Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-22
MR.. BAYARD ON THE LAW.
The American Ambassadors Reply to q
Toast Mt the Hilary Dinner of the
British Empire club.

ne american htpig W u
Toast Mt the Hilary Dinner of the
British Empire club.
London Globe, March 7th.
The American Ambassador was the prin-
oipal guest last evening of the British
Empire Club, at their Hilary dinner, over
which Mr.. Percy Akin presided, at the
British Empire Club.
Mr.. Bayard, replying to the toast of his
health, observed that commerce was II
Giyili2ing agent The Law was even more
u clyilzing agent. There could be law
without;commerce, but there could not be
4 safe commerce without law. There must
be, wherever mems bargains and contracts
might run, something to make them
secure, yet enterprise would falter in the
face of lawlessness, while capital was a
tlmid creature ii 1t could not have some
thing that should guarantee its contracts
10 be 4 humble workman i'll the erection
OF the temple of International Justice
seemed to him to be a lofty ambition for
any one of them--or all of them. The
triumphs of force were necessarily short
lived, for they must carry with them and
leave behind a sting of humiliation in one
of the parties. But the triumphs Of
reason, of justice, and argument were
permanent, because they We're satisfactory
to the human conscience and intellect.
These were the triumphs that their profess
sion proposed, and no others. They pro-
posed to make that true in fast which to-
day was simply phrase-that war was
the ultima ratio regun''; and they pro-
posed to make it, indeed, the very last.
The great principle which they all sought
to uphold and represent was the principle
of comfy. The law of comfy was the
law that contract, lawful in the place in
which il was made should be sustained in
every civilized community where it was
sought to be enforced. This law had been
found TO be such great ciyilizing agent
that its force multiplication had expanded
from the minor affairs Of individuals until
1t had become law of nations. The laws
Of reason and justice, as administered BY
trained men under just principles, had
now become recognized as the proper con-
trolling factors of all international disputes
No two countries had set to the world an
example so illustrious and SO dignihed as
those in which the English language was
| spoken.
In view of the great fact that reason
was intended to supplant force, what be-
came of diplomacy and all those ancient
methods OF chlcanery, and the sneer OF
Talleyrand, that language was invented to
conceal thoughts? They had all disap
peared, and what was sought this day was
| that language should be the most trans.
parent to display the real intention that
came with it. 1t was the spirit of comfy
which had brought, and he trusted would
always bring, two proud and strong
nations to the bar of the tribunal selected
by themselves, not sitting in secret, moi
supplied by the pabulum of spies or pGr
chased information, but standing in the
| light OF day before the world, before men
selected because Of their integrity and dis
interestedness TO hear the English languag,
| presenting argument and reason in il.
clearest forms, and urged openly ant
without subterfuge or desire for conceal
| ment
Thus, it seemed to him that the profes
sion with which they We're connected haC
become the chief agency for the advance
| ment of the human race to higher plano
| OF civilization. IL was that which made hin
feel him charged TO represent the interest.
OF his country that there would alway.
be, should misunderstanding prevail, ant
differences that must necessarily arise,
resort to the temple of justice, upheld b.,
the minds of the bench and bar of Eng
land and the United States. He would Civ
them THE health of the bar of boil
countries and the bench. also recruited
from the membership of the bar" witt
the hope that both branches of the pro
fession would make the mother tongue O
England and the United States the ainbas
sador of that justice which was the grea
preyenter of war.