Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-17
TRAIN CITIZENS
IN LAW SCHOOLS
PROF. B0KE TALKS ON NEW
CITIZENSHIP
SAYS GRAFT PROSECUTION Is
GREAT MOVEMENT
City Club Members Hear Berkeley
Educators Views on New
Function of Leader.
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sity of California talked of the great
purging movement now going on in CAL
ifornia before the City club yesterday,
selecting as his theme "A New Field
for the Law Schools The Training of
the Citizen"
Charles Cassatt Davis introduced the
speaker both the president and vice
president of the club being out Of the
city.
Talking as citizen rather than as a
member of a university faculty, Prof.
Boke said America needed new con-
ception of citizenship.
Vital awakening forces, he said, are
now playing about Californiahs, which
are bringing us into the larger view of
ourselves as members and parts of the
American nation.
II believe that the very movement in
San Francisco Of the graft prosecution,
upon which so many minds seemed to
have lost their vision, will be known to
future historians as a great movement
toward social betterment.
Believes In Heney
IT believe in the integrity of those
associated with the movement-Francis
J. Heney, Rudolph Spreckels and others.
II think it is to the shame of Cali
fornians that they can feel themselves
like spectators at a bullhght as l be-
lieve so many indicate when they say,
We are tired of the whole thing
''It Is always the way in any great
movement that the motives of leader
are misinterpreted, that the hot days of
a battle In long-drawn conflict bring
criticism, safety and retreat among the
many, but finally the real test is right
hn rio Of
cause.
1.-THE movement is easily traced in
America-this great, wonderful move
ment toward human freedom. First,
religious freedom, which the pilgrims
sought, then the political freedom
which the declaration of independence
set forth, then the race freedom which
Garrison and Lincoln brought into the
nations vision, and finally now, after
this tremendous conquest of individual
ism of the past generations, the Ameri-
can citizen finds himself confronted
with the problem again of freedom.
The New Day Vision
Therefore, let us accept the vision
of our new day, which is the freedom of
the citizen, the Efficiency Of the citizen,
in reducing that excess Of personal
ACKNOWLEDGMENT to its true parallelism
with the national life and in annihilat-
ing that dangerous class consciousness
which Is creeping in and Is poisoning
out great democracy.
"And now to one efficient factor of
our problem, the lawyer and the law
school,
1.-THE lawyer is by his very subtle in
formation and his opportunities and
various energies of the day the natural
leader in the democracy. We have but
to read the list-James Otis, Patrick
Henry. Daniel Webster. James Madi-
son, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham
Lincoln-to realize that at each crisis
there has been in our national life
lawyer with vision and knightly
courage.
1.-THE aggressiveness of our gigantic
business life of the past half century
has seemed to take from the lawyer. no
matter how high his personal character,
this leadership, this courage, this sense
of responsibility to the national life,
that we must now re-establish.
New Standard for Lawyers
1.-THE lawyers themselves, most of all,
realize the need of new standard, that
they themselves should be not merely
technical machines to get results for
their clients, but should be established
on a firm principle of honor and as a
direct quasi official power in the COM
munity life. And, like the lawyer. the
rise to this new vision of the need of
America, the need of California.
1.-THE university should become the
great living center of freedom of vision,
OF the standardizing of the mind that
goes forth from 1t, and no power Of the
university can so standardize the mind
that is to affect the state Of the future
as a great school of law, which will be
the official finishing ground of the
states great plan to fit its members to
perpetuate any permanent high reform,
the great current of it's life.
For this reason we must look upon
the law school Of the future with en-
larged vision.
California has a day of greatness
before 1t. It is throbbing with the
promise Of genius and beauty and won
derful environment.
From 1t believe is to rise great art,
great literature, greatness in music,
and finally greatness in the new and
wonderful art that we are about to put
upon the canvas of life-that of awak-
ening citizenship in noble expression"
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