The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-07-12
NO PEACE UNTIL
KAISERISM DESTROYED
SAYS WILSON

Washington, July president Viii
son today answered all feelers for
compromise peace, with a new and
unqualified conservation of America tc
the struggle for cleaning military au,
tocracy from the earth.
At an independence day gathering
on the gentle slopes of Mount Vernon
home and tomb of George Washing
ton, and surrounded by scenes which
looked upon the creation of this ma
ton, the president addressed small
gathering of diplomats of the allied
nations.
But he spoke to the world, and he
spoke the logical sequel to the ''force
without stint or limit" declaration OF
several weeks ago.
Unreservedly the president declar-
ed that there could be no thought of a
peace which did not mean the destruc-
ton of the military autocracy or its
reduction to virtual impotence.
"A reign of law, based on the con-
sent of the governed and sustained by
the organized opinion of mankind" was
the way he summarized in single
sentence the objects of humanity in the
world war.
Whether the president was address
ing his remarks directly to the recent
speech of German Foreign Secretary
Won Kuehlmann; or to the foreshad-
owing of renewed German peace Of
fensive, or whether he merely took
the occasion of the celebration Of
American independence to emphasize
to the world the war aims of the ma
ton can only be OWNED. He did not
deal with the progress Of the war or
any particular phase of it, but he
spoke eloquently of Americas attitude
toward Germany's socalled peace trea-
ties in the east by grouping the people
of Russia 'for the moment inorganic
ed and helpless" among the peoples
of the world standing against the enc
mics of liberty.
The past and the present are in
deadly grapple and the people of the
world are being done to death between
them," said President Wilson.
"There can be but one issue. The
settlemnt must b final There can be
no compromise. No halfway decision
would be tolerable. 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.
1.-THE destruction of every arbi-
trary power anywhere that can sep
arately, secretly and of its single
choice disturb the peace of the world;
or if it cannot be presently destroyed,
at least its reduction to virtual impo-
tence.
"2-The settlement of every ques-
ton, whether of territory or sovereign
ty, of economic arrangement, or of
political relationships, upon the basis
of the free acceptance Of that settle
ment by the people Immediately con-
cerned, and not upon the basis of the
material interests or advantage of
any other nation or people, which may
desire a different settlement for the
sake Of its own exterior influence or
mastery.
"3-The consent of all nations to
be governed in their conduct toward
each other by the same principles of
honor and of respect for the common
law of civilized society that govern
the individual citizens of all modern
states in their relations with one an
other; to the end that all promises may
be sacredly observed, no private plots
or conspiracies Matched, no selfish in
juries wrought with impunity, and a
mutual trust established upon the hand
some foundation of the mutual respect
of right.
"4-The establishment of an or
ganization of peace which shall make
it certain that the combined power of
free nations will check every invasion
of right and serve to make peace and
justice the more secure by affording a
definite tribunal of opinion to which
all must submit and by which every
adjustment that can not
be amicably agreed upon by the peos
Piles directly concerned shall be sane
toned.
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 sustained
by the organized opinion of mankind.
"These great ends cannot be achiev-
ed by debating and seeking to rec
oncile and accommodate what states
men may wish, with their projects for
balance of power and of national op-