Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1918 — JUST PEACE OR WAR [ARTICLE]

JUST PEACE OR WAR

Washington, D. C., Feb. 11. President Wilson, in his adddress today, placed these alternatives before the Germanic allies: Peace. “The principles to be applied are these: “1. That each part of the final settlement must be based upon the essential justice of that particular cause and upon such adjustments as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent. “2. That people and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovreignty to sovreignty as if they were mere chattels and pawns in a game, even the great game, now forever discredited, of the balance of power; but that,

“3. Every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned and not as a part of any adjustment or compromise of claims among rival states; and, “4. That all well defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that’Avould be likely in time to break the peace of Europe. and of the world.” p, War. “Until such a peace can be secured we have no choice but to go on. “I would not be a true spokesman of the people of the United States if I did not say once more that we entered this war upon no small occasion and that we never can turn back from a course chosen upon principle. Our resources are in part mobilized now and we shall not pause until they are mobilized in their entirety. Our armies are rapidly going to the fighting front and will go more and more rapidly. whole strength will be put into this war of emancipationemancipation from lie threat and attempted mastery of selfish groups of autocratic rulers—whatever the difficulties and present partial delays. “Without thatnew order the world will be without peace and human life will lack tolerable conditions of existence and development. Having set‘our hand to the task of achieving it we shall not turn back.