The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
He Opened the FIoodgates Last
Night.
Inundated the Lawyers With
Flow of ElOquence.
REFERS TOTHAW CASE.
Makes Comparison With MUIR
der Trials in Kansas.
F. N. Harris eff Ottawa Makes a
Hit at Banquet.

ways DeQeckeQ With strange NCA NAe-o
CLEANED from calf covered volumes.
called law books, counted care1ully
every nose that went in the dining
room at the Glen-Wood hotel last
evening and after scanning every face
and finding not a client among them
decided it was safe to give themselves
over to unbridled mirth and 70 1orgel
they are accustomed to awe the oro1-
nary plug citizen into handing over
fees without batting an eye.
1t was the twenty-fourth annual
BANQUET of the Kansas State Bar as
ISOLATION. There were a few scattered
gray heads but for the most part 1t
was strictly a young crowd-the aver
age age could not have exceeded 40
Across and between elaborate
courses the conversation flowed merI
rily-mostly of course along the wen
grooved courses or shop taih- - ttt7
a good natured crowd to begln VIII
and when the toasts were unstoppereo
by Judge ]. S. West, who acteo as
POSTMASTER every keen pointed, "a plo-
" thrust Joke or offering or Wit, was
received in a way to make the talker
appreciative Mr. West in a happy
vein deity introduced the subJect OF
toasts in a way whlch orousnC lUutlr
after round of applause and Laughter
and finally wound up by Gaining Ior
the "oratory of bewitching hooche-
cooche.'
j. G. Waters Address.
RI nj Joseph u
intrusted the response to the opening
toast and it is safe to say that ne never
felt in better humor or caught more |
appreciation than when he tOlo Oh
Laws and Lawmakers. MI. "a'ei'
said: 49,, co.,
at have never known, thank Tor
tune. a lawyer of Kansas while con-
ducting the defense in murder case
who permitted the family of the &C
cused to go to and from the trial IN
an automobile; who ever handicapped |
his case by having countess nsure
in it as a chaperone to the prisoner
who ever ventured to permit Car
neoie to sit in the wailing place set
anart for the defense; and never
heard any one of thems upon the re
CENT of a hundred thousand ooilaI
Press as he journeyed across the con-
tinent to establish his multiplied De
lenses of emotional insanity, regular
insanity reasonable doubt, allol ana |
not guilty.
human: his capacity is tethered by the i
frailties of the flesh. think 1t Is De
yond his environment and reach, Wheh
he undertakes to have the supreme
court empty ali the bitches in Colo
RADIO to reDlenish the overflow OF the
Arkansas. 1t is contrary to the DAINTY
appetite of the members or that court
for them to consent that the Rocky |
Ford shall lapse into a luscious mem
oYv. That river at best is but fitful
perspiration when the fever is on. and
land along it's banks never raised
heets or became worth a hundred dol |
lars an acre. until the underfiow had
been exhausted by the Colorado
bitches.
Just about the time that court held
that it had jurisdiction in that case.
there appeared a new work on the
Roman Water Law. from the clear
brain and prolific pen of a most dis
tinguished member IF the state par
f,o NIL
wondered the more why it was pub
Iished: common curiosity searched for
the monfed man who had financed the
scheme. Some said he did It 20 attract
special counsel. 1t is a bad book, on
which criticism can we'll slack lis
thirst and jaundiced envy satisfy its
appetite for blood; but the LORD Al
worse. MI Ware. understand, is abb
sent from the city.
"a new code of procedure is to be
presented to the legislature for pas
sage 1t is as near perfection as ex-
perience and wisdom can suggest, but
I hope 1t will not pass We have had
too many bouts with adjectives and
adverbial phrases of the old code to
give it up now. We know when shall
means may and when the first per-
son singular means neuter general in
the third person plural. 1t Is the
bantlinR of the whisky interests. If it
come to their elders for any more ad-
vice. 1t has got to be any way, so that
the older practitioners have got to
take a back seat without it. After this
new tangled examining board gets
through with its questions, there is
nothing more for the graduate to
learn. unless it is something about the
law.
And this leads me up TO the law
and the law makers.
There IS no state or sovereignty in all
the eras of the worlds history that has
as an enlightened. just and humane
body of laws as Kansas Our laws
ought to be our highest civic pride.
Not one citizen in a hundred has any
acquaintance with them except in a
hap-hazard and hearsay way. The
laws are not taught in our public
schools nor in our colleges and uni
versities outside of the limited law
classes. The ordinary student would
not know the Kansas Pandects IL they
stumbled over them in the highway.
The first qualification OF a gentleman
some day. will be that he knows the
laws of the land he lives in, as he ,
knows his body. And the day Is COM
ing and that soon, when he will con- |
slider 1t his highest duty and pride to /
obey them, if we continue to elect
Democratic county attorneys to teach {
US, that in vertebrated animals Ike we
mammals. that the law is omnipotent $
and its respect should be universal
THE law makers every session give ,
us fright; the underpaid and under
fed reporter magnifies tie insolence of
office the recreancy in trust confided !
to our legislatures; but after the close !
of every session when they present us
the result of their labors, 1t is astound-
ing how good are the laws enacted, and
how few the ones that should not have
been enacted. The laws of a state is
the standard on which the people may
rally: and no one ever lifted the ban |