Arizona republican., 1917-01-23
CLAIMS PEACE
Of VICTORY IS
NOT PERMANENT.
[Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, Jan 22.-Whether
the United States shall enter a world
peace league and, as many contend.
thereby abandon its traditional policy
of isolation and no entangling alliances.
was laid squarely before congress and
the country today by President Wilson
in a personal address to the senate.
For the first time in more than
hundred years a president of the United
States appeared in the senate chamber
to discuss the nations foreign rela-
tions after the manner Of Washington.
Adams and Madison. The effect was to
leave congress- all official quarters and
the foreign diplomatic corps amazed
and bewildered.
Immediately there arose a sharp di
vision OF opinion over the propriety as
well as the substance of the presidents
proposal.
startling" Staggering" "astound-
ing" the "noblest utterance that has
fallen from human lips since the dec
laration of independence" were among
the expressions Of senator's. The presi-
dent himself. after his address, said:
Il have said what everybody has been
| longing Tor, but has thought impossible.
Now it appears to be possible
The chief points of the presidents
address were:
That lasting peace in Europe can
not be a peace of victory for either
side.
That peace must be followed by a
definite concert of power to asure the
world that no catastrophe of wal shall
overwhelm it again.
That in such concert of power the
United States cannot withhold its par
ticipation to guarantee peace and JUS
tice throughout the world.
That before a peace is made the
! United States should frankly formulate
the condition upon which it would feel
I 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 a fulfillment rather of all
that we have professed or striven for
Il am proposing. as it We're, that the
nations should with one accC rd, ADOPT
the doctrine of President Monroe as
the doctrine OF the world that no IA
tion shall seek to extend its policy over
any other nation or people. but that
every people shoald be eft free to de-
termlne its own policy, its own way of
development unhindered, unthreetered,
unafraid, the little along with the great
and the powerful | am proposing that
{ all nations henceforth avoid entangling
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 influence
intruded from without. There is no
entangling alliance in concert of pow
er. When all unite to act in the same
| Sc nse and with the Same purpose all
act in the common interest and are
free to live their own lives under a
common protection.
| Il am proposing government by the
consent of the governed that freedom
of the seas, which in international ccn-
| fereiCe after conference representatives
| of the United States have urged with
the eloquence of those who are the con-
| vinced disciples of liberty; and that
moderation of arman.ents which makes
of armies and navies a power for order
n ell ely, not an instrument of aggression
or of selfish violence.
"FheSe are American principles,
American policies. We could stand for
no others. And they also are the prin-
| ciples and policies of forward lOoling
men and women everywhere of every
modern nation of every enlightened
community. They are the principles of
mankind and must prevail"
w nue lne president was speaking,
copies of his address had been forward
cd to American diplomats in all the
belligerent countries for the informa
ton OF the foreign officers, and were
being prepared for representatives of
neutral governments here.
Back of the fundamental proposal
for some sort of international sanction
for preservation of the future peace of
the world, now already accepted in
principle by both sets of belligerents
in their replies to President Wilson'S
peace note, does the possibility which
the president today openly expressed,
that thereby may be laid the ground
work upon which an approach may be
made to an end of the present war
In public utterances, the president
has hitherto expressed the conviction
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