Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-10-02

ly as representing this governments
Interpretation of it's own duty with
regard to peace:
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 be just. 1t must be a JUS
tice that plays no favorites and
knows no standard, but the equal
rights of the several peoples con-
cerned.
Second, no special or separate i'll
terest Of any single nation or any
group OF nations can pe made the
basis of any part of the settlement
which is not consistent with the COM
mon interests of all.
Third, there can be no leagues
or alliances or special covenants and
understandings with the general and
common family Of the league of ma
tions.
Fourth, and more specifically,
there can be no special, selfish eco
nomic combinations within tile
league, and no employment of any
form Of economic boycott or eXclu-
sion except as the power of economic
penalty by exclusion from the mar
kets of the world may be vested in
the league of nations itself as
means of discipline and control.
Firth, all international agree
ments and treaties of every kind
must be made known, in their entire
ty, to the rest of the world.
Special alliances and economic RI
valrtes and hostilities have been the
prolific source in the modern world
or the plans and passions that pro-
duce war. 1t would be insincere as,
well as an insecure peace that did
not exclude them in definite and
binding terms.
The confidence with which | VEN
ture to speak for our people in these
matters does not spring from our
traditions merely and the we'll
known principles Of international ac-
ton which we have always professed
and followed
Washington's Immortal Warming.
"In the same sentence in which |
say the United States will enter into
no special arrangements or under
standings with particular nations let
me say also that the United States
Is prepared to assume its full share
of responsibility for the maintenance
standings upon which peace must
henceforth rest. We still read Wash
ington's immortal warning against
entangling alliances with full com
prehension and an unswerving pur-
pose. But only special and limited
alliances entangle; and we recognize
and accept the duty of new day in
which we are permitted to hope for
a general alliance which will avoid
entanglements and clear the air of
the world for common understand
lngS and the maintenance of COM
mon rights.
Il have made this analysis of the
international situation which the war
has created, not, of course, because
doubted whether the leaders Of the
great nations and peoples with whom
we are associated were of the same
mind and entertained a like purpose,
but because the air every now and
again gets darkened by mists and
groundless doubtings and mischiev-
GUS perversiOns of counsel, and it is
necessary once and again to sweep
all the irresponsible talk about peace
intrigues and weakening morale and
doubtful purpose on the part of those
In authority utterly, and, if need be,
unceremoniously, aside and say
things In the plainest words that can
be found, even when 1t Is only to say
over again what has been said be-
fore, quite as plainly If in less un-
vanished terms.
'As I have said, neither nor any
other man in governmental authority
created or gave form to the issues Of
this war. I have simply responded
to them with such vision as I could
command. But l have responded
gladly and with a resolution that has
grown warmer and more confident
as the issues have grown clearer and
clearer. 1t Is now plain that they
are issues which no man can peryert
unless 1t be wilfully. I am bound to
fight for them, and happy to fight for
them as time and circumstance have
revealed them to me as to all the
world. Our enthusiasm for them
grows more and more irresistible as
they stand out in more and more
vivid and unmistakable outline.
Thought Of the Mass Unclouded.
"And the forces that fight for
them draw into closer and closer ar
ray, organize their millions into
more and more unconquer cradle might,
as they become more and more dis
tinct to the thought and purpose Of
the peoples engaged. 1t is the pc
culiarity Of this great war that while
statesmen have seemed to cast about
for definitions of their purpose and
have sometimes seemed to shift their
ground and their point Of view, the