Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-31

ropean politics, but she is interested in the partnership of right between America and Europe. If the future had nothing for us but new attempt to keep the world at right poise by balance of power the United States would take no interest because she will join no combination of power which is not a combination of all of us. She is not interested merely in the peace of Europe, but in the peace of the world.
 Therefore, it seems to me that in the settlement, which is just ahead of us something more delicate and diff cult than was ever attempted before has to be accomplished--a genuine concert of mind and of purpose. But while it is difficult there is an ele- ment present that make it easy. Never before in the history of the world believe, has there been such keen international consciousness as there is now.
 There is great voice of humanity abroad in the world just now which he who cannot hear is deaf. There is a great compulsion of the common conscience now in existence which if any statesman resirt he will gain the most unenviable eminence in history. We are not obeying the mandate of parties or of politics. We are obey ing the mandate of humanity ] "That is the reason why it seems to me that the things that are most often in our minds are the least sig nifcant.
 q am not hopeful that the individ- ual items of the settlement which we are about to attempt will be alto gether satisfactory.
 "One has only to apply his mind to any of the questions of boundary and of altered sovereignty and of racial aspirations to do something more than conjecture that there is no man and no body of men who know just how they ought to be settled, and yet if we are to make unsatisfactory set dement's we must see to it that they are rendered more and more satisfac- tory by the subsequent adjustments which are made possible. We must provide the machinery for readjust- chinery of good will and friendship
 Friendship must have machin- cry. If cannot correspond with you, if cannot learn your minds, if l can- not cooperate with you 1 cannot be younr friend, and if the world is to re- main body of friends it must have the means of friendship, the means of constant friendly intercourse, the means for constant watchfulness over the common interests. That makes it necessary to make some great effort to have with one another an easy and constant method of conference, so that troubles may be taken when they are little and not allowed to grow un- til they are big. 1 never thought 1 had big difference swith a man, that 1 did not find when l came into con- ference with him that after all it was rather little difference, and that if we were frank with one another and did not too much stand upon that great enemy of mankind which is call ed pride, we could come together.
 "1u is the wish to come together that is more than half of the process. It is a doctrine which ought to be easy of comprehension in great con- mercial center like this. You can not u dNC WiCIl q lIldIl WIlO SQoDSCCS yOu. You cannot establish commercial and industrial relations with those who do not trust you. Good will is the fore runner of trade. Good will is the foundation of trade. and trade is the great amicable instrument of the world on that account.
 "I felt before I came here at home in Manchester-because Manchester has so many of the characteristics of our great American cities. I was re- minded of an anecdote of humorous fellow countryman of mine who was sitting at luncheon in his club one day when man whom he did not like par tlcularly came up and slapped him on the shoulders and said:
 "'Hello, Olley, how are your
 "He looked at him coldly and said:
 "I don't know your face and 1 don't know your name, but your man. ners are very familiar"
 T don't know your name, but your manners are very familiar and very delightfully."- familiar. so that I felt that in the community of interest and understanding which is established in great currents of trade we are en- abled to see international processes perhaps better than they can be seen by others. take it am not for from right in supposing that that is the reason why Manchester has been the center of the great forward looking sentiments of men who had the in- stincts of large planning not merely for the city itself, but for the king dom and the empire and the world. And with that outlook we can be sure we can go shoulder and shoulder to- gether. &
 'I wish it were possible for us to do something like some of my very stern ancestors did, for my ancestors are those very determined persons who were known as the Covenanters. l wish we could, not for Great Britain and the United States, but for France, for Italy and the world, enter into a great league and covenant declaring ourselves first of all friends of man. kind and uniting ourselves together for the maintenance of the triumph of right"