The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-09
Admitted to the Bar.

| At the present term of the District Court Of
| this county, Mr.. L. NJ. Alderman, member OF
| the bar of Perry county, Ohio, was admitted to
| the Allen County Bar and took the oath of al
attorney. After the administering of the Oatf
| by Judge Talcott, Mr.. Alderman made the fol.
lowing response after which appropriate respons.
es were made by Messrs. J. G. Murray. j. II
| Richards, Judge Bell, j. h. Boyd, Col. Smith,
W. II. Slavens and L. W. keplinger:
''I desire to take this opportunity of extending
to your Honor and the members of the Allen
County bar my sincere thanks for this courtesy
which you have shown me come from sister
state famous for her lawyers and her jurists, but
can make no claim for that reason to the suffer-
snce and consideration of he Judges and the bar
Of the State of Kansas. For this kindness and
courtesy therefore, of which am this day the
honored recipient can only return my sincere
and grateful thanks.
have come to Kansas to make it my perma-
nent home. This State, the radiant center ofour
great Republic, has before her grand and hon
orable future To this State the star of empire,
whose course has always been Westward, guides
the homeless wanderer of other lands to fruitful
fields and fertile wales, to radiant skies, and
healthful scenes. to homes of plenty and lives of
peace.
In this grand and glorious future desire to
have part. Among the sons Of Kansas 1 wish
to stand identified with this magnificent interests
which the near future will surely bring us. As
citizen of this great State hope to bask in her
smiles of love during the days of her prosperity
or if adve rsity come, hope to have the courage
to stand among her gallant defenders as near the
front as l can push my way. In taking upon my
self, this day, the obligations of o member of
your bar, hope do it with feeling of its SOL
emn and momentous nature. The position oc-
cupied by the attorney is one of great honor and
dignity, but of delicate weight and fearful re-
sponsibility. From its obligations man might
sometimes well shrink with emotions of fear
and feelings of trembling.
To the attorney is committed, with perfect con-
fdence, the most sacred hopes of the human
heart To him comes the defrauded orphan and
to his hands the widow commits her case in the
days of her sorrow and woe. Smiles and tears,
joys and sorrows, hope and despair nod in the
balance when the attorney opens his mouth to
speak. No more fearful pictures of human life
can be imagined than the accused criminal
standing at the bar, with bated breath but thrOb-
bling heart, hanging with eager attention upon
the words of his advocate, knowing that upon
them depended the issues of life and death. In
fearfulness and subimity the picture is only sur
passed by that grander one Of the Mediator
standing before the judge of the Universe, plead
ing with solemn pathos for the lives Of those who
will not plead fer themselves.
In taking the oath of an attorney do it with
no mean appreciation of the dignity of the pro-
fession or the weighty responsibilities attaching
to it, That I shall always honor this high pro-