New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26

Conditions Clearly Indispensable.
| speak of this not because of any
desire to exalt al abstract political
principle 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
to the other conditions Of peace which
seem TO me clearly indispensable be
cause ! wish frankly to ncoye reali
ties. Any peace which does not rec
ognize and accept this principle will
inevitably be upset. 1t will o rest
upon the affections or the conviction:
of mankind. The ferment of spirit oil
whole populations will fight constant
ly against it, and all the world will
sympathize. The world can be at
peace only if its life is stable. and
there car be no stability where the
will is in rebellion, whore there is not
tranquility of spirit and a sense OF
justice and freedom and right.
So far as practicable, moreover,
every great people now struggling to-
wards a full development of it's re
sources and of its powers should be
assured a direct outlet to the great
highways of the seas. Where this can
not be done without the cessation OF
territory, it can no doubt be done with
the naturalization of direct rights of
way under the general guarantee
which will assure peace itself. With
a right comfy or arrangement no ma
ton need be shut away from free
anropc 10 tha n,,at, Maths nf thn Wnr11'o
commerce.
And the paths of the sea must, alike
in law and in fact, be free. The free
dom Of the seas is the sine qua non
of peace. equality and cooperation.
No doubt a somewhat radical recon
sideratiOn of many of the rules of in
tcrnatiOnal practice hitherto sought to
be established may be necessary in or
der to make the seas indeed free and
common in practically all circum-
stances for the use of mankind, but
the motive for such changes is con
vincing and compelling. There can be
nc trust or intimacy between the peo-
pies of the world without them.
The free, constant, u~nthreatened in
tercourse of nations is an essential
part of the process of peace and de-
velopmcnt. 1t need not be difficult to
define or to secure the freedom of
the seas, if the governments Of the
world sincerely desire to come to an
agreement concerning it.
Navies of World to Cooperate.
1t is a problem closely connected
with the limitation of naval arma-
ments and the cooperation of the
navies of the world in keeping the
at once free and safe. And the
question of limiting naval ornaments
opens the wider and perhaps more diff
ficult question of the limitation Of
armies and of all programs of military
preparation. Difficult and delicate as
these questions are, they must be
faced with the utmost candor and de-
cided in a spirit Of real accommoda-
ton if peace is to come with healing
in its wings and come to stay. Peace
be had without cessation and
sacrifice. There can be no sense of
and equality among the ma
tons if great pr%eponderating arma'
continue here and there to be built up
and maintained.
Plan for Peace as for War.
The statesmen of the world must
plan for peace and nations must ad-
just and accommodate their policy to
it as they have planned for wal and
made ready for pitiless contest and
The question of ornaments,
on land or sea, is the most
Immediately and intensely practical
question connected with the future
fortunes of nations and Of mankind.
have spoken upon these great mat
.ers without reserve and with the ut
most explicitness, because it has
TO me to be necessary if the
yearning desire for peace a
to find free voice and ut
Perhaps | am the only per
in high authority amongst all the
peoples of the world who is at liberty
speak and hold nothing back. !
I'm speaking as an individual, and yet
am speaking also, of course, as the
responsible head of a great govern
nent, and | feel confident that | have
said what the people of the United
NOulu 10 liz " say
May / not add that | hope and be
ieve that ] an in effect speaking for
LIBERALS and friends of humanity in
very nation and Of every program OF
liberty? ! would fain believe that ]
I'm speaking for the silent mass OF
mankind everywhere, who have as yet
lad no place or opportunity to speak
heir real hearts out concerning the
leath and ruin they see to have come
upon the persons and the
ZONES they hold most dear.
Monroe Doctrine Preached for World.
And in holding out the expectation
hat the people and government of the
United States will join the other civi,
lied nations of the world in guaran
eeing the permanence of peace upon
UGH terms as | have named, | speak
With the greater holiness and conf.
ence because it is clear to every man
Who can think that there is in this
no breach in either our ira.
.itions or our policy as a nation. but
fulfillment, rather, Of all that We
ave professed or striven for.
! am proposing, as it were, that the
.dllOllS SlOulu Will Olc dCCOIu duOpt |
he doctrine of President Monroe as
he doctrine Of the world: That no
alton should seek to extend its policy
yer any other nation or people, but
hat every people should be left free
determine its own policy, its own
ray of development, unhindered, un-
threatened, unafraid, the little along
nth the great and powerful.
Marshall Gives Notice of Message.
Vice President Marshall laid before
he Senate a letter from the Presi-
ent, stating that he had an important
ommunication relating to foreign af-
iirs which he deemed it his duty 10
y before the Senate, and which he
ould like to present in person. The
enate adopted a resolution, by SEN