The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-01-18
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
Washington, Jan. 9.-President vii
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 definite program for world peace
containing fourteen specific considera,
tons.
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 posi- BILE
basis Of general peace. Parleys have
been In progress at Brest-Litovsk be-
tween Russian representatives and
Representatives of the central powers
TO which the attention all the bel
pose of ascertaining whether 1t may
be possible to extend these parleys into
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
NHcy "oulu DC Wiling 10 COHCluQe
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. II much
less definite. seemed susceptible of
cific program Of practical terms was
esssions at al either 70 so~sre,Rnt soo Of
lation with those whose fortunes it
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
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
SaVs nsTs s9' OFT Inc the
sincere and
proposals of conquest and dominion.
The whole incident is full of sig
nifieanee: 1t is also full Of perplexity.
tatives dealing? For whom are the
representatives Of the central empires
Are ,b they speshns for the
ments or for the minority parties 5, that
military, and imperialistfc minority
which has so far dominated their
of Turkey and Of the Balkan states
which have felt obliged to become
their associates In this war?
The Russian representatives have
in the true spirit OF democracy that
the conferences they have been hold
Ing with the Teutonie and Turkish
not closed doors. and ali the world has
whom have we been listening. then7
tention of the resolutions of the Ger
man Reichstag Of the 9Th Of July last,
the spirit and intention of the liberal
those who resist and defy that spirit
and intention and insist upon conquest
and subtugation? Or are we listening
open and hopeless contradiction?
nant questions; Upon the answer 70
but Whatever the results of the
parleys at Brest-Litovsk, whatever the
COMMISSIONS of counsel and of purpose
the central empires. they have again
attempted to acauaint the world with
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
challenge should not be responded to
wait for 1t. Not once. but again and
again we have laid our whole thought
and purpose before the world, not in
general terms only, but each time with
sufficient definition to make it clear
what sort of definitive terms of set
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
versaries Of the central powers. no
Of detail.
The only secrecy of counsel. the
only failure to make a definite state
ment of the objects of the war lies
with Germany and her allies. The is
sues Of life and death hang upon these
mo statesman who has the least
conception of his responsibility ought
continue this tragicai and appalling
outpouring of blood and treasure un-
less he Is sure beyond a peradventure
are part and parcel Of the very life Of
society and that the people for whom
he speaks think them right and i'm
There Is moreover. a voice calling
for these definitions of principle and
Of purpose which is. it seems to me
than any Of the many moving voices
with which the troubled air Of the
world Is filled. 1t is the voice OF the
and ali but tp helpless. it ave Would Pd's seem
before the grim power of Germany.