The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-01
JUDGE CLARK At Wake FOREST
"THE RIGHT TO REGULATE
RAILROAD FARES AND
FREIGHT RATES"


and Lawyer-State Can Regulate
Fares-Address Before the Law
Class of Wake Forest Col
lege, May "a, 1897.
Young Gentlemen Of the LGW Depart
ment. Mr.. President, Ladies and
Gentlemen:
The rapid progress and develop
opment of Wake Forest College in re-
cent years is a subject Of congratula
ton, not only to the great denomina
ton TO whose energy, wisdom and
l~iberRIity it owes its existence, but to
the whole State. It is doing q grand
and beneficent work and is sowing
seed which shall bear abundant har-
vests. DR.. Huffman in his late admir-
able psper on "The Baptists in, North
Carolina" in speaking Of the early
prosecutions they underwent in this
colony and the cotemporaneous con
tests between the people and arbitrary
rulers, says, with truth aud force:
''In all this long struggle the Baptists
were OF the people and with the peo-
pie. They believed in civil and politi-
cal as well as religious liberty, and
held themselves in readiness to contend
earnestly not only for the faith nee
delivered to the saints, but also for the
chartered rights Of freemen. To under
stand their rapid growth in numbers
snA5nauence it is necessary TO bear
these facts In mind"
There has ever been this compensa-
ton for religious prosecution-that it
burns into the limos souls of its vic
Tins the necessity of civil liberty and
creates q sturdy determination to
maintain it always and under all cir
cumstances-and to day the unbend-
ing spirit of freemen and devotion to
the right Of the people to self govern
ment have no 1rmer anchorage than
in the hearts of the Baptist people Of
North Carolina. A truly great man
who has now gone out from among us
and who knew this people Of North
Carolina as it has been given to few
men to know them, and who was loved
and trusted by them as they have
loved and trusted no one else, remarked
i'm my presence that the Baptists IN
North Carolina were 1.-The most indie,
p~endenteSt people on the face of the
earth"
SUCCESSFUL AS THIS COLLEGE HAS BEEN
the success Of it's Law Department
has been phenomenal. It began with
2 students in the summer of 1894, not
quite three years ago. I learn from
Prof. Gulley that in the session OF
1S94-5 it had IA students; the cata
log Of 1856 shows 81 law students,
and that of 1867 has IS "a number
which is not only greater than that Of
any other law school in the State, but
which I am told is greater than that of
all the other law schools put together.
Twenty eight of it's students have al,
ready received license to practice and
are scattered over this State, Georgia,
South Carolina and Virginia and %
more will apply for license at the Sap,
TENDER term o. the Supreme Court. ]
learn, too, that your law course re
quires two years. This is eminently
right. Young men lose nothing by
taking time to lay broad and deep the
foundations of their legal knowledge.
There is now a-days too great a dispo
sition to rush out into all the profes,
gions with too little preparation.
In nothing is the old maxim, Festino
Lente C''make haste sloWly') wiser than
In this matter OF procuring a thorough
training for the arena on which one ie
to fight the battle of life. In many OF
the States three years legal study ie
required before al mittance to the bar,
and In others four years. There are
several which require only two years
study. North Carolina is one of the
very few States in which only one
years study is required before the Law
student is permitted to stand his exam,
ination for license to practice. This is
entirely too little. 1t is unjust to the
bar, and more than all unjust to the
young student who should begin his
career we'll grounded in the principles
Of law. Your college oH3iaIs have
done we'll by you and acted wisely for
the reputation Of the college in exact
ing a two years course of study, for
your success o. failure in after life will
reflect upon the college which sends
you forth
So large and prosperous a law school
and college must, from time to time
turn out men who will be influential
for veal or woe, in guiding the desti