The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31

other, l, robbery and resisting arrest, l.
 The lynohings by states follow;
 Alabama, 3: Arkansas, ?; California, l; Florida, ?; Georgia, IS, Illinois, l; Ken lucky, l Louisiana. g: Mississippi, $; North Carolina, ?; Oklahoma, l; South Carolina, 1: Tennessee, 1; Texas, g. Vir- ginia, l; Wyoming, l.
 al convention. The introductory speeches were received much as the nominating speeches for the favorite candidate at such a convention and when President Wilson arose to speak the scene resembled that of con vention about to nominate candidate by exclamation.
 TEXT OF SPEECH
 The text of the Presidents address to the Free Trade hall audience is as follows:
 My Lord Mayor Ladies and Gentle m men-perhaps I may be permitted to add fellow citizens.~ You have made me feel in way that is deeply de. lightful the generous welcome which you have. accorded me and back of it, l know there lies the same sort of feeling for the great people whom I have the privilege of representing.
 There is a feeling of cordiality. fraternity and friendship between the two great nations. and as 1. have gone from place to place and been made ev- anywhere to feel the pulse of sympathy that is now beating between us, have been led to some very serious thoughts as to what the basis of it all is.
 For I think you will agree with me that friendship is not mere senti- ment. Patriotism Is not mere senti. ment. It is based upon principle. upon the principle that leads man to give more than he demands. Sim ilarly, friendship is based not merely upon arbitration but upon common service. The man Is not your friend who is not willing to serve you, ana you are not his friend unless you are willing to serve him.. And out of that impulse of common interest and desire of common service arises that noble feeling which we consecrate as friend ship.
 And so it does seem to me that the theme that we must have in our minds now in this great day of settlement is the theme of common interest and the determination Of what it is that is our common interest. You know that heretofore the world has been govern ed or at any rate the attempt has been made to govern it, by partnerships of interest and that they have broken down.
 INTEREST SEPARATES MEN
 'Interest does not bind men together. Interest separates men, For the mo- ment there is the slightest departure from the nice adjustment of interests then jealousies begin to spring up. There is only one thing that can bind peoples together and that Is com mon devotion to right.
 .'Ever since the history of liberty be- gan men have talked about their rights and it has taken several hundred years to make them preceive that the prin cipal condition of right is duty, and that unless man performs his fuil duty. he is entitled to no right. It
 is a fine correlation of the influence of duty that right is the equipoise and balance of society.
 And so when we analyze the pres ent situation and the future that We now have to mould and control, 1t seems to me there is no other thought that can guide us You know that the United States has always felt from the very beginning of her history ' that she must keep herself separate from any kind of connection with Eu- ropean politics.
 T want to say frankly to you that she is not now interested in European politics. but she is interested in the partnership of right between America and Europe. If the future had nothing for us but a new attempt to keep the world at the right boise by balance of power the United States would take no interest because she will join no combination of power which is not q combination of us all. She Is not Interested merely in the peace of Flu rope, but in the peace of the world. GREAT VOICE OF HUMANITY therefore, it seems to me that the settlement which is just ahead of us, something more delicate and difficult than was ever attempted before has 10 be accomplished--a genuine concert of mind and of purpose. But while 1t IS difficult there is element present that makes 1t easy. Never before in the history of the world. I believe, has there been such keen international consciousness as there is now. There | is great voice of humanity abroad 1 in the world just now which those i who cannot hear are deaf. There Is a great compulsion of the common con- 1 science now in existence which, If i any statesman ressts, will gain Tor 1 him the most unenviable eminence ln l history We are not obeying the man =