The Monticellonian., 1918-10-04
WILSON SAYS FOE
 MUSTPAY PRICE:
 NO COMPROMISE
Tells Aims of U. $. in Liberty Loan Address at
 New York.
HUNS WITHOUT H0NOR,'
 DO NOT INTEND JUSTICE

Executive Declares League of Nations
 Must Be Formed at Peace Table
 Which Will Make Certain That
 Agreements of Peace Will Be Full
 fiiied-Asserts We Cannot Come to
 Ierms for the Enemy Has Made 1t
 Impossible.
 New York, Sept. 30.-The price of peace will be impartial justice to all nations the instrumentality indis- pensabie to secure it is league of nations formed, not before or after, but at the peace conference, and Ger many, as member, will have to re- eeem her character not by what hap pens at the peace table but by what follows"
 This was President Wilson's answer. given Friday night before an audience O. fourth Liberty joan workers here, to the recent peace talk from the cen trai powers.
 The Presidents Address.
 The president spoke in part as fol- lows:
 My Fellow Citizens: I am not here to promote the loan. That will be done-ably and enthusiastically done-by the hundreds of thousands of loyal and tireless men and women who have undertaken to present 1t to you and to our fellow citizens through AIJ thn ,I~ least doubt of their complete success, for l know their spirit and the spirit of the country.
 No man or woman who has feally taken in what this war means can he's itate to give to the very limit of what they have.
 And it is my mission here to try 70 make clear once more what the war really means. You will need no other stimulation.
 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 set tle them
 The Wars Issues.
 'srhOse issues are these:
 Shall the military power Of any na- fon or group of nations be suffered 70 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 interest? :?
 Shall people be ruled and dominat- ed. even in their own internal af- fairs, by arbitrary and irresponsible force, or by their own will and choice?
 Shall there be a common stand ard of right and privilege for all peo- pies and nations or shall the strong do as they will and the weak suffer without redress!
 Shall the assertion of right be hap hazard and by casual alliance or shall .here be common concert to oblige the observance of common rights?
 "No man. no group of men, chose these to be the issues of the strug- gle. They are the issues of 1t, and they must be settled by no arrange men or compromise or adjustment of interests, but definitely and once for all and with 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 comprehen- sion of the matter we deal with.
 we are all agreed that there can be 2o peace obtained by any kind of bar kin or compromise with the govern ments of the central empires, because we have dealt with them already and have seen them deal with other govern ments that were party 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, accept no principle but force and their own interests.
 I've cannot come to terms with them. They have made it impossible.
 "The German people must by this time be fully aware that we cannot ac- cept the word of those who forced this war upon us. We do not think the same thoughts or speak the same lan- guage of agreement.
 Tt is of capital importance that we should be explicitly agreed that no peace shall be obtained by any kind of compromise or abatement of the prin- ciples we have avowed as the princi- ples for which we are fighting. There should exist no doubt about that am, therefore. going to take the liber'