Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-28

modern WOflQ or the plduS anu pde- sions that produce war.
 Must Be Binding Terms. Tt would be an insecure as well as an insecure peace that did not ex- clude them in definite and binding terms.
 "The confidence with which 1 ven ture to speak for our people in these matters does not spring from our tra- dtions merely and the well known principles of international action which we have always professed and followed
 U. $. Assumes Full Share.
 "In the same sentence in which say that the United States will enter into no special arrangements or un- derstandings with particular nations, let me say also that the United States is prepared to assume it's full share of responsibility for the main- tenance of common covenants and understanding upon which peace must henceforth rest.
 No Entrangling Alliances.
 'fWe still read Washington's immor- tai warning against "entangling al- liances," with full comprehension and an answering purpose. But only spec ial and limited alliances entangle; and we recognize and accept the duty of a new day in which we are per- mitted to hope for a general alliance which we avoid entaglements and clear the air of the world for common understandings and the maintenance of common rights.
 ''I have made this analysis of the international situation which the war has created, not, of course, because I doubted whether the leaders of the great nations and peoples with whom we are associated were of the same mind and entertained like purpose, but because the air every now and again gets darkened by mists and groundless doubtings and mischievous perversions of counsel and it is necessary once and again to sweep all the irresponsible talk about peace in- trigues and weakening morale and doubtful purpose on the part of those in authority utterly, and if need be unceremoniously, aside and say things Tn the plainest words that. can be Hound, even when it is only to say over aagin what has been said before, quite as plainly if in less unvarnish- ed terms.
 No One Gave Issues War.
 'As have said, neither I, nor any ether man in governmental authority created or gave form to the issuance of this war; have simply responded to them with such vision as I could command.
 But have responded gladly and with resolution that has grown warmer and more confident as the is- sues have grown clearer and clearer.
 No Issues to Prevent.
 Tt is now plain that there are is- sues which no man can pervert un- less it be wilfully.
 "l am bound to fight for them and happy to fight for them as time and circumstances have revealed them to me as to all the world. Our enthu- slasm for them grows more and more irresistible as they stand out in more and mode vivid and unmistakable outline. And the forces that fight for them draw into closer and closer ar ray, organize their millions into more and more unconquerable might, as they become more and more distinct to the thought and purpose of the peoples engaged.
 Grows More Certain.
 'lt is the peculiarilty of this great war that while statesmen have seem- ed to cast about for definition of their purpose and have sometimes seemed to shift their ground and their point of view. the thought of the mass of men, whom statesmen are supposed to instruct and lead, has grown more and more unclouded, more and more certain of what it is that they are fighting for.
 National purposes have fallen more and more into the background and the common purpose of enlightened mankind has taken their place and peoples with whom plain men have become on all hands more simple , and straight forward and more uni fled than the counsels of sophisticat- ed men of affairs who still retain the impression that they are playing a game of power and playing for high stakes.
 "That is why I have said that this Is the peoples war, not a states mans.
 Statesmen Must Follow.
 statesmen must follow the clari- fled common thought or be broken. l take that to be the significance of fact that assemblies and associations of many kinds made up a plain work day people have demanded, almost every time they came together, and all still demonstrating that leaders of their governments declare to them plainly, what it is, exactly what it is, that they were seeking in this war. and what they think the items of the final settlement should be.
 They are not yet satisfied with what they have been told. They still seem to fear that they are getting what they ask for only in statesmen's terms-only in the terms of territorial arrangements and divisions of power and not in terms of broad visioned justice and mercy and peace and the satisfaction of those deep seated longings of oppressed and distracted men and women and enslaved peoples that setm to them the only things worth fighting a war for that enoujfS