The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-02
MANY LEGAL LIGHTS
OVER 800 LAWYERS ATTEND
MEETING OF STATE BAR
ASSOCIATION
H. F. STEVENS FAvORs TRUSTS
Attorney EstabroOI<, of Chicago, De-
Iivers Eloquent Address on Ham,
iItOn, in which He Defines
the Ideal Lawyer.

The State Bar Association of Mime
sofa held its annual meeting yesterday
at the state capitol in the house of repre-
sentatives, with an attendance Of over
900 prominent attorneys from all parts
Of the state. 1t was distinguished gath
ering, comprising judges, senators, poll
ticians and eminent citizens of the state.
Judges Start, Brown, Lovely and Collins,
of the state supreme court; Senators
Young, Lord. Sheehan, Snyder, Mccoy
ern, Collier, Horton; Representatives An
derson and Roberts; Judge McGhee, of
the Hennepin county district court; w.
S. Hammond and Carroll A. Nye, of the
state normal board; Daniel Fish, Thomas
j. Knox and Hiram Stevens, of the re-
vision of statutes commission, were
among the distinguished personages pres
ent.
The meeting was one of unusual import
snce from the fact that it was in a great
degree test of the proposition whether Or
not a state bar association can be main
tanned in Minnesota as successfully as II
is in other states. The meeting yesterday
proved conclusiveIy that there is no dan
ger of a repetition of the history of the
defunct state bar association, of which
the present organization is the successor.
The attendance was all that could be de-
sired, and the interest and enthusiasm
was very encouraging. There are over $50
members enrolled now, and this number
viii be doubled in a very short time.
stevens FavOrs Trusts.
Senator Hiram F. Stevens, president of
the association, presided over the con-
vention, and delivered an address on
Industrial Feudalism." He argued that
trusts were necessary to the development
of the county and would play as import
ant a part in the history of the country rs
IN nv nd
would finally perish, as feudalism had,
after their mission was performed.
Trusts and industrial combinations are
a necessity. They cannot be dispensed
with, for they enable us to compete with
the markets of the world, as they are the
great means today of reducing the cost
Of production" said Senator Stevens. He
said that just as the ancient feudalism
had made England invincible on land and
sea, so the modern industrial feudalism
would make the United States invincible
commercially in the markets of the world.
When that had been accomplished indus
trial America would return to the old
plan of individual effort, just as the feud-
al system had been abandoned in the old
world when it had served it's purpose. In
this movement the lawyers owe their
country and the people double duty to
aid in the effort to make the country the
supreme commercial power of the world
and at the same time to protect the in
terests OF the common people.
Success Is Assured.
Senator Stevens, in speaking Of the bar
association, said that it's success was now
assured, and that it was sure to grow to
great proportions and be a representa- tive
and influential institution in the state.
The attendance here today" he said,
sis most gratifying, because it is a rep
resentative gathering from all parts Of
the state. We ought to be proud of our
showing today. We have $50 members,
and over half of them are pure and un-
contaminated, as they come from outside
the cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis"
The address of the convention was de-
Ivered by Henry D. Estabrook, of the
Chicago bar who spoke on Hamilton
the Lawyer" Mr.. Estabrook's address
was listened to with the closest atten-
ton by the large audience. Although he
read from manuscript, his address was
very interesting and was greatly appre-
ciated. He said, in part:
Next to the fact that Georges Wash
1ngtOn was what he was, this country,
and therefore the whole world, is most
indebted to the fact that Alexander Ham
ItOn was a lawyer. 1t is impossible to
separate Hamilton the lawyer from Ham
1lton the soldier, Hamilton the statesman,
Hamilton the fnancier and especially
Hamilton the cOntroversialist. 1t was to
f1amiltOnS legal mind that he owed his
various pre-eminences. The legal mind is
something more than a storehouse of
legal lore, more than an index of cases,
and pfgeon-hole Of court files The
law is not simply the latest guess of the
supreme court. Law is that rule of ac-
lion which must prevail if justice itself
IS to prevail, and he is the greatest law
yer who, in the light of the greatest
knowledge of whatever is movable most
clearly perceiYes the lust Drinciple and
most persuasively advocates it. The legal
mind is the scientific mind WITH an ethi-
cal kink in it,
The Ideal Lawyer.
The speaker then spoke of Hami1tons
development as a lawyer.
He was reader of the American bar.
Why? What is the equipment OF the ideal
lawyer? First, [ would place the texture
and quality of mind; second an en-
cyclopedic knowledge based upon ac-
curate study; third, temperament; fourth,
endowment physical and mental, with