New-York tribune., 1903-06-23
YALE LAW SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT.
ADDRESS BY WHITEL4W REID.
The Monroe Doctrine: the Polk Doctrine.
and the Doctrine of .fnarchisn7.
iFr TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE.

forum Of Hendrie Hall by whtelaw Reid Editor
of The New-York Tribune. Mr. Reid's address Was
Changing Aspects OF Some Old Points in Pub
lie Policy and International Law Il was listened
n by an audience that packed the auditorium, Ia
frs doors On the platform and in the audience
were distinguished Yale alumni and invited guests
O. the university. among them being President
Arthur Twining Hadley OF the university the Rev
pr- Joseph Anderson. the Rev. DR.. Ray Palmer.
the Rev. DR.. Newman Sunyth and John : Sarrert
q the Yale Corporation; Acting Dean Theodore :
Eoolsey OF the Law School. Dean-eleCt Henry
Wade Rogers OF the Law School. formerly presi-
ds1t Of Northwestern University; Dean Ingerson
at the University os Tennessee Law School Judge
John H Perry. Of southport Conn: Judge Edwin
6 eager OF the Connecticut Superior Court and
sx-Judge Dwight n. Loornis OF the Supreme Court
C. Connecticut MI Reid spoke as follows:
There is e thought to-day IN the minds of
al OF TO which shall not refrain from Civ
iug expression at the outset. II is one Of graft
tude for the services, regret for the departure
and hope for the unbroken rest and enjoyment
Of the retiring Dean Of the Yale Law School
NJ own gratitude goes TO Dr. Wayland as a
sor- OF Inheritance. for over forty years ago in
remote western college, my first lessons IN
Moral Science and Intellectual Philosophy were
taught from his honored fathers text books
yours IS Of that more intimate character that
cones from seeing the son take the torch from
the fathers hands and bear il blazing forward
ever your pathway.
May venture further on expression Of the
pleasure given 10 a great body of college-bred
men throughout the length and breadth Of the
United States. and especially 70 almost every
who in the past quarter Of a century has
had 70 do in however humble a way. with the
foreign service Of his country. by the continued
ouJy here OF the present acting Dean? To those
who learned Morals and International Law from
the tongue or pen Of q former eminent Presi-
dert Of Yale. no work Of Woolsey can fail TO
Re weighty.
THE PROFESSION. NOT TRADE. OF LAW.
IN looking over some Of the impressive ad-
dresses called out by your Con1Inencement IN
L. 7 chs cd HAT he
speakers have generally had something TO say
more directly 70 the graduating class, and that
this has been reserved for the conclusion OF
their remarks The little have in this kind is
50 simple that may as well have done with
= at once ] merely wish 10 express the hope
that as You go out with the training ana uhoeF
the inspiration CT Yale II is to be the profession
and not the trade OF law that you are going TO
practise
country what in spite of the bewildering and
T1nprecedented changes Of later years its friends
eriIl love 10 recognize in it may be seen in the
picture drawn by most tntelIgent ana acute
foreign observer, over two-thirds OF e century
ego. I quote from N De Tocqueville:
america there are no nobles Or literary @ T2sr F3
Lawyers corseouenty form the highest political
class and the most cultivated portion OF socle' y
They have therefore nothing 10 gain by innoVaii't
which adds conservative interest 10 their natuIa
place 1he American aristocracy should reply
without hesitation that i IS not aInoI1E t me F It
pies the judicial bench and bar IN that
is qualified by its attributes and even by its faults
70 neutralize the vices inherent in popular govern
uent
That gentlemen. referred necessarily and ex-
clusively 10 what I mentioned e moment ago as
the legal profession, distinguished from
