Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-01-12

evacuated and restored without any attempt to limit the
sovereignty which she enjoys with all other
free nations No other single act will serve as this will
to restore confidence among the nations III the laws
which they themselves have set and determined for the
government of their relations with another Without
this healing act the whole structure and validity of inter
national law is forever impaired.
s. All French territory should be freed and the in
vaded portions restored and the wrong done France
by Prussia in 1871 in the matter Of Alsace-orraine,
which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly so
years, should be rghted in order that peace may
more be made secure in the interest Of all.
3. readJustment of the frontiers of Italy should be
effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality
TO- The peoples of Austria Hungary, whose peace
among the nations wish saeguarded and assured
should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous
development
IL Rlmania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be
evacuated occupied territories resored Serbia accorded
free and the and the relations of the
several Balkan states to one another determined by
friendly counsel along historically established lines of
allegiance and nationality, and international guarantees
of political and economical independence and territorial
integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered
into
L.. The Turkish portions OF the present Ottoman
empire should be assured sovereignty but the
other nationalities which under Turkish rule
should be assured an udoubted security OF Life and an
absolutely unmoested opportunity of autonomous de
veopment and the Derdanelles should be permanently
opened free passage to the ships and commerce OF all
nations under international guarantees.
13 An independent Polish state should be erected
which should ipcude the territories inhabited by ndis-
putably Polish populations, which should be assured
free and to the and whose political and
economic independence and territorial integrity should be
guaranteed by international covenant.
IA. general association of nations must be formed
under specific covenants for the purpose of affordng
mutual guarantees of political independence and terri
torial integrity to great and small states alike.
In regard to these essential reccations Of wrong and
assertions of right feel ourselves to be intimate part
ners of all the governments and peoples associated to-
geher against the mperalists We cannot be separated
interest divided in purpose We stand together
til the end.
For such arrangements and covenants willing to
fight and to continue to fight until they achieved but
only because wish the right to prevail and desire just
and stable peace such be secured only by removing
the chief provocaons war; which this program does re-
move.
We have no jealousy of German greatness and there is
nothing in this program that mpars it. We grudge her
no achievement distinction of learning of pacific
terprse such have made her record very bright and
very enviabe. We do not wish to nure her to block
IN any way her legitimate influence power We do not
wish fight her either with with hostile arrange
mens of trade if she is willing to associate herself with
and the other peace loving nations of the world in
nants of Justice and law and fair dealing.
We wish her only to accept place of equality among
the peoples Of the word-the world in which
live-nstead Of place of mastery.
Neither do presume to suggest to her any alteration
or modification of her institutions
But it is necessary must frankly say and necessary
as preliminary to any intelligent dealings with her on
our part that we should know for whom her spokemen
speak, for when they speak u.s. whether for the reich
stag majority for the military party and the men whose
creed is imperial domination.
We have spoken now surely, in terms too concrete to
admit of any further doubt question An evident prn
cipe runs through the whole program have outlined 1t