The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-08-12

together alien and hostile to our own. The Past and the Present are in deadly grapple and the peoples of the world are being done to death between them.
 There can be but one issue. The settlement must be final. There can be no compromise. No halfway de- cision would be tolerable. No half way decision is conceivable. These are the ends for which the associated peoples of the world are fighting and which must be conceded them before there can be peace:
 'I. The destruction of every arbi- trary power anywhere that can sepa- rately. secretly, and of it's single choice disturb the peace of the world; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at the least it's reduction to virtual impotence.
 'II. The settlement of every ques. tion. whether of territory, of sover- eighty, of economic arrangement, or of olitical relationship upon the basis of the free acceptance of that set clement by the people immediately of political relationship upon the basis of the material interest or advan- tage of any other nation or people which may desire a different settle ment for the sake of it's own exte- rior influence or mastery.
 I'll. The consent of all nations to be governed in their conduct toward each other by the same principles of honor and of respect for the coL.nlon law of civilized society that govern the individual citizens of all modern States in their relations with one an other; to the end that all promises served, no private plots or cons pira- served, no prvate plots or conspira- ciea matched, no selfish injuries wrought with impunity. ;E & nut tual trust established upon ih, hand some foundation of a mutual |, 4prt for right.
 'IV. The establishment of an O ganization of peace which Shall make it certain that the combined power of free nations will check every n- vasion of right and serve to make peace and justice the more secure by affording a definite tribunal of opI- ion to which all must submit and by which every international readjust- ment that can not be amicably agreed upon by the peoples directly conceived shall be sanctioned.
 These great objects can be put into a single sentence. What we seek is the reign of law. based upon the consent of the governed and sus- tained by the organized opinion of mankind.
 These great ends can not be achieved by debating and seeking to reconcile and accommodate what statesmen may wish, with their pro. jects for balances of power and Of national opportunity. They can be realized only by the determination of what the thinking peoples of the world desire, with their longing hope for justice and for social freedom and oportunity
 q can fancy that the air of this place carries the accents of such principles with peculiar kindness. Here were started forces which the great nation against which they were primarily directed at first re. garded as a revolt against it's right full authority but which it has long since seen to have been a step in the liberation of its own people as well as of the people of the United States; and I stand here now to speak speak proudly and with confident hope-of the spread of this revolt, this liberation, to the great stage of the world itself. The blinded rulers of Prussia have reused forces they knew little of-forces which, once reused, can never be crushed to earth again; for they have at their heart an inspiration and purpose which are deathless and of the very sfrff of triI,mphi"