The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-10-11

state them authoritatively as repre-
senting the governments interpreta-
ton of its own duty with regard to
peace.
"First-The impartial justice melted
out must involve no discrimination be-
tween those whom we wish to be
Just and those to whom We do not wish
[, to be just. 1t must be justice that
plays no favorites and knows no stand
ard but the equal rights Of the several
peoples concerned.
(, "Second-No special or separate in
terest Of any single nation or any
group of nations can be made the
basis of any part of the settlement
which is not consistent with the COM
mon interests of all.
"Third-There can be no league or
alliance or special covenants or under
standings with the general and COM
mon family of the league of nations.
"Fourth-And more specifically,
there can be no special, selfish, econom
ic combination within the league and
no employment of any form Of eco
nomic boycott or exclusion except as
the power of economic penalty by ex-
clusion from the markets of the world
may be vested in the league of nations
itself as means of discipline and con-
troll.
'Fifth.-All international agree
ments and treaties of every kind must
be made known, in their entirety to the
rest of the world.
Special alliances and economic riv-
alries and hostilities have been the
prolific source in the modern world of
the plans and passions that produce
war. 1t would be an insincere as well
as an insecure peace that did not ex-
clude them in definite and binding
terms.
"The confidence with which l ven
ture to speak to our people in these
matters does not spring from our ira
ditions merely and the well-known prin
ciples of international action which
we have always professed and follow
ed. In the same sentences which |
say that the United States will enter
into no special arrangements or I'M
derstandings with particular nations
let me also say that the United States
is prepared to assume its full share Of
responsibility for the maintenance Of
the common covenants and understand
ing upon which peace must henceforth
rest. We still read Washington's inn
mortal warning against 'entangling
alliances with full comprehension and
an answering purpose. But only spe-
cial and limited alliances entangle,
and we recognize and accept the duty
of a new day in which we are permit
ted to hope for general alliance which
will avoid entanglements and clear
the air of the world for common under
standings and the maintenance of COM
mon rights.
II have made this analysis of the
international situation which the war
has created, not, Of course, because /
doubted whether the leaders of. the
great nations and people with whom
we are associated were of the same
mind and entertained like purpose,
but because the air every now and
again gets darkened by mists and
groundless doubtings and mischievous
pervirsions of counsel, and it is neces-
sary once and again to sweep all the
) irresponsible talk about peace intri-
CUES and weakening morale and doubt
full purpose on the part of those in au-
thority utterly and, if need be, uncere-
moniously aside and say things in the
plainest words that can be found, even
when it is only to say over again what
has been said before quite as plainly
if in less unvarnished terms.
Gas | have said, neither nor any
ether man in governmental authority
created or gave form to the issues in
this war. / have simply responded to
them with such vision as | could com
mand. But | have responded gladly
and with resolution that has grown
and more confident as the issues have
grown clearer and clearer. 1t is now
plain that they are issues which no
man can pervert, unless it be wilfully.
| am bound to fight for them, and hap
py to fight for them, as time and cir
cumstance have revealed them to me
as to all the world. Our enthusiasm
for them grows more and more ire
sistible as they stand out in more and
more vivid and unmistakable outline.
"And the forces that fight for them
draw in closer and closer array, or
ganize their minionsin to more and
more unconquerable might as they be-
come more and more distinct to the
thought and purpose of the peoples en-
gagged. 1t is the peculiarly of this
great war that while statesmen have
seemed to cast about for definitions
OF their purpose and have sometimes
seemed to shift their ground and their
nOint Of vinm tba fnoucrb+ of Al -. =