The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-06
lIdfFl6 IOT IL WUuIU Ut LIUefIty' THE NATION MUST BAND
 TOGETHER FOR RIGHT

IOGElHEk FOR RlUnI
 In an address at the first annual as
 semblage of The League to Enforce
 Peace on May 2. 19l6 President Wilson
 made some remarks which describe well.
 not only his own convictions, but the
 convictions which he then believed were
 already held by the people of the United
 States:
 '"The nations of the world must i'll
 some way band themselves together 10
 see that right prevails as against any
 sort of selfish aggressIon; that hence forth alliance must not be set up against alliance, understanding against under standing, but that there must be com
 mon agreement for common object, ana
 that at the heart of that common oo- feet must lie the inviolable rights of
 peoples and of mankind.
 We believe these funuamental things:
 First, that every people has a right to choose the sovereignty vnder which IL
 shall live. Second, that the small states of the world have right to enjoy
 the same respect for their sovereignty and for their territorial integrity thar great and powerful nations expect anu insist upon. And. third, that the Wo.la has a right to be free from every dls- turbance of it's peace that has it's orig-h in aggression and disregard or the righ'S of peoples and nations.
 ',So sincerely do we believe in these things that I am sure that l speak the mind and wish of the people of Amer ica when I say that the United States is willing to become a partner Tn any feasible association of nations formed in order to realize these objects ana make them secure against Violation' President Wilson still believes that the United States is willing to become d :, partner many feasible association of na- fa~ fn relljZA these ODJeclS and further maintains that the league ' and covenant formed at Versailles is 1 the only feasible association, The su- preme issue at the coming election IS ] the decision of the majority of voters on that matter
 l LIBERTY "COMES HIGH" In an address at Philadelphia to the Associated Advertising Clubs, June 2s, 1916, President Wilson said:
 | .J believe that America, the country that we put first in our thoughts. should be ready in every point of policy and of action to vim 1 dicate at whaever cost the principles l of liberty, of justice. and of humanity | to which we have been devoted from 1 the first. (Cheers.)
 l You cheer the sentiment. but do you realize what it means? It means | that you have not only got to be just i to your fellow men, but that as na- | ton YOU have got to be just to other l nations. It comes high- IL IS ho1 an easy thing to do.' 1 The American people now realize l that it "comes high to fight for liber- | ty. justice and peace throughout the world: but do they not still propose to vindicate the principles of liberty, jus 1 tice. and humanity in international re- llations lat whatever cost? The republican senators who have de- feated the ratification of the covenant ana treaty do not believe that. The republican platform and the acceptance speech of the republican candidate for the presidency declare opposite hopes and expectations. They declare that the cost of discharging our obligations under the proposed covenant and league is much too high; and that the American people had better keep their breath to cool their own porridge. AMERICAS WAR OBJECTS In an address delivered at joint session of the two houses of Congress April ?. 1917, President Wilson stated with the utmost compactness the ob- iects of the government and people of fhe United states in going to war with Germany:
 Our object is to vindicate the prin- ciples. of peace and justice in the life of the world against Selfish and an- tocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governod peo- ples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will hence forth insure the observance of those principles.
 "A steadfast concert for peace can never he maintained except by a part nership of democratic nations. No au- tocratic government could be truste; 1 to keep faith within it or observe it's covenants. It must be league oi honor. a partnership, of opinion. .'The world must be made safe Tor democracy. It's peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
 We fight for the things which We
 have always carried nerest our hearts
 flor democracy, for the right of those