The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-11
Will SON SAYS We MUST
TAKE TIME WORKING OUT
NEW N TERN At ION Al LAW
SPEAKING BEFORE SOCIETY IN
PARIS, NATIONS HEAD
PRAISES AMERICA

Paris, Friday May 9.-In a brief
epigrammatic speech at dinner tonight
President Wilson touched on the future
role of international law in the deNeI-
opment of the new order of things.
"One of the things that his disturb
ed me in the recent months he sdld'
lis the unqualified hope men have en-
tertained everywher of immediate EN-
ancipation from the things that nave
hampered ami oppressed them. You
cannot, in human experience, rush INTO
the light. You have to so through
twilight into the broadening day be
fore noon comes and the fun sun is
ON the landscape.
The intelligent development OF IN
tcrnational law will be one of the things
of most consequence to men III tie
future. If we can now give to inter
national law the kind of vitality it can
have only if it is the real expression
of our moral judgment, we shall nave
completed in some sense the work,
which this war was intended to empha'
size"
The president concluded by saying:
Il
is played out. The future of mankind
depends more upon the relations Oh
nation to one another than upon the
separate and selfish government OF
national systems law"
The dinner was that of the Interna-
tional Law Society association of which
Sir Thomas Barclay, is president. Presl-
dent Wilson's address was as follows:
"Sir Thomas ana Gentlemen: l es-
TEEN it a very great pleasure to find
myself in this distinguished body and
in this companionship of letters Sir
Thomas has been peculiarly generous,
as were the gentlemen at the other
end of the table, in what they have
said of me, but they have given me
too high a role to play up to. 1t is
particularly difficult to believe ones
self to be what has been described in
so small Il company as this when
great body of people is present, one
can assume a pose which is impossible
when there is so small number of
critical eyes looking directly at you.
Speaks Americas Mind
And yesterday there was one part
OF Sir Thomas generous interprata-
ton which is true. What | have tried
to do and what / have said in speaking
for America was TO speak the mind of
America, to speak the impulse and the
of America. And the only
proof | have of my success is that the
spirit of America responded, respond
ed without stint or limit and proved
. do to Ia hn
which | was privileged to call upon it
to do.
"And we have illustrated in this spir
it of America something which per-
haps may serve as partial guide for
the future. May | say that one of
the things that has disturbed me in
recent months is the unqualified hope
hat men have entertained everywhere
Of immediate emancipation from the
things that have hampered them and
oppressed them. You cannot in human
experience rush into the light. You
have to go through the twilight into
the broadening day before the noon
comes and the full sun is on the land |
scape; and we must see to it that those |
whose hopes are not disappointed by |
showing them the processes by which |
hope must he realized processes of law, |
processes of slow disentanglement from |
he many things that have bound us !
m tho past. You cannot throw off |
the habits of society Immediately any |
more than you can throw off the habits |
If the individual Immediately. They |
must be slowly got rid of. or rather, |
hey must be slowly altered. They |
must be slowly adopted, theu must be |
slowly shaped to the ends for |
which we would use them. That is
he process of law If law is intelligent
Y conceived.
War Fought for Laws Validity
1T was a privilege to come here to-
light, because your studies were de-
'oted to one of the things which will
,e of most consequence to men in the
uture, the intelligent development Of
law. In one sense the
,reat unprecedented war was fought to
live validity TO international law. to
'rove that It had a reality which no
lation could afford to disregard: that
while 1t did not have the ordinary ac-
ions, while there was no international