The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-20

United States Supreme Court Judge
Rufus W. Peckham, United States At
tOrney General Harmon, New York
Court of Appeals Jud ge Bartlett
United States District Court Judge
Coke. J Randolph Tucker Of Virginia,
Henry Hitchcock Of st. Louis, William
Allen Butler of New York, Edward J.
Phelps of Vermont, James C Carter of
New York, Nathan L. Shipman of Con-
necticut. Bishop John P Newman and
Sir Francis Lockwood and MOntagu
CraCkenthOrpe.
President of the association, Moore
field Storey of Boston, on presenting
Lord Russell, said; I have now the
very great pleasure not of introducing
for he needs no introduction to any
English speaking lawyer, but OF pre-
senting to you Lord Russell of KiIo-
Wene, the Lord Chief Justice of Eng
land, who will deliver the annual ad-
dress on the subject of international
Arbitration" "
Lord Russell prefaced his words by a
modest but handsome acknowledge
ment Of the loving and hearty welcome
with which he was hOnOred on this Oc
casiOn.
The following is the address of Lord
Russell, chief justice of England:
Mr.. President:
Mr.. first words must be in acknow-
1edgment of the honor done me, by in
Viting me to address you on this interest
ing occasion. You are q. congress of law
yers of the United States met together
to take counsel. in no narrow spirit, on
questions affecting the interests of your
profession Ito consider necessary amend
mentS in the law which experience and
time develop; and to examine the cur
rent of judicial decision and of Iegis-
latlon, state and federal, and whittier
that current tends l. on the other
hand come from the judicial bench of
a distant land, and yet I do not feel
that am a stranger amongst you, nor
90 you, think, regard me as a Strang-
-
munities which differ widely in many
respects, IN the structure of their con
stitutiOnS and otherwise, we vet have
many things in common
We speak the same language: we ad-
minister laws based on the same ju-
diciaI conceptions; we are co-heirs in
the rich traditions of political freedom
long established, and, We enjoy in COM
mon a literature, the noblest and the
pureSt the world has knOWn-an ac-
cumulated store of centuries to which
you, on your part, have made generous
contribution Beyond this the unseen
crimson thread" of kinship STRETCHING
from the mother islands to your great
continent, unlteS US, and reminds us
always that we belong to the same
though mixed, racial family. Indeed
the spectacle which we, today, present
is unique We represent the great
English speaking communities-com-
munities occupying a large space of the
surface OF the earth-made UP of races
wherein the blood of CeIt and Saxon, of
Ill.
are mingled and fused into an aggre-
gate power held together by the nexus
o1 common speech-cOmbining at
once territorial dominion political in
uuence and intellectual force greater
than history records in the case of any
other people
This consideration is prominent
amongst those which suggest the theme
on which I desire to address VOIIN
namely International Law.
Human society is progressive
gressiVe let US hope to a hfgherap1Ire1
more unselhsh ethical standard. The
Mosaic law enjoined the principle of an
eye Tor an eye, a tooth for a tooth The
christian law enjoins that we love o77~
enemies and that we do good to those
VINO hate us. But more Nations AL
though progressing, let us believe in
the sense which I have indicated do
not progress pari passu one instance
hand. ZIG 9UDJect IN
Take the case of privateeri1e Tho
United States is today the onI[2 er,-aa+
power which has not given its aI7bssio,1
70 the principle of the decIarafio77 -
Paris of 1856, for the abOIitior of ~
watering The other great nations of
t1e earth have denounced priI-a tee7i,9r
as immoral and as the cover ana ~
fruitful occasion of piracy. I am not a.
all concerned to discuss in this cOnDao
tlon whether the United States yvera
E1ght OF We're wrong, It would not be