The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT TO
 CONGRESS SETTIKC FORTH
 POINTS OF PROGRAMS ISSUE
and her allies. The issue of life and death hang upon these definitions.
 Must Make Certain.

luedtn nanS upon these dennltlOnS.
 Must Make Certain.
 NO statesman who has the least conception of his responsibility ought for a moment to permit himself to continue this tragical and appalling outpouring of blood and treasure un less he is sure beyond a peradven ture that the objects of the vital sacrifice are part and parcel of the very life of society, and that the people for whom he speaks think them right and imperative as he does.
 There is. moreover, voice calling for these definitions of principle and of purpose which is, it seems to me, more thrilling and more compelling than any of the many moving voices with which the troubled air of the world is filled. It is the voice of the Russian people. They are prostrate and all but helpless, it would seem, before the grim power of Germany, which has hitherto known no relent. ing and no pity. Their power ap- parently Is shattered, and yet their soul is not subservient They will not yield. either in principle or in action.
 | Tribute to Russia.
 'The conception of what is right, of what it is humane and honorable for them to accept, has been stated with frankness, largeness of view, generosity of spirit and a universal human admiration of every friend of mankind; and they have refused to compound their ideals or desert others that they themselves may be safe. They call to us to say what it is that we desire, in what, if in any thing. our purpose and our spirit differ from theirs; and l believe, that the people of the United States would wish me to respond with utter sym pathy and frankness. Whether their present leaders believe it or not, it is our heartfelt desire and hope that some way may be opened whereby we may be privileged to assist the peo- pie of Russia to attain their utmost nope of liberty and ordered peace.
 Must Be Open Talk. Tt will be our Wish and purpo5. I that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall in.ol.e and permit hencefolth no secret un derstanding of any kind. The day oI conquest and ggrandizement has gone by. so is also the day of se- cret covenants entered into in the interest of particular governments and likely at some unlocked for mo: ment to upset the peace of the world. It is this happy fact, now clear to the view of every public man whose thoughts do not still finger in an az. that is dead and gone, which makes 1t possible for every nation whose purposes are consistent with justice and the peace of the world to avow now or at any other time the objects it has in view.
 We entered this war because vio- lations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secured for once and for all against their recurrence.
 Nothing to America.
 What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to our selves. It is that the world be made it and safe to live in; and particular ly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, de- termine its own institutions, be as 5ured of justice and fair dealings by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression All the people of the world are in effect partners in this interest and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others, it will not be done to us. The program of the worlds peace, therefore, is our program. and that program, the only possible program, as we see it. is this:
 The Actual Terms.
 I-Open covenants of peace, open ly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international under itanding of any kind, but diplomacy hall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
 "2-Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas. outside territorial wa ters, alike in peace and in war, ex. cept as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of inter- nation covenants.
 "3-The removal. so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the es. ,ahlishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations con enting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
 "4-Adequate guarantees given and