New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-09-29

outlined the kind of peace the
United States of America could
join in guaranteeing.
l am proposing, as it were,
that the nations should with one
accord adopt the doctrine of
President Monroe as the doctrine
of the world; that no nation
should seek to extend it's policy
over any other nation or people.
but that every people should be
left free to determine its own pol
icy, its own way of development.
unhindered. unthreatened. una
fraid. 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 power,
catch them in a net Of intrigue
and selfish rivalry and disturb
their own affairs with inuuences
intruded from without. There is
no entagling alliance in a concert
Of power. When all unite to act
in the same sense and with the
same purpose, all act in the COM
mon interest and are free to live
their own lives under a common
protection.
II 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
the eloquence of those who are
convinced disciples of liberty,
and that moderation of arma-
ments which makes of armies and
navies a power for order merely,
not an instrument of aggression
or of selfish violence.
Mere agreements may not
make peace secure. 1t will be
absolutely necessary that force
be created as guarantor Of the
permanency of the settlement so
much greater than the force of
any nation now engaged or any
alliance hitherto formed or pro-
jected that no nation, no prob
able combination CT nations.
could face or withstand it. IL
the peace presently to be made
is to endure, it must DC peace
made secure by the organized
major force of mankind"
If there were. any doubt in our
minds as to which of the great al
lance was the more in sympathy
with these ideals. it was removed
by the popular response abroad
to this address Of the President.
1t was plain that so far as the
peoples of the Entente were con-
cerned the President had been
amply justified in stating that he
spoke for all forward looking,
liberal-minded men and women.
1t was not so in Germany. The
people there who could be reached
were too few or too oppressed to
make their voices heard in the
councils Of their nation. Already,
on January 16, 1917, unknown
to the people of Germany, Herr !
their Secretary Of
Foreign Affairs. had secretly dis
patched note to their Minister
in Mexico, informing him Of the
German intention to repudiate
he Sussex pledge and instruct
ng him to offer to the Mexican
Government New Mexico and
Arizona if Mexico would join
With Japan in attacking the Uni
ed States.
In the new year Of 1917 the
German Government ab-
uptly threw aside the mask. On
he last day of January, 1917,
'ount Bernstorff handed to Mr..
Iansing a note, in which his Gov
rnment announced it's purpose
o intensity and render more
the operations of their
at sea.
There was no possible answer. 2
xcept to hand their Ambassador
is passports.
On the same day. February 3,
917, the President addressed
9th houses Of orr CONGRESS and
nnounced the complete sever
nee of our relations with Ger
lany. At the same time. how
yer. he made If plain that he
id not regard this act as tanta-
lount to a declaration Of war.
ERE for the first time the Pres