The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-10-04
PRESIDENT NAMES
PRICE OF PEACE
IMPARTIAL JUSTICE TO ALL MA
TIoNs is DEMANDED BY
AMERICA
WON'T TAKE OUTLAWS WORD
President Answers Peace Talk of Gen.
trail Powers in Address to New
York Liberty Loan Work
ers-No Discriminatory

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peace will be impartial justice to all
nations, the instrumentality indispen-
sable to secure it is a league of ma
tons formed not before or after, but
at the peace conference, and Germany
as a member, Twill have to redeem her
character not by what happens at the
peace table, but by what follows"
This was President Wilson's an
swer given last night before an audi
ence of fourth Liberty loan workers
here to the recent peace talk from
the central powers. although ne did not
refer specifically to the utterances of
enemy leaders.
Peace was not question, declared
the president, of coming to terms"
for 1--WE cannot come to terms with
Them as they have made it impos-
sible." Peace must be guaranteed, for
there will be parties to the peace
whose promises have proved untrust-
worthy, and means must be found in
connection with the peace settlement
to remove that source of insecurity"
ut would be folly to leave the guar
antee to the subsequent voluntary ac-
ton of the governments we have seen
destroy Russia and deceive Rumania,
continued the president.
The president emphasized that the
justice to be obtained by the league
must involve no discrimination toward
any people. This he set forth ex-
plicftly in a set of five principles, |
which he enumerated as "the practf- |
cal program of Americas peace
terms, and for the maintenance of
which ''the United tSaees is prepared |
to assume its full share of RESPONSE |
bility."
Detailed Terms Of Peace.
The practical program was an
nounced by the president as follows:
First, the impartial justice meted
out must involve no discrimination |
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 STAN
dard but the equal rights of the sew
eral 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 OF
alliance or special covenants and un-
with the general and
common family of the league of ma
lions.
No Selfish Combinations.
Fourth, and more specifically, there
can be no special, selfish economic
within the league and no
of any form of economic
boycott or exclusion except as the
power of economic penalty by exclu-
sion from the markets of the world
may be vested in the league of nations
itself as a means of discipline and
control
Publish All Treaties.
Fifth, all international agreements
and treaties of every kind must be
made known in their entirety to the
rest of the world.
Especial alliances and economic
rivalries and hostilitfes have been the
prolific curse in the modern world of
The plans and passions that produce
war. 1t would be an insincere as well
as an insincere peace that did not ex-
,lude them in definite and binding
.erms."
Shortly before the president started
speaking, news of the further sue
,esses of American, British and French
,ffensives on the western front reach
ID the meeting at the Metropolitan
opera house, and this gave dramatic
,oint to Mr.. Wilson'S peroration-that
: peace drives can be effectively neu-
rallied and silenced only by showing
hat every victory of the nations
Igainst Germany brings the nations
learer the sort of peace which will
,ring security and reinsurance to all
peoples and makes the recurrence OF
mother such struggle of pitiless force
md bloodshed forever impossible, and
hat nothing else can"
Germany is constantly iDtimating
he terms she will accept, and always
inds that the world does not want
erms," declared the president. ut
wishes the final triumph of justice and