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President Point Service Lays Peace Plan Before Se States Can Not in Honor R Tasi Washington, Jan. 22.?Whether tlie w United States shall enter a world! a peace league, and, as many contend, j < thereby abandon its traultional policy j i _ j __ _ x i I oa. isolation ;tuu 110 entangling ai-; ^ liances, was laid squarely before con- j gress and the country today by Pres- j w ident Wilson in a personal address { bl to the senate. j r( For the first time in more than * j iE hundred years a president of the j United States appeared in the senate j ni chamber to discuss the nation's for eign relations after the manner of' m 'Washington, Adams and Madison. The j m effect was to leave congress, all offl- j cial quarters and the foreign diplo-1 i(j mats amazed and bewildered. Im- j j,( mediately there arose a sharp division! ^ vi vyiuivu U'vi ti-Lc pi upi ao | as the substance of the president's ; proposal. 163 j "Startling," "staggering," "astound- i j ing," "the noblest utterance that has j j ' fallen from human lips since the Dec-! cc laration of Independence,'* were fir among the expressions of senators. ^ The president himself, after his ad- ! dress said: 10: 01 Se<?ms Possible Now. 1 fU I "1 have said what everybody has been longing for, but has thought im possible. No wit appears to be pos sible." ^ t itl possible. Sow it appears to be pos address were: That a lasting peace in Europe can not be a peace of victory for either, w a Wl er hf m w side. That peace must be forwarded by a definite concert of power to assnr? the world that no catastrophe of war shall overwhelm it again. , That in such a concert of power the United States can not withhold its participation to guarantee peace and justice through the world. And before a peace is ma<le the ^United States government shouM frankly formulate the conditions upon which it would feel justified in ask ing the American people for their formal and solemn adherence. "It is clear to every man who 1 h thinks," tlie president toid the sen- d ate, "that there is in this promise no breach in either our traditions or our policy as a nation, but a fulfillmen: i rather, of all that we have professed c or striven for. j t "I am proposing, as it were, that \ the nations should with one accord, c adopt the doctrine of President Mon- a roe as the doctrine of the world; that v no nation should seek to extend its i policy over any other nation or pec- 1: pie, but that every people should be 1 left free, to determine its own nolicv. ^ its own way of development, unhind- ? ered* unthreatened. unafraid, the lit- 1 tie along with the great and the pow- t erful. - o To Avoid Sew Dangers. & "I am proposing that all nations henceforth avoid entangling alliances which would draw them into compe- j titions of power, catch them in a net ?. of intrigue and selfish rivalry and ? disturb their own affairs with influ- i ence intruded from without. There ~ r?n Qntcnorlinor ollion^o in o /%rvri_ uw v^uiuu^iixi^ amaiivg ixx CA tun cert of power. When all united to act in the same sense and with the same purpose, al act in the common in terest and are free to live their own lives under a common protection. "I am proposing government the consent of the governed, that freedom of the seas which in international conference after conference repre sentatives of the United States have urged with the eloquence with those who are the convinced disciple 'of liberty and that moderation of arma ments which makes of armies and navies a power of order merely, not an instrument of aggression or of selfish violence. "These are American principles. American policies. We could stand > k for no others. And they are also the principles and policies of forward looking men and women everywhere of every modern nation, of every en- j tl lightened community. They are the: t? principles of mankind and must pre- ?( vail.*' ^ While the president was speaking copies of his address had been for-! e< warded to American diplomats in all's* the belligerent countries for the in- j formation of the foreign officers, and ' pi were being prepared for repre-! n< sentatives of neutral governments a here. Back of the fundamental pro- j s( posal for some sort of international! fc sanction for ^reservation of thp fu-: ai ture peace of the world, now already j je accepted in principle by both sets of; cc belligerents in their replies to Presi- > w opnt Wilson's peace note, lies the tc possibility, which the president to- j a day openly expressed, that thereby j m may be laid the ground work upon j of AN AGED COUPLE I Tell How They Regained. 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In is speech accepting his second nomi ition and in otner puonc addresses 3 bad touched upon the same senti ent which found its full develop-, ent in his address today. "The American people," the pres ent told the senate, "can not in )nor withhold the service to which ev are about to be challenged." | "They owe it to themselves," he ,id, "and to the other nations of th? orld to state the conditions under hich they will feel free to render it. i am here to attempt to state those' editions. The present war must; st be ended, but we owe it to can- i r and to just regard for the cpin n of mankind, to say that sof ra as ir participation in guarantees ot ture peace is concerned, it makes, great deal of difference in what: ay and upon what terms it is i ided." While the United States would ive no voice in what those terms tight be, the president said, it ould have a voice in determining hether thfey should be made lasting f guarantees 01 universal covenant. "No covenant of cooperative pace," said he. "that does not in lude the peoples of the new won't in suffice to keep the future safe gainst war, and yet there is only ne sort of peace that the people f America could jo^n in guarantee ig. The elements of that peacy lust be the elements that engage the onfidence and satisfy the principles f the American governments, eh lents consistent with