Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-31

often in our minds are the least sig nificant.
 "I am not hopeful that the indi- vidual items which we are discussing will immediately be settled in a man. ner universally satisfactory.
 'One has only to turn his mind to any one of the questions of boundary and altered sovereignty and 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 settle ments, 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- ment in order that we have the ma chinery of good will and friendship.
 Friendship must have machinery. If I cannot correspond with you, if l cannot learn your minds, if l cannot cooperate with you, I cannot be your friend, and if the world is to remain a body of friends it must have the means of friendship with 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 until they are big. l never thought l had big difference with a man that l did not find when l came into con ference with him that after all it was rather a 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 called pride, we could come together.
 Tt is the wish to come together that is more than half of the process. l. is a doctrine which ought to be easy of comprehension in a great commercial center like this. You can not trade with a man who suspects you. You cannot establish commercial relations and industrial relations with those who do not trust you. Good will is the fOrerunner of trade. Good will is the foundation of trade, and trade is the great amicable instru- ment of the world on that account.
 T felt before I came here, at home in nchester-because Manchester has so many characteristics of our great American cities. | was remind el of an anecdote of a humorous fel- low cCuntryman of mine who was sitting at luncheon in his club one day when a man whom he did not like particularly came up and slapped him on the shoulder and said:
 Hello. Olley, how are you?
 He looked at the man and said:
 T don't know your face, and don't know your name. but your manners are very familiar
 q don't know your name. but your manners are very familiar and very delightful familiar, so that l felt that in the community of interest and un- derstanding which is established in great currents of trade we are enabled to see international processes perhaps better than they can be seen by Oth- CTS l take it that l am not far 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.
 T wish it were possible for us to do something like some of my very stern ancestors did. for among my ancestors are those very determined persons who were known as Cove nanters. wish we could. not for Great Britain and the United States alone. but for France, for Italy and the world, enter into a great league and covenant declaring ourselves. first of all. friends of mankind and uniting ourselves together for the mainte nance of triumph of right"