The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-03
WILSON SETS
PRICE FOR PEACE
Bargain or Compromise Impos,
sible With Huns
REAFFIRMS U. S. WAR AIMS
The Price OF Peace Will Be Impartial
Justice To All Nations And Ger.
many VIII Have To Redeem
Her Character.

New York.-The price of peace wifi
be impartial justice to all nations, the
instrumentality indispensable to Sc.
cure It Is a league of nations formed
not before or after, but at the peace
conference; and Germany as mem.
ber, will have to redeem her char.
acter not by what happens at the
peace table, but by what follows"
This was President Wilson's an.
swer given before an audience OF
Fourth Liberty Loan Workers here.
to the recent peace talk from the Cen.
tral Powers, although he did not re.
ter specifically to the utterances Of
enemy leaders.
Shortly before the President started
speaking news of the further sue,
cesses Of American, British and
French offensives on the western
front reached the meeting at the Met.
ropolitan Opera House, and this gave
dramatic point to Mr.. Wilson's per.
oration-that "'peace drives can be
effectively neutralized and senced
only by showing that every victory
of the nations associated against Ger.
many brings the nations nearer the
sort of peace which will bring seCur.
ity and reinsurance to all peoples and
make the recurrence of another such
struggle of pitiless force and blood.
shed forever impossible and that moth.
Ing else can"
Germany is constantly intmatng
that the terms she will accept; and
always finds that the word does not
want terms" declared the President
ut wishes the final triumph of JUS
tice and fair dealing"
Peace was not question, declared
the President, of Coming to terms"
for 1--WE cannot come to terms with
them, as they have made it impos.
sible.' Peace must be guaranteed, for
there will be parties to the peace
whose promises havve proved untrust
worthy, and means must be found in
connection with the peace settlement
TO remove that source of insecurity"
ut would be folly to leave the guar.
aptee to the subsequent voluntary ac
tion of the governments we have seen
destroy Russia and deceive Rumania,"
continued the President.
The President emphasized that the
justice to be obtained by the league
must involve no discrimination to.
ward any people. This he set forth
explicitly in a set of five principles,
which he enumerated as "the praCti
cal program" of Americas peace
terms, and for the maintenance OF
which "the United States is prepared
to assume its full share of response
bility."
These principles were, he said:
''First-The impartial justice mCted
out must involve no discrimination be.
tween those to whom we wish to be
just and those to whom we do not wish
to be just 1t must be a justice that
plays no favorites, and knows no stand
ard but the equal rights of the several
people concerned.
"Second-No special or separate in
terest of any single nation or any
group of nations can be made the basis
of any part Of the settlement which
is not consistent with the common in
terests of all.
"Third-There can be no league or
alliance or special covenants and un'
derstandings within the general and
common family of the League of Ma
tlons.
Fourth -A And more specifically,
there can he no special, selfish eco
nomic combinations within the league,
and no employment Of any form OF
economic bovcott or exclusion, except
as the power of economic penalty by
exclusion from the markets of the
world NAV he vested in the League OF
Nations itself as a means of discipline
and control.
"Fifth-All international agreements
and treaties of every kind must be made
known in their entirety to the rest OF
the world"
Mr.. Wilson restated the issues OF the
war as follows;
"Shal the military power Of any ma
ton or group of nations be suffered 10
determine the fortunes of peoples over
whom they have no right to rule except
the right of force?
"Shall strong nations be free 10
wrong weak nations and make them
subject 70 their purpose and Interest,"
"Shal peoples be ruled and doml'
mated, even in their own internal al
fairs, by arbitrary and irresponsible
force, or by their own will and choice
"Shall there be a common standard
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 nap,
hazard and by casual alliance, or shal'
there be common concert to oblig'
the observance of common rigthsY
He added:
mo man, no group Of men, chooso
these to be issues of struggle lhe'
ARE the issues Of It,"