New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-07-12

concert with men ont Of every natiol
what shall make not only the libertie
Of America secure but the liberties o
every other people as we'll. We ar
happy In the thought that we are per
mitted to do what they would hav'
done had they been In our place
There must now be settled once for al
what was settled for America in thu
great age upon whose inspiration W,
draw today. This Is surely a fttint
place from which calmly to look ou'
upon our task. that we may fortify oul
spirits for Its accomplishment. Ant
this Is the appropriate place from
which to avow, alike to the friend.
who look On and to the friends witt
whom We have the happiness to be as
ISOLATED In action. the faith and pur
pose with which we act.
Hun Rulers Fear Own People.
"This. then. is our conception Of the
great struggle In which VIZ are en-
gagged. The plot Is written plain upon
every scene and every act Of the SUI
preme tragedy. On the one hand stand
the peoples Of the world-nOt only the
peoples actually engaged, but many
others also who suffer under mastery
but cannot act; peoples Of many races
and In every part Of the wOrld-the
people Of stricken Russia still, among
the rest. though they are for the mo.
ment unOrganized and helpless. Op-
posed to them, masters Of many arm
les, stand ar isolated, frlendless group
of governments who speak no common
purpose but only selfish ambitions of
their wi by which none can profit
but themselves, and whose peoples
are fuel In their hands; governments
which fear their people and yet are
for the time their sovereign lords, max
Ing every choice for them and dispOs-
Ing Of their lives and fortunes as they
will, as we'll as of the lives and for
tunes of every people who fall under
their power - governments clothed
with the strange trappings and the
primitive authority Of an age that Is
altogether allen and hostile to our
own. The past and the present are In
deadly grapple and the peoples of the
world are being done to death between
them.
Settlement Must Be Final.
"There car be but one issue. The
settlement must be final. There can
be no compromise. No halfway de-
cisiOn would be tolerable. No half
way 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: l. The destruction
of every arbitrary power anywhere
that can separately. secretly and Of its
single choice disturb the peace of the
world or. II 1t cannot be presently de-
stroyed, at the least its reduction to
virtual impotence.
90 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
advantage Of any other nation or
which may desire u different
settlement for the sake of its W ex-
terror influence or mastery.
SO. The consent Of all nations to be
governed in their conduct towards
each other by the same principles of
honor and of respect for the common
law of civilized society that govern
the individual citizens Of all modern
In their relations with one an
other to the end that all promises and
may be sacredly observed, no
private plots or conspiracies Matched,
no selfish injuries wrought with impun-
ity, and a mutual trust established
upon the handsome foundation of a
mutual respect for right.
~. The establishment Of an organi-
of peace which shall make It
certain that the combined power Of
free nations will check every invasion
Of right and serve to make peace and
the more secure by affOrding a
definite tribunal Of opinion to which
all must submit and by which every
International readjustment that cannot
be amicably agreed upon by the peo-
Plies directly concerned shall be sane
U. 8. Can Never Be Crushed.
"These great objects can be put into
, single sentence. What we seek Is
he reign of law. based upon the con-
sent of the governed and sustained by
he organized opinion Of mankind.
"These great ends cannot be
achieved by debating and seeking to
reconcile and accommodate what
may wish, with their prof.
,cts for balances of power and Of ma
ional opportunity. They al be
only by the determination Of
What the thinking people Of the world
iesire with their longing hope for
and for social freedom and op-
,ortunity.
81 can fancy that the air Of this
,lace carries the accents Of such prin-
iples with a prouder kindness. Here
where started forces which the great
lation against which they were pri-
narily directed at first regarded as a
evclt against its authority but which
las long since seen to have been a
tep In the liberation Of its own peo-
lie as well as Of the people Of the
United States-and I stand here now
O speak, speak proudly and with con.