Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-09

conquest and aggranClzement is gone Toy: so is also the day of secret coven- ants entered into in the interest Of particular governments and likely at some unlcOked-fOr moment to upset the peace of the world. 1t is this hap py fact. now clear 10 the view of every public man whose thoughts do not still finger in an age that is dead and gone which makes possible for every na- ton whose purposes are consistent world to avOw now or at any other time the objects it has in view.
 The Golden Rule.
 We entered this war because viO- lations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secured once for all against their re- currence. What we demand in this war. therefore. is nothing peculiar to ourselves. Il is that the world be made fit and safe to live in. and parti- cularly that it be made safe for ev- cry peace-loving nation which. like our own. wishes to live its own life. determine its own institutions. be as. sured of justice and fair dealings by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are. in effect. partners in this interest. and for our own part We see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us The pro gram of the worlds peace. therefore. is our program. and that program. the only possible program. as we see it. is this:
 ~1. Open covenants of peace. openly arrived at. afser which there shall be no private interns- tional understandings of any kind. but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
 ~2. Absolute freedom of navi- gation upon the seas outside terri torial waters. alike in peace and in war, except as the, stas may be closed in whole or in part by international atcion for the en- forcement of international cOven- ants.
 ''S. The removal. SO far as pos sible. of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations. conSenting to the peace and aSSociating themselves for its maintenance.
 '4. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national arma- ments will be reduced to the low est point consistent with domestic safety.
 a. A free, open and absolute ly impartial adjustment of all colonial claims based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the population cdnrened must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
 "6. The evacuation of all Rus sian territory and such a settle ment of all questions affecting Russia as will assure the best and freest co operation of the other na- tions of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unem- barrassed opportunity for the in- dependent determination of her own political development and na- tiOnal policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of ther own choosing; and more than welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treat ment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good iwll. or their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests and of their intelligent and unSelfiSh sympathy.
 -. Belgium. the whole world will agree. must be evacuated and restored without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with al lother free nations. No other single act will serve as this will to restore confidence Among the nations and the laws which they themselves hare set and determined for the government Of their relations with one another. Without this healing act. the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.
 -S. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored and the wrong done by Prussia in 1S71 in the matter of Alsace-LOrrsine. which has unset tied the peace of the world for nearly five years. should be right ed. in order that peace may once more be made secure in the inter est of all
 ~S. \ readjustment of the iron tiers of Italy should he effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality
 TO. The peoples of Austria Hungary whose place among the nations We wish to see safeguard ed and assured. should be accord ed the freest opportunity of auto nOmOus development
 I'll Rumia. Serbia. and Monte negro should be evacuated: Oc- cUpied territories restored. Serbia accorded free and secure access 10 the sea: and the relations Of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly