, 1888-03-15

questions of ordinary litigation. Since that
time bretheron, the court In this county
alone, and at that time 1t must be rcniem
bered that this court embraced In its judicial
circuit not only Spokane county, but also
Lincoln, AdaMs and Douglas, Since that
time this court, embracing this county
alone, has business enough to occupy the
court ut least eight months out Of the year.
What want to say is. whatever our situa-
ton now is, we are indebted to the present
Judge of the Fourth judicial district for
having brought order out OF chaos. Now
no words Of praise that ! can speak
would be appropriate or could add
anything to the honor that he
already enjoys, and all | wish to say
on this occasion Is this, now that you are
about to step down into our ranks and join
us In the great work of building up here
a great systenI of laws raised upon the
great and eternal principles OF the COM
mon law, upon the varying and vori-
we assure you there Is no jealousy, no
chickering's amongst us. We have all rec
| ognized In you great, just, and an hon
orable judge (appause), and we welcome
| you now to our ranks as member, and
| say that there is WORK for all of us here. We
! are glad to have you amongst us and we all
| tender you again q hearty welcome. ZAP
| plause.)
D'The profession of the law" Proposed
VI. y. Moore.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN ANB GENTLEMEN IL have
the honor to propose profession with
high and holy office. Which, since the
old man of the lowing and whitened locks
and beard began with his iron pen record
OF human affairs, has stood boldly out for
the liberty and welfare of mankind.
Which has administered justice, preserved
order protected the weak, shielded the
innocent, defended the institutions of civili-
zaton and led the van in all safe and solid
progress.
A profession in which enlightenment in
learning have ever found home. pro-
fession where in is developed a deep sense
of right broad ideas, disciplined minds
and educated skill.
Which gave to the ancient world
Demosthenes, and Pericles and Cicero. To
Great Britasn, Phillips and Curran, Graf.
ton and Erskine and Burke, at the bar and
Hardwicke and Eldon and Mansield on
the bench To the American bar Jno.
Adams, Pinkney and Otis in our revolu-
tionary period and later Webster. and
| Choate and Clay. To the American bench
| Marshall and Story, Toney and Chase.
| And to all coming generations of men the
noble, inspiring examples OF Lincoln and
| Garfield.
I Gentlemen, propose to you the enlight-
| ened, the learned, the liberty loving 1.-THE
\ profession OF the law"
| Response by Willis Sweet. Mr.. Chair
| man and Gentlemen of the Bar The i'm
portance of this toast is entirely dispropor-
| tionate to what am able to say, am,
however, consoed by the fact that when
the committee called upon me this alter
noon they said they had made arrange,
| ments with my brother Foster to respond
to this toast and did not expect much of
anything anyhow. (Applause) Therefore,
gentlemen, you will not he disappointed,
no matter what may say. The proies-
sion of the law requires our untiring en-
4 ~ s..sa
| that may be entrusted TO our care In re-
turn for that we have great opportunities
for broad and general culture We are
| thrown in contact with every great enter
| prise OF our day, and this meeting here has
! witnessed here tonight we enjoy loyal
good fellowship. In fact, my fellow mem
bers of the bar, the legal profession
brings us almost eervything except
money. (Applause) believe that every
| man around this table expects sometime to
be rich. (Applause) | know do, but
| do not expect to be rich out of clients,
heaven forbid. Nor do expect TO be rich
| from what mining experts, when on the
| witness stand, call a mineralized, crystal.
ized, fossilized, paraiyzed zone. but when
| the pan. n.bandle shall be laid out as an ad-
| dition to Spokane Falls / shall make so me
| money out Of it, as l own ranch over
| there. ! am very patiently waiting for
some enterprising agent to make me some
| proposition to lay IL off in lots. (Cries of
| Bolster Bolster) But, gentlemen, the bar
| of Spokane will grow with the city, and IL
| it keeps pace with the city it will do we'll
| Denver has her Boulder, her Leadville, her
| Aspen and other districts, and Spokane has
| her Cnur d'Alene, Colville, kootenai Sal
mon river, and is flanked by one of the
finest agricultural regions of the world
But Denver has her enormous smelters, and
the great fires arising nightly from her
countless chimneys are the signal.
lights of substantial and gigantic enterprise
the ever burning beacons Of wealth and
prosperity, Spokane should make one
more effort in that direction and / believe
that success would crown her efforts There
is but one reason why the bar does not un-
dertake this enterprise; 1t has the courage,
1t has the energy, il bas the capacity, but,
alas, 1t lacks the money, Mr.. Chairman.
Howeve, If all these contests of life, whether
IL be among live citizens for prominence or
preeminence, whether it be among profes-
sional men, whether it be among politici-
ans, no matter where, we are aware there
is very little sentiment, there is very little
sympathy. We must here fight for what
we get. ] hope the bar will take a promi-
nent position in fighting for the advance of
this entire region of country. We must
remem Der that when we come in contact
With rival systems, countries and individu-
ais there is but one motto which applies,
Three cheers for those that are dead and
hurrah Tor the next one to die"
1.-The judiciary was proposed by Hon. p.
II. Winston, of Lewiston, in tie absence
of Judge Murray, briefly. but i'm very
happy VEN, and the witty address was
rouhdly applauded..
Hon. Frank Ganahl responded to the
toast " The Judiciary" and with oil due
respect to the other gentlemen who were
called upon on this occasion, ii was con-
ceded that the gentleman made the speech
of the evening. Mr.. Ganahl is an eloquent
talker, has remarkable command of
language, a deep thinker and wonderful
fund Of knowledge to draw from. We re-
gret that We could not give his speech in
full, but owing to the frequent and pro.
longed applause, 1t was impossible to catch
his words, and it would be a great injustice
to Mr.. Ganahl's effort to give ragged and