Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-30
JUDGE BREWER ON CIVIC DUTY.
Declares That Obedience to Law Should
Be Purpose Of All.

dispatch from Chicago last night says:
Justice David ]. Brewer of the United States
Supreme Court delivered an address here
tonight under the auspices of the Munich
pal Lecture Association. Justice Brewers
theme was obedience to Law the First
Civic Duty" and his discourse was lis
tened to with marked interest by an audi
ence that filled the Auditorium rheater.
Justice Brewer referred in opening, to.
the greater frequency Of crime in cities
than In the country. This he attributed to
the greater opportunities offered the Grim
inals by cities, both for plying their voca-
tons and for escape. the heterogeneous
character Of the population of cities and
to the fact that the crank and the fanatic
hasten to the city to find the material upon
which they can most easily work. SWIM
dlers seek the city, because there the gull
Iible class exist.
Every swindling corporation" he said,
every get-rich-quick concern makes its
headquarters in the city. What do they
who are engaged in such schemes, whether
as crank, fanatic or swindler, care about
the requirements of the law? And how in
different are the ones gullible enough to be
caught by such schemes to the regulation
which experience has shown are neces-
sary to protect the unwary against the
wiles of the undesigning?"
After referring to the rapidity Of living
In great cities as potential cause of
crime, Justice Brewer said: Accompany
ing the rapidity of living is the changed
manner of life. The marvellous inventions
have revolutionized all our ways. From
striking flints to matches, from horseback
to automobile, from bus to elevated rail-
roads, from messenger and letter to tele-
phone and telegraph, with or without wire.
New curriculums have taken the place of
the old-fashioned courses of education.
King James version is superseded by the
woman's Bible. st. Paul has given way to
ST. Anthony. Methods of doing business
are new. Mergers, combinations, are in or
der. Strangely enough, in the days of
trusts we cannot trust ourselves to hold
our own railroad stock, and so organize a
Northern Securities Company to hold them
for us. new literature possesses us.
There is a bigger man than Shakespeare.
Everything must be up-to-date.
After all, in the long struggle for civic
purity and Righteousness reliance must be
placed not upon the mere modes of admin
istration of forms of government. but on
the unflinching purpose. The man be-
hind the guns determines the outcome of
battle. Waste no time or strength over
trivial differences concerning modes and
methods Enlist under the single banner
of civic purity, righteousness and obedi-
ence to law. Enlist not for one campaign
only but for the war. Just so soon as that
fact is known and all come to understand
that your single and resolute purpose is
the maintenance of peace, obedience to
law; that that purpose Is something not
taken up to day r be laid down tomorrow.
but the fixed abiding purpose of your lives,
you may be sure that disorderly elements
will yield to that purpose"
Immediately after the address by Justice
Brewer a reception was rendered In the
Auditorium, in which the general public
participated. Tomorrow Justice Brewer
will be the guest OF the Chicago Bar As
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