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Show fi;tll iiavc f-ut-r v.arH ifv-- ijfVf.ti; o;ir-sc o;ir-sc (H ;, rjt'ht! y nn 'I in l'- 'i 1 f:i ; h to t.!n; chI nMi-f!,!!:!-!:!; of :i re-of ir'ur-ri.'if ir'ur-ri.'if ional just ico. WILSON'S PEACE PLAN. hi his I'mirth of July address, the president develops his views regarding the governance of the world alter the war. Over against each other he places , tun sets of ideals the autocratic and democratic, lie believes that the time lias come when the warfare between them must lie fought, to a finish without with-out compromise, for, in his opinion, to stop half way now would simply bo to postpone the final struggle. Tho president pictures, on the one hand, a world ruled by selfish interests, and, oil the other, by the people ttaem-; ttaem-; elves. "What we seek," lie says, "is a roign of law, based upon the consent of the governed, and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind." lie demands that which would amount practically to a United States of nations. na-tions. A supreme court shall ndjudi-cale ndjudi-cale till disputes that cannot bo settled by the nations themselves, and all the nations shall guarantee that each nation na-tion shall receive justice. Without citing specific cases, he draws a clear contrast between nations acting in concert for universal peace am! justice and nations acting alone or in cliques to obtain special , advantages. He sees that if a reign of law is to be established the old order of statesmanship statesman-ship and diplomacy must go. There must be an end to tho "invisible government" gov-ernment" by which statesmen plot for tho supremacy of any nation or set of nations, and the consequent subjection of other nations. lie is alluding undoubtedly un-doubtedly to the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty, which divided Russia into states dependent upon Germany, and to the treaty by which Kumania is made practically prac-tically a vassal state. He holds out the promise that when the free nations win, Unssia, Kumania and all other nations will be ruled by the consent of the governed, gov-erned, and that when tho peoples of the various nations cannot agree, a supreme su-preme tribunal shall provide a settlement. settle-ment. The supreme tribuual shall be established estab-lished by the consent of the nations. Thus would the American principle be extended to the world. It is not to be a regime of despotism, for every people will have an opportunity to adjust its disputes with every other people, and when, as a last resort, the dispute is submitted to the supreme tribunal, it is to be settled, not according to the selfish self-ish desires of princes, but according to rules of law established and sanctioned sanc-tioned by the organized opinion of mankind. man-kind. When the president demands the destruction de-struction of every arbitrary power which can secretly and selfishly disturb tho peace of the world, he is not demanding de-manding the destruction of any people. Arbitrary power is not exercised by the people, except in so far as they uphold the arbitrary power exercised by their sovereigns. The president, therefore, is demanding no more than the freedom of the German people from arbitrary-power arbitrary-power aud the establishment of a league which shall include them if they are willing to come in on equal terms with the other nations. In Germany the president's idealism, if it is set forth in the public prints, will be derided, first, as hypocritical, and, even if sincere, as impossible of attainment. The American people, whoj have seen their ideals spreading throughout the world, will be more optimistic. op-timistic. They will realize that the only way to establish a reign of social justice throughout the world is to try to establish it. Manifestly it cannot be established by sitting back and saying say-ing that the evils which have existed for so many ages must continue to exist. ex-ist. In the olden times the people accepted accept-ed the plagues as unavoidable visitations. visita-tions. As long as "they took this view the plagues caused death and universal woe. But the time came when men tried to get rid of pestilences. They set their .brains and energies at work and, year by year, century by century, they gained tho upper hand. We may not be able to rid ourselves altogether of v.ar, but we probably |