Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-14

Following are the fourteen points,
containing essentials for peace. put
forward in President Wilson's ad-
dress to Congress on January last:
I.-Open covenants of peace. open
ly arrived at, after which there shall
be no private international under
standings of any kind. but diplo-
macy shall proceed always frankly
and in the public view.
1I-Absolute freedom of naviga-
tion upon the seas, outside territor-
! ial waters, alike in peace and in war.
except as the seas may be closed In
whole or in part by international ac-
ton for the enforcement of interna-
tional covenants.
1II.-The removal, so far as pos
sible. of all economic barriers and
the establishment of an equality of
trade conditions among all the ma
tions consenting to the peace and
associating themselves for it's MAIN
tenance.
1N.-Adequate guarantees given
and taken that national ornaments
/ will reduce to the lowest point con-
sistent. with domestic safety.
N.-Free. open minded, and abso-
! lutely impartial adjustment of all
! colonial claims based upon a strict
! observance of the principle that in
/ determining all such questions of
sovereignty the interests of the popu-
lation concerned must have equal
weigh.. with the equitable claims of
the government whose title is to be
| determined.
NI.-The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such settlement of all
! questions affecting Russia as will
secure. the best and freest co-opera- =
! ton of the other nations of the
! world in obtaining for her an un-
| hampered and unembarrassed op-
portunity for the Independent deter
mination of her own political de-
| velopment and national policy, and
assure her of a sincere welcome in
to the society of free nations under
| instructions of her own choosing;
and, more than welcome. assist
ance also of every kind that she may
! need and may herself desire. The
! treatment accorded Russia by her
sister nations in the months to come
will be the acid test of their good
will, of their comprehension of her
needs as distinguished from their
own interests, and of their intelli-
| gent and unSelfish sympathy.
! VIl.-Belgium. the whole world
will agree, must be evacuated and
restored, without any attempt to
limit the sovereignty which she en-
| joys 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 determined for the government
! of their nations with one another.
Without this healing act the whole
I structure and validity of inter-
national law is forever impaired.
| Vlll.-All 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 her
world for nearly fifty years, should
| be righted, in order that peace may
once more be made secure in the
| interest of all.
tiers of Italy should be affected along
clearly recognizable lines of nation
| alty.
X.-The people of Austria Hun
! gary, whose place among the nations
! we wish to see safeguarded and as
sured, should be accorded the
| freest opportunity of autonomous
| development.
XI.-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 deter
mined by friendly counsel along his
torically established lines of allegi-
ance and nationality; and interna-
tional guarantees of the political and
economic independence and terri
torial integrity of the several Balkan
states should be entered into.
XII.--The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman Empire should be