Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-01-03
THE BOND THAT
WILL UNITE us
President Wilson's Manchester
England, Speech, Outlines the
Common Devotion to Right
to Unite All Nations.

dress in Manchester, England Monday
in presenting him the freedom of the
city, President Wilson said:
You have made me feel in way
that is deeply delightful the gcner-
GUS welcome which you have accord
ed me, and back of it l know there
lies the same sort of feeling for the
great people whom l have the privi-
lege of representing.
There is feeling of cordialty,
fraternity and friendship between the
two great nations, and as | have gone
from place to place and been made
everywhere to feel the pulse of sym
pathy that is now beating between us
/ have been lead to some very serious
thoughts as to what the basis of it
all is. For l think you will agree
with ME that friendship is not Il mere
sentiment. 1t is based upon prin-
ciple, upon the principle that leads u
man to give more than he demands.
Similarly, friendship is based not
merely upon affection, but upon COM
mon service. The man is not your
friend who is not willing to serve you
and you are not his friend unless you
are willing to serve him. And out of
that impulse of common interest anG
desire of common service arises that
noble feeling which we consccrate as
friendship.
Bond of Devotion TO Right.
And so it does seem to ME tlat the
theme that we must have in our mind
now in this great day of settlement
is the theme of common interest. You
know that heretofore the world has
been governed, or ct any rate the
attempt has been made to govern it,
hy partnerships of interest, ard that
they have broken down Interest does
not bind men together. Interest sep
arates men. For, the moment 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 peo-
pies together, and that is common
devotion to right.
Ever since the history of liberty
began men have talked about their
rights, and it takes several hundred
years to make them perceive that the
principal condition of right is duty,
and that unless a man performs his
full duty he is entitled to no right.
1t is fine correlation of the influence
OF duty that right is the equipoisc
and balance of society.
And so, when we analyzc the pres
.ent situation and the future that we
now have to mold and control, it
seems to me there is no other thought
know that the United States has al
ways felt from the very beginning
of her sorry that she must keep her
self separate from any kind of COR
nection with European politics. want
to say very frankly to you that she
is not now interested in European
politics, but she is interested in part
nership of right between Ameritca
and Europe. If the future had moth
ing for US but new attempt to keep
the world at right poise by a bal
ance of power the United States
would take no interest, because she
will join no combination ofslpower
which is not combination of all of
lis. She is not interested merely in
the peace of Europe, but in the peace
of the world.
The International Conscience.
Therefore it seems to me that in
the settlement which is just ahead
of US something more delicate and
difficult than was ever attempted be-
fore has to be accomplished gen
But, while it is difficult, there is an
element present that makes it easy.
Never before in the history of the
world, believe, has there bhen 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
great compulsion of the common
conscience now III existence which if
any statesman resists, will gain for
him the most unenviable emience in
history. We are not obeying the
mandate of parties or of politics. We
are obeying 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
nificant. ! am not hopeful that the
individual items of the settlement
which we are about to attempt will
be altogether satisfactory. One has;
only to apply his mind to any one of
the questions of boundary and of al
tered sovereignty and of racial aspi-
rations 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 maka satisfactory settle
ments we must see to it that they are
rendered more and more satisfactory
by the subsequent adjustments which
are made possible We must provide
the machinery for readjustments in
order that we have the machinery OF
good will and friendship.
Friendship Must Have Machinery
Friendship must have machinery
If cannot correspond with you, if
cannot learn your minds, if. cannot
cooperate with you, cannot become
your friend; and if the world is to re-
main a body Of friends, it must have
the means of friendship, the mean:
of constant friendly intercourse, tho
means of constant watchfulness ovel
fhe common interests.