Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-14

Following are the fourteen points,
containing essentials for peace, put
forward in President Wilson's ad-
dress to Congress on January last:
I.-Open covenants of peace, open
ly arrived at, after which there shall
be no private international under
standings of any kind, but diplo-
macy shall proceed always frankly
and in the public view.
1I.-Absolute freedom of naviga-
ton upon the seas, outside territor-
ial waters, alike in peace and in war,
except as the seas may be closed in
whole or in part by international ac-
ton for the enforcement of interna-
tional covenants.
11I.-The removal, so far as pos
sible, of all economic barriers and
the establishment of an equality of
trade conditions among all the ma
tions consenting to the peace and
associating themselves for its main
tenance
1V.-Adequate guarantees given
and taken that national armaments
will reduce to the lowest point con-
sistent with domestic safety.
N.-Free, open minded, and abso-
lutely impartial adjustment of all
colonial claims based upon strict
observance of the principle that in
determining all such questions of
sovereignty the interests. of the popu-
lation concerned must have equal
weigh5. with the equitablesclaims of
the gSyerpment whose title is to be
determined.
V1-The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such a settlement of all
questions affecting Russia as will
secure the best and freest co-opera-
ton of the other nations of the
world in obtaining for her an I'M
hampered and unembarrassed op-
portunity for the independent deter
mination of her own political de-
velopment and national policy, and
assure her of a sincere welcome in
to the society of free nations under
instructions of her own choosing;
and, more than a welcome, assist
ance also of every kind that she may
need and may herself desire. The
treatment accorded Russia by her
sister nations in the months to come
will be the acid test of their good
will, of their comprehension of her
needs as distinguished from their
own interests, and of their intelli-
gent and unselfish sympathy.
VII.-Belgium, the whole world
will agree, must be evacuated and
restored, without any attempt to
limit the sovereignty which she en-
joys in common with all other free
nations. No other single act will
serve as this will serve to restore
confidence among the nations in the
laws which they have themselves set
and determined for the government
of their nations with one another.
Without this healing act the whole
structure and validity of inter-
national law is forever impaired.
VIIl.-All French territory should
be freed and the invaded portions re-
stored and the wrong done to
France by Prussia in 1871 in the
matter of Alsace-Lorraine, wnich
has unsettled the peace of her
world for nearly fifty years. should
be righted, in order that peace may
once more be made secure in the
interest of all.
tiers of Italy should be affected along
clearly recognizable lines of nation
ality.
X.-The people of Austria Hun
gary, whose place among the nations
we wish to see safeguarded and as
sured, should be accorded the
freest opportunity of autonomous
development.
XI.-Rumania, Serbia and Monte
negro should be evacuated; occupied
territories restored; Serbia accorded
free and secure access to the sea;
and the relations of the several Bal
kan states to one another deter
mined by friendly counsel along his
torically established lines of allegi-
ance and nationality: and interna-
tional guarantees of the political and
economic independence and terri
torial integrity of the several Balkan
states should be entered into.
XII.-The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman Empire should be