Arizona republican., 1918-01-09

that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind. The day of conquest and az grandizement is gone by; so is also the | day of secret covenants entered into Tn the interest of particular governments and likely at some unlocked for mo ment to upset the peace or the World. | It Is this happy fact, now clear to the view of every public man Wnose thoughts do not still finger in an age that IS dead and gone, which makes 1t possible for every nation whose pur- poses are consistent with justice ana
 the peace of the world to avow now or
 at any other time the objects II mas ln view.
 We entered this war because viola
 tions of right had occurred which
 touched us to the quick and made the 1 life of our own people impossible un- ! less they were corrected and the world | secured once for all against their re- l currence What we demand in this war;
 therefore is nothing peculiar to our
 selves. It is that the world De mace
 fit and safe to live in; and particularly
 that it be made safe for every peace
 loving nation which, like our own
 wishes to live it's own fife, determine
 it's own institutions, be assured of 1us- l tice and fair dealings by the other
 peoples of the world as against iorce and selfish aggression. If all the peo-
 ples 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
 therefore is our program and that pro- gram, the only possible program as
 we see it, is this:
 "1-Open covenants of peace, openly
 arrived at, after which there snail pc no private international understand
 ings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the pup
 lie view. Il "2-Absolute freedom of navigation
 upon the seas, outside territorial wat
 CTS. alike in peace and in war. except as the seas may be closed In whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international cove
 nants.
 ''3-The removal, so far as possible,
 of all economic barriers and the estao-
 lishment of neutrality of trade condi- : tions among all the nations consentins , to the peace and associating tnem-
 selves for its maintenance.
 "4-Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be
 reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
 IA free open and absolutely inn partial adjustment of all colonial , claims, based upon a strict observance | of the principle that in determining all , such questions of sovereignty the in , terests of the population concerned 1 must have equal weight with the equit- able claims of the government whose
 title is to be determined.
 , "6-The evacuation of all Russian , territory and such settlement Of all , questions affecting Russia as will se- 7 cure the best and freest cooperation 2 of the other nations of the world in ob
 taining for her an unhampered and un-
 embarrassed opportunity for the inde- 7 pendent determination of her own po- litical development and national polcy and assure her of sincere welcome
 into the society of free nations, under L institutions of her own choosings; and
 more than a welcome, assistance also
 of every kind that she may need and - may herself desire. The treatment &C., , corded Russia by her sister nations ir ! the months to come will be the acid
 test of their good will of their compre-
 hension of her needs as distinguished f from their own interests and of their , intelligent and unselfish sympathy. ? "7-Belgium, the whole world will |. agree, must be evacuated and restored
 without any attempt to limit the sov- , ereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No othel single act will serve az this will serve k to restore confidence among the na- Q tions and the laws which they them
 selves have set and determined for the
 l paJ -eryoy 7Qy1t If 2 another. Without this healing pac the whole structure and validity of in ? ternational law is forever impaired. 2 'S-All French territory should b, a freed and the invaded portions restored . and the wrong done to France by Prus a sia in 1871 in matter of Alsace |, Lorraine, which has unsettled thu ,,' peace of the world for nearly fit! :, years, should be righted, In order tha
 peace may once more be made secur I, in the interest of all.
 II '9-A readjustment of the frontier n of Italy should be effected along clear s ly recognizable lines of nationality. = "10-The peoples of Austria -Hungar. n whose place among the nations " e wish to see safeguarded and assured d should be accorded the freest oppor h unity of autonomous development. If I1-ISuiildiIld NotI p1d anu V should be evacuated; occupied territor ir ies restored; Serbia accorded free an " secure access to the sea; and the rela tions of the several Balkan states t is one another determined by friendl 70 counsel along historically establishe ,, lines of allegiance and nationality. an If international guarantees of the politi ,- cal and economic independence an i. territorial integrity of the several Bal re kan states should be entered into. "12-The Turkish portion of tn 10 present Ottoman empire should be as 'd sured a secure sovereignty, but tn x, other nationalities which are now unde .' Turkish rule should be assured an un
 doubted security of life and an abso :. lutely unmolested opportunity Of aujon | .s omous development, and the Darde SS nelles should be permanently opene lu as Q free passage to the ships an Y commerce of all nations under inter lo national guarantees.
 "13-An independent Polish stat
 state should be erected which shoui ' include the territories inhabited h