The Nevada County picayune., 1919-07-17
Regarding old entanglements an4 alliances Mr Wilson said:

governments ndu udue lO one dnOtil- CT in the days when might and right were confused and the power of the victor was without restraint En- garments which contemplated any dis positions of territory, any extensions of sovereignty that might seem to be to the interest of those who had the power to insist upon them. had been entered into without thought of what the peoples concerned might wish or profit by; and these could not alway. be honorabIy brushed aside It was not easy to graft the new order of ideas on the old, and some of the fruits of the grafting may, fear for a time, be bitter
 TWO great empires had been fore ed into political bankruptcy, and we were the receivers. Our task was not only to make peace with the central empires and remedy the wrongs their armies had done The eentra, em pires had lived in open violation ef many of the very rights for which the war had been fought dominating ' natural right to rule. enforcing. not obedience, but veritabe bondage, ex- plotting those who were weak for the benefit of those who were masters and overlords only by force of arms. There could be no peace until the whole order Of central Europe was set right.
 That meant that new nations were to be created Poland. CZechoSlov kia, Hungary itself No part of an- cient Poland had ever in any true sense become part of Germany or of Austria or of Russia. Bohemia was alien In every thought and hope to the monarchy of which she had so long been an artificial part; ana the uneasy partnership between Aus tria and Hungary had been one rath CT of interest than of kinship or sym pathy.
 "The Slavs whom Austria had chos- en to force into her empire on the south were kept to their obedience by nothing but fear Their hearts were with their kinsmen in the Balkans, These were all arrangements of pow CT. not arrangements of natural union or association It was the imperative task of those who would make peace and make it intelligently to establish new order which would rest upon the free choice of peoples rather than upon the arbitrary authority of Haps- burgs or Hohenzollerns.
 More than that. great populations bound by sympathy and actual kin 70 Roumana were also linked against their will to the conglomorate Austro- Hungarian monarchy or 10 other alien sovereiGnties. and it was part of the task of peace to make a new Rou- mania as well as new Slavic state clustering about Serbia.
 "Undeveloped peoples and peoplct ready for recognition. but not yet ready to assume the full responsibll- lities of statehood, were 10 be given adequate guarantees of friendly pro. lection. guidance and assistance
 Created Great Opportunities
 And out of the execution of these great enterprises of liberty sprang op- portunities to attempt what states men had never found the way before to do; an opportunity to throw safe guards about the rights of racial, na- tional and religious minorities by solemn international covenant; an op- portunity to limit and regulate mill tary establishments where they wer" most likely to be mischieyous; an oD- portunity to effect a complete and systematic internationalzation of Wal erWays and railways which were nee essary to the free economic life of more than one nation. and to clear many of the normal channels of com meree of unfair Instructions of law or of privilege, and the very vel come opportunity to secure for labor the concerted protection of definite international pledges of principle and practice.
 That there should be a league ot nations 10 steady the counsels and maintain the peaceful understandings the world, 10 make not treaties alone but the accepted principles of inter- national law as well, the actual rule of conduct among the governments cf the world had been one of tho agreements accepted from the first as the basis Of peace with the Central Powers The statesmen of all the bels Hgereut countries were agreed thHt such a league must be created to sus- tain the settlements that were to he effected But at first I think there was a feeling among some of them that. while fl must be attempted, tn~ formation of such a league was per haps a counsel of perfection which practical men. long experienced Tn the world of affairs, must agree 10 very cautiously and with many mls- giyneS
 II was only as the difficult work of arranging tn all hut universal ad-