Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-01


\ of the United States and of Canad
and the United Kingdom have for eac
other"
The speaker then pointed to tn
power of lawyers in creating and de
veloping law. as we'll as changing il
a power more exercised ont of th'
legislature than within it. He spokt
OF the influence Of lawyers in the new
world in public affairs. which, he said
was very striking to the observer, He
quoted from President Wilson, as fol
lows: THE country must find lawyers
of the right sort and the old spirit to
advise it, or it must stumble through
a very chaos of blind experiment. 1t
never needed lawyers who are also
statesmen more than it needs them
now; needs them in it's courts, in its
legislatures, in its seats of executive
authority: lawyers who can think in
the terms of society itself"
| Lord Haldane then dwell al some
length upon the difference between
! formulated law, whether civil or 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 Germans
call "Sttlichkeit," and which he de-
fined as the system of habitual or Gus
tomary conduct, ethical rather than
legal, which embraces all those obi
cations of the citizen which it is bad
form" or mot the thing to disregard,
the social penalty for which is being
cut" or looked at askance, He point
ed out that without such restraint
there could be no tolerabe social
life and said that it was this instinc
tive sense of what to do and what not
to do in daily Life and behavior that
was the source of liberty and ease,
and that this instructive sense of OBJ
society He described "Sittlichket
as those principles of conduct which
re gulate people in their relations to
each other. and which have become !
after of habit and second nature at |
the stage of the culture reached, and |
OF which. therefore, we are not ex-
plicitly conscious" After calling at
t.nticn to the moral organism of the
community which is actuated by the
general ethical will be distinguished
this general will from the will Of a
mob, which he characterized as a mere
aggregate of voices. He pointed out
that in time of crisis history abounds
with illustrations of the general will ;
rising to heights of which few in {
1ividual citizens have ever before :
been conscious.
Enlarging on the idea, Lord Hal {
lane advocated the development of a |
'ull international "Sittlichkeit' or eth !
cal habit among nations, as well as t
within nations He recognized that its
development was more hopeful in the
ation than with in a mere aggregate !
Of nations. In this connection he said '
hat recent events in Europe and the
way in which the great powers had
worked together to preserve the peace !
Of Europe as if forming one Commu- I
ties of the group system as deserving
Of close study by both statesmen and |
tudents Drawing his address to a
close, Lord Haldane pointed to the 6
century of peace which has existed /
,etween the United States and Can S
he people of these countries have I
'onle TO a greater possession of com !
ncn ends and ideals natural to the v
anglo Saxon group. The binding S
Iuality he declared, resulted in the C
act that vast number OF citizens a
rould rot today count it decent to il
iUiate the obligations which thar feel. v
ny suggested. a
He advocated the settlement of diff c
erences between these three coun a
ries in the spirit and in the manner t;
n which citizens settle their differ a
noes and in this connection he said d
was a splendid example to the
'orld that Canada and the United g
tates should have nearly four thou tt
and miles of frontier practically un- t,
)rtified. H
The Lord Chancellor then pointed IL
VI the special responsibility of law cs
ers for the preservation Ct the future
elations of friendship between the tc
nited States. Canada and Great Brit W
III, in the fact that lawyers play m
rsc part In public affairs and in. ri
uence their fellow men in questions
II beyond the province Of law, and tn
in the relations of society ri
that "Sittlichkeit' of which he liz
Doke. In this connection, he added: dc
Il believe that if, in the language dr.
yet another president, in the famous te
Ords of Lincoln, we as body in our M
inds and hearts highly resolve to to
ork for the general recognition bv eS
ciety of the binding character of W
terrational duties and rights AS they 81
Use within the Anglo-Saxon group, Sc
: shall not resolve in vain"
In conclusion he spoke as follows: ca
"But the occasion has seemed to la
9 significant of something beyond foi
Ell its splendid hospitality l have da
terpreted it, and think not wrongly, fro
the symbol of "A desire that extends II
yond the limits of this assembla"e inl