Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and —Matters of Minor Memtibs from Many Places. PRESIDENT TALKS TO SOLONS Proposes World Union to Insure Permanent Peace. . ' Washington, January 22. —Whether the .United States shall enter a world peace league, and, as many contend, thereby abandon Its traditional policy of Isolation and no entangling alliances, was laid squarely before congress and the country today by President Wilson in a personal address to the senate. The chief points in the President’s address were: That a lasting peace in Europe cannot be a peace of victory for either side.

The peace must be followed by a definite concert of power to assure the world that no catastrophe of war shall overwhelm it again. That in such a concert of power the United States cannot withhold its participation to guarantee peace and justice throughout the world. And that before a peace is made the United States government should frankly formulate the conditions upon which it would feel justified in asking the American people for their formal and solemn adherence. "It is clear to every man who thinks,’’ the President told the senate, "that there is in this promise no breach in either our traditions or our policy as a nation, but a fulfillment rather, of all that we have professed or striven for.”