The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-07-20

Which learned judges differ on, as CIV
en- in reports;
But these uncertain certain things,
anomalies, remain
Unsettled still, though oftentimes per-
haps discussed againl
'Tis said that God hath Joined both law
and equity as one,
Which man hath kept asunder almost
since he begun!
While law is peace and order, the horrd
clash of arms
Is violence, disorder, that brings to us
no charms.
peace hath her Victories" tits said, mo
less renowned than war;"
And none can more appreciate than
members of the bar.
The statutes! how they multiply. pile
up from year to year!
And vet how little change is wrought
is singularly queer!
In fact legal giant Is this fabric Of the
past,
With vet a hold on human thought
which will for ages last.
The courts continue almost as in Greek
and Roman days.
Dispensing justice as the aim. in care
full, plodding ways.
Indeed, our legal Latin terms yet tell the
olden story
And show most Enthusiastically ole
Rome's extended glory.
In time came arts of peace and schools,
and roads and bridges made,
Promoting industry which brought
prosperity and trade.
A Atribute here we gladly pay to Gibbons
noble pages,
AS told in Rome's decline and FALL"
that history Of the ages.
Opinions, precedents and such, which
final courts declare,
Preserved and printed In reports with
most scholastic care!
In these are reasoning guide-lights
which all should aim to know,
The mental mentors Of the past which
point us how to go.
Arbitrament, adjustment, in cases that
arise
Is better far than fighting through, ac-
cording to the wise.
Rome's master lawyer in his day, old
Cicero, believed
That peace was better for the state
than victory achieved.
What nobler mission is there for man
throughout this life
Than holding scales of justice to settle
human strife?
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worth and weight .narrate,
Disclosing wholesome influence in all
affairs of state?
'Absurdities," some people say, live in
the law books" now!
And throughout all humanity can't we
the same allow?
Admit that the humanities with errors
much abound
But are not courts expurgating these
errors as they're found?
to correct and balance
up the lacks in life
To mitigate and liquidate the troubles
and the strife?
The grasping greed of avarice yet much
on earth prevails,
entails
All going more and more to show that
order is divine,
And need of law and equity to keep
mankind in line!
One well may ask the question, What
constitutes a state?"
Tis not the panoply Of power with folly
tempting fate,
But men, high-minded citizens, their
duties understood,
right and justice, securing
public good!
Not royalty and eldest sons who rank
and rule the rest,
With we'll paid clergy urging that such
is for the best!
Since all are born with equal rights,
let's keep the balance true,
With law and equity in force and order
kept in view.
Short sighted man is variant in his pas
sage here below;
he's rushing rapidly, and
sometimes moving slow;
Not quite as careful as he might to hold
the golden mean,
Proceed with equanimity, nor haste
and halt between.
But we must take him as he is and do
the best we can,
To keep in line this mortal, this various
fellow man,
Or whom each is a trivial part while
lingering out his span!
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