The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-01-22

forth TO continue here and there to be
quit mp and maintained.
Tho statesmen of tho world must
plan for peace and nations must ad-
Just and accommodate their policy to
1t as they have planned for war and
made ready for pftiless conquest and
rivalry.
The question OF armaments
whether on land or sea, is tho most
Immediate and intensely practical
Question connected with the future
fortunes OF nations OF mankind.
Il have spoken upon these great
matters without reserve and with the
utmost explicitness because IL has
seemed to me to be necessary If the
worlds yearning desire for peace was
anywhere TO find free voice and ut
terance. Perhaps | am the only per
son In nigh authority among all the
peoples OF tho world who Is at liberty
to speak and hold nothing back. l
am speaking az an individual, and
yet l am speaking also. OF course. as
the responsible head OF "A great Gov
ernment, and | feel confident that
have said what the people OF the
United States would wish mo to say.
May | not add that hope and be-
lleve that | am in effect speaking for
liberals and friends of humanity in
every nation and OF every program
OF liberty? I would fain believe that
| am speaking for the silent mass or
mankind everywhere who have as yet
had no place or opportunity to speak
their real hearts out concerning the
death and ruin they SEQ to have come
already upon the persons and the
homes they hold most dear.
"And in holding out the es-
pectation that the people and
Government Of the United States
will Join tho other civilized ma
tions of the world in guaranteeing
the permanence of peace upon
such terms as ! have named
speak with the greatest boldness
and confidence, because il is clear
to every man who can think that
there is in this promise no breach
in either our traditions or our
policy as q nation, but a fulfil
ment, rather, Of all that we have
professed or striven for.
81 am proposing. as II were, that the
nations should with one accord adopt
the doctrine OF President Monroe as
the doctrine OF tho world; that no ma
tion should seek to extend It's polity
over any other nation or people, but
that every people should be left free
to determine its own polity, it's own
way OF development, unhindered, I'M
threatened. unafraid. the little along
with the great and powerful.
II am proposing that all nations
henceforth avoid entangting alliances
which would draw them into competi-
tions OF power, catch them in a net of
intrigue and selfish rivalry and dis
turb their own affairs with influences
intruded from without There Is no
entangling alliance In a concert of
power. When all unite to act in the
same sense and with the same pur-
pose all act in the common interest
and are free TO live their own lives
under n common protection.
'T am proposing government by the
consent OF the governed: that free
dom OF the seas, which. in interna-
tional conference after conference
representatives OF the United States
have urged with the eloquence Of
those who are the convinced disciples
Of liberty: that In moderation OF
armaments which makes OF armies
and navies power for order merely.
not an instrument OF aggression or OF
selfish violence.
"These are American principles,
American policies. We could stand
for no others. and they are also the
principles and policies OF forward
looking men and women everywhere
and OF every modern nation, and OF
every enlightened community. They
are the principles of mankind and
must prevail"