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Show PRESIDENT ORB 1 PEACE LEAGUE QUESTION PUT UP SQUARELY TO THE COUNTRY IN AN ADDRE8S BEFORE THE SENATE. Saya Lasting Peace in Europe Can Not Come Through Victory and America Must Join Concert of Power. Washington Wluthcr the United 8tates shall enter a world peace league and, as many contend, thereby there-by abandon Its traditional policy of isolation and no entangling alliam N --. were laid squarely before congress and the country on January M by President Wilson in a personal ad-diess ad-diess to the senate. For tin- tlrst time In more than a hundred years, a presldt-ut of the United States ai'peared In the MBntt chamber to discuss the nations for elgn relation alter the manner of Washington. Adams and Madison. The ehtOf points of the president's address were: That a lasting pence in Kurope can not bo a peace of victory for either side. That 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 Slates cannot withhold its participation to guarantee poace and justice tl'-.oi!,',hout the world. That before a peace Is made the United States government should frankly formulate the conditions upon which It would feel Justified In ask lng the American people for their ror mal and solemn adherence. It Is clear to every man who thinks," the president told the sen He, 'that there Is In this promise no breach In either our tradition or our policy as a nation, but a fulfillment rather of all that we have professed ar striven for. "I am proposing, as It were, that the nations Bhould. with one accord, idopt the doctrine of Presldeir Monroe Mon-roe as tho doctrine of the world; that no nation Bhould seek to extend Its policy over any other nation or p o pie, but that every people should be left frm to determine Its own policy, its own way of development, unbind-red; unbind-red; unthrealened, unafraid, the little lit-tle along with the great and power rui. "I am proposing that all nations henceforth avoid entangling alliances which would draw them Into compe titions of power, catch them In a net of Intrigue and selfish rivalry, and disturb their own affairs with lnflu ence intruded from without. There ts no entangling alliance In a concert of powtr. When all unite to act In the same sense and with the same pur pose, all act In the common Inter-st and are free to live their own lives under a common protection. "I am proposing government by 'he consent of the governed; that free dom of the seas, which In Intorna tional conference after conference representatives rep-resentatives of the United State? have urged with the eloquence of (hose who are convinced disciples of liberty, and that modt ration of anna nients which makes of armies and navies a power for order men ly, not nn instrument of aggression or of selfish violence. "These are American principles. American policies. We could stand for no others. And they also are the principles and policies of forward looking men and women everywhere if every modi rn nation, of every en lightened community. They are the principles of mankind ami must pre vail." While the president was speaking opies of his address had been for warded to American diplomats In all 'he belligerent countries for the In formation Of Ihe foreign offices and wire being prepared for representa ives of neutral governments her. |