Arizona republican., 1917-01-23

just regard for the opinion of mankind
to say that SO far as our participation
in guarantees of future peace is con-
cerned, 1t make a great deal of differ
ence in what way and upon what terms
it is ended The treaties and agree
ments which bring it to IN end must
embody terms which will create peace
that is worth guarding and preserving.
a peace that viii win the approval of
mankind not merely a peace that IT,
will serve the interests and immediate
air,,s of the natiors engaged. We Shall
have no voice in determining what
| those terms shall be but we shall, l
feel sure, have voice in determining
whether they shall be made lasting or
not by the guarantees of universal
covenant and our judgment upon what
is fundamental ard essential as con-
| dition precedent to permanently should
be spoken now, not afterwards when 1t
may be too late.
mo covenant of cooperative peace
that doe not include the peoples of the
new world cen 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
J be elements that engage The care and
satisfy the principles of the American
governments, elements consistent with
their political faith and the practical
convictions, which the peoples of
America have once for all embraced
and undertaken to defend.
Il 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 upset
them when made, whatever they might
| be. | only take it for granted that
more terms of peace between the
| belligerents will not satisfy even the
belligerents themselves. Mere agree
ments may not make peace sure. 1t
| VIII be absolutely necessary that
a force be created as a grantor of tie
permanency of the settlement sc
much greater than the force OF any
nation now engaged Or any alliance
hitherto formed or projected, that nc
nation. no probable combination OF
nations. Gould face or Withstand II
If the peace Iiesently to be made is
to endure it must be a peace made
secure Ly the organ 2ed major FORE
of mankind. The terms of the i'm
mediate peace agreed Upon :. ii de
termine whether there is peace
! where such guarantees can IL s..
cured. The question upon which tn,
Whole future peace and police de
penis is this:
is the present war a struggle to-
a just and secure peace or only for :
new balance of power? Is it to b,
only struggle for a new balance O.
power. who will guarantee, who cal
guarantee the stable equilibrium @
the new arrangement? Only tran
qLil Europe can be a stable Europe
| There must not be balance o.
power but a community of power
not organized rivalries but an or
ganiZed common peace.
| Fortunately we have received very
explicit assurances on this point. TIL,
statesmen of both of the groups o
nations now arrayed against one an
other have said, in terms that coult
not be misinterpreted, that it wa!
NOT part of the purposes they had IL
mind to crush their antagonists. Blu
the implication of these assurances
may not be equally clear to all-mal
not, be the same on both sides of the
water | think it will be servicable i
| attempt to set forth what we un.
derstand them TO be.
They imply first of all that it mus
be peace without victory 1t is no
pleasant to say this. l beg that
may be permitted to put my own in
depreciation upon it and that it ma!
be understood that no other interpre
tation was in my thoughts. | an
seeking only to face realities and I,
face Them without soft concealments
V:etory would mean peace forced up
on the loser, a victor's terms imposed
upon the vanquished 1t would b'
adCDted in humiliation under dureSl