The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-28
Must Redeem Character by What Follows After Peace Comes, He Tells New
 Workers
AGAIN ANSWERS FEELERS FROM THE
 CENTRAL POWERS
League of Nations Formed at Peace Conference Indispensable in Se- curing Justice to All
 Nations in Future

New York, September 27. The price of peace will be i,n- partial justice to all nations, the lnstrumentality indispensa- ble to secure it is a league of nations formed not before or after, but at the peace confer ence, and Germany, as a mem- ber,, twill have to redeem her character not by what happens at the peace table, but by what follows"
 This was President Wilson's answer given tonight before an audience of fourth Liberty Loan workers here, to the recent peace talk from the central powers, al. though he did not refer specifically to the utterances of enemy leaders. Peace was not question declared the President of coming to terms, for We cannot come to terms" with them. "as trey have made it impossible. Peace must be guaranteed, for there will De parties to the peace whose promises have proved untrustworthy and means must be found in connection with the peace sci tlement to remove that source of inse- curity." Tt would be folly to leave tha guarantee to the subsequent voluntary action of the governments we have seen destroy Russia and decAee Rumania,,, continued the President.
 NO DISCRIMINATION
 The President emphasized that the tus- tice to be obtained by the league must Involve no discrimination toward any people. This he sets forth explicitly in a set of five principles which he enumer- ated as the practical programme" of Americas peace terms and for the main tenance of which ''the United States is prepared to assume its full share of re- sponsibility."
 These principles were. he said:
 First, the impartial justice meted out must involve no discrimination between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to he just. It must be justice that plays no farorites, and knows no standard but the equal rights of the several peoples con cerned:
 Second. no special or separate inter- est of any single nation or any group Of nations can be made the basis of any part of tho settlement which is not con- sistent with the common interests of all.
 Third, there can be no league of all dances or special covenants and under standings within the general and com mon family of the league of nations:
 Fourth, and more specifically, there can he no special. selfish economic com binstons within the league and no em- ployment of any form of economic boy colt CT 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 Agreements and treaties of every kind must be made known t their entirety to the rest Of the world.''
 RESTATES ISSUES
 Mir. Wilson re-stated the issues of the war of the world:
 shall any military power Of any na- tioh or group of nations be suffered to determine the fortunes of peoples over whom they lave no right to rule except the right of force?
 Shah strong nations be free 10 wrong weak nations and make them subject to titlT purpose anu iHteTeSt.
 Shall peoples be ruled and dominated even in their own internal affairs by arbitrary and irresponsible force or by their own will and choice?
 Shall there be a common standard of right and privilege for all peoples and nations or shall the strong do as they will and the weak suffer without re- dress!
 shall the assertion of right be hap hazard and by casual alliance or shali there be a common concert to oDlige the observance of common rights?'
 He added:
 s.No man, no group of men, chose these to be the issues of the struggle They are the issues of it.
 GOOD NEWS ARRIVES
 Shortly before the President started speaking news of the further successes of American, British and French offen- siyes on the western front reached the meeting at the Metropolitan opera house. and this gave dramatic point to MT. Will sor s perorauon-that peace drives can be effectively neutralized and silenced only before showing that every victory of the nations associated against Ger many brings the nations nearer the sort of peace which will bring security and reassurance to all peoples and make the recurrence of another snch struggle of pitiless force and bloodshed forever i'm possible and that nothing else can.'
 .,Gelanany is constantly intimating the terms she will accept and always finds that the world does not want terms. declared the President. Ut wishes the
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