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Show No Sudden Emancipation From World Ills Possible, President Wilson Asserts Intelligent Development of International Law Must Proceed Cautiously, He Declares in Address at Paris Gathering. PARIS, Friday, May 9. In a brief speech at a dinner tonight President Presi-dent Wilson touched on the future fu-ture role of international law fin the development of the new order of things. "One of the things that has disturbed dis-turbed me in recent months, " he said, "is the unqupalil'ied hope men have entertained everywhere of immediate emancipation from the things that have hampered and oppressed them. You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through twilight twi-light into the broadening day before noon comes and the full sun is on the landscape. We must see to it that those who hope are not disappointed by showing them the processes by which the hope must be realized the- processes pro-cesses of law, the processes of slow disentanglement dis-entanglement from the many things that have bound us in the past. Old Law Played Out, President Says. "The intelligent development of international in-ternational law will be one of the things of most consequence to men in the future. If we can now give to international in-ternational law the kind of vitality it can have onl3' if it is the real expression expres-sion of our moral .judgment, wo shall have completed iu some sense the work which this war was intended to emphasize. em-phasize. " The president concluded by saying: "In a sense the old national law is played out. The future of mankind depends de-pends more upon the relations of nations na-tions to one another than upon the separate and selfish development of national na-tional systems law." The dinner was that of the International Interna-tional Law Society association of which Sir Thomas Barclay is president. Presi- 1 dent Wilson's address in full was as follows: "I esteem it a very great pleasure to find myself in this distinguished company com-pany and in this companionship of letters. let-ters. Sir Thomas has been peculiarly generous, as were the gentlemen at the other end of the table in what they have said of me, but they have given me too high a role to play up to. Trying to Speak Mind of America. "It is particularly difficult to believe be-lieve one 's self to joe what has been described in so small a company as this. When a great body of people is present, pres-ent, one can assume a pose which is impossible when there is so small a number of critical eyes looking directly at you. !And yet there waB one part of Sir Thomas' generous interpretation which was true. What 1 have tried to do and what I have said in speaking for America was to speak the mind of America, to speak the impulse and the principles of America. And the only proof I have of my success is that the spirit of America responded, responded without stint or limit, and proved that it was ready to do that thing which 1 was privileged to call upon it to do. "And we have illustrated in this spirit of America something which perhaps per-haps may serve as a partial guide for the future. May I say that one of the things that has disturbed me in recent 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 human experience rush into the light. Y'ou have to go (Continued on Page 2. Column 1.) isfiTlESEES FURTHERJfVQRLD. ILLS No Sudden Emancipation From Evils Possible, Says Chief Executive. (Continued from Pago One.) ihroush the IwiligLt into the bro.'i(l,t)-:nu; bro.'i(l,t)-:nu; diiy before the noon coines and tho full sun is on tho landtieupe; and we must see to it that those who hope aro not disappointed liy showing them the processes by ndiieh hope must be realized, real-ized, proeesses ol' law, processes of slow disentanglement from fie; many thinga that have bound us in the putt. " Von eannot throw off the habits of soeiety ininu'diatoly any more than you ran throw off the liaiiits of lhe iudi- iduai immediately. They must be slowly cot rid of, or. rather," they must be slowly altered. They must be slowly adapted, they must be slowly shaped to the new ends for whieh wo would use them. That is the process of law if law is intelligently coneeived. ' Fight to Validate International Law. "I t lioufiht it a pri yile!?o to come here tonight, because your studies arc de-voLed de-voLed to one of the things which will be of most consequence to men in the future, the intelligent development of international law. In one sense the ireat unprecedented war was fought to give validity to international law, to prove that it had a reality which no nation could afford to disregard; that, while it did not have the ordinary sanctions, sanc-tions, while there was no international authority as yet to enforce it, it nevertheless never-theless had something behind it-which was greater than that the moral rectitude recti-tude of mankind. ''If we enu now give to international law the kind of vitality which it can have only if it is a reul expression of our moral judgment, wp. shall have eqni-pletod eqni-pletod in some sense the work which this war wa,-, intended to emphasi.e. 7"oo Much Thought Out in the Closet. "International law has perhaps sometimes some-times been a little too much thought out in tho closet. International law has (may I say it without offense j) been handled too exclusively by lawyers. I awyers like definite lines. They like systematic arrangements. They are uneasy un-easy if they depart from what was done yesterday. They dread experiments, ''hoy like charted seas, and if they have no charts, hardly venture to uadertako the voyage. "Now we must venture upon uncharted unchart-ed seas to some extent in the future. In the new league of nations we are starting out on uneharted seas and therefore we must have, I "will not S3y the audacity, but the steadiness of purpose pur-pose which is necessary to such novel circumstances. And we must not be afraid of new things, at the same time that we must not be intolerant of obi things, e must weave out of the old materials the new garments which it is necessary that men should wear. Hearts Under Plain Jaekefs. "It is a great privilege if we can do that kind of thinking for mnnki'nd; human hu-man thinking, thinking that is made up of comprehension of the needs of mankind. And when I think of mankind, man-kind, I must say I 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 w orld is at very simple firesides. The heart of the world is in very humble circumstances: and unless you know the pressure of life of the humbler classes vou know nothing of life whatever. Unless Un-less you know where the pinch comes, you do not know what the pulse has'to staud, 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. . "To hold on where there is 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, and project Hie long future, we are not specimens of mankind. Translating Desires. "The specimens of mankind have not time to do that, and we must use our leisure when we have it to feel with them and think for them, so that we can translate their desire into a fact, so far as that is possible, and see that most complicated and elusive of all things that we call justice is accomplished. ac-complished. An easy word today and a noble word upon the tongue, but one of the most difficult enterprises of the human spirit. "It is hard to be just to those with whom you are intimate; how much harder it is to conceive the problems of those with whom you are not intimate, inti-mate, 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 whieh must underlie justice. No Touch of Helpfulness. "The sympathy that has the slightest touch ot' condescension in it has no touch of helpfulness about it. If you ire aware of stooping to help a man, vou CHnnot help him. You must realize real-ize that he stands on the same earth with yourself and has a heart like your own. and that you are helping him landing on that common level and using that common impulse of huinau-itv. huinau-itv. "In a sense the old enterprise of-national of-national law is played out. I mean that the future of mankind depends more Upon the relations of nations to one another, more upon the realization of the common brotherhood of mankind, than upon the separate and selfish de- cjoomei't. of national systems of law; so'tTat the men who can, if I may express ex-press it :n. think without language, think the common thoughts of humanity, human-ity, arc the men who will be most serviceable serv-iceable in the immediate future. "tlod grant thut there may be many of.tbem, that many men may see this hope and wish to advnnce it and that ibn plain men every where may know that there is no language of soeb'tv in rrhich he has no brothers or cola borers, in ordr to roach the grent ends of equity and of high justice.'' |