The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-11

partially enforced. Men of the mors
successful sort are able to evade law.
Unsuccessful men cannot evade IL.
for money is the agent OF evasion.
have the greatest respect for our gov
eminent and It's arch. the courts.
would say that can conceive OF no
greater peril than a popular distrust
or courts. As lawyer, | have seen
good deal OF the courts. l do not
like TO admit IL. but II rs true that
there is considerable dissatisfaction
with the conduct OF our courts and
am one OF the dissatisfied. | will not
speak more specifically.
When | first began to practice law
clients would come TO me. state their
case and ask me, Am | right?' Now
adays the only question they ask Is
Car | win?
III we are to avoid a revolution OF
some sort I'm this country our courts
must hew close To the line OF justice.
and upon them much depends.
Our life is moving rapidly. We are
SO fiercely engaged in the commercial
strife that We have come TO look upon
those who cry for the rights OF man.
and against the iniQuities OF special
Interests as our enemies. There is
u
wise and foolish poverty. That wealth
Is wise which Is honestly gained; that
wealth is foolish that carries with ii
foai OF justice and equity. That pow
erty Is foolish which has been brought
by idleness or dissoluteness; that pow
erty Is wise which eats its crust with
out fear OF the law. | believe that
the tyranny OF wealth is 20 be over
come, and that honest poverty will
| give way to that honest comfort, due
honesty.
Some OF the people look for the
| United States to become a rich
mans government, maintained by
lnoneyed aristocracy. Well, / have
this TO say: The hands OF the clock
OF destiny are moving rapidly. Soon
| il will strike for revolution or a re-
turn TO ancient principles. ask. which
shall IL be? am myself an optimist."
Gov. Marshall quoted from a speech
he delivered at the Jefferson dinner In
New York a month ago: When the
drunk OF business prosperity has pass
ed away. and we sit in the gray dawn
OF an accomplished evil and face our
OWE conscience. do we not under
stand that, after all. the only things
which weigh in Gods scales or In
Iutu SCdltr III ItiiBlOn, III III
politics or in business, is that course
Of conduct which grants 10 every man
the same rights and privileges which
We claim for ourselves? Let this be
the land OF men. not laws; of love. not
force; of opportunity, rot expedi-
ency
III discussing personalities he paid
tribute to his mother and 10 his wife.
or the latter he said that she had
been his inspiration and was his equal
life partner. learn that he has never
been separated from her for "a hours
during the years OF their marriage.
For women he said: Some people
complain that there Is not enough
work in America for the women to do.
and they would have them to go into
the affairs OF state. | do not believe
that women care TO do this; II they
did. they would have suffrage. Wom-
ans work Is the best work that life
offers. They make the home and rear
the children. Their home influence
for good Is more potent than all the
laws and courts and policemen OF the
land. And TO the mother comes the
inexpressible satisfaction OF living as
The model for her child's life and
through the work OF hers she gains
ana holds the truest love that God
had given the human breast to know
the love OF child for its. mother.