The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-10

this evening we can point 10 Justice Har-
ian as embcdying them. A good citizen
must be a good citizen in peace and
war. He must have the decent and orderly
virtues. and he must have the essential
manliness for the lack OF which no good
intention can atone. Laughter and ap-
plause.l II will be "a bad thing for the
nation II ever we grow as nation TO SUBJ
NIT to the suppression Of efficiency and
morality. If we ever grow TO accept the
belief that we are TO have two camps IN
one of which will be grouped the men who
mean well but do not do things Ilaughterl.
and in the other the men who do things,
but who do not mean well. Laughter
and loud applause1 The art Of success
ful self-government is not easy art
for people or for individuals. IT comes
10 our people here as an inheritance of
ages of effort. IL can be thrown away:
IL can be unlearned very easily, and il
will surely be unlearned IL we forget the
vital need not merely of preaching. but
of practicirg by sets of virtues-if We for
get the vital need OF having the average
citizen not only a good man but man.
IApplauSe.l
''It is fine thing to have on the Supreme
Court a man who dared venture all for
the great prize of death in battle when the
country called for him, and then the man
VINO after the war was closed did not
content himself with living an ignoble life
on the plea that he had done so we'll it
was not necessary TO do more, but who con-
tiued TO do his duty as citizen ali the
better because he had done IL as a SOL
der; the man who remembered that duty
done. to be OF practical value, must serve
not as an excuse for not doing further
duty, but as an incentive, as spur TO
make him feel ashamed that his pres
ent or his future should fall short of his
past GApplause.1
Judge Harlan, / greet you personally
sir. wish to express my own personal debt
to you. for your influence, for your ex-
ample, but I wish, far more, speaking as
the representative of all our people. to
express the infinite sense Of obligation we
have to you for having shown by your
life what the type of fearless American
citizenship should be-"
JUSTICE HARLAN'S RESPONSE.
AS the President took his seat Mr.. Mac
Veagh introduced Justice Harlan. The
cheering was so prolonged that 1t was some
time before the justice could speak. After
expressing his pleasure at the signal honor
done him Justice Harlan said that if his
countrymen thought he had discharged the
duties of his office with conscientious re-
gard to what he deemed to be the law
and with an eye single to the ends of
justice and right and truth, his descend
ants would have in this estimate OF his
judicial life a legacy more precious than
any that he possibly could leave to them. He
always had been deeply sensible of the
awful responsibility resting on every mem
ber of the Supreme Court, whose power
for good or evil scarcely could be exag-
ment of America il had steadily held the
country in the path of safety, so that to-
day our people believe that the preservation
of the Union under the Constitution is the
surest guarantee of liberty regulated by
law well as of the success of all move
ments and all policies demanded by the
common good.
There is abundant reason, he said, to be-
leve that the people confde in its patriot
ism. its integrity and it's learning, and have
abiding faith that no permanent or irrepar-
able harm will come to the Republic by
any action the Supreme Court Will ever
take. In the early history of the country
some feared that the Supreme Court, ex-
erting the enormous power conferred on 1t.
ultimately might so change our form OF
government as to destroy or endanger the
essential rights of the States and imperil
those fundamental rights of life, liberty
and property which belong to free men.
Few, ii any, now entertain such appre-
tensions and no American lawyer now
questions the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton in respect OF every subject trans
mitted to the national government. or the
wisdom of the provision made for its final
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