The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-01-11

Jig anu, more Iilan Il WeIcOllle, dSSlSt'
ance also of every kind that she may
need and may herself desire. The
treatment accorded Russia by her sis
ter 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 intelligent and unselfish
sympathy
VII. Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and restored,
without any attempt to limit the SOW
ereignty 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 ma
lions in the laws which they have
themselves set and determined for the
government of their relations with one
another. Without this healing act the
whole structure and validity of inter-
national law Is forever impaired.
VIII. 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 the world for nearly fifty
years, should be righted in order that
peace may once more be made secure
in the interest Of all.
TX. A reimbursement of the frontiers
of Italy should be effected alond
clearly recognizable lines of nation
atty.
X. The people of Austria-Hungary,
whose place among the nations we
wish to see safeguarded and assured,
should be accorded the freest opportu-
nifty of autonomous development.
Evacuate Balkans.
XI. Roumania, Serbia and Montene
gro should be evacuated; occupied ter
ritOries restored; Serbia accorded free
and secure access to the sea; and the
relations of the several Balkan states
to one another determined by friendly
counsel along historically established
lines of allegiance and nationality and
international guarantees of the politi-
cal and economic independence and ter
ritorial integrity of the several Balkan
states should be entered into.
XII. The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman empire should be as
Sured a secure sovereignty, but the
other nationalities which are now un-
der Turkish rule should be assured an
undoubted security of life and an alb
solutely unmolested opportunity of au-
tOnOmOuS development and the Darda-
nelles should be permanently opened
as free passage to the ships and COM
merce of all nations under interna-
tional guarantees.
XIII. An independent Polish state
should be erected which should include
the territories inhabited by indispu-
table Polish populations, which should
be assured a free and secure access to
the sea and whose political and eco
nomic independence and territorial in
tegrity should be guaranteed by inter-
national covenant.
XIV. A general association of ma
lions must be formed under specific
covenants for the purpose of affording
mutual guarantees of political indie
pendence and territorial integrity to
great and small states alike.
SIN regard to these essential recti-
ficatiOns of wrong and assertions of
right we feel ourselves to be intimate
partners of all the governments and
peoples associated together against the
We cannot be separated
in interest or divided in purpose. We
stand together until the end.
"For such arrangements and COW
enants we are willing to fight and to
continue to fight until they are
achieved; but only because we wish
the right to prevail and desire a just
and stable peace as can be secured
only by removing the chief provoca-
lions of war; which this program
does remove.
Not Jealous of Germany.
eve have no jealousy of German
greatness and there is nothing in this
program that impairs it. We grudge
her no achievement or distinction Of
learning or of pacific enterprise such
as have made her record very bright
and very enviable.
''We do not wish to injure her or
to block in any way her legitimate
influence or power. We do not wish
to fight her either with arms or with
hostile arrangements of trade, If she
is willing to associate herself with
us and the other peace-loving nations
of the world in covenants of justice
and law and fair dealing.
'We wish her only to accept a place
of equality among the peoples of the
wOrld-the new world in which we
now live-instead Of place of mas
terry.
Neither do we presume to suggest
to her any alteration or modification
of her institutions. But 1t is neces-
sary, we must frankly say and neces-
sary as preliminary to any intelligent
dealings with her on our part, that we