Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-10-04
WILSON SAYS FOE
MUST PAY PRICE:
NO COMPROMISE
Tells Aims of U. S. in Liberty
Loan Address at
New York.
"HUNS WITHOUT HONOR"
"D0 NOT INTEND JUSTICE"

Executive Declares League of Nations
Must Be Formed at Peace Table
Which Will Make Certain That
Agreements of Peace Will Be Full
filled-Asserts We Cannot Come to
Terms for the Enemy Has Made 1t
impossible.
New York, Sept. 30-The price of
peace will be impartial justice to all
nations. the instrumentality indis-
pensable to secure 1t Is a league of
nations formed, not before or after,
but at the peace conference, and Ger
inany, ASA member, twill have to re-
ceem her character not by what hap
pens at the peace table but by what
follows"
This was President Wilson's answer,
given Friday night before an audience
OF fourth Liberty loan workers here,
to the recent peace talk from the CEN
trail powers.
The Presidents Address.
The president spoke In part as fol-
lows:
my Fellow Citizens: I am not
here to promote the loan. That will
be done-ably and enthusiastically
done-by the hundreds of thousands
Of loyal and tireless men and women
who have undertaken to present 1t to
xrnYr md fn ri
out the country, and I have not the
least doubt OF their complete success,
for know their spirit and the spirit
Of the country.
mo man or woman who has really
taken In what this war means can hes
ftate to give to the very limit of what
they have.
And it is my mission here to try
20 make clear once more what the
war really means. You will need no
other stimulation.
"We accepted the issues of the war
as facts, not as any group of men
either here or elsewhere had defined
them, and we can accept no outcome
which does not Squarely meet and set
tie them.
The Wars Issues.
"Those issues are these:
"Shall 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 to
wrong weak nations and make them
subject to their purpose and interest?
"Shall people be ruled and dominat-
ed, even in their own internal af-
fairs, by arbitrary and irresponsible
force, or by their own will and choice?
"Shall there be q common stand
ard of right and privilege for all peo-
pies and nations or shall the strong
do as they will and the weak suffer
without redress?
"Shall the assertion of right be hap
hazard and by casual alliance or shall
there be common concert to oblige
the observance of common rights?
mo man, no group Of men, chose
these to be the issues Of the strug-
gle. They are the issues of it, and
they must be settled by no arrange
men or compromise or adjustment Of
interests, but definitely and once for
all and with a full and unequivocal
acceptance Of the principle that the
interest Of the weakest is as sacred
as the interest of the strongest.
"This Is what we mean when we
speak Of a permanent peace, if we
speak sincerely, intelligently, and
with a real knowledge and comprehen-
sion Of the matter we deal with.
1--WE are all agreed that these can be
NO peace obtained by any kind of bar
gain or compromise with the govern
ments of the central empires, because
we have dealt with them already and
have seen them deal with other govern
ments that were party to his struggle,
at Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest.
"They have convinced us that they
are without honor and do not intend
Justice They observe no covenants,
accept no principle but force and their
own interests.
"We cannot come to terms with
them. They have made it impossible.
1.-THE German people must by this
time be fully aware that we cannot ac-
cept the word of those who forced this
war upon US. We do not think the
same thoughts or speak the same Ian
guage of agreement.
at is of capital Importance that we
should be explicitly agreed that no
peace shall be obtained by any kind of
compromise or abatement of the prin-
ciples we have avowed as the princi-
ples for which we are fighting. There
should exist no doubt about that. l