The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-01-26
President Paints Path
To SerpicesF For America
Lays Pedce Plan Before aSfn1te- World Must Join
to Prevent Wa,s---JJp&ed States Cannon in
Honor Remain AtcOf From Great Task.

remain in the position of being "half
IN and half out" of world affairs. In
ms speech accepting his second nomi-
nation and in other public addresses
ne had touched upon the same senti-
ment which found its full development
In his address today.
The American people," the pres
ioent told the senate, "can not in honor
withhold the service to which they
Fare about to be challenged"
They owe it to themselves" he
bsaid, "and to the other nations of the
lworld to state the conditions under
(which they will feel free to render if.
/ am here to attempt to state those
|;co9ditions. The present war must
tnrst be ended, but we owe it to con
aor and to just regard for the opin-
ION OF mankind, to say that so far as
our participation in guarantees of
future peace is concerned, it makes
Z great deal of difference in what
way and upon what terms it is
ended"
While the United States would
have no voice in what those terms
might be, the president said. it
would have a voice in determining
whether they should be made lasting
py guarantees of universal covenant.
NO covenant of cooperative
peace" said he, "that does not in
clude the peoples of the new world
can suffice to keep the future safe
AGAINST war, and yet there is only
Pne sort of peace that the people
oiSAmerica could join in guaranteeing.
HE elements. of that peace must be
tne elements that engage the conf
aence and satisfy the principles of the
american governments, elements con-
Fslstent with their political faith and
with the practical convictions which
the peoples Of America have once for
al g embraced and undertaken to de-
rom this uttefance all the pres
ldent's hearers drew their common
conclusion that he was holding ont
TO the old world warning that if it
would command the potent influence
Oh the new for the future peace of
all, the settlement of the war must in
volVe concession and sacrifice, equal
ity OF rights, freedom of the seas and
ms own words "inviolable security of
lie, OF worship and of industrial and
social development to all neo-
pies who have lived hitherto under
Ihe power of governments devoted
TO faith and purpose hostile to their
own"
lie specifically mentioned that the
statesmen of all the belligerents have
agreed that there should be "unit-
ed, independent and authonomous
Poland" but his words were con-
strued to apply to Alsace- Lorraine
Belgium, the Italian portions of
austria and the mixed nationalties Of
the Balkans as well.
Some of the senators who disagreed
with the president openly referred "a
tnls portion of his address as "an at
Tempt to parcel out Europe" and an
interference in the affairs of the East
ern hemisphere.
Nevertheless the president went ex-
haustively in that phase of the nro-
posal, saying "the world can he NJ
peace only if life is stable and there
can be no stability where the will is
IN rebellion, where there is not trar-
guilty of spirit and sense of Justice
OF freedom and of right.
Dealing with the question of arma-
ments, which he declared to be "tbe
most immediate and intensely prac-
tlcal question connected with the fn
Iere fortunes of nations and of man.
Hino, the president declared there
couia be no assurance of safety if
great armaments were to he builf IN
ana maintained and that difficult IS
the question might be at must ho
raced with the greatest candor'. and
decided in spirit of real accom,oo-
dation." 0''''''
previously the president had touch
eu upon a collateral point when he
said: '''
Mere agreements may not mako
peace secure. 1t will be absolutely
necessary that force be created as
guarantor of the permanency of the
settlement, so much greater than the
iorce OF any nation now engaged or
any alliance hitherto formed or pro-
ected, that no nation, no probable
combination of nations, could face or
"ltnstand it. If the peace presently
10 De made is to endure it must be
peace made secure by the organized
major force of mankind"
This declaration called 10 the minds
OF the presidents hearers the state
ment of Arthur Lalfour. British for
elgn minister, in his recent note which
SAID an international sanction for
peace should be backed by a force
winch would give pause to the hard
est aggressor."
The president, in his address, said: