Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-12
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principle OF action, which statesmen
will henceforth ignore at their peril.
We cannot have general peace for the
asking, or by the mere arrangements or
a peace conference. 1t cannot be
pieCed together out OF individual I'M
derStandingS between powerful states.
All the parties to this war must JOIN
in the settlement of every issue any
where involved in it because what we
are seeking is peace that we can all
unite to guarantee and maintain and
every item of it must be submitted to
the common Judgment whether it be
right and fair, an act of justice, rather
than a bargain between sovereigns.
America Made a Partner
The United States has no desire to
interfere in European affairs or to act
as arbiter in European territorial dis
putes. We would disdain to take ad-
vantage Of any internal weakness or
disorder TO impose her own will upon
another people. She is quite ready to
be shown that the settlements she has
suggested are not the best or the most
enduring. They are only her own pro-
the way in which they should be ap-
! piled. But she entered this war be
cause she was made a partner, wheth-
er she would or not. in the sufrerfngs
| and indignities inflicted by the mill
| tary masters of Germany against the
! peace and security OF mankind: ana
the conditions Of peace will touch her
as nearly as they will touch any other
nation TO which is entrusted a leading
! part in the maintenance Of civiliza-
| ton. She cannot see her way to peace
until the causes of this war are re-
! moved, and its renewa! rendered, as
nearly as may be, impossible
| This war had its roots in the dis
! regard Of the rights Of small nations
and Of nationalitics which lacked The
| union and the force to make good their
claim to determine their own allegi-
ances and their own forms of political
| life.
| Covenants must now be entered into
| which will render such things impoa-
Slhle for the future; and those coven-
! ants must he backed by the united
| force Of all tie nations that love JUS
! ice ana are willing to maintain il at
| any cost. Ii territorial settlements and
/ the political relations of great pOpu-
| latlons which have not the organized
! power to resist are to be determined by
| the contracts Of The powerful govern
ments which consider themselves most
! directly affected. as Count Won He,t
| ling proposes. why may not economic
| questions also? 1t has come about IN
/ in, N,hi cI,
! ourselves that justice and the rights of
! peoples affect the whole field of inter
| national dealing as much as access %
raw materials and fair and equa! con-
| ditionS Of trade. Count Won Hertline
| wants the essential basis Of commercial
! and industrial life to be safeguarded
! by common agreement and guarantee
/ hut he cannot expect that to be CON
I coded him if other matters to be de-
/ termjned by the articles Of peace are
! not handled in the same way as items
/ IN the final accounting. He cannot ask
/ the benefit Of common agreement in the
| one field without according il in the
! other. ! take for granted that he secs
! that separate and selfish compacts with
! regard to trades and the essential ma =
! tcrials of manufacture would afford nc
| foundation FOR peace. Neither. he MAY
| rest assured. will separate and selfish
| tOmpaCtS with regard to provinces ana
| peoples.
| Count Czernn seems to see the fun
| Gamental elements Of peace with clear
ayes and does not seek TO obscure them.
| lie sees that an independent Poland.
| made up Of I'll the indisputably Polish
yl1 n +n
| Other, is a matter Of European concern
| and must Of course. he conceded; that
| Belgium must be evacuated and re-
| stored; no matter what sacrifices and
| concessions that may involve; and that
national aspirations must be satisfied.
| even within his own empire, in the
| common interest Of Europe and man
| kind. If he is silent about questions
which touch the interests ana purpose
Of his allies more nearly than they
| touch those of Austria only. ii mist
Of course be because he feels constrain-
! ed. | suppose. to defer to Germany and
Turkey in the circumstances. Seeing
ana Conceding, a. he does, the essen
tial principles involved. and the neces-
sity Of candidly applying them, he
naturally feels that Austria can re-
spond 70 tn" purpose of peace as press
ed by the United States with less en-
barrassment than could Germany. He
would probably have gone much far
Their bad il not been for the embarrass-
ments Of Austria's alliances and of her
dependence upon Germany.
After all the test Of whether it is
possible for either government to 20
any further in this comparison of views
is simple and obvious.
Principles to Be Applied
The principles to be applied are these:
First, that each part Of the final set
Element must be based upon the essen
tial justice of that particular case and
upon such adjustments as are most
likely to bring peace that will be per-
manent.
Second, that peoples and provinces
are not 10 be barted about from SOW
ereigntv to sovereignty as if they We're