The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-06-05
GEORGE DAVIS ADDRESS.

Answering the toast, Our Relations
With, and Duties Toward, the Bench"
George A. Davis said, in part:
There is no pursuit in life which APP
pears more captivating at a distance
than the profession of the law and 1t
is followed and rewarded in American
Courts of Justice. 1t is a high calling
! indeed. The ambitious youth who has
become full fiedged law student looks
forward to the time when he will cheat
| the jury and the judge and influence
! the judgment of the sages of the law
and how. in few short years, he will
have climbed the ladder of legal fame
| to dizzy heights, and this dream is
strengthened If he enters a law school
| by his being thrown into contact with
and his intercourse with the grave pro-
| fessors and theoretical lawyers who fill
the chairs of our great universities.
Alas, only one of five hundred ever
! realizes the hopes of youthful ambi-
| ton; 1t is but dream stale and un-
| meaning.
The admission to the bar completes
for the time the aim of many youth;
the first case unfolds to him his true
| position: the hoodwink Is removed and
! he sees that he has entered the most
| difficult of all professions to succeed in.
| There are thousands of brighter men
| in the profession than he, all struggling
! for fame and place, but he is fortunate
indeed II the judge who presides over
his first case gives him a kind word
and smile, perhaps some suggestions
| for II will encourage him more than all
the college honors he may have gained
His duty Is to be respectful, courteous
and considerable and while that cannot
be demanded from the judge on the
bench by the lawyer with his first
case, yet the strong and fearless judge
+ will say that kind word and make the
: suggestions.
! Who among US have not felt at some
time In our lives like telling the pre-
Z siding judge to go straight to that
place where we are taught 10 believe
there IL an inexhaustible supply OF sui
phur and birthstone? Lawyers have
been removed from the court room for
looking straight In the eyes OF the
judge 10 see II he means TO give him
"a square deal" which the bar have
a right 10 demand Of the judiciary.
Such instances are rare and both bench
and bar soon forget them and they are
In most instance due 10 the weakness
Of our natures ana % the beast that
Is IN rs,
The power "a punish for contempt IN
the hands ~ iust Judge II never
used Tor the bar s his friond ana frm
supporter al an times IN the legis-
latiye han la times nf excitement ana
danger he can rely on The loyalty ana
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