The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-22

development should be guaranteed to
all people who have lived hereto un.
der the power of government devoted
to faith and a purpose hostile to
their own.
Il speak Of this, not because Of any
desire to exalt and to abstract poiiti-
cal principal which has always been
held very dear by those who have
sought to build up liberty in America,
but for the same reason that / have
spoken of the other conditions of
peace which seemed to me clearly in
dispensable-because wish frankly
to uncover realities.
World Will sympathiEe
ANY peace which does not recoz.
nize and accept this principle will In
ev1tably be upset. 1t will not rest
upon the affections or the convictions
Of mankind The ferment Of whole
populations will fight subtly and con.
stantly against it, and the world will
sympathize. The world can be at
peace only as its life is stable and
there can be no stability where the
Will is in rebellion, where there is
not tranquility of spirit and a sense
of justice. of freedom and of right.
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every great people now struggling to-
wards full development of its re-
sources and of its powers should be
assured d direct outlet to the great
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not be done by the cession of terri
tory, 1t can no doubt be done by the
naturalization of direct right Of way
under the general guarantee which
will assure the peace itself. With a
right commity of arrangement no ma
ton need be kept away from free ac-
cess to the open paths of the worlds
commerce.
Paths Of Sea Are Free.
And the paths Of the sea must alike
in law and in fact be free There
can be no trust or intimacy between
the peoples of the world without them.
The free, constant, unthreatened inter-
course of nations is an essential part
of the process of peace and of de-
velopment. 1t need not be difficult 70
seas if the government of the world
sincerely desires to come to an agree
ment concerning it.
1T is problem closely connected
with the limitations of naval armam-
ent and the cooperation of the navies
of the world in keeping the seas at
once free and safe. And the question
of limiting naval armament opens the
wider and perhaps more difficult OF
the Limitation Of armies and fall pro-
grams of military preparations. There
can be no sense of safety and equality
among the nations if great armaments
are henceforth to continue here and
there to be built up and maintained
The question of ornaments whether
on land or on sea is the most immedi-
ately and intensely practical question
connected with the future fortunes OF
nations and mankind
Speaks Very Explicitly.
Il have spoken upon these great
matters without reserve and with the
utmost explicitness because it has
seemed to me to be necessary if the
worlds yearning desire for peace was
anywhere to find free voice and utter
in high authority amongst all the peo-
pies of the world who is at liberty to
speak and hold nothing back. am
speaking as an individual and yet
am speaking also, of course, as the
responsible head of a great govern.
ment, and feel confident that have
said what the people of the United
States would wish me to say.
Asks People to Help.
"And in holding out the expectation
that the people and government Of the
United States will join the other civil
lied nations of the world in guarair
teeing the permanence of peace upon
such terms as have named. I speak
with the greater boldness and conf
dence because it is clear to every man
who can think that there is In this
promise no breach in either our tradi-
tions or our policy as a nation, but
fulfillment rather. of all that We have
professed or striven for.
Leave All Nations Free.
'T am proposing. as it were. that
the nation should with one accord
adopt the doctrine of President Mon
roe as the doctrine of the world: That
no nation should seek to extend its
policy over any other nation of people,
but that every people should be left
free to determine its only policy. its
own way of development, unhindered.
unthreatened. unafraid, the little along
with the great and powerful.
81 am proposing that all nations
henceforth avoid entangling alliances
which would draw them in competition
of power, to catch them In a net of
intrigue and selfish rivalries and dis.
turb their own affairs with Influences
included from without. There is no
entangling alliance In concert of
power. With all units to act In the
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