The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-09


ton hotel. This club as its name indi-
Gates is composed of lawyers; in this
instance they are young men who have
either recently graduated to the bar or
are studying law with a view of enter
ing the legal profession. The club is
means Of Improvement and for mutual
aid in their studies.
The banquet was a most enjoyable
affair from start to finish The menu
was one of the most varied and best
which the we'll known ability of Don
Porter as a caterer could provide The
wines were CopiOus and excellent and
the service was all that could be desired
and right merry time was enjoyed
with Alex McMaster as POSTMASTER.
Among those present were: Alex. Nc
Master, James Devine. John James,
Fred w. Milverton, Frank c.. Lea,
Louis Kahn, James S. Cuddy, Judge
Wenger, r. D. Earls, Gustave H
Backman. John Montgomery, ir., Jack
May. c. L. Fritcher, Thomas Thomas,
F.. e. Hansen. w. P. Dodds. Kenneth
{. Kerr, j. w. Hughes, J. II. Moore,
POSTMASTER MINISTER.
Toastmaster NIcNIaster delivered a
short address, in which he said that
during the past year the club had
enjoyed a large degree of prosperity.
The members had derived great bene-
lit from their meetings and discussions
and had shown themselves most tena-
ciouS in pursuing the object for which
the club was eStablished-that of the
study of the law. The membership
was quite cosmopolitan in character.
but there was a great amount of pa
triotism at all times bubbling up The
speaker referred to the advisability,
even the necessity, of free coinage of
silver for the best interests of Amer
lea as a whole. America had right
to use it's influence to stop the barbar-
tiles which were being perpetrated in
Asia The Monroe doctrine should be
upheld and European powers given to
understand that they might come so
lar, and no farther. These were pa
triotic principles and all true Ameri-
cans, including the members of the
Coke club, would endorse them. The
speaker closed by calling on Gustave
II. Backman to respond to the toast
of the guests.
Mr. Backman said it was the am
bttton of every member of the club to
emulate the illustriOUS man whose
name the organization bears. He re-
turned thanks to the newspapers for
the kindly notices given the club from
time to time, and cordially welcomed
the guests.
r. D. Earl, in responding to the
toast Of The Young Lawyer" referred
to the number of young men who had
graduated from the Coke club to the
bar, many of whom were in fair
way to distinguish themselves in their
profession. Mr.. Earl briefly outlined
the rise of the legal profession from
the barbaric ages, when there was no
i.fi oil g
their lives to the law, through the
ages up to the present time, when
LAWYERS were an important factor in all
civilized communities 1t was general
ly considered a detriment to young
lawyers to have money; poverty at the
outset was a necessity to make a good
lawyer.
CHIEF DEVINE.
James Devine was called on to re-
spond to the toast of "Religious Lib
erty." He said the subject of the toast
was one very near his heart; it was a
Weighty subject, and one which might
be enlarged upon almost Indefinitely.
In this great land of ours there is re-
ligious liberty, and it depends to
great extent on the legal profession
how this inestimable boon shall be per-
petuated
The provision of the constitution
of the United States guaranteeing the
right of every man to worship God
according to the dictates of his own
conscience was placed after Weighty
and earnest elaboration. Looking back
on the crimes which had been perpe-
trated in the name of religion one
could be forgiven for doubling whether
or no religion had been of any service
to mankind. This provision Of the con-
stitution should be carried out hon
estly Reforms were sometimes neces-
sary, but reformers were always dan
gerous. The speaker referred to in
stances of petty persecution that had
come within his own knowledge, es-
pecially to the sect known as the Sew
en- Day Adventists, who were perse-
cuted because they observed Satur-
day as day of rest and worked on
Sunday Prosecutions were generally
conducted in the name of God. The
danger in this republic today was in
the men and women who would deny TO
others the right they claim for them
selves-to worship God according to the
dictates of their own conscience.
It was proper that the members of
the Coke club should recognize this
danger and use their influence when
they become members of the legal pro
fession, and do their utmost to ward
i off.
The consciences of men could not be
regulated by government and not all
the principalities and powers or
the earth could change that
little something in the breast
of every man which says. Il am right,
THE LADIES.
John James responded to the toast
of 1.-THE Ladies'" in neat and appro-
pirate speech in which he told of his
respect for the ladies. He commended
the constitution of the state Of Titan
that it conferred upon the ladies equal
rights with the men. We have grown
out Of the idea that women are intel
IectuaIIy inferior to men. The word
mother is the sweetest word in the
English language. Women possessed
a refinement which was not found in
the sterner sex and which exercised a
salutary influence on the world at all
times.
The toast of the press was responded
TO by Kenneth c. Kerr of the Tribune
and John w. Hughes of The Herald.
John James delightfully."- rendered the
drinking song from the opera of
Robin Hood" entitled Nut Brown
October Ale"
utah the new STAR was responded
to by Fred w Mflverton, who spoke
of the brilliant lustre with which the
new star on the flag would shine in the
future. In the Coke club there were
members who would do credit to Utah
the new star, may her brilliancy never
be dimmed and her lustre never cease
to shine.
Law and Lawyers was the next
toast and was responded to by Louis
Kahn who gave quite a learned disser-
tation on law in the abstract and its
influence on civilized society as it ex-
lists today. A good lawyer is most
IL.
one is one of the banes of modern
times