The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-23
Urges Nations, With One
Accord, to Adopt the
Doctrine of Monroe.
BREAKS PRECEDENT
OF HUNDRED YEARS
Proposes Free Government.
Freedom of Seas-Mod-
Grafton of Armament.
az ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Jan. 22.-President
Wilson personally addressed the SEN
ate today. He laid before the country
the question of whether the United
States should enter a world peace
league and thereby abandon the policy
Of isolation and no entangling al
/ lance.
He said a lasting peace in Europe
cannot be the peace of victory 10
either side; that it must be followed
+. by concert of powers to assure the
world Of lasting peace; that the
United States cannot withhold par
ticipation in the guarantee of peace
and justice. He urges Monroe doc
trine for the world.
The presidents public utterances
that the present war will be the last
great war in which the United States
could be neural; thas we would 40
could be neutral; that we wo1ld no
malt in and half out" of the worlds
affairs, was fully developed in the ad
dress. :.
A sharp division in opinion follow
ed. "The noblest utterance since the
Declaration of independence" was the
comment of one senator Some ques-
toned the propriety and the substance
OF the proposal.
President Wilson's own view of his
speech to the senate today was given
in discussion with senator just after
his address.
81 have said what everybody has
been longing for, but has thought inn
possible" Mr.. Wilson declared. "Now
it appears TO be possible"
While President Wilson was speak
ing directly to the senator's, after the
manner of Washington, Madison anc
Adams, his address was in the hands
of all foreign governments or on its
way to them.
No such history making event with
such far reaching possibilities to the
United States probably ever had beer
in the senate chamber. For near% z
half hour the president spoke with
members of the senate, members Of
the cabinet and packed galleries lis
tening with rapt attention. When HI
concluded there was a tremendous
burst of applause.
The president said in part:
81 have sought this opportunity tt
address you because / thought that
owed it to you as the council associat.
ed with me in the final determine
ton of our international obligation
to disclose to you without reserve tn,
thought and purpose that have beef
taking form in my mind in regard h
the duty of our government in thes'
days to come when it will be necessar,
to lay afresh and upon new plal
the foundation of peace among tn
nations
cit is inconceivable that the peopl
of the United States should play n
part in that great enterprise. To tax
part in such service will be the op
portunity for which they have sough
to prepare themselves by the YER
principles and purposes of their poll
cy and the approved practices of thei
government ever since the days whe
they set up new nation in the hig
and honorable hope that It might i
all that it was and did, show mankin
the way to liberty. They cannot i
honor withhold the service to whic
they are now about to be challenged
They do not wish to withhold it. Ru
they owe it to themselves and to tn
other nations of the world to state tn
conditions under which they feel FIRE
to render it.
'sThat service is nothing less tina
this: To add their authority and the
power to the authority and force {
other nations to guarantee peace ar
Justice throughout the world. Such
settlement cannot now be long pos
poned. It is right that before it come
this government should frankly TO
mulate the conditions upon which
would feel justified in asking our PEI
pie to approve its formal and solen
adherence to league for peace. ! a
here to attempt to state those cond
lions.
81 have spoken upon these gre
matters without reserve and with t
utmost expIicitness because it h
seemed to me to be necessary If Il
worlds yearning desire for peace w
anywhere to find free voice and u
terance. Perhaps l am the only pc
son in high authority amongst all t
peoples of the world who is at liber
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