Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21

nothing iu o. shat p.otg tod ro. from
aggression from DE-. ana have re-
peatoaIr seen - uneasy ~. r- o..
the part OF representative .I-ta.
states Of Central and South America
that our self-appoiated protection
might be for cur own benefit and our
own interests and not for the irter
ests of u n%eighbors. So have said
LET us have a common guarantee
that all Of us will sign a declaration
Of political independence and terrific
rial integrity. Let US agree that II
any OF us. the United States included,
violates the political independence oil
territorial integrity OF any Of the 9th
ers, all the others will jump on her
Now, that IS the Kind OF agree
ment that will have to be the founda
ton OF the future life Of the nations
OF the world. gentlemen.
1.-THE whole family of nations will
have to guarantee to each nation that
no nation shall violate its political In.
dependence or It's territorial integ
rity. That is the basis-the only on.
Ceivable basis-for the future peace OF
the world, and | must admit hat |
was anxious to have the states or the
two continents OF America show the
way 10 the rest OF the world as to how
to make a basis for peace.
Peace can only come by trust. II
you can once get a situation or trust
then you have got a situation OF per
manent peace. Therefore every one OF
US owes it as a patriotic duty to his
own country to plant the seeds OF
trust and of confidence instead OF
suspicion and a variety of interest
American Observation-Disclosures.
In emphasizing the disintercsted'
ness of the United States in the world
war the president said:
"One of the difficulties that expo
rienccd during the first three years OF
the war, the years when the United
States was not in the war, was IN
getting the foreign offices of Euro
pean nations 10 believe that the Unit
ed States was seeking nothing FOR
herself; that her neutrality was not
selfish, and that If she came IN she
would not come in to get anything
substantial out Of the war, any mate
rial object, any territory or trade or
anything else of that sort, In some
Of the foreign offices there were men
who personally knew me and they be.
Iieved. | hope, that I was sincere in
assuring them that our purposes were
disinterested, but they thought that
these assurances came from the ordi.
nary sources Of information and
speaking the idealistic purposes of the
cloister, They did not believe that |
was speaking the real heart OF the
American people, and | knew all along
that was. Now, | believe that every
body who m in contact with the
American people knows that | am
speaking their purposes"
As Il correct example the president
referred to his declaration that he in
tended to stand by Russia.
1--WE cannot make anything out of
Russia" he said. 1--WE cannot make
anything ont of standing by Russia
at this time-the most remote Of the
European nations so far as we are
concerned, the one with which we
have had the least connections In
trade and advantages-and yet the
people of the United States rose TO
that suggestion as to no other that |
made in that address, That Is the
heart of America, and we are ready
to show you by any act of friendship
that you may propose our real feelings
toward Mexico"