Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-19

free peoples who are represented here To tn test of danger they nave learned to know and help one aao!h- CT They want their intimacy ot yes terday to assure the peace of tomor TOW. Nainly would our enemies di- vide us, if they have not yet re- nounced their customary ma leu: er~, they will soon find that they are | meeting today, as during the ho,t: i ties, a homogeneous block whi. .h nothing will be able to disintegrate. Even before the armistice you reched that necessary unity under the aid of the lofty moral and political truths of which President Wilson has nobly made himself the interpreter, and in the light of these truths you intend to accomplish your mission.
 You will therefore. seek nothing but justice: Justice that has no fla vorites; justice in territorial prob- lens, justice in financial problems, justice in economic problems. But justive is not inert, it does not sub- limit to injustice. What it demands first when it has been violated are restitution and reparallon. for the peoples and individuals who have been despoiled or maltreated. In formulating this lawful claim, it obeys neither hatred nor an instinc- tive CT thoughtless desire for repris- als. It pursues two-fCid object-to render to each his due and not to encourage crime through leaving it unpunished.
 What justice also demands. in- spired by the same feeling, is the punishment of the guilty and effect l i've guarantees against an active re- | turn of the spirit by which they are prompted, and it is logical to demand that these guarantees should be giv- | en-. above all. to the nations that have been, and might again be most exposed to aggression or threat, 70 1 those who have many times toad in danger of being submerged Iby the
 periodic tide of the same invasion. l What justice banishes is the
 dream of conquest and imperialism, contempt for National will. the arbi-
 trary exchange of provinces between states, as though peoples were but
 articles of furnitureu or pawns in d game. The time is no more diplo-
 matists could meet to re-draw with l authority. the map of the Empire | on the coroner of a table.
 of you are to re-make the map
 of the world it is the name of the peoples and one condition is that you shall faithfully interpret their ! thoughts and respect the right of na-
 tions, small and great, to dispose of
 themselves and to reconcile with this ' hn 1ly rio and religious minorities--a formi-
 dable task which science and history
 your two advisers, will contribute to
 assist and facilitate.
 You will naturally strive to se-
 cure the material and moral means of subsistence for all those people who are constituted or re-constitu- ted into states, for those who wish
 to unite themselves to their neigh
 COTS. for those who divide themselv- es into separate units, for those whI
 reorganiza themselves, for those who divide themselves according to thelr
 regained traditions and lastly for all those whose freedom, you have
 already sanctioned or are about tC | sanction. You will not call them int,
 existence to sentence them to deatl
 immediately. because you would like
 your work in this, as in all other ii matters, to be fruitful and lasting. While introducing into, the worl(
 as much harmony ,as possible. yo,
 will. in conformity With the four
 teenth of the propositions unanimous
 ly adopt by the great allied powers 4 establish a general league of nations (which will be the supreme guaran tee against any fresh assault upon tht