Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-10-05
GERMANY MUST REDEEM
ITSELF, SAYS PRESIDENT
League of Nations Necessary to Sc
cure 1t; No Compromise With
Central Powers Possible.

New fork.-The price or peace Will
be impartial justice to all nations
the instrumentality indispensable to
secure it is league of nations, form
ed not before or after, but at the peace
conference; and Germany, as mem
ber, will have to redeem her charac-
ter, not by what happens at the peace
table, but by what follows"
This was President Wilson's answer,
given Friday before an audience OF
fourth liberty loan workers in New
York City, to the recent peace talk
from the central powers, although he
did not refer specifically to the utter
ances of enemy leaders.
Peace was not a question, declared
the president, of coming to terms.
for we can not come to terms with
Them" as they have made it impos
sible"
1t must be guaranteed, for there
will be parties to the peace whose
promises have proved untrustworthy,
and means must be found in connec-
WIFI tuS pSdCC ~ ~
move that source of insecurity.
"It would be folly to leave the guar
antee to the subsequent voluntary &C
ton of the governments we have seen
destroy Russia and deceive Rou'
mania" continued the president, who
emphasized that the justice to be OBJ
tanned by the league must involve no
discrimination toward any people.
This he set forth explicitly in a set OF
five principles, which he enumerated
as "the practical program" of Amer
ica's peace terms, and for the mainte-
nance of which "the United States is
prepared to assume its full share of
responsibility"
These principles were, he said:
First, the impartial justice meted
out must involve no discrimination be-
tween those to whom we will wish to
be just and those to whom we do not
wish to be just 1t must be justice
that plays no fayorites and knows no
vanguard 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 leagues or
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 eco
nomic boycott or exclusion except as
the power of economic penalty by ex
clusion from the markets of the world
may be vested in the league Of nations
itself as a means of discipline and con
troll
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 domi,
ntted, savan in their own integral af
fairs, by arbr4rary and irresponsible
farce, or by their eown will and choice:
shall there be coHamon standard
Of right and privilege for an nooples
and nations, or shall the strong do a.
they will and the weak suffer without |
redress?
"ShalI the assertion of right be hap
hazard and by casual alliance, or shah
there be a common concert to oblige
the observance of common rights ?"
He added: mo man, no group OF
men, chose these to be the issues OF
the struggle. They ARE the issues
of it"