The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1918-01-17
"A. TISHOMINGo
Terms For World Peace AS
Stated By President Wilson.

riISU-Optn covenants OF peace,
openly arrived at, after which
there shall be no private interna.
tional understandings of any kind,
but diplomacy shall proceed always
frankly and in the public view.
''Second-Absolute freedom of
navigation upon the seas, outside
territorial waters, alike in peace
and in war, except as the seas may
be closed in whole or in part by in-
ternational action for the enforce
ment ofinternational covenants.
"Third The removal of. so far
as possible, of all economic bar
riers, and the establishment of an
equality of trade conditions among
all the nations consenting TO the
peace and associating themselves
for its maintenance.
adequate guarantees given
and taken that national armaments
will be reduced to the lowest point
consistent with domestic safety.
''Fifth-A free, open minded
aud absolutely impartial adjust.
ment of all colonial claims, based
upon a strict observance of the
principle that in determining all
such questions of sovereignty the
interests of the populations con-
cerned must have equal weight
with the equitable claims of the
government whose title is to be
determined.
'Sixth-The evacuation of all
Russian territory and such a set
tlement of all questions affecting
Russia as will secure the best and
freest cooperation of the other ma
tions of the world in obtaining for
her an unhampered and unembar-
rassed opportunity for the indie
pendent distribution of her own
palitical developmcntand .,aiiaslal
policy and assure her of a sincere
welcome into the society of free ma
tions under institutions of her own
choosing; and more than a welcome,
assistance also of every kind th;
she may need and may herself de
sire. The treatment accorded Rus
sia by her sister nations in tn
months to come will be the ac d
test of their good will of their
comprehension of her needs as dis
tingushed from their own inter
ests, and of their intelligent and
unselfish sympathy.
Belgium Must Be Restored.
Seventh Belgium, the whole
world will agree, must be evacuat.
ed and restored, without any at
tempt to limit the sovereignty
which she enjoys in common with
all other free uations. No other
single act will serve as this will
serve to restore confidence among
the nations in the laws which they
have themselves set and determin-
Ell for the government of their re-
lations with one another. With.
out this healing act the whole
structure aud validity of interna-
tional law is forever impaired
eighth th--All French territory
should be freed and the invaded
portions restored, and the wrongs
done to France by Prussia in 1871
in the matter of Alsace Lorraine,
which had unsettled the peace of
the world for nearly 90 years,
should be righted, in order that
peace may once more be made Sc
ure in the in terest of all.
"Ninth - Readjustment of the
Frontiers of Italy should be effec.
ted along clearly recognizable lines
of nationality.
''Tenth-The peoples of Austria
Hungary, safeguarded and assured
should be accorded the freest oppor-
tunity of autonomous development.
acknowledgements, Servia
and Montenegro should be evacu-
ated; occupied territories restor ed;
Servia accorded free and secure ac-
cess to the sea, and the relations
of the several Balkan states, to
one another determined by friend
ly counsel along historically es.
tablished lines of allegiance and