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ALLIES ARE FIGHTING
FOR REIGN Of LAW,
WILSON INSISTS
Prussia Reused Forces Never to
be Crushed, He Tells Great
Mt. Vernon Audience.
NO COMPROMISE, HE SAYS


alien and hostile to our own.
It was speech which brought the
sons of Great Britain, and the hghtlns
men of France and Italy, and thirty
other nationalities to their feet cheer
ing: speech which set the free peoples
of the world unalterably on record against
German domination.
President Wilson intended his address
to be the civilized worlds Declaration
of Independence, and he drove nome
this thought
President Wilson's speech yesterday
at the Fourth of july celebration at
Mount Vernon was as follows:
Gentlemen of the Diplomatic corps
and NV Fellow-Citizens: | am happy TO
draw apart with you to this quiet place
of old counsel In order TO speak Mite
of the meaning OF this day OF our ma
tion's indcpcndcnce. The place seems
very still and remote. 1t Is as serene and
untouched by the hurry Of the world as
il was in those great days long ago when
General Washington was here and held
leisurelv conference with the men who
were to be associated with HIM IN the
creation OF a nation. From these gentle
slopes they looked out upon the world and
saw il whole. saw it with the hight OF the
future llpon il, saw it with modern eyes
that turned away from q past which men
Of liberated spirits could no longer endure.
If Is for that reason that we cannot feel.
even here. in the immediate presence 81
this sacred tomb. that this Is place OF
death. Il was n place OF achievement \
great promise that was meant for all man
kind was here gwen plan and reality
The associations by which we are
here surrounded are the inspirltlng as
sociationS of that noble death which IS
only glorious contamination. from
This green hillside we also ought To DC
able ID see with compromising eyes the
world that lies around us and conc I've
anew the purpose that must set men Tree
Its significant significant OF their own
character and purpose and q the m
fuences they were setting aioot that
Washington and his associates, Ike the
Bar0ns At RunnymeCe, spoke and acted.
not for a class. but for people 1t mas
been left for us to see TO It that II shaH pe
understood that they spoke and acted,
not for single people only. but Tor al!
mankind They were thinking not OF
themselves and Of the material interests
which centred in the little groups Of
landholders and merchants and men Of
affairs with whom they were accustomed
TO act. in Virginia and the colonies to
the north and south of her, but OF people
which wished 10 be done with classes
and SDecial interests and the authority
Of men whom they had not themselves
chosen TO rule over them. They enter
tanned no private purpose, desired no
peculiar privilege. They were CONSCIOUSLY
planning that men OF every class should
bc free and America i place 10 which
men out of every nation might resort who
wished TO share with them the rights and
privileges OF free men. And we take
our cue from them-do we not We
intend what they intended We here
IN America believe our participation IN
this present war 10 be only the frultagc
of what they planted Our case differs
from theirs only in this, that II Is our m
estimabIe privilege to concert with men
out OF every nation who shall make not
onlv the liberties of America secure but
the Liberties of every other people as
we'll We are happy in the thought that
We are permitted to do what they would
have done had they been IN our place
There must now be settled, once Tor all,
what was settled for America IN the
great age upon whose inspiration we draw
TO-DAY This IS surely a t1ttIng place from
which calmly TO look out upon our task,
that we NAV fortifY our spirits for its
accomplishment. And this Is the APP
propriate place from which TO avow,
alike TO the friends who look on and TO
the friends with whom we have the
haDriness to be associated in action,
the faith and purpose with which We act
This. then. Is our conception of the
great struggle in which we are engaged.
The plot Is written plain upon every
rru
On the one hand stand the peoples Of
the world-not only the peopes actually
engaged, but many others. also, who suffer
under mastery but cannot act; peoples
Of many races and in everv part of the
world-the people of stricken RIL STA
still. among the rest, though they are for
the moment unOrganIZed and helpless
Opposed to them, masters or many armies.
stand an isolated, irIendless group OF
governments. who speak no common
purpose, but only selfish ambitions OF
their own by which none can profit but
themselves and whose peoples are fuel
IN their hands: governments which lear
their people, and Vet are lOr the time
being sovereign lords, making every choice
for them and disposing of their lives and
fortunes as they will, as well a. Of the
lives and fortunes Of every people who
fall under their power governments
clothed with the strange trappings and
the primitive authority Of an age that is
altogether alien and hostile TO our own.
The past and present are in deadly
grapple, and the peoples of the world
are being done to death between them
There can be but one issue. The
settlement must be final There can be no
compromise No halfway decision would
be tolerable No halfway decision is
conceivable These are the ends for
which the associated peoples of the world
are fighting and which must be conceded
them before there can be peace:
1.-The destruction Of every arbitrary
power anywhere that can separately,
secretly, and Of its single choice DISTURB
the peace Of The world; or, If 1t cannot be
presently destroyed, at the least its
reduction to virtual impotence.
2-The settlement Of every question,
whether OF territory, Of sovereignty, Of
economic arrangement, or of political
relationship, upon the basis Of the free
acceptance Of that settlement by the
people Immediately concerned. and not
upon the basis of the material interest or
advantage of any other nation or peopI
which NAV desire q different settlement
for the sake of its own exterior influence
or mastery.
3.-The consent Of all nations 10 be
governed IN their conduct toward each
other by the same principles Of honor and
of respec for the common Law Of civilized
society that govern the individual citizens
Of all modern States n their relations
Nth one auOf her. IA tho end that all