The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-01-26
PERMANENT PEACE
POSSIBLE ONLY
WITH JUSTICE
President Wilson Proposes
World League to En-
force Peace.

For the first time in more than a
hundred years a President of the
United States appeared in the Senate
Chamber to discuss the nations for
elgn relations after the manner of
Washington, Adams and Madison.
Inc effect was to leave Congress, all
offlclal quarters and the foreign dip-
lomats amazed and bewildered I'M
meolately there arose a sharp divis-
ION of opinion over the propriety as
well as the substance of the Presi-
dents proposal.
81 am proposing, as it were. that
the nations should with one accord
adopt the doctrine of the world: that
no nation should seek to extend it's
policy over any other nation or peo-
pie, but that every people should be
lett free, to determine it's own poli
cy' Its own way Of development, un-
hlndered, unthreatened, unafraid. the
little along with the great and pow
erful.
81 am proposing that all nations
henceforth avoid entangling alliances
which would draw them into compe-
tltlons of power, catch them in a net
of intrigue and selfish rivalry and
disturb their own affairs with influ-
ence introduced from without. There
is no entangling alliance in a con-
cert of power. When all unite to act
IN the same sense and with the same
purpose, all act in the common inter-
est and are free to live their own
lives under common protection.
81 am proposing a government bv
the consent Of the governed: that
freedom of the seas, which interna-
tlonal conferences after conference of
representatives of the United States
have urged with the eloquence of
those who are the convinced disciples
of liberty, and that 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, Am
erican policies. We could stand for
no others. And they are also the
principles and policies of forward
looking men and women everywhere
of every modern nation, of every en-
llghtened community. They are the
principles of mankind and must pre-
vail"
While the President was speaking
copies of his address bad been for.
warded to American diplomats in all
the bellgerent countries for the in
formation of the foreign officers. and
were being prepared for representa-
tlves of neutral governments here.
Back Of the fundamental proposal
for some sort of international sane
ton for preservation of the future
reace of the world now already ac
cepted in principle by both sets of
heilgerents in their replies to Presi-
dent Wilson's peace note, lies the pos
SlhiIjty, which the President today op-
onlv EXPRESSED, that thereby may be
laid the groundwork uron which an
approach may he made to an end of
he present conflict.
In rnbHc utteranceS the President
haF hitherto expressed the conviction
th2t the present was the last great
War in which the United States could
% 2 neutral: that it no longer could
"e"a;N in the position Of being 'half
- ard h'lf out" of world affairs. In
his speech accepting his second nomi-
,''ron and N other public addresses
he has touched unon the same senti-
,,oH9t which found its full development
n his address to-day.
The American peoplP." the Presi-
dent to.d the Senate, '"cannot in hon
Or withhold the service to which they
are about to be challenged
,"IheV owe it to themselves" he
s',9ld' and to the other nations of
ne world, to state the conditions un-
Ter which they will feel free to rem
Ter it. | am here to attempt to state
nose conditions. The present war
must first be ended, but we owe it