The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-22

personal. 1t does not concern the public
how a man conducts himself at the bar or
how he gets into journalism. When |
was informed of the toast to which | was
to respond tonight another member of the
commttee-Mr. Torrey-told me that
While discussing the city solictorship with
a South Side councilman recently the lat
ter said that an editor once got INTO
lawyers bed and quieted the awakening
sleeper's apprehensions by remarkins,
chow easily We lie together
What application the story had on the
eve of the election of the city's legal rep
resentative | will leave to inference. My
knowledge of law and journalism was not
acquired from books; my greatest law
suit was against myself, ! was charged
with bluckening the reputation of a
Democrat by publishing that he voted for
Republican. While | employed eminent
counsel yet | was not idle myself. |
have often smiled since when they limited
for their fees by telling me 1t was close
case There was a man on the jury who
lived in Hyde Park; he was an insurance
agent He called on me the night before
the verdict and told me that the pl.2e of
liberty was a policy. | said to him that
l heard it the other way-that honesty
was the best policy. He replied that an
epigram was as forcefu as a maxim.
A DANGEROUS POSITION.
l tried to get rid of him by saying that
there was a law against a person charged
with libel becoming insured; he replied
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could be successfully violated, as the pre-
MUM was all that was then necessary. |
was acquitted but never got the policy
and | don't now regret it, as | have since
learned he represented Tim O'Leary's In
surance company. But aside with levity.
The sentiment assigned is too brmful of
| thought and too suggestive of elaborate
| treatment to receive more than a passing
| word on such an occasion. May an honest
| bar ever aim to assist justice to prevail
| and its ciyili2ing influences spread until
| all of Gods children, under every sky of
| the universe, recognize its grandeur, re-
| spect its design and acquiesce in its ad-
| mnistration.
May high-minded and progressive jour
| nalism never forget its noble mission. May
| 1t ever seek the ideal in it's course for
the information and education of the
| masses, and never cease to uphold the
true and discourage the false. Side by
| side with law may it ever journey along
| times highway and may the cry of an
| archy never disturb or triumph over the
| one, and the power of avarice never thwart
| or weaken the other. Law and journalism
twin agencies for good-may their po-
| tency ever exist to guide, protect, instruct
and edify mankind on its ceaseless and
noiseless march toward eternity.
The Bar in Politics" was responded
to most aptly and eloquently by Major
Everett Warren. The sentiment was:
at don't ask much gumption to picI, out
a flaw,
In a party whose leaders are loose in the
jaw
Never say nothin' without you're ccm.
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An then don't say nothin' that you ear
be held to-"
THE BAR IN POLITICS.
Major Warren after some witt!
sallies, aimed at one or the other of hi
follows, said:
The subject given me, gentlemen, Il
rather large for an evening crowded, a.
this has been, with many themes and mos
delightful speakers. 1t recalls an Incl
dent of college days when the sententiou
professor of rhetoric said to me: Sir
your time is three minutes, your subjec
the immortality of the Soul 4" ana ! an
afraid my discussion of it win be as un
satisfactory as was the clock ot MAJ
who remarked TO "A caller, cOmplmentinj
him upon its appearance: "Well, tha
clock may look all right, but It get
things terribly mixed. | have had 1t 70
a year or two and the only thing ! hav
been able to make out of It Is this: When
ever the hands point TO twelve and tn
clock strikes two, 1t Is exactly twcnt
minutes to seven
AS the law controls all the relations o
life, regulates internatio lal disputes an
settles the rights and redrc.' 'ses the wron :
of all classes and conditions of men. II
| true disciples are bound TO be most i'm