New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-15

new DdldIC Vi puWeT Sleduy against tA
ternal disturbances.
1t must be evident to every one who
understands what this val has
wrought In the opinion and temper OF
the world that no general peace, nc
peace worth the infinite sacrifices OF
these years of tragical suffering, can
possibly be arrived at in any such
fashion, The method the German
chancellor proposes is the method OF
the Congress of Vienna. We cannot
and will not return to that. What is
at stake now is the peace of the world.
What We are striving for is a new in
ternational order based upon broad
and universal principles of right and
~justice-no mere peace of shreds and
patches.
Is Hertling Living in World Of Past?
Is it possible that Count Won IIert-
ling does not see that, does not grasp
it, is it in fact living in his thought
in a world dead and gone Has he
utterly forgotten the R~cichstag resolu-
tons of July 10, or does he deliberate
ly ignore them? They spoke OF the
conditions of a general peace, MOI OF
national ACKNOWLEDGMENT or of arrange
ments between state and state. The
peace of the world depends upon just
settlement of each of the several prob
lens to which advertrd in my recent
address TO the Congress.
|, of course, do not mean that the
peace of the world depends upon the
acceptance OF any particular set of sug
gestiOns as to the way in which those
problems are TO be dealt with. | mean
only that those problems, each and all,
affect the whole world; that unless
they are dealt with in a spirit of un-
selfish and unbiased justice, with a
view to the wishes, the natural con
nections, the racial aspirations, the Sc
curity and peace of mind of the PEG,
pies involved, no permanent peace will
have been attained.
They cannot be discussed separately
or in corners. None of them consti-
tutes a private or separate interest
from which the opinion of the world
may be shut out. Whatever affects
he peace, affects mankind and moth
ing settled by military force, if settled
wrong, is settled at all. 1t will present
ly have to be r%eopened.
Is Count Won Hertling not aware
that he is speaking in the our OF
mankind, that all the awakened ma
tons of the world now sit in judgment
on what every public man, of whatever
nation, may say on the issues of a con-
flict which has spread to every region
Of the world? The Reichstag resolu-
tons Of July themselves frankly ac-
cepted the decisions of that court.
Annexations and Indemnities Barred.
There shall be no anncXations, no
contributions, no punitive damages.
Peoples are not to be handed about
from II sovereignty to another by in
ternatiOnal conference or an under
standing between rivals and antagon-
lists. National aspirations must be re-
spected: peoples may 10Y be domin-
ated and governed only by their own
consent.
'Self-determination' is not a mere
phrase. 1t is an imperative principle
of action, which statesmen will hence
forth ignore at their peril. We can
not have general peace for the asking
or by the mere arrangements of a
peace conference. 1t cannot be pieced
together out of individual understand
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