Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
"PEACE PRICE IS
IMPARTIALJUSTICE
TO ALL NATIONS
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pared to assume its full share oil
responsibility"
Presidents Address.
President Wilson said in part:
The air was clear about US. We
saw things in their full, convincing
proportions as they were; and we
have seen them with steady eyes and
unchanging comprehension ever
since. We accepted the issues of
the war as facts, not as any group
of men either here or elsewhere had
defined them and we can accept no
outcome which does not squarely
meet and settle them. Those issues
are these,
Shall the military power of any
nation or group of nations be suf-
tered to determine the fortunes Of
peoples over whom they have no
right to rule except the right of
force?
Shall strong nations be free to
wrong weak nations and make them
subject to their purpose and inter-
est?
Shall peoples be ruled and DOM
mated, even in their own internal
affairs by arbitrary and irresponsible
force or by their own will and
choice?
Shall there be a common stan
dard of right and privilege for all
peoples and nations or shall the
strong do as they will and the weak
suffer without redress?
Shall the assertion of right be
haphazarded and be casual alliance
or shall there be common concert
to oblige the observance of common
rights
Can Be No Compromise.
mo man, no group of men, chose
these to be the issues of the strug-
gle. They are the issues of it; and
they must be settled--by no ar
rangement or compromise or ad-
justment of interests, but definitely
and once and for all and with a full
and unequivocal acceptance of the
principle that the interest of the
weakest is as sacred as the interest
OF the strongest.
This is what we mean when we
speak of permanent peace, if we
speak sincerely, intelligently and
with real knowledge and COM
prehension of the matter we deal
with.
1--WE are all agreed that there can
be no peace obtained by any kind of
bargain or compromise with the
governments of the central empires
because we have dealt with them
already and have seen them deal
with other governments that were
parties to this struggle, at Brest-
Litovsk and Bucharest. They have
convinced US that they are without
honor and do not intend justice.
They observe no covenants, &C
cept no principle but force and their
own interest. We cannot come to
terms with them. They have made
it impossible. The German people
must by this time be fully aware
that we cannot accept the word of
those who forced this war upon us.
We do not think the same thoughts
or speak the same language of
agreement.
1T is of capital importance that
we should also be explicitly agreed
that no peace shall be obtained by
any kind of compromise or abate-
ment of the principles we have
avowed as the principles for which
we are fighting. There should exist
no doubt about that. I am, there
fore, going to take the liberty of
speaking with the utmost frankness
about the practical implications that
are involved in it.
Impartial Justice Price Of Peace.
IF it be indeed and in truth the
common object of the governments
associated against Germany and of
the nations whom they govern, as l
believe it to be, to achieve by the
coming settlements secure and