their political aith and with the practical convie ions which the peoples of America lave once for all embraced and im iertaken to defend." The New World Influence. From this utterance all the pres dent's lu-arers drew their commor :onc!usion that he was holding oui o the old world a warning that if )i rould command the potent influence >f the new for the future peace 01 ill, the settl. ment of the war must In olve concession and sacrifice, equal ty of rights, freedom of the seas anc iis own words "inviolable security o; ife, of worship and infustrial anc toc-ial d-velopment. * * * to all peo >les who have lived hitherto undei ;he power of governments devotee o a faith and purpose hostile to then >wn.'' He specifically mentioned that the tatesmen of all the belligerents havt greed that there should be a "unit ed, independent and autiionomouj 3oland," but his words were con trued to apply to Alsace-Lorraine Belgium, the Itaiian portions oJ Austria and the mixed nationaliti.-g f the Balkans as well. Some of the senators who disagreed nth tlie president openly referred tc his portion of his address as "an at empt to parcel our Europe" and an mert'erence in the affairs of the East rn hemisphere. Nevertheless the president went ex austively in that phase of the pro posal, saying "the world can be at eace only if life is stable and there an be no stability wher* the will is i rebellion, where there is not tran iiilitv of suirit and a sense of iustice. f freedom and of right.' Dealing with, the question of arma )ents, .which he declared to be "the lost immediate and intensity prae :cal question connected with the fu ire fortunes of nations and of man ind," the president declared there ould be no assurance to safety if reat armaments were to be built up nd maintained and that difficult as le question might be "it must be iced with the greatest candor'* ana decided in a snirit of real accommo ation." Previously the president had touch 3 upon a collateral poifit when he lid: "Mere agreements may not make eace secure. It will be absolutely ecessary that a force* be created as guarantor of the permanency of the ittlement, so much greater than the >rce of any nation now engaged or 11 y alliance hitherto formed or pro cted, that no nations, 110 probabl! )mbination of nations, could face or 'thstand it. If the peace presently > be made is to endure it must be peace made secure by the organized ajor force of mankind." This declaration called to the minds : the president's hearers the state ent of Arthur Balfour. British for gn minister, in his recent note which tid an international sanction for ?ace should be backed by a force hich "would give pause to the hard it aggressor." The president, in his address, said: On Behalf of Humanity. "Gentlemen of the Senate: On the th of December, last. T addressed 1 identic not to the governments the nations at war requesting them state, more definitely than they i id been stated by either .sroup of1 lliserents, the terms upon which j ey would deem it possible to make I ace. T spoke on behalf of human- , : and of the rights of all neutral I tions like our own, many of whose J :>st vital interests the war puts in j constant jeopardy. The central po^ ers united :n a reply which stat, merely that they were ready to me their antagonists in conference to di cuss th- terms or' peace. The enten powers have replied much more de; nitely and have stated, in gener terms, indeed, hut with sutticie; definit.ness to imply details, the a rangements, guarantees and acts < reparation which they deem to 1 the indispensable conditions of satisfactory settl ment. <.Ye are thi much nearer a definite discussion ( peace whicu shall end the presei war. We <;** . tliat much nearer tt discussion of the international coi cert which must thereafter hold il world at peace. In every discussio RUB OUT PAIN I j with good oil liniment That's .1 - ? || the surest way to stop them. ^ The best rubbing liniment is( MUSTANG LINIMENT Good for the A ilmenls of ' Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Good for your oion A ches. Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, * Cuts, Burns, Etc* # 25c. 50c. $?. At all Dealers. I can spell m E-I-G-N. Ai means?goo< stock?the fii My! isn't tl Have to kee{ open. And tl can't get it a My folks ke member yoi Yc Yc Now let's all you bet I, SC this always in I am If y< your uie vi nw w #6 FO Ji v- ( of the peace that must end this war d ' it is taxen for granted that the peace ,! must be followed by- some definite * | concert of power which will make it i virtually impossible that any such a catastrophe should overwhelm us again. Every lover of mankind, every sane and thoughtful man, must take flint far {rranforl L i "I have sought this opportunity to , address you because I thought I owed ! aiit to you, as the counsel associate) al; with me in the final determination! 3t- of our international obligations, to' t disclose to you without reserve the thought and purpose that have b en j i taking form in my mind in regard to the duty of our government in ~n those days to come when it will be i necessary to lay afresh and upon a ! new plan the foundations of peace i among the nations. s ! ? J Must Play its Part. i "It is unconceivable that the peo- ' Die of the United States should nlav ' no part, in that great enterprise. To : take part in such a service will be the j opportunity for which thev havo i sought to prepare themselves by the i very principles and purposes of their ; polity and the approved practices or J . their governments ever since the days ; when they set up a new nation in j I the high and honorable hope that it ! might in all that it was and did shosv i mankind the way to liberty. They can not in "honor withhold the ser- j vice to which they are now about to j b challenged. They do not wish to i withhold it. But they owe it to them selves and to the other nations of the world to state the conditions un der which they feel fren to render It. 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