Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-28
PRESIDENT IN HIS SPEECH AT
 NEW YORK EMPHASIZES NEED OF
 LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO ENFORCE IT

It cannot be formed now. If formed
 now it would be merely a new alliance
 confined to the nations associated
 against a common enemy. It is not
 likely that it could be formed after
 the settlement. It is necessary to
 guarantee the peace; and the peace
 cannot be guaranteed as an after.
 thought The reason, to speak in plain terms again, why it must be guaran- teed that there will be parties to the peace whose promises have proved untrustworthy and means must be found in connection with the peace settlement itself to remove that source of insecurity. It would be folly to leave the guarantee to the subsequent voluntary acton of the governments we have seen destroy Russia and de- ceive Rumania.
 But these general terms do not dis close the whole matter. Some details are needed to make them sound less like a thesis and more like a practical program. These, then, are some of the particulars and l state them with the greater confidence because l can state them authoritatively as repre- senting this governments interpreta- tiOn or its own duty with regard to peace:
 First, the impartial justice meter out must involve no discrimination be- tween those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom We do not wish to be just. It must be a justice that plays no favorites and knows no standard but the equal rights of the several peoples concerned.
 Second, no special or separate inter- est of any single nation or any group of nations can be made the basis of any part of the settlement which is not consistent with the common inter ests of all.
 Third, there can be no leagues or alliances or special covenants and un- perstandings with the general and common family of the league of na- tions.
 Fourth, and more specifically. there can be no special, selfish economic combinations within the league and no employment of any form of econ omic boycott or exclusion except as the power of economic of penalty by exclusion from the markets ot the world may be vested in the league of nations itself as a means of discipline and control
 Fifth, all international agreements and treaties of every kind must be made known, in their entirety to the rest of the world
 Special alliances and Economic riy- alries and hostilities have been the prolific curse in the modern world of the plans and passions that produce war. It would be an insincere as well as an insecure peace that did not ex- clude them in definite and binding terms.
 The confidence With which I ven ture to speak for our people in these does not spring from our tra- didons merely and the well known principles of international action which we have always professed and followed. In the same sentence in which l say that the United States will enter into no special arrange ments or understandings with particu- lar nations let me say also that the United States is prepared to assume it's full share of responsibility for the of the common covenants and understandings upon which peace must hencefOTth rest.
 We will read Washington's immOr- o fra~ fnLH al lnces" with full comprehension and m answering purpose. But only spe- cial and limited alliances entangle, and We recognize and accept the duty Jf a new day in which we are permit cd to hope for 2 general alliance which will avoid entanglements and .lear the air of the world for common and the maintenance f common rights.
 I have made this al aiysis of the in- ernational situation which the war las created net, of course. because I iCUb.Sd whether ;he leaders of the ,rea- nations and the peoples with whom we gre associated were of the iame mind and entertained a like pur- pose. but because the air every now md again gets darkened by mists and sroundless doubtings and mischievous of counsel and it is neces- ally once and again to sweep all the sponsible talk about peace in- rigues and weakening morale and doubtful purpose on the part of those n authority utterly and if need be un- 'e.emoniously aside and say things n the plainest words that can be Uunj. even when it is only to say over lsain what has been said before, quite IS plainly as if in less unvarnished erms.
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