The Nome daily nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1906-1918, 1908-11-05

ing hfm ia, by Gay obedience to lawful
autHorit,
The church while striving Co teach
obedience Ia the higher laws 1T cur
nature. ever Keeps in mind thv idea
tlat "a msH - aut fitted fer- citizenship
in Heaven ahuvr until first trained IN
Jh, ~g.nuI ~ obedience, To established
secular authority below
-pid NOT tae Prime. 81 Peac, exhart
his followers To- render unto Caesar the
! things which are Caesars. and auto
Cod thu things which are Gods
The church aims to cultivate in
man love nf righteousness. love IF
peace and love of purity assured that
these principles Vel implanted IN aim
will lead him 10 obedience Of an laws
madr 10y man for mans good.
Tut where YOU say. is thu parallel
%. the court To- the public school and
the church
Does not a court present scenes If
strife aud dtScord7 Is not truth SCI n
defiance he witnesses oftcntimcsa md
dos not sometimes litigation in the
courts result ia the triumph Of wrong
] answer IN these questions. YES.
@Bu the conflict Is always Of the
rig4 against the wrong If through
thu indrmity Of human reason and
human nature sometimes wrong may
truly seem IN triumph over the right
Vet il must ~ horne in mind that all
~ mans works are subject to imper.
'"ettous. because man himself is not
perfect
In determining Who Of two Iitigants
Who enter the doors of our courts
always open tn the Wronged ana ap-
presSed-has right and justice ON his
side. the Judge rs the cxpounder Of
the law Of every case. has resort Ia
that fountain of Justice. the common
law of the land
Thu common law is built upon the
principles taught BY the Master-the
principles If equality. truth and ias-
tiee These principles not only form
tho foundation of tn common law. but
they enter the very fabric of that law
as its warp and Waef II any rule If
Law becomes in vogue whose unaerly-
ing principle is at war with the ctcr-
nal principles of righteousness. short
will be the ltfc If that rule. because
tin lack in "a law If any principle Of
righteousness. when discovered. is in
terffeted by courts rs the rt1cSt proof
that Tho rule is not The law aud forms
no part of il
Tin common law has been charac-
terized by nigh judicial authority as
the erry perfection Of reason. as wcll
a~ the Perfection II the highest and
best in every cod Of morals.
II is by The application Of such
principles To the facts developed in
eFrfv casc that courts ever aim To-
bring about just aud equitable and
humane decisions.
IF then. there bc dmperfcctions
auG failures in the administration Of
Ian it is not because our Iaws-at
least our common Iaw-are not vital
led hy righteous principles. Rather
are the failures due To- the human IN
strumenrs Who are delegated To deter
mine the law and apply it 10 the facts
Of cases.
The district court Of Alaska held
it~ first session in Nome in the year
l>9a in tent At that session Judge
Charles II. Johnson. who was then
sole district judge for Alaska. presided
since came here he has told me
Of mis- wadng in mud and water 10
reach the temple If justice. ana when
he got there how it rained for much Of
the time and dampened his judicial
garments.
/ In the following year. 1900. Judge
Arthur H. Noyes arrived in Nome and
AT once began the erection of the plain
structure which has served us as our
court house from the summer of 1900
until we gathered together the federal
| effects and came with them Ia the
nobier structure 10 which We today bid
YOU welcome.
The old building. implanted and
weather beaten. has withstood the
fury of many storm without and has
echoed to the din of many a hard
fought legal battle within To what
class or form of architecture the old
building belongs it is not for man to
tell.
4 preacher who once had in charge