The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-22
CLEVELAND DID RIGHT
Address Of Judge Cooley Be-
fore the National Bar As
soeiation at Saratoga.

SARATOGA. N. Y, August %. 1s94.-Law-
yels and jurists to the number Of two hun.
dred occupied the front seats IN Convention
Hall when the seventeenth annual meeting
of the American Bar Association was called
to order at 1850 A. III. George "A. Mercer
of Georgia raped for order. and announced
that i'll the absence of Judge Thomas M.
Cooley OF Ann Arbor Mich. the president
of the Association, who is ILL Judge Samuel
P. Hunt: of The Superior Court of Cincln-
natl, vice president of the association for
the State of Ohio, had been selected by the
Executive Committee as the presiaing Off
cer Judge Hunt read the address OF Judge
Cooley on ''The year III its Constitutional
Aspects; the Lawyer as a Teacher and
Leader
JUDGE CooLEY's ADDRESS.
President Cooley reviewed the history of
legislation during the past year in the States
and Territories, without making extended
comment on any of the enactments. he
then proceeded to review the rise and fall of
the Coxey movement and the recent Pull
man boycott, and spoke of the duties of the
lawyer in regard to popular movements OF
was no warrant in the Constitution for the
claim Of the Coxeyites that they might
proceed in body to present their griey-
ances to Congress. The right Of petition
was right to bring grievances to the
| notice of Congress, but did not imply the
right of personal presence of large numbers
of men which might interfere with the
| orderly proceeding of the national Legisla-
ture From discussing the disorders involved
in the Coxey movement, Judge Cooley pro-
ceeded to refer to the large number of lynch
ings North and South which had occurred,
and to urge upon members of the legal pro-
fession the recognition of their responsible
RI I1a
to law.
He took the ground that lawyers should
take part in public discussions on the side Of
order on every possible occasion, and should
endeavor to create public sentiment IN
| favor of legal methods. The lawyer should
| be a teacher and leader.
PRESIDENTS ACTION ENDORSED.
In reviewing the boycott, President Cooley
| held that the President was right in sending
| troops into Illinois, and that he was under
no obligation to wait until the Governor
asked him to act The speaker gave it as
his opinion that the strikers had erred in too
| hastily accepting the advice of their
| leaders, and in not deliberating
| among themselves as to their action, He
did not favor compulsory arbitration. as it
could not effect anything that was not al
ready obtainable through the courts but he
| favored the principle of arbitration, and
| suggested that in contracts between em-
ployer and employed provisions Should De IN
cluded for arbitration of disputes, and
and against the sudden termination of dam
aging change of relation by either employed
or employed.
| The usefulness of such stipulations might
| be made SO plain that they would. as time
passed along, be more and more resorted to.
/ If compulsory arbitration were adopted as a
remedy for wage disagreements, the question
would be pertinent, What would be the next
| step-compulsory arbitration of rents! And
| where would the extension of the principle
| stop!