The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-22
PROGRAM FOR
WORLD PEACE
CONTINUED from page IL

them. The free, constant, IN
threatened intercourse OF nations
is an essential part of the pro-
cess of peace and development.
1T need not be difficult either
to define or to secure the free
dom of the seas if the govern
ments of the world sincerely de-
sire to come to an agreement
concerning it.
1T is a problem closely con-
nected with the limitation OF
naval ornaments and the cooper
alton of the navies of the world
in keeping the seas at once free
and safe. And the question OF
limiting naval ornaments opens
the wider and perhaps more dit
ficult question of the limitation
of armies and of all programs OF
military preparations. Difficult
and delicate as these questions
are, they must be faced with the
utmost candor and decided In a
spirit of real accommodation II
peace is to come with healing In
its wing and come to stay. Peace
cannot be had without conces-
sions and sacrifice. There can
be no sense of safety and equality
among the nations il great pre-
.ponderating ornaments are
henceforth to continue here and
there to be built up and maintain
ed. The statesmen of the world
must plan for peace and nations
must adjust and accommodate
their policy to it as they have
planned for war and made ready
for pitiless conquest and rivalry.
1.-The question of ornaments
whether on land or sea. IS the
most imminent and intensely
practiced with future fortunes OF
mankind.
Speaking for All.
81 have spoken upon these
great matters without reserve
and with utmost explicitness be-
cause it has seemed to me to be
necessary as world yearning
desire for peace was anywhere
to find free voice and utterance.
Perhaps am the only person
in high authority among all the
people of the world who is at
liberty to speak and held aS::
ing back. I am speaking as an
individual and yet am speaking
also on the other hand as re-
sponsible head of great gov
eminent, and l feel confident ]
have said what people Of the
United States would wish me to
say. May / not add that ! hope
and believe that I am in effect
speaking for liberals and friends
of humanity in every nation and
of every program of liberty? l
would fain believe that / am
speaking for the silent mass OF
mankind everywhere who have
as yet had no place or oppor-
tunity to speak their real hearts
out concerning the death and
ruin they see to have come al
ready upon persons and the
homes they hold most dear.
"And in holding out that ex-
pectation that the people and
government Of the United States
will join the other nations OF the
world in guaranteeing the per-
manence of peace upon such
terms as I have named, / speak
with the greatest holiness and
confidence because it is clear to
every man who can think that
there is in this promsie no breach
in either our traditions or our
policy as nation, but fulfill
ment rather of all that we have
protested or striven for.
The Monroe Doctrine:
IL am proposing. as 1t were,
that the nations should with one
accord adopt the doctrine of Pres
ident Monroe as the doctrine OF
the world; that no nation should
seek to extend its policy over any
other nation or people, but that
every people should be left free
to determine its own policy, it's
own way OF development, un-
hindered, unthreatened, unafraid,
the little along with the great
and powerful.
Il am proposing that all ma
tions henceforth avoid entang-
ling alliances which would draw
them into competitions OF pow
er to catch them in a net of in
trigue and selfish rivalry, and
disturb their own affairs with in
fluences intruded from without.
There is no entangling alliance
in concert power. When all
unite to act in the same sense
and with the same purpose, all
act In the common interest and
are free to live their own lives
under a common protection.
Il am proposing government
by the consent of the governed;
that freedom OF the seas, which,
in international conference after
conference, representatives of
the United States have urged
with eloquence of those who are
the convinced disciples of liberty:
that in moderation of armament
which makes OF armies and nav
les a power for order merely.
not an instrument of aggression
or of selfish violence.
These are American prin-
ciples, 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.