The Pulaskian., 1918-10-04

come ready and willing to pay the price. the only price, that will pro- cure it. and ready and willing also to create in some virile fashion the only instrumentality by which it can be made certain that the agreements of the peace will be honored and fulfilled
 '"rhat price is impartial justice in every item of settlement, no matter whose interest is crossed; not only impartial justice, but also the satis- faction of the several peoples whose fortunes are dealt with. That indis- pensable instrumentality is q league of nations formed under covenants that wip be efiicacious.
 Without such instrumentality, by which the peace of the world can be guaranteed, peace will rest in part upon the word of outlaws and only upon that word. For Germany will have to redeem her character, not only by what happens at the peace table but what follows.
 "And, as I see 1t, the constitution of that league of nations and the clear definition of It's objects must be part, is in a sense the most essen tial part, of the peace settlement It. self. It cannot be formed now. If formed now, it would be merely new alliance confined to the nations asso- eiated against a common enemy 1t is not likely that 1t could be formed after that settlement.
 Tt is necessary to guarantee the peace, and the peace cannot be guar anteed as an afterthought. The req son, to speak in plain terms again, why it must be guaranteed Is that there will be parties to the peace whose promises have proved untrust- worthy, and means must be found in connection with the peace settlement itself to remove that source of inse- curity.
 "It would be folly to leave the guar antee to the subsequent voluntary ac- tion of the government we have seen destroy Russia and deceive Roumania.
 Particulars of Terms.
 "These, then are some of the par ticulars, and l state them with the greater confidence because I can state them authoritatively as representing this governments interpretation of it's own duty with regard to peace:
 FIRST = The impartial justice meted out must involve no discrtmina- tion between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just. It must be jus tice that plays no favorites and knows no standard but the equal rights of the several peoples.
 "sECOND-No special or separate interest 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 interest of all.
 "THIRD-There can be no leagues or alliances or special covenants and understanding within the general and common family of the league of na- tions.
 "FOURTH-And more specifically, there can be no special, selfish, eco- homie combination within the league and no employment of any force of economic boycott for exclusion except as the power of economic penalty by | exclusion from the markets of the world may be vested in the league of nations itself as means of discipline and control.
 "FIFTH-A1 international agree ments and treaties of every kind must be made known in their entirety to the rest of the world
 Special alliances and econmic riv- alries and hostilities have been the prolific sources in the modern world of the plans and passions that pro duce war It would be an insincere as well as insecure peace that did not exclude them in definite and binding 1 terms.
 National purposes have fallen more and more into the background and the common purpose of enlightened man. kind has taken their place.
 "Plain workaday people have de- handed almost every time they came together, and are still demanding, that the leaders of their governments de- clare to them plainly what 1t is--ex- actly what 1t is-that they are seek Ing in this war and what they think | the items of the final settlement should be.
 'arhey are not yet satisfied with what they have been told. They still seem to fear that they are getting what they ask for only in statesmen's terms-only In the terms of territorial arrangements and the divisions of power and not in terms of broad vision, justice and mercy and peace and the satisfaction of those deep-seated long ings of oppressed and distracted men and women and enslaved peoples that seem to them the only things worth fighting a war for that engulfs the world
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