East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-10-14
oIs PEACE
WILL REsToiEE BEflGsUM

NNOntiRueu from pdBe ~ t.tt
cure the best ana freest cooperation
OF the other nations OF the world in
obtaining for her an nnhampered and H
unomharrassed determination of her
own political development and nation
al policy.
Belgium, the whole world win 4
asree must be evacuated and restored (
without any attempt to limit the SOW (
4 ereignty which she enjoys in common
with all other free nations.
/ Right AIsaee-Lorraine Wrong
4 "S-All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portions re-
\ stored and the wrong done to France
I by Prussia in 1871 in the matter orr
4 Alsace- Lorraine which has unsettled
/ the peace of the world for nearly so
4 years should be righted in order that
peace may once more be made secure /
4 in the, interest of all.
/ GA reimbursement of the frontiers
! Of Italy should be effected along
clearly recognizable lines of national-
! ity.
"lO-The peoples of Austria Hum
I gary, whose place among the nations
we wish to see safeguarded and as
sured should be accorded the freest
opportunity of autonomous develop
| ment
Tho Balkan situation.
"11-Roumania, Serbia and Monte.
negro should he evacuated: occupied
territories restored; Serbia accorded
free and secure access to the sea and
the relations of the several Balkan
| states to one another determined by
friendly counsel along historically es-
tablished lines of allegiance and ma
. IL Ia.
and territorial integrity of the sever
al Balkan states should be entered
into.
'12-The Turkish portion of the
present Ottoman empire should be-
assured a sovereignty but the other
nationalities which are now under
Turkish rule should he assured an un-
doubted security of life and an abso.
lutely unmolested opportunity of ar-
tcnomous development and the Dar-
danelles should be permanently OPEN
ed as a free passage to ships and
Commerce of all nations under inter-
rational guarantees.
An Independent PolandS
"13-An independent Polish state
should be erected which should in
clude the territories inhabited by in
Gisputably Polish population which
should be assured q free and secure
access to the sea and whose political
4 and economic independence and ter
ritorial integrity should be guaranteed
by international covenant
"14-A general association of nal
tions must be formed under specific
covenants for the purpose of afford
4 ing mutual guarantees of political in
j dependence and territorial integrity
to great and small states alike
an address congress- Feb
ruary II. 1913, President Wilson
enumerated the principles which
q must be applied to any further ex-
4 changes of views between govern
mentsp as follows:
& The Four Provisions OF February H..
THAT each part Of the final set
! tlement must be based upon the cs~
sential justice of that particular case.
2--That peoples and provinces are
not to be bartered about from SOW
ereignty to sovereignty. as If they were
mere chattels and pawns in a game.
3-"Every territorialSsettl in
lvolved in this war must be made in
the interest and for the benefit of the
| populations.
4-That all well defined national
aspirations shall be accorded the ut
a most satisfaction that can be ac-
corded them without introducing new
or perpetuating old elements of dis
= cord.
on July 4, 1918. in his address at
Mount Vernon, President Wilson de-
fined the ends for which the asso-
ciated peoples of the world are fight
a ing and which must be conceded
n them before there can be peace as
follows:
The Mount Vernon Speech.
THE destruction of every arbi-
trary power anywhere that can separ-
& ately. secretly and of it's single choice
q disturb the peace of the world; or If
n it cannot be presently destroyed, at
lease lis reduction to virtual impo~
& tonce.
4 2-The settlement of every ques-
& tion, whether of territory or of SOW
a ereign or economic arrangement or of
n political relationship upon the basis
q OF free acceptance Of that settlement
q by the people Immediately concerned.
3-The consent of all nations to be
governed in their conduct toward
8 each other by the same principles Of
j honor and of respect for the common
4 law Of civilized society that govern
a Individual citizens.
4-The establishment of an organ
4 ization Of peace which shall make It
q certain that the combined power of
free nations will check the invasion OF
4 right and serve to make peace ana
4 Justice the more secure by affording
Il a definite tribunal of opinion to which
& all must submit.
Last New York Speech.
On September 27. in New York
President Wilson said:
These. then, are some Of the par
ticulars and state them with the