The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-23

lying the amendments enacted after the war to protect the negro to the reg istrar of voters and also the act of con- gress readmitting the state into the Union. It gives into their hands the power of unjust discrimination in favor of the ignorant white voter over the colored. As an expedient to meet the danger resulting from the constitutional amendments 1t makes a distinct inn
 provement over mob force and fraud and 1t has inherent in it the power of raising the educational standard of cit izenship should it be wisely applied. As it is the solution of this problem concerns not only the south, but the whole country"
 After music by the orchestra the ad- dress to the graduating classes was given by Hon. Theodore Bacon, mem- Der of the Rochester bar, N. Y. MT.
 Bacon is the son of the celebrated Rev. Leonard Bacon, formerly pastor of the Center church of this city, and brother of Dr. Bacon, and was himself a grad uate of Yale '56 and captain in the Sev- enth Connecticut regiment during the war His address was a most interest ing one and splendidly adapted to the occasion. He chose as his subject What the Lawyer Owes to Society" and spoke in the main as follows: MT. President, MT. Dean, and Gentle men about to Graduate in Law: Merely to welcome you to the ranks, already more than crowded, of a pro- fession once deemed learned and hon. orable, should not be a difficult task for one whose occupation consists largely in the making of speeches. The quasi theocracy which for two centu-
 ries, until the copious invasion of va
 rious forms of dissent, gave to the clergy of the standing order in the col
 onies and states of New England social prestige and political power
 of which only vestiges remain to our
 day, has given way to an ostensibly
 complete representative democracy.
 The application of ethical principles to the conduct of public affairs, which in the last analysis must be governed
 upon ethical principles if organized so-
 ciety is to be better than pack of
 wolves or a den of snakes, was enforced
 by learned and dignified class, of sim
 pie life and manners, engaged in the
 study and the teaching of morals,
 am far from deploring their dethrone-
 ment though remembering their great
 services. Yet the judicious may grieve
 when it is suggested, as 1 do yet sug-
 gest, that the partial retirement of
 the clerical class makes room for the entrance of such an ethical director of
 affairs as the lawyer"
 The speaker spoke of the bad repute
 in which certain classes of lawyers had
 previously fallen in England and of
 the higher ideas. which lawyers in
 France had reached and held.
 Tn that dead and hopeless period of
 French history, which covers all the eighteanth century except it's first and last decades. it seems as if the only sign of fife, the only gleam of light, was in the bar and it's kin, the bench. As the class of which I speak has
 been made efficient for the aid and the defense Of society. so also in earlier ages have great advocates, not indeed in cooperation with their professional fellows. but il the discharge of their official duties, rendered illustrious ser
 vice to the state.
 Tn legislatures and in congress I
 maintain that. for the public good, there are nor nearly lawyers enough. No better evidence, indeed, could be
 desired that more lawyers are needed
 in the making Of our laws than is of CContinued on Eighth Page.l