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Edward Cummings, general secre
tary of World Peace Foundation, is
sues today a statement respecting
President Wilson’s note of Dec. 18
to the belligerent powers, in which he
asserts that the significance of the
president’s move lies in the official of
fer by the United States to take a
part in the League to Enforce Peace
after the war. The statement reads:
"There is good reason to believe
that the historical significance of
President Wilson’s note to the bellig
erent powers on December 18 will be
found not so much in the questions it
asks, as in the questions it direct!'.'
and indirectly answers. Critics in this
country and in Europe may be right:
the questions asked may be inoppor
tune; the secretary of state’s ‘verge
of war’ commentary on them may be
worse than inopportune. But momen
tary chagrin and irritation over sucn
details must not blind the people of
the United States and of Europe to
the momentous fact that this note
marks the completion of a rapid and
almost revolutionary change in the
policy of the United States toward
European nations.
“When the great war began, in
1914, the traditional policy of the Uni
ted States was summed up in Wash
ington’s much-abused maxim about
avoiding ‘entangling alliances.’ In
this note, the United States stands
before the world as the champion of
a league of nations ‘ready and even
eager to co-operate in the accomplish
ment of these ends, when the war is
over, with every influence and re
source at their command.’
Instead of avoiding ‘entangling al
liance’ and following the traditional
policy of isolation, we are now taking
a leading part in promoting ‘the form
ation of a league of nations to insure
peace and justice throughout the
world.’ Here is a complete answer to
the great question which has been so
frequently and earnestly asked of late,
at home and abroad, as to the future
policy of the United States in interna
tional affairs. This revolution in pub
lic opinion and national policy seems
likely to be our greatest legacy from j
the world war and our greatest con- {
tributiou to world welfare.
“It is worth noting how rapidly the
change has come about. The agita
tion in favor of a league of nations,
with adequate powers to guarantee
the peace of the world by penalizing,
wars undertaken without resort to
arbitration and conciliation, was initi
ated, in this country, by a small group
of influential citizens, who eventually
organized as a League to Enforce
Peace, in Independence hall, Philadel
phia, June 17, 1915. Fortunately, the
idea rapidly met with favor among
people who found it difficult to agree
on almost any other subject. It en
listed the enthusiastic support of ad
vocates of peace and advocates of pre
paredness. It found favor among lead
ers of public opinion in church and
state, capital and labor.
“The second stage of the movement
came with the semi-official endorse
ment which it received when President
Wilson made his notable address at
the dinner which ended the first an
nual assemblage of the League to
lEnforce Peace, at Washington,' May
27, 1916. Mr. Wilson then frankly
turned his back upon the old order and
the old theories, and stated the case
as it is:
“ ‘We are participants, whether we
would or not, in the life of the world.
The interests of all nations are our
own also. We are partners with the
rest. What affects mankind is inevi
tably our affair as well as the affair
of the nations of Europe and Asia. .
. . I came only to avow a cree
ana give expression to the confident
T fed that the world is even now upoi
he eve of a great consummation
.vhen some common force will b
brought into existence which shall
afeguard right as the first and mos
fundamental interest of all peoples
and all governments, when coercion
shall be summoned not to the service
of political ambition or selfish hostili
ty, but to the service of a common
order, a common justice and a com
mon peace.’
“These were notable and epoch
making utterances by the head of the
most powerful neutral nation in the
world. Almost immediately they
awoke echoes in the belligerent coun
tries. The movement for a League to
Enforce Peace soon became an inter
national movement. So that today
the president can truly say to the bel
ligerent nations:
“ ‘Each wishes itself to be made se
cure in the future, along with all
other nations and peoples, against the
recurrence of wars like this and
against aggression of selfish interfer
ence of any kind. Each would be
jealous of the formation of any more
rival leagues to preserve an uncer
tain balance of power amidst multi
plying suspicions; but each is ready to
consider the formation of a league of
nations to insure peace and justice
throughout the world.’
“The next phase of the movement
came in the form of a challenge from
European statesmen. In England,
France, Germany, and other countries,
statesmen of undoubted authority an
nounced that their governments would
be ready for such a league after the
war. What they wanted to know was
whether the United States would real
ly abandon its traditional policy and
take its place as a world power among
the organizers of such a league. That
is the question which representatives
of belligerent governments have re
cently been asking: Is the govern
ment of the United States in earnest
about this League to Enforce Peace?
Will it play up when the time comes?
“Obviously the European nations
had a right to ask these questions.
They had a right to know whether
this country is in earnest on this all
important question, upon the answer
to which the permanent peace of the
world must depend.
