHER WAY.
we stand firm in armed neutrality
since it seems that in no other way
can we demonstrate what it rs we
insist upon, and cannot forego."
A hush followed this.
Then gravely he continued:
I'VE may even be drawn on, by cir
cumstances not by our own purpose
or desire, to a more active assertion of
our rights as we see them and more
immediate association with the great
struggle itself"
Any such step, he assured. however
will be with unselfish purpose-not
with any view of conquest or national
aggrandizement.
The United States cannot, IL 1t
wishes, stand apart in isolation-it
must regard itself as a world entity
tHlHS anu ACT lnIermS or Ih1S world
spirit.
TEXT OF ADDRESS.
! Following is the text of the presi-
| dents address:
My fellow citizens: The four years
which have elapsed since last stood in
this place have been crowded with
counsel and action of the most vital in
terest and consequence. Perhaps no
equal period In our history has been so
fruitful of significant changes in the
spirit and purpose of our political ac-
| tion. We have sought very thought
! fully to set our house in order; correct
the grosser errors and abuses of our
industrial life, liberate and quicken
the processes of our national genius
and energy and lift our politics to a
| broader view of the peoples essen
tial interests. 1t is a record of singu-
/ lar variety and singular distinction.
But ! shall not attempt to review II.
1t speaks for itself and will be of In
creasing influence as the years go by.
This is not the time for retrospect 1t
is time. rather, to speak our thought.
and purposes concerning the present
and the immediate future.
although we have centered counsel
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