The San Francisco call., 1901-12-22
LAWYERS TALK
AND THEN DINE
California State Bar As
sociation Finishes
It's Work.
D. M. Delmas Delivers a Fine
Address on an Economic
Subject.

The California State Bar Association is
now fairly launched The days of its
travail are over and the work Of organi-
zation will now give way to earnest labor
on legal problems that confront the law
yers and the jurists in their everyday
work
During the morning session of the asso-
citation convention yesterday the assem-
bled attorneys listened to reports from.
special committees in the maple room of
the Palace. In the afternoon in the Su-
preme Court chambers addresses were de
livered by Frank n. Short of Fresno ana
D. NJ. Delmas. Then came the banquet
in the evening at the California Hotel
and the final adjournment until next
years convention.
Delmas' address was the feature Of the
days proceedings. To a crowded court
room he reviewed the struggles between
labor and capital, analyZed the natural
antipathies brought out in the conflict
and ended in fine rhetorical passage,
suggesting justice as the remedy to crown
the reconciliation of the two.
Justice as a Factor in Economical
Problems was his subject. Running
through his discourse was the theme Of
Justice. So effective was the address
upon the audience that the association
resolved to have printed 100000 copies,
which will be distributed throughout the
State.
Committee Suggestions.
At the beginning of the morning ses-
sion Van R. Paterson of the judiciary
committee reported on a plan to relieve
the congestion of business in the Supreme
Court. He said he had been in consulta-
ton with Chief Justice Beatty and he
thought his suggestion was the best. This
was for the establishment of three appel
late courts in different cities Of the State
one in Los Angeles, one in San Jose and
one in this city. A committee Of seven
as may be practicable and feasible for
the relief of the Supreme Court.
The Superior Judges and District Attor-
neys throughout the State were appoint
cd a committee on extension.
The committee on legal education ad-
yised a plan Of qualification and admis
sion to the bar. 1t was suggested that
commission of three be appointed by the
Supreme Court to give both written and
oral examinations to applicants.
Frank n. Shorts address was an urgent
call for help on the part of every lawyer
in the State to better legal conditions.
Delmas' Stirring Address.
Mr.. Short was succeeded by D. M. Del
mas It was the peroration of Delmas
speech that reused the audience. 1t is
as follows:
Side by side with the work of education shall
that Of religion proceed. Unmistakable indi-
cations seem to leave room to doubt that If
the church-Protestant or Catholic-wouid re-
tain its position as a controlling factor IN
shaping the actions of men, 1t must place itself
in the forefront of that longing for economic
Justice which is now so powerfully agitating
the masses They mistake the temper Of the
times they fail to rate at its proper value
the intellectual development brought about by
universal education who fancy that the minds
Of the multitude long continue to be en-
tertained, or the yearning Of their hearts lie
satisfied, with theological disquisitions about
controverted dogmas. or the pageants OF cere-
mcnial worship
paramount function Of religion is to prepare
meil for the life to come They will insist th5t
life this side the grave. The downtrodden and
the oppressed will refuse assent to the doc
trine that to bear wrongs without murmur
is meritorioIs in the sight of God, or that the
suferings Of this life constitute the surest title
century will cast aside these doctrines as the
false teachings Of a past age-an age when
the church derived its support from the favors
Of a triumphant militancy taught the divine
right of kings to reign, and. condition Of
becoming a partaker in their rule, helped
princes to keep their peoples in subsection by
incucating the doctrine Of submission to au-
thority-an age when, to borrow the language
Of Englands illustrious historian, 1.-THE most
slavish theory that has ever been known among
men prevailed" and when mo breach of law
or contract, no excess of cruelty rapacity or
licentiousness the part of a rightful king
could justify his people in withstanding him
by force"
Once more, as in the days of the Apostles
and the martyrs the true nature of Christ s
mission upon earth shall stand revealed. Ones
more his teachings, disentangled from the en-
numbering casustry of schoomen and the
subteties of theologians shall be understood in
their true and sublime simplicity. Once more
his gospel shall be known to be the gospel of
humanity, his kingdom the brotherhood of
man. and his rule the sway of eternal justice
And so. through the enlightenment of the
intellect and the Duriication Of the heart. shall
justice be established among the peoples Of
the earth. And so peace shall be proclaimed
between the contending hosts of capital and la
Dor on that day when. not only upon the
frieze Of the courthouse in the valley Of Santa
Clara but over the entrance of every school
college and university and above the portal Of
every chapel. church and cathedral shall be
inscribed the sanctifying words Justitiae ped-
icata and when even thus, by common and
universal impulse of mind and of heart of rea-
son and of sentiment the abodes of law edu-
cation and religion shall all be equally devoted
dedicated, consecrated to Justice.