Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-23


they are, the Allies have stated terms. /
The President has in a sense stated
our terms. This leaves the Teutonic
powers as the only ones who have not
come out in the open. The world can
draw its differences.
AT one stroke the Presidents speech
has gone to the root of our tragic mod
ern difficulty by proposing that our in
ternational life shall be exactly re-
versed; that it shall be re-organized
not on basis of competition, but Of
cooperation. 1t Is doubtful whether
the world Is ready to follow Mr. Will
son and take such a radical step"
Baltimore SUN:
1T is bold utterance in its assump-
ton that peace, if it is to be lasting,
must come without. victory. II con-
ceivably will irritate both groups or
contending nations. But, we fancy.
neither Of them will be able to ignore
1t and neither Of them, in view OF the
unanswerable logic of those para
graphs referring to this country's in
terest in settlement that will create
a peace worth guaranteeing and pre-
serving will deny the Presidents right
to speak,"
Lowell (Mass.) COURIER-CIT1ZEN:
The idealism apparently underlying this
effort no one may easily deny; the con-
crete application of it may turn out 10
be anything but acceptable. One awaits
with curiosity to see how the world will
receive this unusual ebulition. Mr.. VIII
son processes to seek peace which it
will be worthy of joining together the
Nor no
league to enforce peace is constructive
craftsmanship. or is the inspired lunac!
Of academic minds, it would be rash -
say.
We have no hope of its success. We
further decline to wish the President
had not done this thing so, but since ne
has done it Is to be hoped that he is surer
of his ground than sometimes
Providence Or. ~ JOURNAL:
Mr.. Wilson beckons the bleeding and
suffering nations of the world towards
him with his schoolmasters cane ana
delivers a prize Grafton on the millennium
while civilization and the liberty OF the
world are battling for life in the sham
bles of a hundred bloody fields
Boston HERALD:
While not disposed to regard the two
sets of combatants as on parity IN re-
sponsibility for the war, we believe Pres
ident Wilson's philosophy of a peace
without victory essentially. sound in the
light of human experience. He will DC
seriously criticized by the sympathizer5
of the Allies in this country for attempt
ing to NEEDLE in European affairs; but
n
make the Monroe Doctrine policy APP
plicable to all peoples has any vitality
it must rest on a foundation more secure
than that which the hatreds resulting
from complete vanquishment OF the Ieu'
tonic powers would produce. The Pres
ident's ideas of a world peace make nm
a target of the cynical minded ana OF the
professional humorists. He is arguing
for q cause almost as mild as human
history. but we believe one that is des-
tined TO ultimate triumph because SO
necessary if civilization is to persist IN
the western world
Hartford Comm COUEANT:
THE address intimates that our
country, without any army and with
navy that under this administration
has become a joke, is going TO walk
across the ocean and dictate 10 the
warning nations what, they must agree
to- by what Authority does he inter-
fere and VINO gives him any right TO
dictate terms OF peace to those enSaS-
ed? His plan for preventing war mere
after mas a most desirable purpose.
hui whoever studies conditions runs
lid aeains, difficulties in its execution
that seem insuperable. The only eX-
cuse for the speech that would seem
accountable would be that both sides
asked for it.
Burlington FREE PRESS:
Let lis exert our moral influence as
9, nation prepared for war Oh the slde
of peace Let US never bind ourselves,
however. to take the absurd position
that we will bind our government to
80 to war with any European or 9th
or nation to make it keep the peace.
All EUROPE today p'ofesteS' 10 be
fighting for, that very thing i'll the
most horrible and ineNcusable wal III
history
Kansas City (Mo.) STAR:
In the plan for o league to enforce
neace. President Wilson undoubtedly
has presented 10 the country lofty
ideal and one that must arouse the
simultaneous attention OF the world
~ the practicable obstacles in
the Way of such a league are SO great
rs to seem insurmountablc.
The New York STATS ZEITCNG:
Upon the principles enunciated by
the President yesterday must be based
the only peace that can come to the
world and the only peace the perma-
hence Of which the American people
can willingly loan their support
The Toronto GLOBE:
Forced to defend their national
rights and the liberties of Europe
while in state Of unpreparedness for
war. the allies are now asked in the
third year Of the war, by the head of
a neutral nation 10 allow the aggres-
sor to escape the consequences of his
unparalleled crime against civilization
and to spare him the humiliation Of
military defeat.
president Wilson has not aided the
cause of peace III Europe by his inter
vention at this stage"
The New. York Sun:
What Mr.. Wilson is sworn to do is pre-
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