St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-26

the Grand hotel at Fergus Falls on the
last day of this month, and every law
yer in the bailiwick is expected to be
present. There are going to be twenty
five toasts responded to, add the only
reason why the line is drawn at that
number is that subjects connected with
modern history gave out when this point
was reached, and it did not seem eXpe
dent to have any one discuss whether
the execution of CHARLES the First was
juStifiable, or compare the claims OF
ARIsTIDEs and THEMIsToCLEs to the
gratitude of mankind, lest the feelings
of some of the guests should be hurt by
the expression of sentiments on such
matters with which they might not be
in sympathy.
The list of toaSts has been prepared
with unusual care, and the gentleman
who is first at the bat will talk about
1.-THE Relations of Agriculture to the
Legal Profession" Agriculture has an
enormous listof relatives, some of whom
are in BuTke's Peerage, and some of
whom are in Otter Tail county. We
hope, for the sake Of the twenty-four
speakers who are to follow, that the
opening orator will in any event con-
fine himself to the state of Minnesota.
When he gets through there will come
In succession responses to these legends:
Politics, the Pastime of lawyers"
''The Issues Presented by the Trusts
How to Meet Them" 1.-THE Reform
Movement of the Tines" 1.-THE Law
yer as WARRIOR" 'sWhat l Do and
How Do It." 1.-The Lawyer as Gen
tleman;" 'The LADIES'" "Observations
on the New York Bar" 1.-THE Usurpa-
tions of the United States Su-
preme Court" Looking Toward the
Top" "a Written Constitution.
HindIance to National Development
and Progress;" advertising for Bust
ness: Poetry VS.. Prose-" ''The Trend
of Modern Law in Its Relations to
Corporations" 1.-THE Laws Delays"
Practice in the Provinces" 1.-The Adj
ventures Have Had and the People l
Have Net" The Corporation Law
yer;' THE Conservative Element of
Society,"" Improvements in Legal Pro-
cedure;;" Forensic Oratory, Past and
Present." 1.-THE Blind Goddess" "Our
Public Schools, the Lever of CiviliZa-
tion;" "Damnum Absque Injuria." and
1.-The Esprit du Corps of the Bar"
We understand that the speakers are
not supposed to entirely exhaust the
subjects assigned them, but to leave
something for future years. 1t is cal
culated that if the consideration of the
lighter themes, like 1.-The Trend of Mod
ern Law in It's Relations to Public Cor
porations," can be disposed of in two
hours each, and some of the heavier ones
i'll twice that time, the banquet, which be-
gins on Saturday evening at o'clock,
will be nearly completed some time on
Tuesday morning. The st. Paul Bar
association has had two banquets in
recent years, and a programme of
three or four toasts at each of them.
The nervous exhaustion accompanying
the effort on each occasion was very gen.
eral. and the bench and bar quite COM
monty remarked on the prevalence of
headaches in the profession on the fol-
lowing days, and some for week there
after. 1t is matter of great congratu-
lation to our local bar that these stout
Otter Tail county practitioners, who pro-
pose to drink Otter Tail county wine
through twenty-five toasts, do not live
in st. Paul. Our lawyers hope none of
them will move to Ramsey county. Com
petition is very intense here already,
but what would 1t be if such gods should
come into the field?