The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
lie WoRLD,s PEAcE TERMs.

Everybody knows what the world requires from the
enemies Of mankind the price Of their escape from
destruction But who can put into words statement
that will fit the case and be approved BY all Che victor
nations?
The widely celebrated fourteen points Of President
Wilson's program Of world peace cover admirably some
Of the exactons that win be made upon the vanqushed
enemies But they do not pretend to cover the entire
broad field of right and justice which must be covered
if victorious Is to be followed BY just and secure
peace just peace means justice for the vanquished
well as for the vctors and without injustice to neu-
trails. peace means that goes beyond the
requirements Of justice at the moment, by taking care
that the worlds enemy shall not have power to destroy
either justice peace hereafter Germany for instance
might be willing to grand full present justice for the
sake Of escape from destruction but unwilling to give
up the by which she secretly hopes to resume the
attack upon her neighbors.
Germany must have peace the alternative of
death She tried to deal out death to others as the
alternative of slavery Before the endangered nations
many that nation had dealt both death and slavery
scale that dwarfed the standards of history. Now
Germany is to stand poweress and manacled await
ing judgment The nations that act in behalf Of divine
and human justice doing right as God gives them to
see the right must agree and determine upon what is
to be imposed upon Germany and then they must execute
the judgment and make it effective at every point both
for the present and the future.
Obviously it is unwise for each Of the allied nations
to exchange words with Germany any more. Germany
would inevitably profit by such exchange by discover
ing and widening any Emergencies that might appear
between one aly's view and anothers. Already Ger
many has seized upon this opportunity to make mischief
and the allies cannot truthfuy deny that they
less uncertain to the scope and detail of the
terms which they must impose upon Germany.
The allied nations should now confer among them
selves in secret with the fullest possible exchange Of
views, and when they have agreed upon complete set
Of terms public in every detail and then try to stick to-
them. Events may force changes here and there in
spite of the settled will Of the nations for time has
way of upsettng nations we'll men, but the united
viii OF the alleS Is the DeSJ JnaC can De nOped Tor In
any Neutrals must take what the trustees of
zaton adjudge to them just the enemy must accept
it. The nations that saved the world by riskng their
own existence and shedding their blood the only
nations that be trusted to formulate peace
that will make secure what their vaor saved
Inasmuch as distance prolongs and perplexes COM
nunities the allied governments should set up pre-
urinary peace conference of their own at Versailles,
Washington where they WILL agree upon the terms
IF peace 1t is in that conference rather than in the
alter perfunctoy conference between the victorious die
ators and the vanqushed acceptors that the rights lib
critics and safety of nations will be ascertaned The
irs conference will explore the minds of the free ma
ions and adjust their minds and consciences to actual
conditions in Europe, that justice and liberty shall
attach to men, lands and seas The second conference
will merely impose the combined and wel-ascertained
Will Of the world upon the worlds assailansW Washing
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