The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-07-11
STA still among the rest, though they
are for the moment unorganized and

are for the moment unorganlZeo anu
helpless.
armies, stand an isolated, friendless
group of governments who speak no
Common purpose, but only selfish
ambitions of their own by which
! none can profit but themselves, and
whose peoples are fuel in their hands
the governments which fear their
people and yet are for the time their
Sovereign lords, making every choice
| for them and disposing Of their lives
and fortunes as they will, as we'll as
of the lives and fortunes of every
people who fall under their power
governments clothed with. the
strange trappings and the prlmltlye
er 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 ca
be no compromise s No H., aalf, W. hs d 1f
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:
/. The destruction Of every ar
separately, secretly, and of it's single
choice, disturb the peace of the
world; or, if it cannot be presently
destroyed, at the least its reduction
to virtual Importance.
9. The settlement of every ques-
ton. whether of territory, OF sover-
eighty, Of economic ARRANGEMENT. or
basis of the free acceptance of that
settlement by the people immediate
ly concerned and not upon the basis
Of the material interest or advantage
of any other nation or people which
may desire different settlement
for the sake of its own interior IN
fluence or mastery.
3 The consent of all nations to
be governed in their conduct towards
each other by the same principles OF
honor and of respect for the com
mon law of civilized society that
govern the individual citizens OF an
modern states in their relations with
one another; to that end all promls-
es and covenants may Sc sacredly OBJ
served, no private plots or conspirac-
wrought with impunity, and a mu-
tual trust established upon the hand
some foundation of a mutual respect
for right.
4: The establishment it, of Of an sh or
make it certain that the combined
power of free nations will check ev-
cry invasion of right and serve to|
make peace and justice the more
secure by affording a definite trlbu-
nal of opinion to which all must SUD-
nit and by which every information
al readjustment that cannot pc ami
rectiy concerned shall be sanctioned.
These great objects can be put in
to a single sentence. What we seek
is the reign of law, based upon the
consent of the governed and sus-
tanned by the organized opinion OF
These great ends cannot be achiev-
ed bv debating and seeking to recon-
Gle and accommodate what states
men may wish, with their projects
for balances of power and Of nation
all opportunity. Thev can be reallZ-
ed only by the determination OF what
the thinking people OF the world de-
sire with their longing hope for, JUS
tice and for social freedom and OPP
portunity.
can fancy that the air of this
place carries the accents OF such
principles with a peculiar kindness.
Here were stated FORCES, which me
great nation against which they were
primarily directed at first regarded
as q revolt against us TlSHllul do-
thority, but which it has long since
seen to have been a step in the lib
Grafton of it's own people as well as
the people of the United States; ana
| stand here now to speak-speak
proudly and with confident hope-of
the spread of this revolt, this liberia
ton, 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 a purpose which are deathless
and Of the very stuff of triumph
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