Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-01-26
PRESIDENTS EPOCH.MAK|NG ADDRESS TO SENATE
ESTABLISH MONROE DOCTRINE
THROUGHOUT WORLD WILSON SAYS JOINING WITH
TONS GUARANTEE PEACE UPON THE BASIS OF AMER
CAN PRINCIPLES EQUALITY FREEDOM

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league for peace. l am here to at
tempt to state these conditions.
Should Guarantee Future Peace.
1.-The present war must first be
ended; but we owe it to candor and
to just regard for the opinion of
mankind to say that, SO far as our
participation in guarantees of future
peace is concerned, it makes a great
deal of difference in what way and
upon what terms it is ended. The
treaties and agreements which bring
it to an end must embody terms
which will create a peace that is
worth guaranteeing and preserving,
a peace that will win the approval of
mankind; not merely peace that
will serve the several interests and
immediate aims of the nations en-
gagged. We shall have no voice in
determining what those terms shall
be, but We shall, feel sure, have a
voice in determining whether they
shall be made lasting or not by the
guarantees of a universal covenant,
and our judgment upon what is fun
damental and essential as condi-
ton precedent to permanency should
be spoken now, not afterward, when
it may be too late.
mo covenant of cooperative
peace that does not include the peo-
pies of the new world can suffice to
keep the future safe against war, and
yet there is only one sort of peace
that the peoples of America could
join in guaranteeing.
"The elements of that peace must
be elements that engage the conf
dence and satisfy the principles of
the American government, elements
consistent with their political faith
and the political convictions which
the people of America have once for
all embraced and undertaken to de-
fend.
Invincible Peace Force Needed.
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II do not mean to say that any
American government would throw
any obstacle in the way of any terms
of peace the governments now at
war might agree upon or seek to up
set them when made. whatever they
might be. I only take it for granted
that mere terms of peace between
the belligerents will not satisfy even
the belligerents themselves. Mere
agreements may not make peace
sure. It will be absolutely peces-
sary that force be created as q
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 probable
combination of nations, could face or
Withstand it. II the peace presently
to be made is to endure it must be
a peace made secure by the organ
lied force of mankind. The terms of
the immediate peace agreed upon
will determine whether there is a
peace where such guarantee can be
secured. The question upon which
the whole future peace and policy Of
the world depends is this:
''Is the present war struggle for
a just and secure peace or only for
a new balance of power? II 1t be
only a struggle. for a new balance Of
power, who will guarantee, who can
guarantee, the stable equilibrium of
the new arrangement? Only tran
quill Europe can be a stable Europe.
There must be, not balance of pow
er. but a community of power; not
organized rivalries, but an organ
lied common peace.
Fortunately, we have received
very explicit assurances on this point.
The statesmen of both of the groups
of nations now arrayed against one
another have said, in terms that
could not be misinterpreted, that 1t
was no part of the purpose they had
TN mind to crush their antagonists.
But the implication of these assur-
ances may not be equally clear to all
may not be the same on both sides
of the water. ! think 1t will be SER
viceable II attempt to set forth
what we understand them to be.
Peace without Victory.
"They imply first Of all that 1t
must be a peace without victory. It
is not pleasant to say this. I beg
that may be permitted to put my
own Interpretation upon 1t and that
It may be understood that no other
Interpretation was in my thought.
I am seeking only to face realities
and to face them without soft con-
cealments. Victory would mean
peace forced upon the loser, vic
tors terms imposed upon the van
quished. 1t would be made in hu-