Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-23
! f Executive Breaks PreC-
5dent Of Nearly Century in
Addressing Upper House on
Foreign Problems,
ADVOCATES LEAGUE TO
PRESERVE WORLD PEACE
Would Make it So Powerful
That No Nation or Probable
Combination of Nations
Would Deny It,
'sr ~o@srra IoussAL SPECIAL LEASED WIPE,

tsv ~essina IouHSAL SPECIAL LEASED WIsuI
Washington, Jan. 22.-Whether the
United States shall enter a world
peace league and as many contend,
left free to determine its own policN.
of isolation and no entangling alli-
anCes, was laid squarely before con-
gress and the country today by Presi~
dent Wilson in a personal address to
the senate.
For the first time in more than n
hundred years a president OF the
United States appeared in the senate
chamber to discuss the nations for
eign relations after the manner OF
Washington, Adams and Madison. The
effect was to leave congress. all Off
Cial quarters and the foreign diplo~
matte corps amazed and bewildered.
Immediately there arose a sharp di-
vision over the propriety as well az
the substance of the presidents pro-
posal.
Views of Senators Differ.
Startling staggering" ''astound-
ing" the "nobest utterance that has
fallen from human lips since the dec
laration of independence" were
among the expressions of senator's.
The president himself after his ad-
dress. said:
Il have said what everybody has
been longing for. but has thought inn
possible Now it appears to be possi-
BILE"
The chief points of the presidents
address were;
That a lasting peace in Europe can
not be peace Of victory for either
J side,
That peace must be followed by
| definite concert of power to assure tho
IA - sIa,
overwhelm II again.
That In such a concert OF power tho
United States cannot withhold its
participation to guarantee peace and
Justice throughout the world.
Must Formulate Views.
That before a peace is made the
United States should frankly formu-
late the condition upon which 1t would
feel justified in asking the American
people for their formal and solemn
adherence.
| 1T is clear to every man who
| thinks" the president told the senate.
that there is in this promise no
breach in either our traditions or our
policy as a nation, but fulfillment
rather of all that we have professed
or striven for.
II am proposing, MS it were, that
the nations should with one accord,
adopt the doctrine of President Mon
roe as the doctrine of the world. that
no nation should seek to extend its
policy over any other nation or peo-
pie, but that every people should be
left free to determine its own policy:
it's own way of development unhin-
dered, unthreatened, unafraid, the lit
tie along with the great and tho
powerful. / am proposing that all ma
tions henceforth avoid entangling alli-
ances which would draw them into
competitions of power, catch them in
net of intrigue and selfish rivalry.
and disturb their own affairs with in
fluence intruded from without. There
is no entangling alliance in a concert
of power When all unite to act In
the same sense and with the same pur-
pose all act in the common interest
and are free to live their own lives
under common protection
Government by Consent.
II am proposing government by the
consent OF the governed that freedom
of the seas, which in International
conference after conference represent
tatives of the United States have urged
with the eloquence of those who are
the convinced disciples of liberty; and
that moderation of armaments which
makes of armies and navies a power
for order merely, not an instrument
of aggression or of selfish violence.
These are American principles,
American policies. We could stand
for no others. And they also are the
principles and policies of forward
looking men and women everywhere
| of every modern nation. of every en-
| Ilightened community. They are the
principles of mankind and must pre-
/ vail"
| Forwarded TO Belligercnts.
| While the president was speaking,
copies of his address had been for
warded to American diplomats in all
the belligerent countries for the in
formation of the foreign offices, and
We're being prepared for representa-
tives of neutral governments here.
Back of the fundamental proposal
for some sort of international sane
ton for preservation of the future
peace of the world, now already ac-
eepted in principle by both sets of be-
ligerents in their replies to President
wilson's peace note, lies the possibil-
ity which the president today openly
expressed. that thereby may be laid
the groundwork upon which an APP
proach may be made to an end of the
present war
In public utterances, the president
Ehas hitherto expressed the conviction
that the present was the last great
war in which the United States could
be neutral; that 1t no longer could
Iremain in the position of half in and
half out" of world affairs In his
speech accepting his second nomina-
ton and in other public addresses he
has touched upon the same sentiment
which found its full development in
his address today.
States American Position.
''The American people, the presi-
dent told the senate, cannot in honor