Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-08
he speaks think them right and i'm
perative as he does.
HEARS VOICE OF RUSSIA.

OF purpose which is. it seems to me-
more thrilling and more compelling
than any of the many moving voices
with which the troubled air OF the
world is filled. 1t is the voice of the
Russian people. They are PROSTATE
and all but helpless. it would seem,
before the grim power of Germany,
which has hitherto known no reIenting
and no pity.
Their power, apparently, Is shat
tered. And yet their soul is not sub
servient. They will not yield either
in principle or in action. Their con-
ception of what Is right, Of what Is
humane and honorable for them to
accept has been stated with a frank
ness. a largeness Of view, a generosity
of spirit and universal human SYM
pathy which must challenge the ad-
miration Of every friend of mankind;
and they have refused to compound
their ideals or desert others that they
themselves may be safe. They call on
US to say what 1t is that we desire; in
what, if anything, our purpose and our
spirit differ from theirs. And I believe
that the people of the United States
would wish me to respond, with utter
simplicity and frankness. Whether
their present leaders believe it or not,
it is our heartfelt desire that some
way may be opened whereby we may
be privileged to assist the people of
Russia to attain their utmost hope of
liberty and ordered peace
DAY OF CONQUEST GONE.
1t will be our wish and purpose that
the IF xr,hay
begun, shall be absolutely open and
that they shall involve and permit
henceforth no secret understanding
of any kind The day of conquest and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is gone by: so is also
the day of secret covenants entered
into in the interest of particular gov
ernments and likely at some unlocked
for moment to upset the peace of the
world. 1t Is this happy fact now clear
to the view of every public man whose
thoughts do not still linger in an age
that is dead and gone which makes 1t
possible for every nation whose pur-
poses are consistent with justice and
the peace of the world to avow now
or 1T any other time the objects it has
in view.
We entered this war because viola
tons of right had occurred which
touched us to the quick and made the
life of our own people impossible I'M
less they were corrected and the world
secured once for all against their re-
currence. What we demand in this
war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to
ourselves 1t is that the world be
made fit and safe to live in; and par
ticularly that it be made safe for every
peace-loving nation which, like our
own, wishes to live its own life, de-
termine it's own institutions, be as
sured OF justice and fair dealing by
the other peoples of the world as
against force and selfish aggression.
All the peoples of the world are in eff
feet partners in this interest and for
our own part we see very clearly that
unless justice be done to others, 1t
will not be done to us.
THE PEACE PROGRAM.
The program of the worlds peace,
therefore, is our program; and that
program, the only possible program, as
we see it, is this:
Il. OPEN coy NTS OF
PEACE, openly arrived at, after which
there shall be no private international
understandings of any kind but di-
plomacy shall proceed always frankly
and in the public view.
20. ABSOLUTE FREEDOM OF
NAVIGATION UPON THE SEAS, out
side territorial waters, alike in peace
and in war, except as the seas may be
closed in whole or in part by inter-
national action for the enforcement of
international covenants.
''3. THE REMOVAL, so FAR AS
POSSIBLE OF ALL ECONOMIC
BARRIERS and the establishment of
an equality of trade conditions among
all the nations conserving to the peace
maintenance.
REDUCTION OF ORNAMENTS.
"A. ADEQUATE GUARANTEES
GIVEN THAT NATIONAL ARMA-
NENTS WILL BE REDUCED TO
THE LOWEST POINTS CONSIST
ENT WITH DOMESTIC SAFETY.
.. A FREE, OPEN MINDED AND
ABSOLUTELY IMPARTIAL AD-
JUSTMENT OF ALL COLONIAL.
CLAIMS. based upon a strict observ-
ance of the principle that in determin-
ing all such questions of sovereignty
the interests OF the populations con-
cerned must have equal weight with
the equitable claims of the govern
ment whose title is to be determined
RUSSIAN SITUATION.
&c THE EVACUATION OF ALL
RUSSIAN TERRITORY and such
settlement of all questions affecting
Russia as will secure the best and
freest co-operation of the other ma
lions of the world in obtaining for her
an unhampered and unembarrasscd
opportunity for the independent de-
termination of her own political de-
yelopment and national policy and as
sure her of sincere welcome into the
society of free nations under institu-