Evening journal., 1917-01-23
World Monroe Doctrine is Urged
by Wilson as Preventive OF War

struggle for a just and secure peace
or only for a new balance OF power?
II II be only a struggle for a new bal
ance OF power, who will guarantee,
who can guarantee the stable equili-
brium OF the new arrangement? Only
a Tranquil Europe can be a stable Eu-
rope. There must be, not a balance
OF power, but a community of power;
not organized rivalries, but an organ
lied common peace.
Fortunately, we have received very
explicit assurances on this point. The
statesmen Of both OF the groups of
nations now arrayed against one an
other have said. in terms that could
not be misinterpreted. that it was no
part OF the purpose they had In mind
to crush their antagonists. But the
implications OF these assurances may
not be equally clear to all-may not be
the same on both sides Of the water.
I think II will be serviceable If at
tempt 70 set forth what we understand
them to be.
"They imply, nrst OF all. that It
must be a peace without victory. II
Is not pleasant TO say this. ! beg
that | may be permitted TO put my
own Interpretation upon it and that
il may be understood that no other
Interpretation was in my thought.
am seeking only 10 face realities and
10 face them without soft conceal
ments. Victory would mean peace
forced upon the loser, a victor's terms
imposed upon the vanquished
ut would be accepted In humili-
alton under duress, at an intoierable
sacrifice and would leave q sting, a
resentment. O bitter memory upon
which the terms Of peace would rest
not permanently, but only as upon
the quicllsand. Only a peace be-
tween equals can last The very
principle which is equality and com
mon participation in a common bene-
At. The right state OF mind, the
right feeling between nations is as
necessary for lasting peace as is the
just settlement Of vexed questions Of
territory or Of racial and national
allegiance.
"The quality OF nations upon which
peace must be founded II II is to last,
must be an equality of rights; the
guarantees exchanged must neither
recognize nor imply a difference be-
tween big nations and small; between
those that are powerful and those
that are weak.
Fright must be based upon the
common strength, not upon the indi-
vidual strength, OF the nations upon
whose concert peace will depend.
Equality Of territory OF Of resources
there of course cannot be; nor any
other sort OF equality not gained in
the ordinary peaceful and legitimate
development " the peoples them
selves.
But no one asks or expects any
thing more than an equality of rights.
Mankind is looking now for freedom
OF life, not for equipoises of power.
And there is a deeper thing involv-
ed than even equality OF right among
organized nations. No peace can last,
or ought TO last. which does not
recognize and accept the principle
that governments derived all theiI
just powers from the consent OF the
governed, and that no right anywhere
exists 20 hand peoples about IRON
sovereignty to sovereignty as II the!
we're property.
Il take It for granted, for instancl
If I may venture upon a single eX
ample. that statesmen everywher'
are agreed that there should be {;
united, Independent and autonomous
Poland and that henceforth inviolabl,
security Of life, Of worship. and o.
Industrial and social development
should be guaranteed to all peoples
who have lived hitherto under tn,
power Of governments devoted to {