Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-28

frankness about the practical impLi- cations that are involved in it.
 "If it be in deed as in truth the common object of the governments allied against Germany and of the nations whom they govern; as I be- lieve it to be, to achieve by the com ing settlements a suSe and lasting peace, it will be necessary that all who sit down at the peace table shall come ready and willing to paay the price, the only price. that will pro- cure it; and ready and willing, also, to create in some virile fashion the only instrumentality by which it can be made certain the agreements of the peace will be honored and full filled.
 "That price is impartial justice in every item of the settlement, no mat ter whose interests are crossed; and not only impartial justice, but also the satisfaction of the several peo- ples whose fortune are dealt with.
 A League of Nations.
 That indispensable instrumentali- ty is a league of nations formed un- der covenants that will be efticacious Without such an instrumentality, by which the peace of the world can be guaranteed, peace will rest in part upon the word of outlaws and only upon that word
 For Germany will have to redeem her character, not by what happens at the peace table, but by what follows
 And, as I see it, the constitution of the league of nations and the most essential part of the peace settlement itself. It cannot be formed now.
 Can't Be Forfed Now.
 eff formed now it would be merely a new alliance confined to the nations associated against common enemy.
 Tt is not likely that it could be formed after the settlement. It is necessary to guarantee the peace and the peace cannot be guaranteed as all after thought.
 'The reason, to speak in plain terms again why it must be guaranteed is that there will be parties to the peace whose promises have proved untrust- worthy, and means must be found in connection with the peace settlement itself to remove that source of inse- curity. It would be folly to leave the German to the subsequent voluntary action of the governments we have seen destroy Russia and deceive Ru- mania.
 Not Whole Matter.
 But these general terms do not dis. close the whole matter. Some details are needed to make them sound less like thesis and more like a practi. cal program. These, then, are some of the par ticulars and state them with greater confidence because l can state them authoritively as representing this governments interpretation of it's own duty with regard to peace: No Discrimination of Justice.
 First, the impartial justice meted out must involve no discrimination I,between those to whom we wish to | be just and those to whom we do not to be just.
 "It must be a justice that plays nc favorites and knows no standard but the equal rights of the several peo- ples concerned;
 Second. no special or separate in- terest of any single nation or any group of nations can be 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 un- derstandings within the general and common family of the league of na- tions;
 No Selfish Combinations.
 Fourth, and more specifically, there can be no special, selfish economic combinations within the league and no employment of any form of econ- omic or exclusion except as the power of economic penalty by exclusion from the markets of the world may be vested in the league of nations itself as means of discipline and control:
 Fifth, all international agreements and treaties of every kind must be