The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-05
Americas War Aim Reign OF
LaW Based On The Governed,
Sustained By Public Opinion
President Wilson Pledges United States
ton of Arbitrary Power-Cals for Establishment Of
Peace Organization Which Shall Check the Invasion of
Right.

i of opinion to which all must submit
and by which every International re-
+ adjustment that canot be amicably
agreed upon by Che peoples directly
/ concerned shall be sanctioned.
"These great objects can be put
| into single sentence hat we
seek Is the reign of lsy b..sed upon
the consent of the governed and sus-
tined by the orSnl2ed opinion of
mankind
| No Time for Debate.
These great ends cannot be ACHE
we'd by debating and seeking to re-
conclle and accommodate what states
/ men may wish with their projects for
/ balances of power and of national
opportunity. They can be realized
| only by tho determination of what
/ the thinking peoples of the world de-
! sire, with their longing hope for Jus
/ tice and for social freedom and op-
portunity.
The Presidents speech in full was
as folBows:
Gentlemen of the diplomatic corps
and my fellow citizens.-d am happy
! to draw apart with you to this quiet
place of old counsel in order to
speak a little OF the metning OF this
day of our nations independence.
| The place seems very still. 1t is as
serene and untouched by the hurry
of the world as 1t was in those great
days long ago when General WASH
ington was here and held leisurely
conference with the men who were
/ to be associated with him i'm the
| creation Of nation From these
! gentle slopes they looked out upon
! the world and saw 1t whole, saw it
/ with the light OF the future upon 1t.
saw it with modern eyes that turn
cd away from a past which men of
! liberated spirits could no longer en-
! dure. ut Is for that reason that we
cannot feel, even here, In the mme-
date presence OF this sacred tomb,
that this is q place Of death 1t was
a place OF achievement. A great
promise that was meant for all man
kind was here given plan and reality
The associations by which we are
here surrounded are the ms Mriting
associations of that noble death which
rs ONLY glorious consummation.
From this green hillside, we also
ought o be able to see with compre-
hending eyes the world that lies
about US and should conceive anew
the purposes that must set men free
ut IL significant, significant OF
their own character and purpose and
Of the Influences they were setting
afoot, that Washington and his asso-
ciates, like the barons at Runny-
mede, spoke and acted not for
class, but for a people. It has been
left for us to see TO it that 1t shall
be understood that they spoke and
acted, not for a single people only,
but for all mankind They were
thinking not Of themselves and Of the
material interests which conferred In
the little groups of landholders and
merchants and men OF affairs with
whom they were accustomed to act,
in Virginia and the coio03 to the
north and south OF here, but of a
people which wished to be done with
classes and special interests and the
authority Of men whom they mad not
themselves chosen to rule over them.
They entertained no private purpose,
desired no peculiar privileges. They
were consciously planning that men
of every class should be free and
America a place to which men out OF
every nation might resort who wish
ed to share with them the rights and
privileges OF free men. And we take
our cue from them--do we not? We
intend what they intended We here
In America believe our participation
in this present war to be only the
fruitage of what they planted. Our
case differs from theirs only In this,
that 1t is our inestimable privilege
to concert with men out of every
nation what shall make not only the
liberties of America secure but the
liberties of every other people as
we'll We are happy In the thought
that we are permitted 10 do what they
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