The Robesonian., 1918-11-18
HUNGER DOES NOT
BREED REFORM
The Present Belongs to the Nationl
and the Peoples Who Preserve
Their Self Control.

Part of President Wilson's address
before the joint session Of Congress
last Monday when he announced the
terms of the armistice was crowded
out of Thursdays paper. It follows:
Hunger does not breed reform; it
breeds madness and all the ugly is
tempers that make an ordered life
impossible.
"For with the fall of the ancient
governments which rested like an in
cubus upon the peoples Of the central
empire has come political change not
merely but revolution; and revolution
which seems as yet to assume no final
and ordered form but to run from one
fluid change to another, until thought
full men are forced to ask themselves,
with what governments, and Of what
sort, are we about to deal in the max
ings of the covenants of peace? With
what authority will they meet us, and
| with what as5u ance that their au-
| thoIity will abide and sustain secOrely
the International arrangements into
which we are about to enter: There
is here matter for no small anxiety
and mjsgiving. When peace is ma'ic
upon whose promises and engage
ments beside our own is it to rest?
"Let us be perfectly frank with
ourselves and admit that these ques-
tions can not be satisfactorily answer.
ed now or at once. But the moral j.:
not that there is little hope of al
early answer that will suffice 1t Is
only that we must be patient and help.
full and mindful above ell of the great
hore and confidence that lie at the
hear: Of what is taking pla.e. EN tss
es accomplish nothing. Unhappy Rus
sia mas furnished abundant 1e;'en
proof Of that. Disorder im'.l.d :.tel!
defeats itself. If excuses should &C
cur, if disorder should for a time raise
its head, sober second thought will
! foll'w and day of construct 1e &C
T ticn. il we help and do not hinder.
1.-The present and all that it hold
! belongs to the nations and the peo
! pies who preserve self control ant
= the orderly processes of their gov
ernments; the future 70 those VIII
prove themselves the tue friends o
mankind. To conquer with arms j
;. to make only a temporary conquest
to conquer the world by earning it
esteem is to make permanent con
guest. I am confident that the ration
:, that have learned the discipline O
freedom and that have settled wit.
self-possession to it's ordered practic
: are now about to make conquest o
the world by sheer power If exampl
ard of friendly helpfulness.
! "The peoples who have but jus
come out from under the yoke of ar
8 bitrary government and who are no,
g coming at last into their freedom wi
y never find the treasures of libert
they are in search of if they look fo
> them by the light of the torch. The
9 will find that every pathway that
. . stained with the blood of their ow
brothers leads to the wilderness, nc
to the seat of their hope. They ar
: now face to face with their initial tes
We must hold the light steady unit
they find themselves. And in tn
meantime, if it be possible, we mus
establish peace that will justly de
fine their place among the nations, re
move all fear of their neighbors an
Of their former masters, and e1abl
them to live in security and content
nent when they have st,3 their own al
fairs in order. I for one, do not dout
7 their purpose or their capacitv. Ther
are some happy signs that they kno,
:. and will choose the way of self cor
troll and peaceful c.ommoGation.
they do we shall pat Our a:d at the
disposal in every way t:sat we can.
they DO not, we must await with D:
tience and sympathy the awakcnin
Il and recovery that will assuredly cor
n at last"