Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-10
BRITISH BAR HEAD
URGES AMERICAN
ANGLO ALLIANCE
Lord Shaw Pleads to American
Association for Ancient
Crudge Abolition.
VOICES coMRAOEsHIP CALL
by Associated Press to Every Evening.

San Francisco, Cal, Aug TO- A plea
that the members oi the Anglo-Amcri-
can rncc must m comrades forever
was mndc last night at the convention
of the American BAR Association Ivy the
r. Hon. Lord Shaw of Dunfcrminc,
representative of the bar of Great
Britain NJ the sessions.
Lord Shaw based his plea for COM
radcship on "a common LOYALTY to law"
and appealed for the abolition of the
ancient g.udgc." He paid high tribute
To n number Of American statesmen,
including Lincoln, Washington, Pres
dent Harding, Theodore Roosevelt and
Woodrow Wilson, and characterized
E,lhn Root as "the Cretius of America"
The call for unity came at the end of
q lengthy address in which the English
barrstcr disc ussed many technical
points of laws which the nations OBJ
served in common. He touched briefly
on the breakdown of Russia and ad-
viscd the legal profession in this country
60 keep in touch with the ground OF
common sense"
Humanity lies bleeding and strick-
en-, said Lord Shaw. The hand of war
and the hand of the doctrinaire who
knows not Justice lie like n curse. We
think of the Union of the English
speaking race, not for its own sake, but
for the service that lies To its hand
to staunch wounds, TO redress wrongs, to
remove expressions, and teach men q
new and better way for body and soul.
Eve men of the Anglo-American race
must he comrades forever, l know
no palmer call TO the comradeship of
righteousness than the common loyalty
TO law. My appeal 10 YOU is that the
ancient grudvc should go forever, and
that the ancient comradcship should be
renewed and replcdged forever.
do not think we on the other side
ARE no. aware OF and sympathetic with
You in those constitutional difficulties
with which YOU are confronted. We
know the fulminations of Jefferson
against alliances, we know the power o.
the written constitution, not only over
your minds but most deservcdly over
your hearts. IL will lie the highest task
ot your etatesmanship to evolve out
of the citizenship Of America something
which honoring and conserving it, will
yet give it n lofty place in the citizenship
of the world.
Watch that moving, jos.ling, elbow
ing, combatant crowd which We call
civilization. There is n hgu-e there
bigger, more outstanding, more COM
manding than the Others. More and
more he seems 10 control the crowd,
suppressing. cond'using, regulating traf.
hc, making the rough places plain and
every place safe; and his hand is swift
and heavy on crime and on the sneak
and tender and helpful 10 the weak and
the struggling and the oppressed. His
nane is Law.
AT this hour. after the Great War,
even rs the smoke and smell OF blood clear
away, law resumes Its sway, planting
xncw the standards OF legality, human
and divine.
II reckon the conference Of Washing
ton TO have been greater than confer
encc .andfhe five power naval agreement
and the four power pact for The Pacific
ocean, the one with its real, instant,
and definite limitation of arnaments,
the other turning possibly this great
ocean into vast Pacific reserve. /
reckon these things to be a sensible
mitigation of the fears of humanity, a
sensible contribution TO the peace and
progress of mankind. We heartily bear
in mind the services and achievements
q. America in the world cause, and the
FIRM and prctical craftsmanship OF its
President and Secretary Ct State
The be st amongst you probably look
back to the later filties and the carly
six,ics-that trying ordeal for your
citizenship. Then il was that the law OF
status and the law of the constitution
had TO be co-ordinated, and that under
the higher planes Of liberty and the
rights of man. Lowell puts the old view
which the elder legality could always
defend. Here | stand on the Constitu-
ton, by thunder
These were defens:ble propositions
in the mouth OF mere lawyer, mere
constitutionalist, a mere politician, and
Lincoln was patient with them. But
when,to yield 20 them would have been to
rive in twain the American Common.
cleared his vision, and he eeemed 10
reason that man was more than con-
Autuiions: that the law was made for
man and not man for the law.
When every citizen can truly Zee
tha, the law can bc appesled 70 as hii
friend, then strength and healing com,
into the body polite and the function
of law. even on the everyday level o
individual disputes and OF difference
between man and man, adds 20 tn,
healthy sense OF Independence which i
the essential OF progress.
but whenever men, decent men, no
rebels or criminals, cover beneath III,
law, being afraid of It's Inequality, ,sayinI
20 themselves the world i not my
friend, nor the worlds law then the,
become the starved apothecaries of so
coicty and are tempted 10 meannesse
and evil ways. And that society j
rotten where one citizen Is agains
another can overpower him or under
,nfpe him lV law ,yieldcd with an nm