The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12
AN ANSWER TO
GERMAN TALK

In an address before joint session
of congress on Tuesday, President
Wilson laid before the world the four
teen concrete proposals upon which
America and the allied nations will
make peace. The address of the pres
ident was entirely unexpected, and is
replete with sympathy for the Rus
sian people, for whose encouragement
it was undoubtedly designed. The
president in his address plainly seeks
to open the eyes of the Russian people
to the danger of their making sep
arate epace with the military party
of Germany. He also declares against
economic warfare, and in favor of the
restoration of Belgium, all French ter
ritory, including Alsace-Lorraine and
the restoration to Italy of Italia IRE
denta. Colonial claims are to be ad-
justed upon a basis in which the in
terests of the population concerned
shall have equal weight with the
claims of the government whose title
is to be determined.
The peace program follows:
L. Open covenants of peace, openly
arrived at, after which there shall be
no private international understand
ings of any kind. but diplomacy shall
proceed always frankly and in the
public view.
%. Absolute freedom of navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial wa
ters, alike in peace and war, except
as the seas may be closed in whole or
in part by international action for the
enforcement of international cove
nants
8. The removal, so far as possible,
of all economic barriers and the estab-
lishment of neutrality of trade con-
ditions among all the nations consent
ing to the peace and associating them
selves for it's maintenance
4. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national armaments will be
reduced to the lowest point consistent
with domestic safety
5. A free, open and absolutely Inn
partial adjustment of all colonial
claims, based upon strict observance
of the principle that in determining all
such questions of sovereignty the in
terests of the population concerned
must have equal weight with the equi-
table claims of the government whose
title is to be determined
6. The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such settlement Of all
questions affecting Russia as will Sc
cure the best and freest cooperation
of the other nations of the world in
obtaining for her an unhampered and
unembarrassed opportunity for the in
dependent determination of her own
political development and national
policy and assure her of a sincere
welcome into the society of free ma
tions, under institutions of her own
choosing; and more than welcome,
assistance also of every kind that she
may need and may herself desire. The
treatment accorded Russia by her sis
ter nations in the months to come will
be the acid test of their good will, of
their comprehension of her needs as
distinguished from their own interests
and of their intelligent and unselfish
sympathy.
Z. Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and restored
without any attempt to limit the SOW
ereignty which she enjoys in common
with all other free nations. No other
single act will serve as this will serve
to restore confidence among the ma
tions and the laws which they them
selves have set and determined for the
government of their relations with one
another. Without this healing pact
the whole structure and validity of in
ternational law is forever impaired.
g. All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portions re-
stored and the wrong done to France
by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of
which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly fifty
years, should be righted, in order that
peace may once more be made secure
in the interest of ALL
8. A readjustment of the frontiers
of Italy should be effected along clear
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