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chief EXECUTIVE STATES THAT
IMPARTIAL JUSTICE TO ALL
WILL BE THE PRICE.
FIVE PRINCIPLES ARE GIVEN
The President Emphasized That the
Justice to Be Obtained Must In
volve No Discrimination To
ward Any People.

fundamentally indispensable 10 Sc
cure It is league OF nations formed
not before or after but at the peace
table; ana Germany as a member will
have to redeem her character not by
what happens at the peace table but
by what follows"
This was President Wilson's answer
given before an audience OF Fourth
Liberty loan workers here to the re-
cent peace talk from the central pow
ers although he did not refer specifi-
cally to the utterances of enemy lead
srs.
Peace was not a question, declared
the president, Of coming to terms"
for I'VE cannot come to terms with
them" as they have made it impossi-
BILE" Peace must be guaranteed, for
there will be parties to the peace
whose promises have proved untrust.
worthy and means must be found in
connection with the peace settlement
to remove that source of insecurity"
1T would be folly to leave the guar.
antee to the subsequent voluntary ac-
ton OF the governments we have seen
destroy Russia and Seceive Rumania,"
continued the president
The president emphasized that the
Justice to be obtained by the league
must involve no discrimination toward
any people. This he sets forth ex-
plicitly in set Of five principles which
be enumerated as the practical pro-
gram" of Americas peace terms, and
for the maintenance of which "the
United States is prepared to assume
Its full share of responsibility"
These principles we're, he said:
First, the impartial justice meted
out must involve no discrimination be-
tween those to whom we wish to be
Just and those to whom we do not
wish to be Just. 1t must be a Justice
that plays no favorites, and knows no
standard but the equal rights of the
several peoples concerned;
Second, no special or separate in
terest OF any single nation or any
group Of nations can be made the basis
of any part Of the settlement which is
not consistent with the common in
terests of all;
Third, there can be no league Of
alliances or special covenants and un.
derstandings within the general and
common family of the league of ma
tons;
Fourth. and more specifically, there
can be no special, selfish economic .
combinations within the league and no
employment OF any form of economic
penalty by exclusion from the markets
Of the world may be vested in the
league of nations itself as a means OF
discipline and controls;
Fifth, all international agreements
and treaties OF every kind must be
made known In their entirety to the
rest OF the world"
Mr.. Wilson restated the issues Of
the war as follows:
shall the military power OF any ma
ton or group Of nations be suffered
to determine the fortunes Of peoples
over whom they have no right to rule
except the right of force?
"Shall strong nations be free to
wrong weak nations and make them
subject to their purpose and INTEREST,"
shall peoples be ruled and DONNA
ted even In their own internal affairs
by arbitrary and irresponsible force or
by their own Will ana choice?
"Shall there be common standard
Of right and privilege for all peoples
and nations or shall the strong do as
they will and the weak suffer without
redress?
"Shall the assertion OF right be hap
hazard and by casual alliance or shall
there be common concert TO ebllge
the observance of common rights7"
He added:
No man, no group OF men, chose
these to be the issues Of the struggle.
They are the issues Of It.
Shortly before the president started
speaking, news Of the further sue
cesses of American. British and French
offensives on the western front
reached the meeting at the Metropoli-
tan Opera house, and this gave dramat.
ic point to Mr.. Wilson's peroration-
that peace drives can be effectively
neutralized and silenced only by show
ing that every victory Of the nations
associated against Germany brings the
nations nearer the sort OF peace which
viii bring security and reinsurance to
al peoples and make the recurrence Of
another such struggle Of pitiless force
and bloodshed forever impossible and
that nothing else can"
'rGermany Is constantly intimating
the terms she win accept; aui al
ways finds that the world does not
want terms declared the president.
1T wishes the final triumph Of Jus
ice and fsir dealings"