Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-22
By DR.. Frank Crane


Woodrow Wilson is not only the president of
the United States He is the voice of this people
His is easily the apt and perfect utterance of
public opinion.
From pamphlet recently issued by the League
to Enforce Peace make the following digest from
speeches made by the president. The program of
the league is not peace at any price," but Make
the world safe by the defeat of German militarsm,
and keep the world safe by league of nations"
Il pray God" said Mr.. Wilson, at Des Moines on
February 1, 1916, that if this contest have no
other result. it will at least have the result of Gre
ating an international tribune and producing some
sort of joint guarantee of peace on the part or
81 feel that the world is even now upon the
eve of great contamination, when some COM
mon force will be brought into existence which shall
safeguard right the first and most fundamental
interest of all peoples, when coercion shall be sum
moned not to the service Of political ambition or
selfish hostility, but to the service of common
order, common justice, and a common peace
Washington, D. c., May 81 1916.
"I shall never myself consent to an entangling
alliance but would gladly assent to disentangling
alliance, an alliance which would disentangle the
peoples of the world from those combinations In
which they seek their own separate and private
interests and unite the peoples of the world to
preserve the peace of the world "upon a basis OF
common right and justice. There is liberty there,
not limitation. There is freedom, not entangle-
ment Memorial day address, May so, 1916.
eve believe that the time has come when it is
the duty of the United States to join with the other
nations of the world in any feasible association
that will effectively to maintain invioate the
the complete and unhindered use of all nations -
Address, June II, 1916.
''The nations of the world must unite in joint
guarantees that whatever is done to disturb the
whole worlds life must first be tested in the court
of the whole worlds opinion before it is attempted"
Long Branch, September 2, 1916
1.-The world is no longer divided into little cir
cIes of interest The world no longer consists. OF
neigh borhoods. The world is linked together in
common life and interest such as humanity never
saw before and the starting of wars can never
again be a private and individual matter. for the
nations It is duty to lend the full force OF
this nation to a league Of nations which shall see
to it that nobody disturbs the peace of the world
without submitting his first to the opinion or
mankind. Omaha, Neb, October 6, 1915.
a 1.-THE business of neutrality is over We
must have a society of nations. Not suddenly, not
bv any hostile emphasis upon our demand but by
the demonstration of the needs of the time. The
nations of the world must get together and say
that nobody can hereafter be neutral respects the
disturbance of the worlds for an object which
the worlds opinion cannot sanction '-Clnclnhau'
October 25 1916
s'The United States will never be again what it
has been. The United States was once in enjoy
ment of what we used to call splendid isolation
now we are in the great drift of humanity
which is to determine the politics Of every country
in the world."-Long Branch, n. j., November t.
1916.
"In every discussion of the peace that must end
this war it is taken for granted that that peace
must be followed by definite concert of power which
will make it virtually impossible that any such
catastrophe should ever overwhelm us again Every
lover of mankind. everv sane and thoughtful man.
must take that for ranted."-Address to the SEN
ate, January %, 1917.
"Our object is to vindicate the PRINCIPLES of
peace and Justice in the life of the world as against
selfish and auocratic power, and to set IN AMONGST
the really free and seIf-governed Deonles Of the
world such a concert OF purnOse and of action as
viii bencefOr+h insure the observance of those nrn
ciples We shall fight for universal domin-
ion Of right bv such a concert of free Deonles as
shall bring and safety TO AL nations and make
world itea1f at last free -Message to congress.
April ?. 1917.
'The hope of the world is that when the