Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-25
President Tells Senate The United States Cannot Withhold
Its Participation in Concert Of Powers to
Assure Lasting Peace
PEACE BY VICTORY FLEETING.
Proposes Freedom Of Seas Limitation Of Armaments and
That all Nations Avoid EntangEDg Alliances.

Washington, Jan. 24.-Whether
the United States shall enter a peace
league and, as many contend, thereby
abandon its traditional policy of isola-
ton and no entangling alliances, was
laid squarely before congress and the
country Monday by President Wilson
in a personal address to the senate.
For the first time in more than a
hundred years president of the Unit
ed States appeared in the senate cham
Der to discuss the nations
foreign relations after the manner of
Washington, Adams and Madison.
The effect was to leave congress, all
official quarters, and the foreign di-
plomats amazed and bewildere1. I'm
mediately there arose a sharp divis-
ion Of opinion over the propriety as
well as the substance of the presi-
dents proposal. Startling" Stag
gering," astounding" 'the noblest
utterance that has fallen from human
lips since the declaration of independ-
ence," were among the expressions
of senators. The president himself,
after his address said, II have said
what everybody has been longing for
but has thought impossible. Now it
appears to me possible. ("
PEACE OF VICTORY NOT PER-
MANENT.
The chief points of the presidents
address were:
That lasting peace in Europe can
not be peace of victory for either
side. That peace must be followed
by definite concert Of power to as
sure the world that no catastrophe of
war shall overwhelm it again. That
in such concert of power the United
States cannot withhold its participa-
ton to guarantee its peace and Justice
throughout the world.
! And that before peace is nTaie the
United States government should
frankly formulate the conditions upon
which it would feel justified in ask
lingehe American people for their
formal and solemn adherence. ut is
clesr to every man who thinks, the
president told the senate, that there
isin this promise no breach in either
EOur traditions or cur policy as nation
blh fulfillment rather of all that we
have professed or striven for.
WoRLD SHOULD ADOPT MONROE
DOCTRINE.
~ am proposing, as il were, that
THE nations should wnh one accord,
adopt the doctrine of President Mon
roe as the dOctriae of the world; that
no nation should seek TO extend its
policy over any other naaiOn orlpece
pie, but that every people should be
left free to determine it's own policy,
its development unhindered, I'M
threatened, unafrssd, the little along
withlthe great and powerful.
SHOULD AVOID ALLIANCES.
Il an proposing that all nations
henceferth avoid entangling alliances
which would draw them into comps
ti1ions Of power, catch them in a nat
of intrigue and selfish rivalry and
disturb their own affairs with infu-
enee intruded from without There is
no eatangling alliance in a eoscert 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 liyes7
under a common protection.
81 am proposing government by the |
consent Of the governed; that free
dom Of the seas. which in interna-
tional conference after conference,
representatives of the United States
have urged with the eloquence of
bose who are convinced disciples of
liberty, and that moderation OF arma-
ments which makes Of armies and
nayies power for order merely, not
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