Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-23
The clouds will clear away, I'm sure,
Before the rising son Of Parker.

As rise he will,
When get still,
Like tall cliff that lifts its stately FORM
Though round its breast the rolinf cens spread
Eternal sunshine settles on its head"
Mr.. Parker remarked that the chairman
simply overwhelmed him with his eloquence
and poetry. So many good things could be
said Of Washington, Of its beauties and advan-
tages, one scarcely knew where to begin and
where to end. Life in Washington. he said,
was a literary, an artistic. a scientific dream.
They were not now what they had been. They
could remember when they were reproached as
mendicants, relying on the general govern
ment for maintenance The time was gone by
for such criticisms. and he hoped they would
never hear them again. Washington was SO
large that they were not jealous of Chicago.
even if Chicago did get the worlds fair. They
knew that the idea Of the worlds fair origi-
mated in Washington; that they had spent
$4,000 in promoting the project; that then
priateness OF the proposed celebration and
great cities began to bid for it. When Chicago
got it Washington at once Joined in to help
make the fair a success. They were not jealous
Of New York, with its great population, nor Of
Philadelphia. if that city gets the next worlds
fair. They all knew that most of the worlds
fair were in Washington. They did not now
criticise Congress for being niggardly, even
if Congress did require the city to pay
Se0O,0O0 or 100000 for a useless aque-
duct tunnel; to pay half the price
for a great park and to pay
Congress told them that they would extend the
streets and avenues of the city to the District
lines if the paid for them. This NAV be
blessing in disguise. II be as a Commissioner
could DE instrumental in having caused even
the beginning of the construction of a suitable
District building he would be gratifed If he
could aid in the extension of the streets to the
District line and the carrying out and unfold
ing OF the great plan of LEnfant lie would
think his time not wasted. Among all the ad-
vantages the city enjoyed he believed one Of
the greatest, one of the most refining in
iuences, one Of the most potent in the elevation
of the people was the Columbian University.
MR. HARRY z. DAVIS.
To the next toast, 1.-THE Judiciary" Mr..
Harry E. Davis was invited to respond, in the
absence Of Mr.. Justice Howell E. jackson, who
was unable to be present. Mr.. Davis remarked
that he not taken by surprise, as he had
been responding to the judiciary for the last
ten days, and being somewhat at disadvantage
too, as the Judiciary had the last response.
Thus he had been unconsciously sort of un-
derstudy for Justice Jackson, who, he said,
was a good enough man to have graduated from
Columbian University. The motto given him
to speak to was You do not know what a
frightful thing it is TO go to law, but he trans
lated differently the sentiment on the printed
list Of toasts ('Nescis tn guam meticulosa res
sit ire ad judicern"). He read it. "You don't
know what a dreadful thing it is to go at a
judge" Any man deceived himself who be-
ieved the speaker did not know what dread
full thing it was to go at judge He knew
very well how dreadful it was to 90 at a Judge
who thought he knew more than you do. and
that was a common thing with judges. The
Judiciary of the United States. in his judg
ment had reposed in it the discharge of
duty second to none that had ever been
imposed on any body of men. When one con-
sidered the vast interests confided to the
judiciary one could not fail to be appalled, by
the sense Of responsibility that ought to be-
long to this body. He maintained that they
we're drifting backward today, going back to
the law before the jury was established, when
il was the judge that declared the right and ad-
ministered the rule Of life and death. It was
he said a matter Of common apprehension in
his profession that today the jury was in the
background and the judge at the front. Hence,
the welfare Of the nation was bound up in its
Judiciary as never before was the welfare of a
nation dependent on its law-declaring Offices.
generation ago judge who would set aside
the verdict Of q jury would have been looked
upon as an anarchist; q Judge who would get
down into the jury box would have been run
ming counter OF the sentiment of men. Today
this was the law Of the land.
SIN the District" interjected Mr.. Worth
ington.
les, surely IN tnis Dlstrlct, SAID Mr.. DAVIS.
Today, he said, it was the Judiciary and not the
jury. Their property, their lives were in the
hands Of the judges. There was nothing SO
important for the people as the elevation of the
judiciary. He believed the appointment Of the
man for whom he was serving as an understudy
YVES the foretelling Of the dawn Of better day.
Tho man in whose shoes he said he was wab-
bling about was a non- partisan judge, appointed
by President who was his political opponent.
He had, he said, spent his professional life here
under political court, composed Of men not
chosen because Of their conspicuousness in his
profession, but men selected without regard to
local requirements. This manner Of selection,
he declared, was an outrage upon Anglo-Saxon
principles, upon every principle that should
prevail in such a matter. He spoke again of
the importance of elevating the judiciary,
whose character affected the nations welfare
and touched every mans interests. Men of
every profession should lend their voices and
give their best energies to the elevation Of the
Judiciary.
DIR. W. W. JOHNSTON.
DR.. W. W. Johnston responded to the toast
"Our wants and their treatment" He spoke
especially Of the medical department and said
that it was their duty to make just as good
doctors they could. The medical department
OF Columbian University is . prosperous one.
but still they wanted q great deal. Money was
needed to establish laboratories for the prac-
teal instruction Of students. One great neces-
sity was for hospital instruction in our schools.
He spoke earnestly Of the importance Of q
thorough training OF the physicians who had the
care Of the lives and health Of the community.
In the establishment Of q hospital there
we're two things in view, the care Of the poor
and the education Of young men. The layman
ordinarily thought that . hospital was for no
a