Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-11
President Fears That People
viii Expect Too Much From
Scheme IN the Beginning of
It's Being.
CANNOT COME FROM
DARKNESS SUDDENLY
Old National Law Has Played
Out and Future Of Mankind
Depends on Relations of Ma
tionS to Each Other.
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Wilson touched on the future role of
International law in the development
of the new order of things
"One of the things that his dis
turbed me in recent months" he said
lis the unqualified hope men have
entertained everywhere of immediate
emancipation from the things that
have hampered ana oppressed them.
You cannot, i'll human experience,
rush into the light. You have to go
through twilight into the broadening
day before noon comes and the full
sun is on the landscape We must see
to 1t that those who hope are not dis
appointed by showing them the pro-
cesses by which the hope must be
reali2ed-the process of law, the pro-
cess of slow disentanglement from the
many things that have bound us in
the past. .....
The intelligent development Of in
ternational law will be one of the
things of most consequence to men in
the future. IL we can now give to in
ternational law the kind of vitality it
can have only if it Is the real express
sion of our moral Judgment, we shall
have completed in some sense the
work which this war intended to em-i
pllas.ze."
Old Laws Played Ont.
"ln sense the old national law
Is played out. The future of mankind
depends more and more upon the re-
lations of nations to one another than
upon the separate and selfish devel-
opment of the national systems of
law"
The dinner was that Of the iterna-
tiona law society association, of
which Sir Thomas Barclay is presi-
dent.
President Wilson's address in full
was as follows
II esteem it very great pleasure
to find my self In this distinguished
company and in this companionship of
letters. Sir Thomas has been peeuf-
iarly generous, as were the gentlemen
at the other end of the table, In what
they have said of me but they have
given mo too high a role to play up
TO, Ii Is particularly difficult to be-
lieve ones self to ho what has been
described in so small n company asI
this When a great body Of people Is
present Que can assume a pose which
is impossible when there is so small
a number of critical eyes looking di-
rectly at you.
"And yet there was one part of Sir
Thomas generous Interpretation
which was true. What I have tried to
do and what | have said In speakingI
for America was to speak the mind Of
America, to speak tho Impulse and
the principles of America. And theI
only proof | have of my success Isl
that the spirit of America responded,
responded without stint or limit, and
proved that it was ready to do thatI
thing which | was privileged to call
upon it to do.
Guide for Future.
"And we have illustrated in this
spirit OF America something which |
may serve as partial guide for the
future May | say that one of the |
things that has disturbed me in re-
cent months is the unqualified hope
that men have entertained everywhere
of immediate emancipation from the
things that have hampered them and
oppressed them You cannot in hu-
man experience rush into the light. |
You have to 20 through the twilight |
into the broadening day before the
noon comes and the full sun is on the
and we must see to 1t that |
those whi hope are not disappointed
by showing them the processes by
which hope must be realized, process /
es Of law processes of slow entangle
ment from the many things that have |
bound Us in the past.
you cannot throw off the habits
of society Immediately any more than
you can throw off the habits of the
individual Immediately. They must be
slowly got rid of, or, rather, they must
be sslowly altered. They must be
slowly adapted they must be slowly
shaped to the new ends for which we
would use them. That is the process
Of law If law is intellgently con-
ceived.
Il thought it a privilege to come
here tonight, because your studies
were devoted to one of the things
which will he of most consequence to
men in the future, the intelligent de-
of international law. In
one sense this great unprecedented
war was fought to give validity to in
law. to prove that 1t had
a reality which no nation could af-
ford to disregard; that while it did
not have the ordinary sanctions, while
there was no international authority
rs yetNto enforce it, 1t nevertheless had
something behind it which was great Z
sr than that. the moral rectitude of
mankind
'fIf we can now give to interra-
ional law the kind of vitality which
can have only .f it Is real express
ion OF our moral judgment, we shall
lave completed in some sense the
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