Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-02
BEARER Of MESSAGE
FROM king GEORGE
Lord High Chancellor of Eng
land Addresses American
Bar at Montreal.
URGES UNITY OF EFFORT
IN MAINTAINING PEACE
Would Settle Differences Between
Britain and United States on
Lines Adopted by Citizens.

| AAACs AuOPICu Wy OltlACuS.
MONTREAL. Quebec. September .
Niscount Haldane. lord high chancellor of
Great Britain, who addressed the Amer
lean Bar Association yesterday, left to-
day for New York. there to board the
Lusitania and sail for Liverpool tomor-
row. With the party went Chief Justice
White of the United States Supreme
Court. This afternoon many of the
Americans attended the laying OF the
corner stone Of monument to Sir George
Etienne Cartier. Canadian statesman.
Ex-President Taft was one of the speak
ers.
Today was the busiest day of the asso-
citation. Reports were received from TWEEN
ty-three committees and most Of the day
was devoted to discussing them. The
evening was set aside to hearing an ad-
dress by ex-President Taft on THE Sc
lection of Tenure Of Judges
Viscount Haldane's Address.
viscount Haldane delivered the an
nual address at the meeting In this city
last night of the American Bar Associa-
ton. His subject was Higher Nation
| atty, Study in Law and Ethics" and
he held the attention of his hearers until
the end of his speech. which was only a
little under 10000 words long.
The lord chancellor began by empha-
| sizing the fact that the United States
Canada and Great Britain together form
unique group because of the common
Inheritance of traditions, surroundings
and ideals. and particularly in the region
yers are called on in days that lie in
front to mold opinion and encourage the
nations of this group to develop and
recognize reliable character in the obli-
He considered that there are relations
possible within such a group that are not
possible for nations more isolated and
lacking identity of history and spirit.
Canada, Great Britain and the United
States. with common language. common
! interests and common ends, resemble a
single society. which might develop a
foundation for international faith of kind
new in the history of the world. The Eng
lish visitor urged lawyers to assist in the
freshening Of the conventional atmos-
phere which surrounds men in public
life by emitting no opportunity to think
rfghtfully, and to contribute to the fash
ioning OF more hopeful and resolute
kind of public opinion. 1t ives the chance
of laying before the audience at the
American Bar Association at Montreal
this thought that induced him to obtain
permission from King George v to visit
this meeting.
Message From King George.
Continuing, Lord Haldane presented the
following message from King George V:
Il have given my lord chancellor per-
mission to cross the seas, so that he may
address the meeting at Montreal. / have
asked him to convey from me to that
great meeting of lawyers OF the United
States and of Canada my best wishes
q in
that .-e deliberations of the distinguished
men of boz. countries who are to assem-
BILE a. Montreal may add yet further to
the esteem and good will which the peo-
pie of the United States and of Canada
and the United J'ingdom have for each
other"
he speaker thehn pointed to the power
| of lawyers in creating and developing
law. as we'll as changing it, a power
more exercised out of the legislature
than within it. He spoke of the influence
| of lawyers in the new world in public
affairs, which he said. was very strik-
| ing to the observer. He quoted from
President Wilson, as follows: 1.-The coun-
| try must find lawyers of the right sort
and the old spirit to advise it. or 1t must
stumble through very chaos of blind
! experiment. 1t never needed lawyers
who are also statesmen more than 1t
needs them now: needs them in its courts.
In its LEGISLATURES, in its seats Of execu-
| tive authority: lawyers who can think
in the terms of society ITSELF"
Obligations of the Citizen.
Lord Haldane then dwelt at some
length upon the difference between
formulated law. whether civil GRIM
| inal; the moral rules enjoined by
| private conscience and the spirit of
the community for which the English
have no name. but which the Ger
mans call "Sittlichkeit," and which he
customary conduct. ethical rather than
legal. which embraces all those Obliga-
tions of the citizen which it is bad
FORM or mot the thing to disregard.
the social penalty for which is being
"cut" or looked on askance. He pointed
out that without such restraint there
could be no tolerable social life. and
said that 1T was this instructive sense
daily life and behavior that was the
source of liberty and ease. and that
this instructive sense Of obligation was
the chief foundation OF society. he
described "Sittlichkeit as those prln-
ciples of conduct which regulate people
in their relations to each other, ana
which have become matter of habit
and second nature at the stage OF
culture reached, and of which there.
fore we are not explicitly conscious.
After calling attention to the moral
organism of the community which IS
actuated by the general ethical Will ne
DISTINGUISHED this general will from the
will of a mob. which he characterlZeu
as a mere aggregate of voices. ne
pointed out that in time Of crises MS
tory abounds with illustrations OF the
general will rising to heights OF Wnlch
few Individual citizens have ever De-
fore been conscious.
For Ethical Habit Among Nations
Enlarging on this idea, Lord Haldane
advocated the development of a full IN
ternational "Sittlichkeit" or ethical naoit
among nations, as well as within nations.
He recognized that its development was
more hopeful in the case OF nations WIN
some special relation than within In s
aggregate Of nations. In this connsc. n,,a
he said that recent events In Europe anu
the way in which the great powers haI
worked together to preserve the pea "
Europe as IL forming one comtuni ~,
pointed to the ethical possibilities Oh IN.
group system as deserving OF close stuus
BY both statesmen and students. DTawlns
pointed to the century of peace Wnicn
has existed between the United States ana
, the people Of Canada and Great BRIAN