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

experience we see the many necessities
therefor. Gradually for years has our
legislatures been drifting toward the
enactment of private and special
legislation until 1t today has become Sc
general that its results are to be fear
ed. Courts Of equity are ever open,
| and have full power, to grant relief
where the laws, by reason of their
general application, are inapplicable
| Neither courts nor legislatures should
be the avenues of trespassing upon the
| rights of individuals or organizations,
nor should they, or either. be permitted
| to specially favor the one at the ex-
pense of another.
The subjects of Mitigation and the
| scope of our Investigations are 80
varied that 1t requires a general know
ledge of all kinds of business and
manufacture depth Of research and
information, a broadening of the in
tellectual faculties, minds not clouded;
| for the inevitable rule of the survival
of the fittest," Is as sure and certain
as fate, and by this standard are we all
to be measured and must either stand
or fall. When opportunities present
themselves we are then ready to receive
them with credit to ourselves and
profit to our employers. Our differences
and annoyances spring from our devot-
ed zeal and interest in the cause we
represent, and when the conflict is end
ed bury them so deep that they never
can be resurrected.
To our departed brothers let us ever
cherish the memory of their many
virtues and achievements, and so live
that in the final reunion when the
awakening comes there to find the tie
that binds us together here on earth
cement us together In Heaven.
Co-workers in a common cause, the
purposes of which are the advancement
Of civilization, the dispensation Of
justice, the upbuilding Of society, the
equalization Of rights, the punishment
of the guilty and the protection Of the
innocent-let us today renew our pledge
and devotion to our labors and promise
renewed energy, and more firmly weld
the tie that binds us together.
"Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above"
1--WE share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear,
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear"
MR.. M'GREGOR'S POEM.
"Poeta nascitur non fit."-Old Saw.
A poet must be born to fit,
Otherwise he'll never hit.
" IN
ago,
A friend proposed poet to grace this
legal show!
The legal lights then present at once
took in the joke,
And voted quite unanimous, while none
opposing spoke.
To him thus named as poet no demurrer
was allowed,
The motion being hurried through by the
jocund merry crowd.
Thus was the joke approved and passed
to defendants great surprise,
Pendente lite hardly giving time to
wink his eyes!
A poet! What presumption to set UP
such a claim,
thy of the name!
And really we must all admit, as men,
bers of the bar,
That the profession rarely shows first
class brilliant star.
Not often do we see John McSweeney
in The race,
Who charmed with gifts and eloquence
in MANY a noted case!
A Webster, and Thurman too, Of va
rious degree,
We may and do encounter and honor
when we see.
And why should we not honor such
model men, and love,
Who by their studious habits found lots
Of room above?
Our corpus juris civilis, built up by
men Of brain,
Whose lives were given to the work,
and given not in vain.
At times our legal brethren seem sort
Of lawless crew,
they'll argue till the court
gives forth their due
With straight and comprehensive terms
lays down the legal rule,
When all submit with docile bow like
gentle boys at school!
the universe tits said that
order Is the law,
And surely it is rational to such conclu-
sions draw!
Not chance or accident the rule in ma
ture's wide domain.
For Natures rule is order,and sequence
doth obtain!
Else how could science calculate eclip-
ses and the like,
Or count on anything in nature, what
ever we might strike?
So law is law, and what for no, Scot
tishman might say,