The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-10-01

procure it; and ready and willing,
also, to create in some virile fashion,
the only instrumentality by which it
ments of the peace will be honored
and fulfilled.
THAT price is impartial justice in
every item of the settlement, no mat
ter whose interest is crossed; and
not only impartial Justice but also
the satisfaction of the several peo-
pies whose fortunes are dealt with
! That indispensable instrumentality
is a league of nations formed under
! covenants that will be efficacious
which the peace OF the world can be
/ guaranteed. peace VIII rest in part
upon the word of outlaws and only
upon that word. For Germany will
have to redeem her character not by
what happens at the peace table but
by what follows.
And, as see 1t. the constitution
! OF that league Of nations and the
clear definition Of It's objects must be
a part, is in a sense the most essen
!, tial part. Of the peace settlement it
self. 1t cannot be formed now. If
formed now, 1t would be merely
new alliance confined to the nations
associated against common enemy.
Must Guarantee Peace.
ut is not likely that it could be
formed after the settlement 1t is
necessary to guarantee the peace:
and the peace cannot be guaranteed
as an afterthought. The reason to
speak in plain terms again, why it
must be guaranteed, is that there will
be parties to the peace whose prom
fses have proved untrustworthy. and
means must be found in connection
with the peace settlement itself to
remove that source OF Insecurity. It
would be folly to leave the guarantee
to the subsequent voluntary action
or the governments we have seen de-
stroy Russia and deceive Rumania
But these general terms do not
disclose the whole matter. Some de-
tails are needed to make them sound
less like thesis and more like a
practical program. These, then. are
some OF the particulars, and I state
them with the greater confidence be-
cause l can state them anthoritatively
as representing this governments in
depreciation of it's own duty with re-
gard to peace:
Basis Of Peace.
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 a Justice
that plays no favorites and knows
no standard but the equal rights OF
the several 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
mon interests of all
Third, there can be no league or
alliance or special covenants and un-
derstandings with the general and
common family OF the league of ma
tions
Fourth. and more specifically.
there can be no special, selfish eco
nomic combinations within the
league and no employment OF any
form OF economic boycott or exclus-
ION except as the power Of economic
penalty by exclusion from the mar
kets OF the world may be vested II
the league Of nations itself as Va
means of discipline and control.
Firth, all international agree
ments and treaties or every kind
must be made known. in their en-
tir"ty to the rest Of the world.
War Producers.
Especial alliance and economicI
rivalries and hostilities have been
the prolific source in the modern
world of the plans and passions that
produce war. 1t would be an insin-
cere as we'll as an insecure peace
that did not exclude them in definite
and binding terms.
The confidence with which I VEN
ture TO speak for our people In these
matters does not spring from our
traditions merely and the well known
principles OF international action
which we have always professed and
followed. In the same sentence I'm
which / say that the United States
will enter i"to the special arrange
ments or UNDERSTANDINGS with par
t'cular nations ct ne say also that
the United states is prepared to as