The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-28

foreigners, and they must be made 10
feel the same deep reverence and respect
for law which has always characterized
our race. If they do not we lose control
of them and they help to swell the ranks
of anarchists. When therefore our courts
attempt to apply injunctions in repress-
ing such people are they not using very
dangerous weapons and should they not
hesitate unless the law is clear beyond
peradventure.
"Given a servile bar and corrupt or lg-
norant bench and no greater menace to
the liberty of the citizen can be found
than in the unrestrained or reckless
granting of injunctions. Few appreciate
how much the Anglo Saxon bar has done
to maintain liberty, during the last six
hundred years. 1t takes great courage to
withstand usurpation whether by officials
or by the bench and unless the bar
maintains its sturdy and bold indepen-
dence a great bulwark of liberty has
been broken down. So also great cour-
age is required and often shown on the
bench. But the bench is made up from
the bar. A venal cowardly bar means
great loss to the people.
There is also danger that judges may
become too much impressed with their
own Importance and we can already see
signs Of this in the larger cities of the
country. This has a direct tendency to
foster an official class and thus to weak
en- the bench greatly. That this has not
before become an evil with us is largely
due to the high character and legal
training of our judges. Such a judge will
generally be as modest as he is able. 1t
is observable that the judges of our Uni
ted State Supreme Court have been
modest men.
cit is very evident to those who have
carefully observed the situation that the
universities, through their law depart
ments are absorbing the legal education
CT the country 1t is necessary and wise
that it should be so. The time for study
in law office has passed, and the bar
of the future must look to these institu-
lions for its training and strength.
what then should the true law school
be, what its aims, and how should they
be developed and carried out?
'Its first aim should be to educate and
train men for the practice of law. OF
course the law school must insist upon
a preliminary education which will en-
dDlo It's enIeTluS SIuueulS " III ohI"D'J
pursue their work in the school. Every
effort should be strained to make the
student think for himself
eff after three years the student has
learned to think clearly as a lawyer, to
analyze facts, and so straight to the
core. to instinctively feel a legal prin-
ciple, and to use sound judgment in its
application, that student is a trained
lawyer and it is of very little conse-
qUence whether he knows any one legal
rule of law or not.
But above all the atmosphere of the
law school should at all times impress
the student with the dignity and impor-
lance of the profession. Let him thor
oughly understand that money is not the
end and aim of the lawyer, but rather the
courageous. manly and upright defense of
right dealings and pure living.
"Citizens of North Carolina, you have
your chance at your very doors. Back
up the excellent law school of your State.
We are here to help celebrate the COM
menecement of the law department of
Wake Forest College. and for one feel
that l can do my small part in no better
way than urging you to help richly en-
dow this law school.
81 know nothing about their financial
condition, but / am going to assume that
such an excellent school must necessarily
be AS much in need of endowment as the
other schools of the country. Wake For
est College was founded to provide in
struction as extended and thorough as is
given in a secular institution, and to aim
at the development of the highest Chris
tan character among the Students and
yet they have conceived and very wisely
too. that such object can be furthered by
the carrying on of law department and
l will venture to say that the Baptist
denomination is strengthened each year
by the accurate technical training which
is given here The authorities here
know that the Baptist church is and
ought to be greatly concerned in giving
opportunity for the best legal training,
and we have but to remember such names
az the bar of this State as those OF the
Hon E. w. Undertake, George w. Ward,
w. E. Daniel, J. L. Webb. j. F. Spainhour,
Senator Simmons, the Hons. Claude and
W. W. Kitchin, to mention only rev
of those who have received their educa-
ton here. with the further name of Prof.
Needham Y. Gulley, who is now doing
strong work here, to satisfy us that this
conception from the standpoint of the
church has proved of vast benefit to the
State, and to the nation.
"All hail then to Wake Forest College
and may God bless the great work in
which she has been so long and nobly
ergaged.'