Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-09

less they were corrected and the world secured once for al against their recurrence. What we demand therefore is nothing peculiar to our selves. It is the world must be made lit and safe to live in: and particu- larly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own. wishes to live it's own life, de- termine it's own institutions, be as sured of justice and fair dealing by the peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our i own part We see very clearly that unless justice can be done to others 1t will not be done to us. The pro gram of the worlds; peace. therefore. IS our program. and that program, the only program, as we see it. is this.
 AmeriCa's Peace Terms.
 |. Open covenants of peace. open l ly arrived at. after which there shall i De no private international under standings of any kind. but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and for the public view.
 7. Absolute freedom Of navigation upon the seas, outside of territorial waters, alike in peace and in war. ex- cept as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international ac- 1 hon for the enforcement of interna- t tional covenants.
 5. The removal. as far as possible, of all economic barriers and the cs., tabllshment of an equality of trade conditions among all nations con senting to the peace and associating themselves for it's maintenance.
 1. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armam"lts will be reduced to the lowest point con slstent with domestic safety.
 ,. free, ope1nlinded and acso lutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a st"itt observance of the priffiple that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the popu- latlonS concerned must havc equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
 6. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such settlement of all l cure the best and frcest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for inde pendent determination of her own pc litical development and national pol l icy and assure her of Q sincere wei come into the society of free nations under institutions Of her own choos- ing; and, more than a welcome, as sistance of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sis ter nations ill the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy
 [. Belgium, the whole world will 1 agree, must be evacuated and restor- ed, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in com mon with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and de- termined for the government of their relations with one. anothet. With out this healing act the whole struc- turc and validity of international law is forever impaired.
 s. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions re- stored and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of IAlsacc-LOrraine. which has unsettled the peace of the world fOr nearly 50 years, saould be righted, in order that peace once more be made secure in the interest of all,
 9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effdfted along clearly recognizable lines of nation ality.
 10. The people of AGstria-Hun- gary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguardcd and as sured. should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous develop ment.
 II. Rumania, Serbia and Montenc- gro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the seas; and the relations of the several Bal kan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guar antees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should he entered into.
 r.. The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman empire should be assured of a secure sovereignty, but the other natonalities which are HOW under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubtcd security ol life and an absolutely unmolested op portunity of autonomous develop mcnt, and tic Dardanelles should De permanently opened as a free passa ge to the ships and commerce of all ma tions under international guarantees
 13. An independent Polish stat' should be erected which should in clude the territories inhabited by in disputably Polish populations. whic, should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose politica ,.J ocooop,iu iudonpndence and for