what under modern conditions, and IN the IN
tense life Of our great cities your critics are
now apt 10 talk about rs the legal trade. u
the latter 10 man has written such words and
10 man has thought Of such praise There is
stu cherished among our national glorles the
name OF a great lawyer in New-Haven, who
f7ourished here century ago he Is FAMOUS
fo- his connection with the law. but he would
have been famous without the law. He WORKED
e. trade before he studied law IL ne had lheh
pursued the trade Of law he might perhaps nave
retained the honor won in other helds, Dut we
should have been prouder to speak OF hlIn solely
IS Roger Sherman, the shoemaker
Perhaps the contrast between the profession
and the very highest form Of the trade OF law
80 never more Sharply and even exasperating-
y drawn than IN an old Boston oratlon. fuII OF
the fire and stern ethical exaction Of our stormy
a7-i-slavery days. Without approving ITS pit
teraess, and without accepting even its iI1pll-
cations Of principle IN Ihelr extreme LeLS -,
an going 10 read z short extract from II IhaS
may serve you as a summons 10 the hlghest anu anu
best level Of the great profession Tor ~hlch you
have been fitting:
Suppose We stood in that lofty temple OF }oriS- rs
p-a5ence-on either side Of Us the statues o. me me
gac aWers O eEeTy age 45lu l5,+ 6cafed free
N4p--EnEl laud-Would bear IN the pageant rome 4
oman VINO when the Emperor CaTacalla a M haUt- II
deEed MS own brother aho o+If q a ' t Tstter
-#ar suy his lips with the aroclous pea Anu
5-r-s- = n sr7jeseesfjI worthy, when he went TO
.7-a sr arraged King. Of the farewell MS VIE an7
dressed FirnICo! forget that you have a wife and
rrdrer 70 ruin. and remember only that you nae nae
France 70 save England says LnaI Is CoAe, VIZ
flung The laures Of eighty years IN me Iace o. le
first STUART the defence OF me peDpIe- L-9 =
Sef5ar or5 every book o. whose library You sa"
vr-e1 the motto Of which he Veq ~9rJhy' ye-e ;f-
sva-rrhire. Liberty That Is MaISlela 81 :; :;
t0nsue5 who proclaimed, slaves cannot oreate I,l -
-~rIre 10 make law synonymous with justice @ ana
succeeded in making Life ang properly sq-T " vse csc
ei5c.e-ce in spite OF Lord Eldon and George III
rs5e = safe speak and 10 print =. l-,.. -,
Then Nev-Engla-d shouts, -Ihls Is slodts 49, ~
made II safe to murder: and Of whose health
thieves asked before they began TO steal
Unjust 20 the lawyer II no doubt was put
- IN estimate OF what some Walks o. TN idN'
NAY be MADE. il Is raordan- and ineffaceaole
I- that lofty TaIhalla OF which MI. FhllilpS
Ffoke. consecrated TO the stern ano a"IDL ~ 1
u-e Cf Justice herself. and peopled ONLY py lL-e
Sons o@ voC- profession. whose conspicuous ser
vice approved them worthy 20 worship a me- ne
F-~l-e-ir that noble company, say you L1
look IN vain for the statue Of the TnooeTH 81
hulance-chaser" any species Of the I1loue.,i ,i
speculative danlage-suit lawyer. Far Iess VII
YOU ind The tradesnan in litigation VINO mas
found ways 70 com biue chaupertT ana ffl4lilteH-
s-ce with the practice of the courts nay. sou
VII not even find there that sort OF brlIllal5
corporation lawyer whose practice IS coIlIlheu
70 teaching corporate wealth how TO eVaoe Jhe
laws OF ne land. that other whose pracuoe
les n teaching Trades Unions how to con1ucC
campaigns against property without ir1perllLlLle
their own incomes. and campaigns against 1ree
labor by terrorism. by the bludgeon, by dytla-
mite without lncurring responsibility Tor such
1ee6s. while enjoying the victory they secure
FeT. perhaps. in any Law School or IN any dSe
may hope 20 reach that lofty company, the no
bles ~ your truly aristocratfc profession the
'sUrestes of the law. but better far fan snort
M that upward and shining professional path
thai race 10 the front in the downward road or
The +rade
THE MONROE DOCTRINE