Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-07

ment 1t is based upon a principle,
upon the principle that leads man
to give more than he demands. Sim
ilary, friendship is based not merely
upon affection, but upon common serv-
Ice. The man is not your friend who
is not willing to serve you, and you
are not his friend unless you are will
ing to serve him. And out of that i'm
pulse of common interest and desire
of common service arises that noble
feeling which we consecrate as friend
ship.
"And so 1t 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 here
tofore the world has been governed, or
at any rate the attempt has been
made to govern it, by partnerships of
interest, and that they have broken
down.
Interest does not bind men togeth-
er. Interest separates men. For the
moment there is the slightest depart
ure from the nice adjustment of inter
ests, then jealOusies begin to spring
up. There is only one thing that can
bind peoples together, and that is COM
mon devotion to right
Condition of Right Is Duty.
Ever since the history of liberty
began men have talked about their
rights, and it has taken several hun
dred 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
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 ad the future that we
now have to mold and control, it seems
to me there is no other thought than
than that that can guide US.
you know that the United States
has always felt from the very begin
ming of her story that she must keep
herself separate from any kind of
connection with European politics.
Il want to say very frankly to you
that she is not now interested in Eu-
ropean politics, but she is interest
ed in the partnership of right between
America and Europe. If the future
had no thing for us but new at
tempt to keep the world at a right
poise by balance of power the Unit
ed States would take no interest, be-
cause she will join no combination of
power which is not a combination Of
all of us. She is not interested mere
ly in the peace of Europe, but in the
peace of the world.
Finds international Consciousness.
Therefore it seems to me that in
the settlement which is just ahead of
US something more delicate and diff.
cult than was ever attempted before
has to be accomplishment genuine
concert of mind and of purpose. But
while it is difficult there is an element
present that makes it easy. Never be-
fore in the history of the world, / be-
lieve, has there been such keen in
ternatiOnaI consciousness as there is
now
''There is a great voice of humanity
abroad in the world just now which he
who cannot hear is deaf. There is q
great cOmpulSiOn of the common con-
science now in existence which if any
statesman resist he will gain the most
unenviable eminence in history. We
are not Obeying the mandate of par
ties 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 significant
/ am not hopeful that the individual
items of the settlement which we are
about to attempt will be altogether
satisfactory.
Must Have Machinery.
Zone has only to apply his mind tC
any one of the questions of boundary
and of altered sovereignty and of "a
| cial aspirations to do something more
| than conjecture that there is no mar
and no body of men who know just
how they ought to be settled, and YET
| if, are to make 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
| goodwill and friendship;
Friendship must have machinery
| If l cannot correspond with you, if
cannot learn your minds, if | cannot
cooperate with you / cannot be your
friend. and if the world is to remain
a body of friends it must have the
means of friendship, the means of con
slant friendly intercourse, the mean:
for constant watchfulness over the
common interests. That makes it nee
eSsary to make some great effort t.
have with one another an easy anC
constant method of conference, so thai
troubles may be taken when they are
little and not allowed TO grow until
they are big.
| Possible for Enemies to Agree
Il never thought l had big differ
ence with a man that l did not fine
when | came into conference with hin
that after ali it was rather little diff
| ference and that If we were frank will
one another and did not too mucl
stand upon that great enemy of man
kind which is called pride we coulC
come together.
1T is the wish to come together thai
is more than half of the process. L
is a doctrine which ought TO be easy
of comprehension in great CONNER
| o;ol naprnr like this Won cannot tro n.