The Raymer enterprise., 1918-10-10
Foe Must Pay Price.

Foe Must Pay Price.
If 1t be In deed and In truth the
common object Of the governments as
ISOLATED against Germany and Of the
nations whom they govern, as believe
It to be, to achieve by the coming set
Elements secure ana lasting peace II
will be necessary that all who sit down
at the peace table shall come ready
and willing to pay the price. the only
price that will procure 1t; and ready
and willing also to create In some
virile fashion the only instrumentality
BY which 1t can be made certain thai
the agreements Of the peace will be
honored and fulfilled.
THAT price Is impartial justice In
every item Of settlement. no matter
whose interest is crossed: not only i'm
partial justice. but also the satisfac
ton Of the several peoples whose for
tunes are dealt with. That indispen
sable fundamentally is a league Of
nations formed under covenants that
will be efficacious.
without such instrumentnlity, BY
which the peace of the world can be
guaranteed. peace will rest In par'
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 ! see 1t. the constitution Of
that league Of nations and the cleal
definition of its objects must be part
Is In a sense the most essential part
Of the peace settlement itself. II can
not be formed now. II formed now, II
would be merely a new alliance con
fined TO the nations associated against
q common enemy. 1t Is not likely thai
II could be formed after that settle
ment.
1T is necessary to guarantee thu
peace, and the peace cannot be guar
auteed as an afterthought. The rea
son, to speak In plain terms again
! why It must be guaranteed. Is thai
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.
ut would be folly to leave the guar
antee to the subsequent voluntary &C
ton of the government we have seer
destroy Russia and deceive Roumania
Particulars Of Terms.
These, then. are some Of the par
ticulars, and ! state them with thu
greater confidence because can statt
them suthoritatively as representa-,
this governments Interpretation Of III
own duty with regard to peace:
"FIRST-The impartial justic'
meted out must involve no discrimlna
tion between those to whom we wish t.
be Just and those to whom We do no
wish to be just. II must be justice
that plays no favorltes and knows n,
standard but the equal rights Of tn
several peoples. ....
"SECOND-NO special or separate
interest OF any single nation or an.
group Of nations can be made tn
basis Of any part Of the settlemen
which Is not consistent with the com
mon interest Of all.
THlRD-There can be no league
or alliances or special covenants ant
understandings within the general ant
common family Of the league Of na
ti0ns.
| "FOURTH--And more specifically
there can be no special, selfish, econo
mic combinations within the leagn
and no employment Of any force o
economic boycott for exclusion excep
as the power Of economic penalty b.
exclusion from the markets Of tn
world may be vested In the league o
nations itself as 4 means Of disciplin
and control.
"FIFTH-All International agree
ments and treaties Of every kind mus
be made known In their entirety t
the rest Of the world.
special alliances and economi
riyaIrIes and hOstilities have bee
the prolific sources in the moder
world Of the plans and passions tha
produce war. II would be an insln
cere as well MS Insecure peace tha
did not exclude them In definite an
binding terms.
"Plnln workaday people have demand
ed almost every time they came Il
gether. and are still demanding. tina
the leaders OF their governments d.
clare to them plainly what II is--e,
actly what II is--that they were seei
Ing in this war and what they thin
the items OF the final settlemen
should be.
'srhey are not yet satisfied wit
what they have been told. They sti
seem to fenr that they are getting whs
they ask for only in siatesmen's term
only in the terms Of territorial al
rangements and the divisions Of pow
er and not In terms Of broad visloI
justice and mercy and peace and tn
satisfaction of those deep-seated lonl
ings Of oppressed and distracted me
and women and enslaved peoples thf