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Show WILSON SAYS FOE I MUST PAY PRICE; NO COMPROMISE Tells Aims of U. S. in Liberty Loan Address at New York. "HUNS WITHOUT HONOR," "DO NOT INTEND JUSTICE" Executive Declares League of Nations Must Be Formed at Peace Table Which Will Make Certain That Agreements of Peace Will Be Fulfilled Ful-filled Asserts We Cannot Come to Terms for the Enemy Has Made It Impossible. New York, Sept. 30. The price of j,eaee will be impartial justice to nil nations, the Instrumentality indispensable indis-pensable to secure it is n league of nations formed, not before or after, hut at the peace conference, and Germany, Ger-many, as a member, "will have to redeem re-deem her character not by what happens hap-pens at the peace table but by what follows." This was President Wilson's answer, given Friday night before an audience of fourth Liberty loan workers here, to the recent peace talk from the central cen-tral powers. The President's Address. The president spoke in part as follows fol-lows : "My Fellow Citizens : I am not here to promote the loan. That' will be done ably and enthusiastically done by the hundreds of thousands of loyal and tireless men and women who have undertaken to present it to vou and to our fellow citizens throughout through-out the country, and I have not the least doubt of their complete success, for I know their spirit and the spirit of the country. ,rNo man or woman who has really taken In what this war means can hesitate hes-itate to give to the very limit of what they have. "And it is my mission here to try 'o make clear once more what the war really means. You will need no other stimulation. "We accepted the issues of the war as facts, not as any group of men either here or elsewhere had defined them, and we can accept no outcome which does not squarely meet and settle set-tle them. The War's Issues. "Those issues are these : "Shall the military power of any nation na-tion or group of nations be suffered to determine the fortunes of peoples over whom they have no right to rule except the right of force? "Shall strong nations be free to wrong weak nations and make them subject to their purpose and interest? "Shall people be ruled and dominated, dominat-ed, even in their own internal affairs, af-fairs, by arbitrary and irresponsible force, or by their own will and choice? "Shall there be a common standard stand-ard of right and privilege for all peoples peo-ples and nations or shall the strong tio as they will and the weak suffer without redress? "Shall the assertion of right be haphazard hap-hazard and by casual alliance or shall rhere be a common concert to oblige the observance of common rights? "No man, no group of men, chose these to be the Issues of the struggle. strug-gle. They are the issues of it, and liwy must be settled by no arrange-men arrange-men or compromise or adjustment of Interests, but definitely and once for nil and with a full and unequivocal acceptance of the principle that the Interest of the weakest is as sacred as the interest of the strongest. "This is what we mean when we speak of a permanent peace, if we speak sincerely, Intelligently, and with a real knowledge and comprehension comprehen-sion of the matter we deal with. "We are all agreed that there can be no peace obtained by any kind of bargain bar-gain or compromise with the governments govern-ments of the central empires, because we have dealt with them already and have seen them deal with other governments govern-ments that were pnrty to this struggle, at Brest-LItovsk and Bucharest. "They have convinced us that they are without honor nnd do not Intend Justice. They observe no covenants, accept no principle but force and their own interests. "We. cannot 'come to terms' with them. They have made it impossible. "The German people must by this time be fully aware that we cannot accept ac-cept the word of those who forced this war upon us. We do not think the same thoughts or speak the same language lan-guage of agreement. "It is of capital importance that we should be explicitly agreed that no peace shall be obtained by any kind of compromise or abatement of the principles prin-ciples we have avowed as the principles princi-ples for which we are fighting. There should exist no doubt about that. I nm, therefore, going to take the liber- I l of speaUi,,K with 1 1 u- uiinosi frank- ",''ss "h"1" ' practical triplications t.Mit are involved In ii. Foe Must Pay Price. "If It be In deed anil in iruth the "Meet of the governments associated as-sociated against Germany and of the nations whom they govern, as I believe it to be. to achieve by the coining settlements set-tlements a secure and lasting peace it will be necessary that all who sit down "t the peace table shall come ready and willing to pay the price, the only price that will procure it; and ready and willing also to create in some virile fashion the only instrumentality by which it can be made certain that the agreements of the peace will be honored and fulfilled. "That price is impartial justice in every item of settlement, no matter whose interest is crossed; not only impartial im-partial justice, but also the satisfaction satisfac-tion of the several peoples whose tor-tunes tor-tunes are dealt with. That indispensable indispen-sable instrumentality is a league of nations formed under covenants that will be efficacious. "Without such instrumentality, by which the peace of the world can be guaranteed, peace will rest in part upon the word of outlaws and only upon that word. For Germany will have to redeem her character, not only by what happens at the peace table but what follows. "And, as I see It, the constitution of that league of nations and the clear definition of its objects must be a part, is in a sense the most essential part, of the peace settlement itself. It cannot can-not be formed now. If formed now, it would be merely a new alliance con fined to the nations associated against a common enemy. It is not likely that it could be formed after that settlement. settle-ment. "It is necessary to guarantee the peace, and the peace cannot be guaranteed guar-anteed as an afterthought. The reason, rea-son, to speak in plain terms again, why it must be guaranteed, is that there will be parties to the peace whose promises have proved untrustworthy, untrust-worthy, and means must be found in connection with the peace settlement itself to remove that source of insecurity. inse-curity. "It would be folly to leave the guarantee guar-antee to the subsequent voluutary action ac-tion of the government we have seen destroy Russia and deceive Roumania. Particulars of Terms. "These, then, are some of the particulars, par-ticulars, and I state them with the greater confidence because I can state them authoritatively as representing this government's interpretation of its own duty with regard to peace: - "FIRST The impartial justice meted out must involve no discrimination discrimina-tion between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just. It must be a justice that plays no favorites and knows no standard but the equal rights of the several peoples. "SECOND No special or separate Interest of any single nation or any group of nations can be made the basis of any part of the settlement which is not consistent with the common com-mon interest of all. "THIRD There can be no leagues or alliances or special covenants and understandings within the general and common family of the league of nations. na-tions. "FOURTH And" more specifically, there can be no special, selfish, economic econo-mic combinations within the league and no employment of any force of economic boycott for exclusion except as the power of economic penalty by exclusion from the markets of the world mav be vested in the league of nations itself as a means of discipline and control. "FIFTH All international agreements agree-ments and treaties of every kind must be made known in their entirety to the rest of the world. "Special alliances and economic rivalries and hostilities have been the prolific sources in the modern world of the plans and passions that produce war. It would be an insincere insin-cere as well as insecure pence that did not exclude them in definite and binding terms. "Plain workaday people have demanded demand-ed almost every time they came together, to-gether, and are still demanding, that the leaders of their governments declare de-clare to them plainly what it is exactly ex-actly what it is that they were seeking seek-ing in this war and what they think the items of the final settlement should be. "They are not yet satisfied with what they have been told. They still seem to fear that they are getting what they ask for only in statesmen's terms only in the terms of territorial arrangements ar-rangements and the divisions of power pow-er and not in terms of broad vision, justice and mercy and peace and the satisfaction of those deep-seated longings long-ings of oppressed anil distracted men mid women and enslaved peoples that seem to them the only things worth fighting a war for that engulfs the world. Believes Allies' Aims Same. "Germany is constantly intimating the 'terms' she will accept; and always al-ways finds that the world does not want terms. It wishes the final triumph tri-umph of justice and fair dealing." |
