The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-12
PRESIDENT WILSON
TELLS HOW PEACE
MAY Be OBTAINED
Continued from Page y


chancellor proposes is the method O
the congress of Vienna. We canno
and will not return to that What il
at stake now is the peace of the
world. What we are striving for is 6
new international order based upon
broad and universal principles Of
right and justice-no more peace OF
Shreds and patches. Is it possible
that Count Won Hertling does not see
that, does not grasp it, is in fact liv-
ing in his thought in a world dead
and gone? Has he utterly forgotten
the reichstag resolutions of the 10Th
of July, or does he deliberately ignore
them? They spoke Of the conditions
of a general peace, not of national
ACKNOWLEDGMENT or of arrangements
between state and state. The peace
of the world depends upon the just
settlement Of each of the several
problems to which 1 adverted in my
recent address to the congress. I, Of
course, do not mean that the peace of
the world depends upon the accept
ance of any particular set of sugges-
tons as to the way in which those
problems are to be dealt with. I
mean only that those problems, each
and all, affect the whole world that
unless they are dealt with in a spirit
of unselfish and unbiased justice with
a view to the wishes, the natural con-
nectiOns, the racial aspirations, the
security and peace of mind of the peo-
pies involved, no permanent peace
will have been attained. They can
not be discussed separately or in
corners. None Of them constitutes a
private or separate interest from
which the opinion of the world may
be shut out. Whatever affects the
peace, affects mankind and nothing
settled by military force, if settled |
wrong, is settled at all. 1t will pres
emily have to be reopened.
Speaks in the Court of Mankind
'Is Count Won Hertling not aware
that he is speaking in the court of
mankind, that all the awakened ma
tons of the world now sit in judgment
ever nation, may say on the issues of
a conflict which has spread to every
region of the world? The reichstag
resolutions of July, themselves frank
~ tc;1 |
There shall be no annexations, no
contributions, no punitive damages.
Peoples are not to be handed about
from one sovereignty to another by /.
conferences, by rivals
or antagonists. National aspirations
must be respected, people may now be
dominated and governed only by their
,wn consent. Self determination is :
lot mere phrase. 1t is an imper-
tive principle of action which states !,
men will henceforth ignore at their
'eril. We cannot have general peace :.
or the asking or by the mere arrange :,
1ents of a peace conference. 1t can
OF be pieced together out of indi-
idual understandings between power =
IL states. All the parties to this war 49,
lust join in the settlement of every
sue anywhere involved in it because
hat we are seeking is a peace that
e can all unite to guarantee and ~
aintain and every item of it must be as
Omitted to the common judgment =
neither it be right and fair, an act
justice rather than bargain be-
veen sovereigns. The United States
Is no desire to interfere in Eu-
pean affairs or to act as arbiter in
uropean territorial disputes. She
Guild disdain to take advantage
any internal weakness or disorder
impose her own will upon another
ople. She is quite ready to be
own that the settlements she has
ggested are not the best or the most \
during. They are only her own
DIVISIONAL sketch of principles and
the way in which they should be
Piled But she entered this war
cause she was made partner,
ether she would or not, in the suf-
ings and indignities inflicted by the
itary masters of Germany, against i
peace and security of mankind;
| the conditions of peace will touch
as nearly as they will touch any
er nation to which is entrusted
ding part in the maintenance of
lization. She cannot see her way
peace until the causes of this war
removed, it's renewal rendered as
rly as may be impossible.
Roots of the War
This war had it's roots in the dis
ard of the rights of small nations -
of nationalities which lacked the s
IN and the force to make good g
r claim to determine their own 5.
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