The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-01-10

the other nations OF the world In
obtaining for her an unhampered
and unembarassed opportunity for
the Independent determination
Of her own political development
and national policy and assure
her of a sincere welcome into the
society of free nations under in
situations of her own choosing;
and, more than welcome, assist
ance also of every kind that she
may need and may herself desire.
The treatment accorded Russia by
her sister nations in the months
to come will be the acid test of
their good will, Of their compre-
hension of her needs as disting-
uished from their own interests,
and of their intelligent and un-
selfish sympathy.
Standardization, the whole
world will agree, must be evacu-
ated and restored, without any
attempt to limit the sovereignty
which she enjoys in common with
all other free nations. No other
single act will serve as tins ill
serve to restore confidence among
the nations in the laws which they
have themselves set and determ-
ined for the government of their
relations with one another.
Without this healing act the
whole structure and validity of in
ternational law is forever impair
ed.
Eighth-All French territory
should be freed and the in
vaded portions restored, and the
wrong done to France by Prussia
in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-
Lorraine, which has unsettled the
peace of the world for nearly SO
years, should be righted, in order
that peace may once more be
made secure in the interest of all.
Ninth-A readjustment of the
frontiers of Italy should be effect
ed along clearly recognizable
lines of nationality.
Tenth-The peoples of Austria
Hungary, whose place among the
nations we wish to see safe
guarded and assured, should be
accorded the freest opportunity of
autonomous development.
Observation-Disclosures, Serbia and
Montenegro should be evacuated.
Occupied territories restored; Ser
bia accorded free and secure
access to the sea; and the rela-
tions of the several Balkan states
to one another determined by
friendly counsel along historical
ly established lines of allegiance
and nationality; and international
guarantees of the political and
economic independence and terri
torial integrity of the several
Balkan states should be entered
into.
Twelfth-The Turkish portions
OF the present Ottoman empire
should be assured a. secure SOW
erignty, but the other nationalit-
les which are now under Turkish
rule should be assured an I'M
doubted seanity of life and an alb
solutely unmolested opportunity
of autonomous development, and
the Dardanelles should be perm
anently opened as a free passage
to the ships and commerce of all
nations under International
guarantees.
Thirteenth - An independent
Polish state should be erected
which should include the territor-
les inhabited by indisputable Pol
ish populations, which should be
assured a free and secure access
to the sea, and whose political and
economic independence and terri
torial integrity should be guaran-
teed by international covenant.
Fourteenth-A general associa-
ton of nations must be formed
under specific covenants for the
purpose of affording mutual
guarantees of political independ-
ence and territorial integrity to
great and small states alike.
In regard to these essential rect
Fications of wrong and assertions c
right we feel ourselves to be intimat
partners of all the governments an
peoples associated together again.
the imperialists. We cannot h
separted in interest or divided