The Monticellonian., 1918-10-04

" or speaking With the utmost frank- ness about the practical implications that are involved in 1t.
 Foe Must Pay Price.
 If 1t be in deed and in truth the common object of the governments as- sociated against Germany and of the nations whom they govern, as l believe it to be. to achieve by the coming set dement's a secure and lasting peace it will he 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 im- partial justice, but also the satisfac tion of the several peoples whose for tunes are dealt with. That indispen- sable instrumentalIty is league of
 
 will he efficacious.
 "Without such instnumentality, by which the peace of the world can be guaranteed. peace will rest in part 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 l see it, the constitution of that league of nations and the clear definition Of it's objects must be part. is i'll q sense the most essential part, of the peace settlement itself. It can not be formed now. If formed now, it : would be merely a new alliance con fined to the nations associated against a common enemy. It Is not likely that it could be formed after that settle ment
 "It is necessary to guarantee the peace, and the peace cannot be guar anteed as an afterthought. The req 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.
 Tt would be folly to leave the guar antee to the subsequent voluntary ac- tion of the government we have seen destroy Russia and deceive Roumania.
 Particulars of Terms.
 "These, then, are some of the par ticuars, and I state them with the greater confidence because I 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- tion between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just. It 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 na- tions.
 "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 a means of discipline and control.
 "FIFTH-Al International agree ments and treaties of every kind must be made known in their entirety to the rest of the world.
 Special alliances and economic rivalries and hostilities have been the prolific sources in the modern world of the plans and passions that produce war. It 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- engagements and the divisions of pow CT 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 and women and enslaved peoples that seem to them the only things worth fighting . war for that engulfs the world.
 Believes Allies Aims Same.
 Germany is constantly intimatiBg the terms she will accept; and al- ways finds that the world does not want terms. It wishes the final tri- umph of justice and fair dealing"