Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-01-26

SCATTERING a precedent of more than
a century the president, regarding he
Senate with its treaty making power
as his counsellor in foreign affairs, eX-
planned why he believed the time had
come for the world to llnow Amerlcass
position and discussed the underlying
causes on which he believes a perrnan-
ent peace of the world can be maintain
ed.
While President Wilson was speaking
TO the senators after the manner OF
Washington. Madison and Adams. ms
address was in the hands of all foreign
governments or on The way to them.
To End Present War.
In the background OF the fundamental
proposition of whether the United
States should change it's foreign policy.
laid down by Washington and carried
out by a long line of presidents, was the
possibility that out of some such league
of nations might come a way TO n the
present war. For nearly a half hour the
president spoke with members OF the
Senate, members OF the cabinet and
packed galleries listening with atten-
ton. When he concluded there was a
tremendous burst of applause in Whlch
many of the republican senators Jolaea:
When the president had finished n
the Senate returned to it's regular busl-
ness Senator LaFollette. epltomized
the sentiment of sill present by saying:
I'VE have Just passed through a very
important hour in the life of the world.
Republicans In Opposition.
Senators generally reserve comment
on the presidents address, put SONS
republicans who said they did not wish
to be quoted said they were opposed to
both the .'propriety and substance
Briefly, the president in his address,
said that he believed no peace which
was a peace of victory in the present
war would be a permanent peace and
that it must be taken for granted that
peace must be followed by some def
mite concert Of power which will make
1T virtually impossible that any such
| catastrophe should overwhelm US
again.
ut is inconceivable.' he said, that
the people of the United States should
play no part in tina great enterprise.
9 t 81 They canno in honor With
hold the service to which they are
about to be challenged.
That service is nothing less than
this: To add their authority thell
| power to the authority and force OF
other nations to guarantee a ano
justice throughout the world
Requires immense Force.
At another point, the president said:
mo covenant of cooperative peace
| that does not include the peoples of the
new world, can suffice to keep the fu-
ture safe against war"
At that point the president went or
| to say:
IF the peace presently to be made is
to endure, it must be a peace made Sc
cure by the organized major force OF
mankind"
Later he said: 1.-The equality Of ma
lions upon which peace must b.
| founded, if it is to last, must be al
equality of rights"
In holding out the expectation tina
the United States would join other ma
tions i'm a league for peace" the presl.
dent declared it must be clear Ito ever,
mar who can think that there is in thi!
| promise. no breach in either our ira
ditions or our policy as a nation. bu
a fullfilment rather of all that we hav'
professed or striven for"
The president spoke as follows:
Gentlemen Of the Senate: On tn
18th of December last. l addressed al
identic note to the governments Of TIL
nations now at war. requesting them t.
state more definitely than they had We
been stated, by either group Of bellig
erents, the terms upon which the,
would deem it possible to make peace
] spoke on behalf Of humanity and o
h rights of all neutral nations, l:k
our own, many of whose most vital in
terests the war puts in constan
Jeopardy.
Central Powers Ready.
The central powers united in a repl.
which stated merely that they wer
ready to meet their antagonists in con
ference to discuss terms OF peace.
THE entente powers have replie
much more definitely and nave state
in general terms. indeed. but with sui
ficient definiteness to imply details, til
arrangements. guarantees n acts O
r%eparation which they deem to be tn
Indispensable conditions of a satisfac
tory settlement.
I'VE are that much nearer a definit
discussion of the peace which shall en-
the present war. We are that niue
nearer the discussion of the interna
tional concert which will. thereafter
hold the world at peace. In every dis
cussion of The peace that must n thi
war, it is taken for granted that the
peace must be given by some cefInit
concert Of power which will make
virtually impossible thai n sue
catastrophe should ever overwheln u
again. Every lover Of mankind. ever
sane and thoughtful man must tab
that for granted. i
u have sought this opportunity I