The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-11-03
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Preside:.; Wilson's message to the
women ioIloWs III part:
"Inerc never Was a time wlen it
was luU4e necessary Tor lie nations
y. ,..u ...-...>. {, c.>e.>loc d ocII-poSSeS-
sion to acquire seIt-knO ledge, to de-
te..-.li.e tu.r di4 ectIJn AMI purpose
anG - re.ate themselves 10 the gen
ea work OF establishing justice
anIong nIunAiId. tnlnA ma, every
C44e o. u>a d., Americans would be
ashamed ii America did not know
What s4e Was aDout aid Dy WHIT
means and n5trumentalitles sne was
going to act. | therefore thought
Inat you would indulge me this after
noon if | tried 10 point out what
seemed to me the leading peculiaritieo
OF the task that lies before ME.
You can best illustrate it by the
relations between employers and EN-.
ployes. Justice can no longer be
and sympathy and emotion in it. and
cord. 1t is beginning to have warmth
there is coming the time, unless -!
am very much mistaken, when ma
tions shall agree with nations tnat
tie rights of humanity are greater
than the rights Of sovereignty
Therefore modern society has a
new set of problems to meet. 1t has
to say if the employer will not volun-
tarily establish the proper conditions
Of LABOR the law must oblige him TO
establish the proper conditions of Ia.
Dor.
81 have said before that one of the
things that most deeply distressed me
in the recent conference Of the
heads of the railways and their EN-
pioyes was to find that there was
profound mutual understanding, dis
trust and hostility.
1T ought not to re SO. Something
is wrong when the men VINO are
working together at the same thing
do not trust one anolner and that
wrong thing rests, am profoundly
convinced, upon ignorance; it rests
upon not associlting with each 9TH
or in the kind OF conference which
will enable them to understand one
another.
Politics, my friends, consists of
something that you can almost ex-
press in the formula get together.
Try to understand what the common
task is. You cannot understand So
ciety unless you understand the com
ponent parts so that after all the for
mula get together lies at the base Of
it all, and the first step is for the ele-
ments of society to understand one
another. The next thing is that the
elements of society should understand
their common relationship to the So
ciety of which they constitute part.
When | see some gentleman running
amuck am perfectly aware that they
do not see that by running reckless
ly against the interests of other peo-
pie they are really checking the en-
terprises which they think they are
promoting.
IF you are wrong, you will get it
knocked out of you and if you are
right you will help knock it out OF
other people.
What difference does it make
that YOU think a thing as a Repu5-
lio,n, if it is wrong? What differ
ence does it make if you think as a
Democrat, if it is not true? And
what difference does party make, or
party's interests make as compar-
ed with the interests of the nation
itself.
"Now it occurs to me that you
would permit me to suggest what the
larticular function of women is in
tbis new age. Men have tried their
bands at it and in the opinion OF a
great many of you have made a mess
i it. And it must be obvious, IL
what have already said is true, that
the functions that have to be deter
mined by those who lead opinion nave
taken on an entirely new character.
"Tha whole spirit of the law has