The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-23
Railroad Monopoly the Great
est CT All Evil
Trusts.
JUDGE CLARK'S ADDRESS
Before the Virginia Bar Association Yesterda y
He Exposed Methods of Trusts in Eva
ding Law and Crushing Life
Out of the Masses.
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Hot Springs, Va, Aug. 22.-Chief Justice
Walter Clark, ofsthe Supreme Court OF
North Carolina, today delivered the annual
address before the Virginia State Bar AS
ISOLATION in its annual convention, and his
address is remarked upon as the strongest
and most stirring that has ever been de-
lvered before the association. Judge Clark
took up the evil doings of the trusts and
of railroad monopoly, and his exposure of
the methods of the trusts In evadlng the
law received the undivided attention of the
large audience of lawyers.
Judge Clarks address before the law
yers is herewith given in full:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Virginia
State Bar Association:
Your distinguished Senator John W. Daniel,
in opening his address to your body last year
said: ''It is great honor to be invited to
address the Virginia State Bar Association"
appreciate that honor and make my acknowledge
ments. | give you, one and all, the greetings OF
fraternity.
LAWYERS AND VIRGINIANS.
In both capacities l feel very to you.
There is mystic tie which binds all lawyers
together wherever and under whatever circum-
stances they may meet. Ii there are but two
there is straightway an argument and If they
thousand there is still fraternity and good
fellowship. l tempted to say Fellow
Lawyers" but l remember that a well known
gentleman in an address at the banquet in honor
of the Centennial of the United States Supreme
Court began by saying ''FellowLawyers-fo we
all lawyers here" and then glancing at the
of justices, added with bow except the
Judges However,. of them got even with
him for | find that Justice Brewer in an address
before the American Bar Association at Detroit
In 1898, Nol. 1S p. 453), used these words: III
would be blessing to the profession and tc
the community as well, If some Noachian deugC
would engulf half of those who have a licenst
TO pratice law But then he is an appointiv,
and lfe-tenure Judge who has not retained tn,
elbow touch of judges who remember the kindly
support of comrades into whose ranks they MAJ
one day return and who for both reasons arr
ayerse to setting precedent for drowning ou
half of the profession at dip.
| confess to having always felt satisfaction il
knowing that when our Saviour denounced Woe
unto YOU also We lawyers who lade witt
burdens grievous to be borne, and We yourselve
touch not the burdens with one OF your fingers,
and that when the evangelist spoke of "a certain
lawyer who stood up tempting Him. there wa
no reference to our profession. The only law a
that time the Mosaic law. The law student
then, unlike those of this day, studied theology
II there is any inherited damnation to be i'm
puted on account of those incidents. it is no
our profession that falls heir to it. Besides
whoever heard of of our lawyCSs refusing t
tighten his client of any burden?
Then, too, as Virginians, you my next doo
neighbors The first Governor North Carolins
ever had Governor Drummond, one of your Gov
errors, did us the honor to hang-and the TIVE
States have hung together ever since. Drum
mond after the expiration of his office moved
over here and got into some sort of rebellion q
spirit which fingered long in your atmosphere
Being captured and brought before Governor Berk
ley, the latter said: ''Mr. Drummond, / an
happy 10 see you. | had rather see you than any
other man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond YOU
IN half l.,
But our Governors not then chosen by oul
people. but were sent out to us and we had
Governors to burn in those days-if anybody had
chosen to do it, instead of hanging them We
had half a dozen rebeions and chased two OF
three Governors out of the province before our
Colony was forty years old. Senator Daniel in
his address last year boosted of Virginia having
had rebellion 100 years before the Revolution
why, along about that time, it the only
KIND OF government we had. North Carolinians
from that day down to this have been the easiest
people in the world to govern if you will only
let them boss the job themselves. Our people
nave never specially resented your executing our
nrst Ex-Governor. but you will note that the
historic remark of most friendly nature 10y
enc Oh our later Governors was made by him tc
TIE Governor Of the State south of us.
There are no States in the whole Union whose
people have been more closely connected by
ieS OF blood, of inter marriage, and close
identity OF interest and political views than NortI
Carolina and Virginia. Owing to the nature %
largely with Virginia towns and Norfolk, Pc
tersburg, Richmond, Lynchburg, and Danvill,
have not only absorbed much of our trade bu
many of people have gone to swell the
prosperity of those thriving cities
Before the Revolution North Carolina sent
regiment to Winchester to your aid under charg
of Colonel James lines, who assumed, by sen
lorIty of rank, command of the forces. George
Washington being second in command. Durin.
the long and doubtful struggle for independence
the two States stood shoulder to shoulder a
they have done ever since. In the long civil con
tests down to 1861 their views on all great ques
lions were the same. Together your people ant
ours went down into the deep waters of TIN
great and never to be forgotten struggle o
50, and together you went through the hel
with recollections of common sufferings an
common sacrifices redeemed, regenerated AM
olsentmalied by the irresistible might of on
race and rejoicing in the benefcent light O
Ahgio-Saxon civilization and Anglo-Saxon ST
premacy.
When in 1861, Virginia called. for aid, w
poured our troops like Alpine torrent acros
your southern border During those four event
Iui years whose memory shall never be forgotten
your SOIL was baptised and sanctifed by tn
piood OF our sons we'll your. Your valley
eeioed TO the tread of marching columns
ana today your mountains cast their mornin
shadows and their evening shades across tn
graves where sleep North Cardinals gallan
DEAD There is not an historic spot of thos
lour years which is not household word i
ny state There is not stricken field wher
rest not the remains of some whose names al
preserved IN loving memory by North Carolin
nresides Can We do aught than love the so