Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-10-05

| peace, il will be necessary that all
who sit down at the peace table shall
| come ready and willing 10 pay the
price. the only price, that win pro
/ cure ii. and ready and willing also to
/ create In some yirile fashion the only
instrumentanty by which 1t can be
| made certain that the agreements or
/ the peace viii be hoDOred and fulfilled.
That price is impartial justice in
every item OF settlement. no matter
/ whose interest is crossed; not only
( impartial justice. but also the salts
[ faction Of the several peoples whose
/ fortunes are dealt with. That indis-
I pensable fundamentally is q league
OF nations formed under covenants
that viii BE- efficacious-
~Wsthout such instrumentality, ny
| which the peace Of the world can ne
guaranteed. peace will rest in part
upon the word Of outlaws and only
/ upon that word. For Germany viii
/ have 70 redeem her character, not only
By what happens at the peace table
/ but what follows.
And. 81 / see II. the constitution
Of that league OF nations and the
clear definition of its objects must be
8 part. Is in a sense the most essen
tial part. Of the peace settlement II
self. Il cannot be formed now. Ii
J formed low. il would be merely new
alliance confined 10 the nations asso-
/ ciated against q common enemy. 1t
is not likely that il could be formed
after that settlement.
1T is necessary TO guarantee the
! peace and the peace cannot be guar
anJeed IS an afTerthought. The rea-
son, 10 speak in plain terms again,
why IL must be guaranteed IS that
there will be parties 10 the peace
whose promises have proved untrust-
worthy. and means must be found in
connection with the peace settlement
Itself TO remove that source Of inse-
curly.
1T would be folly TO leave the guar
sntee to the subsequent voluntary ae-
ton OF the government we have seen
destroy Russia and deceive Roumania.
Particulars Of Terms
These. then are some Of the par
.:c~.3l4rs. and l state them with the
greater confidence beca use 1 can state
them authoriJatively as representing
this governments Interpretation OF
its own duty with regard 10 peace:
FIRST The impartial justice
meted OUT must involve no discrimina-
ton between those 10 whom We wish
to be juSt and those TO whom We do
not wish 90 be just II must be JUS
tice that plays no favoriteS and knows
no standard but the equal rights OF
the several peoples.
"SECOND-No special or separate
interest 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 COM
mon interest Of all.
"THIRD-There can be no leagues
or alliances or special covenants and
understandings within the general and
common family of the league Of ma
tons.
"FOURTH-Anc more specifically,
there can be no special. selfish, eco
nomic combination within the league
and no employment of any force Of
economic boycott for exclusion except
as the power 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 control.
"FIFTH-All international agree
ments and treaties Of every kind must
be made known in their entirety TO
the rest of the world.
Special alliances and econmic riv-
alries and hostilities have been the
prolific sources in the modern world
of the plans and passions that pro-
duce war. II would be an insineere
as well as insecure peace that did not
exclude them in definite and binding
terms
National purposes have fallen more
and more into the background and the
common purpose of enlightened man
kind has taken their place.
"Plain workaday people have Se-
handed almost every time they came
together. and are still demanding. that
the leaders of their governments de-
clare to them plainly what it is-ex-
actly what it is-that they are seek
ing in this war and what they think
the items Of the final settlement should
he.
"They are not yet satisfied with
what they have been told. They still
seem TO fear that they are getting
what they ask for only in statesmen's
terms-only in the terms of territorial
arrangements and the divisions of
power and not in terms of broad vision,
Justice and mercy and peace and the
satisfaction of those deep-seated long
ings of oppressed and distracted men
and women and enslayed peoples that
seem 10 them the only things worth
fighting a war for that engulfs the