Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-19

nations nor individuals can repudiate
or disregard with impunity
While the conflict was gradually
extending the clanking of chains was
heard and captive nationaiities from
their age-long jails ctied out to us
for help. Yes, more they escaped to
come to our aid
Poland Comes to Life.
Poland came TO life again and sent
ms troops. The Czecho -Slovaks won
their right 10 independence in ST.
IBERIA, in France. and IN Italy The
Jugo- Slavs, the Armenians, the Syr-
ians and Levantines. the Arabs, all
the victims. long helpless or resigned
of the historic deeds of injustice: all
the martyrs of the past. all the out
ragged in conscience, all the strangled
in liberty turned to us as their nat
ural defenders.
The war gradually attained the.
fuliness of its first significance and
became in the full sense Of the term
n crusade of humanity for right and,
If anything can console HIS, in part at
least for the losses we have suffered,
1t is assuredly the thought that our
victory also is the victory Of right.
1t now rests with YOU to reas from
this victory its full fruits In order
to carry out this immense task you
have decided to admit at first only
the allied or associated powers and
insofar as their interests are involved
IN the debates. the nations which re-
NAMED neutral. You have thought
that the terms of peace ought to be
settled among ourselves before they
are communicated to those against
whom we have fought the good fight
The solidarity which has enabled lis
to win military success ought to re-
main unimpaired during the negotia-
tons for and after the signing of the
treaty, 1t Is not only government but
justice that demands first, restitution
and reparation for the peoples and
who have been despoiled.
In formulating this lawful claim it
obeys neither hatred nor an instinct
i've or thoughtless desire for reprsals.
1t pursues a two-fold object--to rem
der to each his due and not to en-
courage crime by leaving 1t unpun-
ished
What justice also demands. in
spired by the same feeling, is the pun
ishment of the guilty and effective
guarantees against an active return
Of the spirit by which they are
and it is logical to demand
that these guarantees should be gwen, |
above all. to the nations that might |
again be exposed to aggression.
What justice banishes is the dream
Of conquest and imperialism, con- !
tempt for national will. the arbitrary
exchange of provinces between states, !
as though peoples were but articles of
furniture or pawns in game.
The time is no more when diplo- |
matists could meet to redraw the map |
Of empires on the corner of a table !
If you are to remake the map of the !
world it is in the name of the peo-
Piles. and one condition is that you |
shall faithfully interpret their
thoughts and respect the right of ma
ions, small and great, to dispose of !
themselves and to reconcile with this
he equally sacred right of clinical |
md religious minorities-a formid- |
ible task which science and history, |
your two advisers, will contribute to
assist and facilitate,
You will naturally strive to Sc
,ure the material and moral means |
If subsistence for all those people |
who are constituted or reconstructed |
nto states for those who wish to |
mite to their neighbors, for those
who reorganize themselves, for those |
Who divide themselves according to /
heir reganed traditions and lastly |
or all those whose freedom you have
llready sanctioned or are about to /
You will not call them into
existence to sentence them to death /
because YOU would like I
our work to be fruitful and lasting. /
while introducing into the world +
is much harmony as possible YOU will
n conformity with the fourteenth of
he propositions unanimously adopt (
d blythe great allied powers, estab.
iShes a general league of nations
which will he the supreme guarantee
against any fresh assault upon the
iaht Of peoples. You do not intend /
his International association to he
directed against anybody in the flu
IRE. IT will not of set purpose
hut out anybody but having been or
ganized by the nations that have sac
'ificed themselves in the defense of
light, il will receive from the its sta
utes and fundamental rules.
at, will lay down conditions CON
'erning present or future adherence,
md as it is to have for its essential
i'm the prevention as far as possible
# wars, it will above all. seek to gain
aspect for the peace which you will
lave established and will find it the
ess difficult to maintain its proper
ion as this peace will in itself imply
he greater realities of Justice and
afer guarantees of stability.
"I'v establishing this new order OF
hings Won will meet the aspirations
+ humanity. which. after the fright
III commissions of the bloodstained
ears. ardently wishes TO feel itself
rotected by union of free neonle