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| yhe essential bases Of comm aTcial and
| Industrial life TO be safe gu9rded by
! common agreement and guarantee,
| but he cannot expect that to be con
| coded him if the other matters to b.
| determined by the articles of peac
are not handled in the same way as
| items in the final accounting.
He cannot ask the benefit of com
| mon agreement in the one field with
| out according il in the otter | t'ke
| It for granted that he sees that cen
! rate and selfish cOmp@cts with rega' q
/ to trade and the essential matert !
| of manufacture would afford no fOun-
datiOn for Deace. Neither he may re It
assured, will separate and selfish com.
pacts with regard to provinces and
| peoples.
Count CZernin seems TO see the
! fundamental elements of peace with
| clear eyes and does not seek to OBJ
scure them. He sees that an indeDen-
| dent Poland. made up of all the ind.S-
| putably Polish peoples wAo lie con
| tiguouS to one another. is a matter or
! European concern and mus of course.
| be conceded: that Belgium must b
evacuated and resto ed, no matter
what sacrifices and concessions thai
may involve: and that national asp!rl-
| tions must be satisfied even within his
| own empire. in the common interest
| of Europe and mankind.
| II lie is SIlSHl dUOut QueSI wiz IL
| touch the interest and purpose OF n S
allies more nearly than they touch
| those of Austria only, it must, OF
| course, be because he feels cons
| trained, | suppose, TO defer to Ge'-
many and Turkey in the circum-
| stances. Seeing. and conceding, 9s e
| does the essential principles moved
| and the necessity of candidly Apply
| ng them, he naturally feels that Aus
| ria can respond to the purpose OF
| peace as expressed by the United
| States with less embarrassment than
| could Germany.
He would probably have gone much
| farther had it not been for the en-
| barraSsments of Austria's allianrG
| and of her dependence upon Germany.
! After all, the test Of whethe~ it is
| possible for either, Government to 60
views is simple and obvious. TIE p~in-
| ciples to he applied are these:
First. that each part Of t7o f"al
| settlement must h" based upon the es,
| sential Justice of that part!c dlar case
| and upon such adjustments a 9r"
| most likely to bring a peace that VII
! be permanent.
| Second that peoples and provinces
| are not to be bartered about from
| sovereignty to sovereignty as if Trey
were mere chattlas and pawns in
game, even the great game, now for,
ever discred;ted. of tSle balance Of
power: but tHat
Third. every territorial settlement
| involved in this war mus b. made Ii
| the interest and for the benefit of the
populations concerned. and not 2s >
part Of any mere adjustment or com
| premise of claims amongst rival
| ttates: anG.
Fourth. that all well defined ma
| iOnal aspra tons snaH be aC"Or"eG
| the utmost satisfaction = at can be &C
| tOried them without '7trod"ri"r ToH
| rr nerpetuatnc old element oe 1is
| t,rd and anita gonism thet wHul1 r.
| likely in time 10 break the peace (
| Europe and consequently of the worl-
\ genera. peace e.ected upon SUI,
'OUndationS can be discussed. Unit
| such ped1e can be secured, we have
/ no choice but to so on. So far as we
| can judge these principles that we re-
| gard as fundamental are ALREADY
| everywhere accepted AS imperative eX
| tept among the spokesmen of the mill.
! tGry and anneXationist party in er
| many.
If they have anywhere else been re
| Jected. the objectors have not been
: aaal =assl.l T. ls--T-ess;- lsesalla1 ptsagi
| cal circumstance is that this one party
| in Germany is apparently wiling and
| able to send millions of men to their
| death to prevent what all the world
| now sees to be just.
would not be a true spokesman OF
| he people of the United S ates if
| did not say once more that we entered
| this war upon no small occasion and
| That we can never turn back from a
| course chosen upon principle. Our re-
| 5ources are in part mobi,i7el now and
| we shall not pause until they are
| 'nOblliZed in their entirety.
| IN nc a l1x,r 70 h q
fighting front, and will go more and
| more rapidly. Our whole strength
| will be put into this war OF emanci-
| natton-emancipation from the threat
| nd attempted mastery OF selfish
| .rOups OF autOcratic u'es-whatever
| AVS.
We are indOmitable in our uCwer OF
| independent action, and can in no cir
| Vmstance consent to live in a would
| royerned by intrigue and force. We
| '"lieve that our own desire for new
A.arna ional order under which rea.
on end Justice and the common in
rests of mankind shall prevail is the
'es're of enlightened men every
| vhere.
Without that new order, the world
J viii be without neace and human life
viii lack tolerable conditions of exist:
| "nce and development. Having set
| our hand to the task of achieving it,
we shall not turn back.
I hope that it IS not necessary for
ne to add that no word of what |
| I'VE said is intended as threat. That
| IS not the temper of our people.
| ave spoken thus only that the whole
| world may know the true spirit of
| tmerica-that men everywhere may
| Snow that our passion for justice and
| for self-gOvernment is no mere pas
| lion of words but a passion which
| CrCn set in action. must be satisfied.
| TIE power of the United States is a
| menace to no nation or people. 1t
| will never be nse1 In aggression or
FOR the ggrandizement- of any selfish
| interest of our own. Il springs out
| freedom.