Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-10-04

| CnaC are 1nFOlN0u III IL.
Foe Must Pay Prize.
eff it be in deed and in truth the
common object of the governments as
ISOLATED against Germany and of the
nations whom they govern, as I believe
it to be, to achieve by the coming set
Elements secure and lasting peace it
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 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.
'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 instrumentality is league of
nations formed under covenants that
will be efficacious.
without such instrumentality, by
which the peace of the world can be
guaranteed, peace will rest in part
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 it, the constitution OF
that league of nations and the clear
definition of its objects must be a part,
is in a sense the most essential part,
/ of the peace settlement itself. 1t can
not be formed now. If formed now, it
would be merely new alliance con-
fined to the nations associated against
a common enemy. 1t is not likely that
ment
ut is necessary to guarantee the
peace, and the peace cannot be guar
| anteed as an afterthought. The rea-
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.
at would be folly to leave the guar
| antee to the subsequent voluntary ac-
ton Of the government we have seen
| destroy Russia and deceive Roumania.
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"These, then, are some of the par
ticulars. and state them with the
| greater confidence because can state
them authoritatively as representing
this governments Interpretation of its
own duty with regard to peace:
"FIRST-The impartial justice
meted out must involve no discrimina-
| ton, between those to whom we wish to
be just and those to whom we do not
wish to be just. 1t must be justice
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
understandings within the general and
common family of the league of ma
tons.
"FOURTH-And more specifically,
there can be no special, selfish, ecOnO-
mic combinations 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-All international agree
ments and treaties of every kind must
be made known in their entirety to
the rest Of the world.
Especial alliances and economic
rivalries and hostilities have been
the prolific sources in the modern
world of the plans and passions that
produce war. 1t would be an insin
cere as well as insecure peace that
did not exclude them in definite and
binding terms.
"Plain workaday people have demand
ed almost every time they came to-
gether, and are still demanding, that
the leaders of their governments de-
clare to them plainly what it is-ex
actly what it is-that they were seek
ing in this war and what they think
the items of the final settlement
should be.
"They 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 ar
rangements and the divisions o. pow
err 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