Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-22
LARGEST IN
TIE WORLD
CORNERSTONE LAID IN CHICAGO
OF COOK coUNTY's NEW
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE
FAIRBANKS is ORATOR

vice fFeSloenS Is Guest OF Honor at
Dinner Given by the Commissioners
Discusses Public Questions in Dis
course-other Speakers.
Chicago. Sept. 21.-The corner stone
Of Chicagos new county building at
the corner of Clark and Randolph
streets, which, when completed, will
be the largest court house in the
world, was laid today with elaborate
ceremonies Vice President Fair
banks was the orator of the day. Ad-
{ dresses were also delivered by Gov
Sernor Deneen, Mayor Dunno, and Pres
ident Brundage of the board of com
mtssioners of Cook county. The vice
president arrived in the city shortly
after 7 o'clock and proceeded quietly
to rooms in the Auditorium Annex. At
his especial request no reception COM
mittee came to the train to meet him.
He was greeted at the hotel, however,
by number of city and county Off
cials. He spent the early part of
the day quietly in his apartment.
The ceremonies incident to the cor
ner stone laying were preceded by a
military parade in which Mr. Fair
hanks and oFrmer Lieutenant General
Corbin had personal escort of COM
mittee Of thirty-eight prominent citi-
zens Of Chicago. This evening Mr.
Fairbanks will be the guest of honor
at banquet given by the county com
missioners.
Fairbanks Speech.
Vice President Fairbanks spoke in
part as follows.
The capital of Cook county wields
vast power in the world Of trade and
commerce 1t holds a place of COM
manding Importance in the Mississippi
pi, valleYYAgreat today and destined to
maintain her future supremacy, Chi
cago, sitting here in her majesty upon
one Of the lakes, is destined to exer-
oise profound influence, not only up
on the great intermediate portion OF
the republic, but a greater or less in
fuence upon the commercial and polit-
ical forces of the union. If she shall
we'll fulfill her present promise she will
in time become the seat of commercial
power upon the western continent
The edif1ce which is to arise here
will stand visible testimonial Of the
breadth and the progressiveness of Z
great and splendid community. With
in it is to be erected your temple OF
justice, where the rights of persons
ard property will be adjudicated and
respect for them enforced. Here is
to be heard in the serenity of the ju-
dicial chamber the all-powerful voice
of the law. Here the weak and the
strone, the rich and the poor, native.
born and alien, will stand upon a plane
Of equality.
The courts Of this country have
hitherto splendidly vindicated theil
claim to the general confidence anG
the national respect When anarchy
struck cruel blow to organized soci-
8 city, when it challenged the potency o.
the law of the land, the courts of this
county, with promptness and under or
derly processes, showed the world tha
the institutions founded by our faith.
ers, possessed the virtue and power tt
preserve themselves, and that here the
law of the land is, indeed supreme.
Law or Anarchy.
We are a people governed by the
law enacted by our chosen representa-
tives. With us it is the only sover
eign before which we bow and Il
which we yield ready and willing obed
ience. Without the supremacy of th'
law is freely acknowledged, there car
be no great advance. Law must rul
a
I progress in trade and commerce; tn,
conservation of the rights of labor an.
capital: the maintenance and perpetu
alton of the American home. which, il
the final analysis, is the strength AM
glory of the republic; while anarch,
means the destruction of the home an,
death to social and national progress:
In the tribunals to be establishe,
here there is no Individual or corpor
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able to override the law. Here the arm
of Justice will command obedience t
the wholesome restraints of the law
enacted for the protection of legiti
mate enterprises against combination
which may be conceived in a spirit L
unjust selfishness. Here the voice 0
the demagogue will be powerless Her
be heard-justice, which is unmove
by passion or by the appeal Of un
righteousness.
While courts of justice protect tn
rights of the people and maintain or
derly free government there is pow
er greater even than theirs, a powe
more potent than constitutions an
statutes, and that is public opinion
that moral force which is the dominan
judgment for the time being Of the en-
& tire BODY Of the community 1t is in
8 tangible yet its mighty influence i
felt in the making and enforcement
of the laws. We cannot accuratel
delineate its boundaries, yet we readil
recognize its potency. This all-pow
erful influence is created by man
forces acting and reacting upon eac
other. but it is largely the creation c
the press of the country. We hav
seen the press quickly create and a
rapidly change public opinion. Ho,
important is it that this great powe
like all power which affects the wei
fare of the country community, shoul
be used with rational andI patrioti
judgment. 1t is of vital concern tha
the forum where the laws are mad
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