The Benson signal., 1918-10-12
mo COMPROMISE
WITH GERMANY"
ASSERTS WILSON
President in Speech at New York
Says Enemy Must Pay
the Price.
DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR ALL
Declares Enemies Have Made 1t I'M
possible to Come to Peace Terms
Huns Are Without Honor
and Do Not Intend to
Do Justice.

&c0 GO moi InLSnO 10
Do Justice.
New York, Sept. 3O.-The price of
peace will be impartial justice to all
nations, the fundamentally indis-
pensable to secure it is a league of
nations formed, not before or after,
but at the peace conference, and Ger
many, as member, twill have to re-
deem her character not by what hap
pens at the peace table but by what
follows"
This was President Wilson's answer,
given Friday night before an audience
OF fourth Liberty loan workers here,
to the recent peace talk from the CEN
trail powers.
The Presidents Address.
The president spoke in part as fol-
lows:
my Fellow Citizens: I am not
here to promote the loan. That will
be done-ably and enthusiastically
done-by the hundreds of thousands
OF loyal and tireless men and women
who have undertaken to present it to
you and to our fellow citizens through
out the country, and I have not the
least doubt of their complete success,
for l know their spirit and the spirit
of the country.
mo man or woman who has really
taken in what this war means can hes
'tate to give to the very limit of what
they have.
And it is my mission here to try
to make clear once more what the
war really means. You will need no
ether stimulation.
1--WE accepted the issues of the war
rs facts, not as any group of men
either here or elsewhere had defined
tEem, and we can accept no outcome
which does not squarely meet and set
tie them.
The Wars Issues.
Those issues are these:
"Shall the military power of any ma
ton or group Of nations be suffered
to determine the fortunes of peoples
over whom they have no right to
rule except the right Of force?
"Shall strong nations be free to
wrong weak nations and make them
subject to their purpose and interest
Shall people be ruled and dominat-
ed, even in their own internal af.
fairs, by arbitrary and irresponsible
force, or by their own will and choice ?
"Shall there be a common stand
ard of right and privilege for all peo-
pies and nations Of shall the strong
90 as they will and the weak suffer
without redress?
"Shall the assertion of right be hap
hazard and by casual alliance or shall
there be a common concert to oblige
the observance of common rights?
mo man, no group of men, chose
these to be the issues of the strug-
gle. They are the issues of it, and
they must be settled by no arrange.
men or compromise or adjustment of
interests, but definitely and once for
Eli and with a full and unequivocal
acceptance of the principle that the
interest of the weakest is as sacred
ss the interest Of the strongest.
This is what we mean when VIC
speak of permanent peace, if we
speak sincerely. intelligently, and
with a real knowledge and comprehen
sion Of the matter we deal with.
1--WE are all agreed that there can be
no peace obtained by any kind of bar
gain or compromise with the govern
ments of the central empires, because
we have dealt with them already and
have seen them deal with other govern
ments that were party to this struggle
at Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest.
'"They have convinced us that they
are without honor and do not intend
Justice. They observe no covenants
accept 30 principle but force and thei,
own interests.
eve cannot come to terms with
them. They have made it impossible
"The German people must, by this
time be fully aware that we cannot &C.
cept the word Of those who forced this
war upon us. We do not think the
same thoughts or speak the same Ian
guage Of agreement.
"It is of capital Importance that we
should be explicitly agreed that nc
peace shall be obtained by any kind OF
compromise or abatement of the prin.
ciples we have avowed as the princi
pies for which we are fighting. There
should exist no doubt about that
am, therefore, going to take the liber