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Show 'WILSON vs WILSON i -i ATTITUDE OF THE PRESIDENT TOWARD THE! EUROPEAN WAR AND THE PEACE SETTLEMENT i The (.'notations I. ire given aie tken f January S, inn 'Do you not think It Ir, llliol) that tho world will 'muuo day turn to America altd say ou weto rlgjit and wo weto wrong. ou kepi your heads hnd wo lost ours " January 30, 1'MO. "It has boon wiy dlillcult for us to hold ofr nml li ok witli colli Judgment upon such 1 1 cmeiKlmis matieiH. And yet we ho hold off." I Kebiuary J, 1'im. "America la called on to sit in u coil of moutl lodgment on the processes of the war." . rt t May 17,. 1910. "Thorn aro two leiixoiiH why tho ehler wish of Aincr-Ica Aincr-Ica is for peace. One Ih that they love peace ami have nothing to do with the present iiuairel " May 17, 1316 "Since, the rest or worTd Is mad, why should we not to-fuse to-fuse to havo anj thing to do with tho rest ot tho world In the ordinaty channels of actlou?" v December '8.' 1(114 "More than' ' i . - i this, proposed at this time, permit hie to '.say', would mean merely that we' had lost 'our self-pooscsBlon, that wrshad been thrown ofr our balance a" war with which wo have noth- Infl to db,"'vfhose' causes cannot touch t .... us." i '' . , s . . . ' May 27; '"1!UG "With Its '('the war's cause hnd Objects we have no concern. The obscure fountains fiom which Its stupendous flood burst forth -tflo'nro not tnteiested to search for or explore." September 2, 111 in "We have been neutral not only because It was the fixed and .traditional policy of the United States to stnnd aloof ft on: the policies of Kuropo, but because wo had no part either of action or of policy In tho Influences , whlcti In ought on tho piesent war." i I ... i N October C, 10 1C. "Tho slngular- 'Ity of the present war Is that its 'oilgln and objects have never been disclosed. They hae obscuie Kuiop- ean roots which we do not know how to trace It will take tho long Inquliy of hlstoiy to explain the war." t, "'.,, t , . t rom tho colinns of New Yoik TIiikoI Aptil 1, 1017 "it is a war against all nations . . , Tho challenge I" to nil mankind." i N l April 2, lot 7 "Our object l to vindicate tho principles of pouco and Justlco tu tho lift) of tho world as against selfish and autocratic power" i Apill S, 1917 "We aro glad, now that wo too tho facts with no Nell of raise picteuso about thorn, to fight thus tor tho ultimate freedom of the wot Id." May 12, 1917 "We go in becniiBO wo bellevo that the veiy piinclples upon which tho American republic was founded are now 'at stake and must bo vindicated." May 12. 1917 "I say the heart of tho country is In this war, becauso It would not have gone Into It if Its heart had unl been ptepared." April 2, 1917 "The world must .., . - -i i bo made, safe for demociacy. Its peace i ' . i must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty." I 1 ' .' !' " . ' . ,41 - O ' . ' ' .... I June 14, '1917 "It Is plain 'enough 'en-ough how we were roiced Into tho war. Tho extraordinary Insults and aggression ot the Impurlal' German govrnment loft' us no self lespectlng choice but to take up arms In defense or our tights as a tree people." August 28, 1017 "The objects ot the war Is to deliver tho tree people or the world rroin tho menace nud actual ac-tual power or a vast uillltaiy establishment, estab-lishment, conti oiled by an Irresponsible Irrespon-sible government whlrh. having sec-tetly sec-tetly planned to dominate the woild, ptoreeded to cany the plan out without with-out regaid either to the sacred olill gallons of ttcaty or the long established estab-lished piinclples ot International action ac-tion and honoi." November IH, 1017 "It Is veiy desirable that we should remind our-fcclvo.s our-fcclvo.s Just how this war ciimo about and what It Is Tor." "The war was stinted by (,erinnny 1 urn willing to let the statement I havo Just made await tho venllct of history All the while there was lying behind Its (Germany's) thought, In its dreams of the futitie a political contiol which would enable en-able It in the long run to dominate the labor and Industry of the world. They were not content with huccch gy superior achievement; they wanted want-ed success by authotlty." |