The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-17
LAWYERS MEET.
American Bar Association in
Annual Session
At Saratoga, N. Y, is Largely
Attended.
WILLIAM WRIT HOWE,
The President, Delivers His
Annual Address.
Pays a Glowing Tribute to He
rOes of the War.

Saratoga, N. Y, Aug. 1.-THE Amer
lean Bar association began its annual
session here today. There was a large
attendance of distinguished members Of
the bar from all parts of the country.
The president, William Writ Howe, of
Louisiana, made the annual address.
He said in part:
This is the twenty-f1rst annual meet
ing of our association. We are entering
upon the twenty first year of our ex-
1Stence, and we hope soon to attain our
majority. The reports of our transac-
tfons fill 20 printed Volumess Let US
hope that the society will long continue
to carry on the useful work laid out
for it in its constitution.
In review the work of federal legisIa-
ton during the past year, we are at
once confronted with questions of war,
annexation and conquest. To those of
US VINO took part in the late civil war
and knew what real war meant it
seemed unfortunate that our nation
should be again subjected to a trial by
wager of battle. But the trial came,
and we could only stand together each
in his own way for the flag. There is
no use to disguise the evils of such a
cOnH1ct- But we may look also at the
cOmpensatiOns of calamity If we have
yellow journalists and jingO politicians
who ply their vocation at a safe dis
tance from the range of even modern
proJectiles, we have also such men as
Dewey of Vermont, Sampson of New
York, Schley of Maryland, Hobson of
Ala bama, and AuguStin of Louisiana, as
types of American manhOOd-if 1 were
to name them all, I would simply be
calling a roll of thousands of heroes
from North, South, East, and West
and we feel that now, at least, we have
a common country, wherein we may
forget our controversies in the past, and
together press forward to some better
and higher national life
Another compensation may perhaps
be found in the triumDhS of educat ed
skill which have thus far illustrated
the progress of the war. We all re-
member no doubt during years that are
past how some member of congress
would now and then emerge from his
native jungle and rave against West
Point and Annapolis, and the Newport
war college, and the Leavenworth post
graduate school, and declare that they
were hot beds of ariStOcracy and pro-
ductive only of dudes Why should
ture so undemOcratic? Why not apply
it to improve the navigation of Bitter
Creek in the hills of the members own
district? But when this time of trouble
these educated dudes" that we must
look for great deeds. From which
facts, those of US who believe in the
higher education in law, as well as in
other professions, may take comfort
to our souls.
And in this connection, while we re-
gret the absence of our accomplished
and diligent secretary, brother John
reason. He is now Captain John
Hinkley of the Fifth Maryland vOlun-
teers, and at the moment I write he is
in camp at Tampa, having gone, like
the brave patriot he is, to fight the
battles of his country.
The address of welcome was made
by Chief Justice Alton B. Parker, of
the court of appeals.