, 1918-01-17
WORLD JUSTICE
WAR aim OF US.
WILSON OUTLINES AMERICAS
PEACE NATION TO
FIGHT TILL WORLD SAFE.
LEAGUE To DANISH WAR
PRESIDENT LAYS DOWN sPEcI-
FIG CONDITIONS THAT MUST BE
MET BEFORE WAR CAN END.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Jan. 9.-President Will
son yesterday, addressing Congress
delivered q restatement of war aims
In agreement with the recent declara-
ton by the British premier, David
Lloyd George. The President present
ed a definite program for world peace
containing fourteen specific considera-
lions.
Text of Presidents Address.
The President spoke as follows:
gentlemen of the Congress:
once more, as repeatedly before,
have indicated their desire to discuss
the objects of the war and the possible
basis of a general peace. Parleys have
tween Russian representatives and
representatives of the central powers
to which the attention of all the bel
pose of a~scertaining whether il NAV
be possible to extend these parleys. Into
a general conference with regard to
terms of peace and settlement.
The Russian representatives pre-
scented not only a perfectly definite
statement of the principles upon which
NAty "Oulu JIG llllu 10 COnClu0e
peace, but also an equally definite pro-
gram of the concrete application of
those principles.
The representatives of the central
powers, on their part, presented an
outline of settlement which, If much
less definite, seemed susceptible of
liberal Interpretation until their spe-
cific program of practical terms was
added That program proposed no con-
cessions at all either to sovereignty of
Russia or the preferences of the popu-
latlOn with those whnRa fortunes II
dealt but meant in a word that the
central empires were to keep every
had occupied-every province, every
city, every point of vantage-as a per-
manent addition to their territories
and their power.
the general principles of settlement
which they at first suggested, origi-
mated with the more liberal statesmen
Of Germany and Austria, the men who
own peoples thought and purpose.
while the concrete terms Of actual set
who have no thought but to keep
what they have got. The negotiations
have been broken off. The Russian
earnest. They cannot entertain such
proposals of conquest and dominion.
The whole incident is full of sig
with whom are the Russian represent
tatives dealing? For whom are the
representatives of the central empires
sRejaTiiaiss Of ERE eh ,drY rs seeeataiRs t parl ise
ments or for the minority parties. that
military. and im~perialistfc minority
w wheie policy ohe az and t eontroi ietit the affairs fairs
of Turkey and of the Balkan states
which ave felt obliged to become
their associates in this war;
insisted, very Justly. very wisely and
in the true spirit of democracy that
the conferences they have been hold
statesmen should be held within open,
not closed doors, and all the world has
been audience as was desired. To
To those who speak the spirit and In
tention of the resolutions of the Ger
man Reichstag of the 9Th of July, last,
inc sp,ri ana ana nar rnsens of Ge OF sne ii or to
those who resist and defy that spirit
and intention and insist upon conquest
open and hopeless contradiction?
These are very serious and preg-
them SdepenIs the peace Of the World.
but whatever the results of the
parleys It Brest-Litovsk, whatever the
in the u~tterances of the spokesmen Of
the central empires, they have again
attempted to %acquaint the world with
s s%ain S eSSIissrs ,1 their the W "dveF amG sat to
say what their objects are and what
sort of settlement they would deem
just and satisfactory.
Lloyd George Praised for Candor.
There is no good reason why that
shahe tSs st hoS.d esndo oe re We die not eG
wait for II. Not once. but again and
again we have laid our whole thought
general terms only, but Zach time with
sufficient definition to make II clear
what sort of definitive terms OF set
Element must necessarily spring out Of
them.
within the last week Lloyd George
has spoken with admirable candor and
in admirable spirit for the people and
government of Great Britain. There Is
no confusion of counsel among the ad-
yersaries of the central powers, no
uncertainty of principle, no vagueness
of detail.
.The only secrecy of counsel, the
only lack Of fearless frankness. the
only failure to make a definite state
msnt Of the objects OF war Tb. n iss
sues OF life and death hang upon these
definitions. -
conception Of his responsibility ought
for a moment to permit hlmsetr 10
continue this tragical and appalling
~outpouring of blood and treasGre uno
that the objects of the vital saGritice
are part and parcel of the very life OF
society and that the people TOT whon
he speaks think them right ana I'M
perative as he does.
'There Is. moreover, a voice calling
for these definitions OF principle and
mora thrilling and, more compelling
than any Of the many moving voices
with which the troubled air Of the
PuaSian peopie. They are PROSTATE
and ali but helpless. It would seem,
before the grim power of Germany
n.... nootor Dies Answering Call.