The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-12-19


peace negotiations with the view to
embodying his famous IA points in the
treaty and to make them the basis
of league of nations TO prevent war,
gives special interest to the terms up
on which he will insist, together with
subsequent conditions for which he
will stand as promulgated in later
speeches. These terms are therefore
here reproduced and they will be found
useful for reference In connection
with the negotiations that are now in
progress in Paris
Original Fourteen Points.
"l.-Open covenants of peace, openly
arrived at which there shall be no pri-
vate international understandings OF
any kind but diplomacy shall proceed
always frankly and in the public view.
'2.--Absolute freedom of navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial wa
tiers, alike in peace and in war, except
as the seas may be closed in whole
or in part by international action for
the enforcement of international COW
ants.
"3.-The removal, so far as possible,
OF all economic barriers and the es-
Establishment of an equality Of trade
conditions among all the nations con-
senting to the peace and associating
themselves for its maintenance.
"4.--Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments VIII
be reduced to the lowest point con-
slstent with domestic safety.
''5.--A free, open minded and alb
solutely impartial adjustment of ali
colonial claims, based upon a strict
observance of the principle. that in
determining all such questions Of
sovereignty the interests of the popn-
lations concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claims of
the government whose title is to be
determined.
"6.-The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such a settlement OF
al. questions affecting Russia as will
OF the other nations of the world in
obtaining for her an unhampered and
unembarrassed opportunity for the
independent determination of her own
political development and national
policy and insure her of a sincere well
come, assistance also of every kind
that she may need and may herself
desire. The treatment accorded Rus
sia by her sister nations in the months
to come will be the acid test of their
good will, of their comprehension OF
her needs as distinguished from their
own interests, and of their intelligent
and unselfish sympathy.
"7.-Belgium the whole world VIII
agree must he evacuated and restored
without any attempt to limit the SOY
ereignty which she enjoys in common
with all other free nations. No othei
single act will serve as this will serve
to restore confidence among the la
tions In the laws which they them
selves have set and determined fol
the government Of their relations witt
one another. without this healing
act, the whole structure and Vah ~
OF international law is forever I'M
paired.
"S.--All French territory should %
freed and the invaded portions re-
stored and the wrong done to France
by Prussia In 1871 in the matter o.
Alsace- Lorraine, which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly 81
years, should be righted, in order tina
peace may once more be made secure
in the interest of all,
"a readjustment of the frontiers
of Italy should be effected along clear.
~ recognizable lines of nationality.
"10.-The peoples of Austria Hun
gary, whose place among the nations
we wish to see safeguarded and as
sured should be accorded the freest
opportunity of autonomous develop
ment.
"11.--Rumania, Serbia and Monten-
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
tionality, and international guarantees
of the political and economic indepen-
dence and territorial integrity of the
several Balkan states should be en-
tered into.
"12.-The Turkish portions of the
pi esent Ottoman empire should be as
sured a secure sovereignty, but the
other nationalities which are now I'M
der Turkish rule should be assured an
undoubted security of life and an alb
solutely unmolested opportunity of
autonomous development and the Oar
danelles should be permanently opened
as a free passage to the ships and COM
merce of all nations under internation-
al guarantees.
'13-+An independent Polish state
should be erected which should in"
clude the territories inhabited by in
disputably Polish populations, which
should be assured a free and secure
access to the sea and whose political