The sun., 1919-05-11
U. s. AID Is READY,
ASSERTS WILSON


theless had something behind It which
was greater than that--the moral recti-
tude OF mankind. .
One Of the objects Of the War.
'If we can now give to international
law the kind Of vitality which 1t can
have only IL u 10 q real expression OF
our moral judgment, we shall have COM
pleted In some sense the work which
this war was intended to emphasize.
International law has perhaps some
times been little too much thought out
in the closet. International law has
(may 1 say It without offence7) been
handled too exclusively by lawyers.
Lawyers like definite lines. They
like systematic + arrangements. They
are uneasy n they depart from what
was done yesterday. They dread ex-
periments. They liked charted seas, and
II they have no charts, hardly venture
to undertake the voyage.
Nov we must venture upon unchart-
ed seas to some extent In the future.
In the new League of Nations we are
starting out on uncharted seas, and
therefore we must have. / will no. say
the audacity, but the eteadiness Of pur-
pose which Is necessary In such novel
circumstances.
And we must not be afraid Of new
things, at the same time that we must
not be intolerant Of old things We must
weave out Of the old materials the new
garments which il Is necessary that men
should wear.
TT is a great privilege II we can dc
that kind of thinking for mankind !:
human thinking. thinking that Is made
up OF comprehens on OF the needs OF
mankind And when I think of mankind
I must say / do not always think Of
well dressed persons. Most persons are
not well dressed.
THE heart Of the world Is under very
plain Jackets. The heart of the world
IL at very simple firesides The heart
OF the world In in very humble circum-
stances, and unless you know the pres
sure of life of the humber classes you
know nothing OF life whatsoever. Unless
you know where the pinch comes you do
not know what the pulse has to stand.
you do not know what strain the muscle
has to bear: you do not know what trial
tho nerves have to go through to hold on.
ITO hold on where there Ia no glee in
life is the hard thing. Those OF US who
can sit sometimes at leisure and read
pleasant books and think of the past. the
| long past. that We have no part In and
project the long future. we are not speci-
mems of mankind. The specimens of
mankind have not time to do that, and
| We must use our leisure when we have II
| to feel with them and think for them, 50
that we can translate their desire into a
| fact. 50 far as that Is possible. and see
that most complicated and elusive OF all
| things that we call Justice 10 accom-
plished. An easy word to say and a
| noble word upon the tongue, but one Of
| the most difficult enterprises OF the hui
/ man spirit!
TT Is hard 70 be Just to those with
whom you are intimate: how much
harder 1t is to conceive the r,eblems OF
| those with whom you are not intimate
| and be Just to them. To live and let live
to work for people and with people. is at
the bottom of the kind of experience
which must underl!e Justice.
Can't stoop to Help . Man.
| THE sympathy that has the slightest
| touch Of condescension in It has no
touch Of helpfulness about It. II you
are aware of STOPPING 10 help a man
you cannot help him. You must realize
that he stands on the same earth with
yourself and has q heart like your
own and that you are helping him,
| btaIFulnB on tnhI common leVel ana
using that common impulse of human
| ity.
"In a sense. the old enterprise OF
national law 10 played out. / mean the
future OF mankind depends more upon
the relations of nations to one another,
more upon the realization OF the COM
mon brotherhood of mankind, than upon
the separate and selfish development OF
national systems of law, so that the
men who can. II I may express It So
think WITHOUT language-think the COM
mon thoughts Of humanity-are the men
who will be most serviceable in the i'm
mediate future.
God grant that there may be many
Of them: that many men may see this
hope and wish to advance 1t. and tina,
the plain men everywhere may know
that there is no language of society ir
which he has no brothers or CO.