Arizona republican., 1918-09-28

ties to the peace whose promises nave proved untrustworthy and means must be found in connection with the. peace sediment itself to remove that source Of insecurity. It would be folly to leave the guarantee to the subsequent voluntary action of the governments we have seen destroy Russia and deceive Rumania.
 Peace Details Stated
 But these general terms do not disclose the whole matter. Some de- tails are needed to make them sound less like thesis and more like 6 practical program. These, then, are some of the particulars, and I state them with the greater confidence be- cause l can state them authoritatively as representing this governments in depreciation of it's own duty with re- gard to peace.
 First, the impartial justice meted 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. It must be a jus tice that plays no favorites and knows no standard but the equal rights Of the several peoples 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 com
 mon interests of all.
 Third there can be no leagues or d. l dances or special covenants and un derstandings with the general and common family of the league of n1-
 tions.
 Fourth, and more specifically, there
 can be no special selfish economic
 combinations within the league and no
 employment of any form of economic
 boycott or exclusion except as the power of economic penalty by exclus-
 ion from the markets of the world may
 be vested in the league of nations
 itself as a means of discipline and
 control.
 Fifth. all international agreements
 and treaties of eevry kind must be
 made known, in their entirety to the rest of the world.
 Special alliances and economic riv-
 alries and hostilities have been the
 prolific curse in the modern world oI
 the plans and passions that produce : war. It would be an insincere as well
 as an insecure peace that did not
 exclude them in definite and binding
 terms.
 Share Our Free Responsibility The confidence with which I ven ture to speak for our people in these matters does not spring from our tra
 ditions merely and the well knoWr principles of international actior which we have always professed anc
 followed. h the same sentence il which I say that the United State: [ will enter into no special arrange ments or understandings with partic ular nations, let me say also that th' : United States is prepared to assume it's full share of responsibility for th' maintenance of the common covenant and understandings upon which peac must henceforth rest.
 We still read Washingtons i'm
 mortal warning against "entanglin; alliances" with full comprehension an' = answering purpose. But only spe cial and limited alliances entanglc | and we recognize and accept the dut, of a new day in which We are per | mitted to hope for general allianc T which will avoid entanglements an l clear the air of the world for com ,, mon understandings and the maint n u ance of common rights.
 Plain Talk Is Necessary l nave 1ndOe tnlS dndlySlS OI tue III e ternational situation which the wa d has created, not of course, because
 doubted whether the leaders of n
 great nations and the peoples wit n whom we are associated were of th T same mind and entertained a lik y purpose. but because the air ever = now and again gets darkened by mist - and groundless doubtings and niis - chievous perversions of counsel and = is necessary once in a while to swee U all the irresponsible talk about peac n intrigues and weakening morale an 'f doubtful purpose on the part of thos e in authority utterly, anl If need l. '- uncerimoniously, aside and say thing IT in the plainest words that can | = found, whe nit is only 10 say ove 'e again what has been said before. quit
 as plainly if in less unvarnished term 'l As I have said. neither l, nor m IT other man in governmental authorit |, created or gave form to the issues ( II this war. I have simply responded l. them with such vision as 1 could cor IL mand. But I have responded Gladl T. and with a resolution that has grow St warmer and more confident as the :: at sues have grown clearer and clearer. It. is now plain that there are issue 9; which no man can pervert unless it lf,.1I T &xxf r, ( faTt hnr