“This is why the note of Dec. 18 is
more significant for the questions it
answers than for the questions it
asks. ‘The president is not propos
ing peace; he is not even offering me
diation,’ but the United States, speak
ing through its secretary of state, is
assuring the warring world that it is
now ready to initiate the next great
forward step in human progress by
taking its full part in ‘the formation
of a league of nations to insure peace
and justice throughout the world.’”
HEAD HUNTERS,
IGOROTS AND MOROS
AS REPRESENTATIVES
MANILA, Jan. 6.—The new Philip
pine congress, convened under the
Philippine bill, which was signed by
President Wilson August 29, met and
for the first time in the history of the
government of the islands a full
blooded Moro took his seat in the up
per house. The Moro senator is Had
ji Butu, for many years prime minis
ter of the sultan of Sulu.
Two other full-blooded Moros took
their seats in the lower house side by
side with two delegates from the wild
tribes— one an Igorot and the other
an Ifugao.
Hadji Butu, who becomes a member
of the senate by appointment of Gov.
Gen. Harrison, is looked upon as one
of the strongest men among the Moros
and in the last few years he has play
ed a leading role in the transforma
tion of the Island of Sulu from a re
gion of murder and, pillage to one of
progress and industry.
Altogether nine provinces hereto
fore regarded as too close to savagery
to have governmental representatives,
have spokesmen in the new congress
Among these nine is the province of
Luzon, the home of the so-called wild
people who until a few years ago werr
chiefly notable for their ability in
head-hunting.
Twenty of the 22 members of th
senate belong to the nationalist par
ty, which was organized on a pis'
orm of immediate independence bv
'iter gave its support to the Philip
line bill un<! -r which the present g ’
i-nment 1 ’ n organized.
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SIGNIFICANCE
OFPESGENOTE
Comments of New York and Boston
newspapers on President Wilson’s
note to the belligerent nations asking
them to state terms of peace are
appended.
New York Tribune.
The Tribune profoundly regrets that
President Wilson should at this time
have been moved to make any gesture
which, however, honestly intended to
promote the cause of peace, will in
evitably tend to complicate and not
to carify the situation. ... If only
Mr. Wilson could have waited until
j there was any sign that Germany
I really sought peace, if only he could
have waited until there was a single
fact to show that Germany renounced
the crime against humanity which was
I and is Belgium! But now American
; influence for real peace, for just peace,
j is abolished. . . . Today and hence
j forth we have become the agents and
purveyors of a German peace.
New York Times.
A good reason for dispatching his
note to the belligerents is stated by
the president when he says that the
interests of this neutral nation have
been most seriously affected by the
war and that we must consider how
best to safeguard our interests if it '
to continue. . . .
Mr. Wilson is on rather unsafe
ground when he says that “the ob
jects which the statesmen of the bel
ligerent powers on both sides have
in mind in this war are virtually
the same.” There may be likeness
in form as publicly expressed; it is
the general belief that the objects
they “have in mind” are about as dis
similar as could well be imagined. . . .
Fortunately, Mr. Wilson says noth
ing about the conditions of
peace.,|
More fortunately still, he disclaims
offering mediation. It is difficult to
see where or how the note can do
harm. It may do good by turning
the thoughts of the belligerents more
intently upon peace as desirable and
possible.
New York Herald.
Despite his disclaimer, the presi
dent’s action in proposing, at this time
that the belligerent nations exchange
views on possible terms of peace is
bound to be construed by the peoples
of those nations and by many Ameri
cans as having direct relation to the
Berlin cry for peace. If the suspicion
is not warranted the responsibility is
Mr. Wilson’s alone, for the coincidence
is striking. It will be surprising if
the mere suspicion raised in nations
that are lighting for their existence
does not militate greatly against the
end to which the president is aiming.
Boston Herald.
President Wilson makes a common
sense move in sending notes to all the
belligerents calling on them to state
the objects for which they are lighting.
. ... While each of the present com
batants thinks that it has an abso
lutely good reason for lighting, neu
tral-minded observers can see on
every hand the evidence of national
bias. ... If the president can have
any influence in bringing the embat
tled nations to a common understand
ing of what this struggle is about, he
should exert it.
Boston Post.
President Wilson's startling and
wholly unlooked for note to the bel
ligerent powers of the world is, in no
matter what language clothed, as sol
emn appeal for peace. It is also a
vigorous and uncompromising setting
forth of the wrong done the neutrals
of civilisation by the continuance of
the titanic struggle. Mr. Wilson says
that he is not "proposing peace."
Nor does he in words. But in spirit
and ultimate desire, yes. How this
appeal will be received by the con
tenders across the sea we can only
faintly conjecture, because the abso
lute newness of it offers no precedent
upon which to argue or prophesy. Its
very audacity, plus sincerity, may win
:or it a triumph of peace that shall
■■hine as the sun in the history of the
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