The Glenwood post., 1918-01-12
Fourteen Specific Considerations Must
Be Met Before World Peace
Can be Achieved
oNLYpEACE PROGRAM POSSIBLE

Washington, Jan. s.-President Will
son, addressing congress today, deliv-
cred re-statement of war aims in
agreement with the recent declaration
made by David Lloyd-George, the Eng
lish premier. The president presented
a definite program for world peace
containing fourteen specific consider
ations. The president said:
"Within the last week Mr.. Lloyd
George has spoken with admirable can
dor and in an admirable spirit for the
people and government of Great Brit
ian.
, "There is no confusion of counsel
among the adversaries of the central
powers-no uncertainty of principle.
"The only failure to make definite
statement Of the objects Of the war
lies with Germany and her allies.
''Issues Of life and death hang on
these definitions.
"No statesman, who has the least
conception of his responsibility ought
Tor moment to pef.lit ihimself to con
tinue this tragieal and appalling out.
pouring of blood and treasure, unless he
is sure beyond peradventure:th that the Oh.
, jects of this vital sacrifice are par.
and parcel of the very life of society
and that the people for whom he
speaks thinks them as right and i'm
perative as he does.
There is, moreover, voice calling
for these definitions of principle, the
purpose Of which is, it seems to me,
more thrilling and more compelling
than any of the many moving voices
with which the troubled air is filled.
1t is the voice of the Russian people.
} They are PROSTATE and all but helpless
it would seem, before the grim power
of Germany, which has hitherto known
no relenting and no pity. Their pow
er apparently is shattered, and yet
theirsoul is not stbservient. They
will not yield either in principle or IN
action. They call to us to say what
it is that we desire-in what, if any
thing, our purpose and our spirit diff.
fer from theirs; and 1 believe the peo-
pie of the United States would wish
me to respond with utter simplicity
and frankness. Whether their present
leaders believe it or not, it is our
heartfelt desire and hope that some
way be opened whereby we may be
privileged to assist the people in Rus,
sia to attain their utmost hope of lib
erty and ordered peace.
we entered this war because vio.
lations Of right had occurred which
touched us to the quick and made the
life of our own people impossible un-
less they were corrected and the world
= secured once for all against their re.
currence. What We demand in this
war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to
ourselves. It is that the world be
) made fit and safe to live in; and par,
tlcularly that it be made safe for
every peaceloving nation which, like
our own, wished to live its own life,
determine its own institutions, be ~.
sured Of justice and fair dealings by
other peoples of the world ~ against
force and selfish aggression. All the
peoples Of the world are in effect part.
ners in this interest, and for our own
part, We sec very clearly that, unless
justice be done others, 1t will not be
done to US. The program Of world u
peace, therefore, is our program, and
that program-the only possible pro.
gram, - We ses it-is thlss
l. o1sn covenants Of psacs with.
<eut private International understand
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psacs o. was, except - thsy NAY bs
closed by lne9naeaonal aStion.
S.-xAs removal Of Al economic bar
risrs aaA ~ estahhsAalsnt Of squAlitJ