The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
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cuIiar to ourselves. 1t Is that the
world be made fit and safe to live in;
and particularly that IL be made safe
! for every peace-!oping nation which,
| like our own, wines to live it's own
| life, determine It's own institutions
be assured of Justice and fair deal
! ing by the other peoples of the world
as against force and selfish aggres.
sions. All the peoples Of the world
are in effect partners in this interest
and for our own part we see very
clearly that unless Justice be done to
others, it will not be done to US. The
program of the worlds peace, there
fore, is our program; and that pro-
gram, the onSy possible program as
we see it, is this:
WORLDS PEACE PROGRAM.
1.-Open covenants of peace, OPEN
Iy arrived at after which there shall
be no private International under
standings Of any kind, but diplomacy
shall proceed always frankly and in
the public view.
2.-Absoiute freedom, of navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial wa
tiers, alike in peace and in war, ex-
cept as the seas may be closed In
whole or in part by international
action for the enforcement of interna-
tionaI covenants.
3.-The removal, so far as possible,
of all economic barriers and the es-
Enlistment of an equality of trade
conditions among all the nations con-
sentins to the peace and assocating
themselves for it's maintenance.
adequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will
be reduced to the lowest points con-
sistent with domestic safety.
5-A free, open minded and abso-
lutely impartial adjustment of all
colonial claims, based upon strict
observance of the principle that in
determining all such questions Of
sovereignty, the interests of the pop
ulations concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claims Of
the government whose title is to be
determined.
6The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such settlement Of
all questions affecting Russia as will
secure the best and freest co-opara-
ton of the other nations of the world
In obtaining for her an unhampered
and unembarrassed opportunity for
the independent determination Of her
own political development and ma
tionaI policy and assure her Of sim
cere welcome into the society Of free
nations under Institutions Of her own
choosing; and, more than a welcome,
assistance also Of every kind that
she may need and may herself de
sire. The treatment accorded Rus
STA by her sister nations in the
- Is.
Of their good will, Of their compre-
hension of her deeds as distinguished
from their own interests and their
intelligent and unseIfish sympathy.
7-BelGium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and re.
stored, without any attempt to limit
the sovereignty which she enjoys in
common with all other free nations.
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 deter
mined for the government of their
relations with one another. Without
this healing act, the whole structure
and validity of international law Is
forever impaired.
8-AIl French, territory should be
freed and the invaded portions re-
stored and the wrong done to France
by Prussia in 1871 In the matter of
Alsace-Lorraine which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly
fifty years, should be rishted, in
order that peace may once more be
made secure in the interest of all.
"a readjustment Of the frontiers
of Italy should be effected along
clearly recognizable lines Of nation
atty.
1O-The peoples Of Austria-Hun-
gary, whose place among the nations
we wish to see safeeuarded and as
sured, should be accorded the freest
Of autonomous develop
ment.
1f-Rumania, Serbia and Monte
negro should be evacuated; occupied
territories restored; Serbia accorded
free and secure access to the sea
and the relations Of the several Bal
kan states to one another determined
by friendly counsel along historically
established lines Of allegiance and
nationality and international guaran-
tees Of political and economic indie
pendence and territorial integrity of
the several Balkan states should be
entered into.
iE-i ne iurk'sH Port'ohs OF the
present Ottoman empire should be
assured secure sovereignty, but the
other nationalities which are now
under Turkish rule, should be as
sured an undoubted security of life
and an absolutely unmolested oppor-
tunity Of autonomous development
and the DardaneIles should be per-
opened as free passage
to the ships and commerce of all
nations under international suaran-
tees.
13-An independent Polish state
should be erected which should in
clude the territories Inhabited by
Polish populations which
should be assured a free and secure
access to the sea and whose poIiti-
cal and economic independence and