The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-08

whom the other peoples of the world
could not trust, it might be impossible
to admit them to the partnership of
nations which must henceforth guar
antee the worlds peace. That part
nership must be partnership of peo-
pies, not mere partnership of gov
ernments. 1t might be impossible,
also, in such untoward circumstances
to admit Germany to the free econ
omic intercourse which must newt
ably spring out of the other partner
ships or a real peace. But there
would be no aggression in that; and
such situation, inevitably be one of
distrust, would in the very nature of
things sooner or later cure itself by
processes which would assuredly
set in.
Wrongs Must Be Righted.
The wrongs, the very deep wrongs,
committed in this war will have to be
righted. But they cannot and must
not be righted by the commission of
similar wrongs against Germany and
her allies The world will not permit
the commission of similar wrongs as
means of reparation and settlement
Statesmen must by this time have
learned that the opinion of the world
is everywhere wide awake and fully
comprehends the issues involved. No
representative of any self-governed
nation will dare disregard it by at
tempting any such covenants of self
ishness and compromise as were en-
tered into at the congress of Vienna
The. thought of the plain people here
and everywhere throughout the world
the people who enjoy no privilege and
have very simple and unsophisticated
standards of right and wrong is the
air all governments must henceforth
breathe if they would live. 1t is in
the full disclosing light of that
thought that all policies must be con-
ceived and executed in this midday
hour of the worlds life. German rul-
ers have been able to upset the peace
of the world only because the Ger
man people were not suffered under
their tutelage to share the comrade-
ship of other people of the world
either in thought or in purpose. They
were allowed to have no opinion of
their own which might be set up as a
rule of conduct for those who exer-
cised authority over them. But the
congress that concludes this war will
feel the full strength of the tides that
run now in the hearts and consciences
of free men everywhere. It's conclu-
sions will run with these tides.
If Russia Had Known.
Ali these things have true from
the very beginning of this stupendous
war; and 1 cannot help thinking that
if they had been made plain at the
very outset, the sympathy and enthu-
siasm of the Russian people might
have been once for all enlisted on the
side of the allies, suspicion and dis
trust swept away and a real and last
ing union of purpose effected. Had
they believed these things at the very
moment of their revolution and had
they been confirmed in that belief
since, the sad reverses which have
recently marked the progress of their
affairs toward an ordered and stable
government of free men might have
been averted. The Russian people
have been poisoned by the very same
falsehoods that have kept the Ger
man people in the dark and the poi
son has been administered by the
same hands The only possible anti
dote is the truth. 1t cannot be ut
tered too plainly or too often.
From every point of view, therefore
it has seemed to be my duty to speak
these declarations of purpose, to add
these specific interpretations to what
1 took the liberty of saying to the
senate in January. Our entrance into
the war has not altered our attitude