Arizona republican., 1909-02-23

more executive cdpaclty, ana being at the head of large business concerns have had more experience in dealing with large transactions and in direct ing the movements of many men. This is doubtless true in a sense. The real executive faculty is so rare that it makes itself conspicuous. in what ever profession or business it may appear. But I must think that the practice of the law, especially in what I have previously described as the creative part of the practice, brings a lawyer into relation with other men in such a directing and instructing way that he Is himself a constant cultivator of the executive faculty. More than this, business men carry on their business accord ing to their own rules. Great gov ernment departments have to be car ried on under statutes and legal reg. ulations with many detailed sections and provisions, and every depart mental head must study and analyze the statutes and regulations which control it with care in order not to be a violator of the law. This neces- sity for analysis of the rules govern
 
 makes its administration much easier for a lawyer than for a business man or a member of any other pro- fession.
 Tn what I have said, I have not argued that the lawyer Is necessarily the leader in public opinion, the ex ponent of great reform, or that he is likely to fix the standards of public opinion in a moral awakening and an uplift of business integrity. Such leaders and opponents of great moral reforms are essential to our progress. They come from every profession and walk in life. They are born lead CTS of men. The mercantile spirit the effect of luxurious living, the greed of financial power, the inertia produced by present comfort, all have d tendency to blind us to abuses and evils that creep into our business. governmental and social life, and it needs some great strong, courageous spirit to point not in too delicate color and with not fear Of hurting peoples feelings, the truth, and to stir up the people to demand in tones that cannot be denied a reform of the abuses. After it Is settled by popular decree such reforms must take place, 1t Is for the members of the legal profession, clearly advised as to the necessities of the case, having a nice and accurate knowl edge of the operation of proposed statutes and clearly perceiving the practical difficulties in their enforce ment which must be obviated by afs sA ich lacr means of making such reforms per manent and effective.
 THE CALL FOR GREAT MEN
 National exigency seems to- call forth. as if by aid of special Providence, the men peculiarly fitted to meet the requirements of the sit uation. Such were Lincoln and Grant during the great Civil War. Such in the Revolution was Wash ington, the anniversary of whose birthday this university appropriately makes its Commencement Day. He was not a lawyer or a doctor or a minister. He was surveyor and farmer. As a student of military science only in the hard school of experience, his profession may be said to have been that of arms. Not brilliant, not facile, not eloquent, he had those qualities which place z him far above the brilliant, facile, able and learned men who were gathered about him in the struggle for American independence. He was leader of men. His pure, disinter- ested patriotism, his freedom from small jealousies, his marvellous com mon sense. his indomitable perse- verance and patience, and his seren- ity and calm under the most trying circumstances, gave him the victory victory which could be traced not to brilliant genius or professions. training, but to that which of all things is the most to be pursued and desired-to his high character as a man"
 the Taft cabinet will be selected during the stay of the president elect in New York, whither he will go tomorrow morning to remain un- til Saturday.
 He was the guest of honor at the annual midday dinner, of the fam ous first troop of the Philadelphia, City cavalry, which has entertained every president from Washington to Roosevelt; his presence for a brief period gladdened the diners at. the annual dinner of the Grand Army of the republic at the Union league club tonight; and he finished the evening as guest of honor at the an. nual banquet of the alumni of Penn sylvania university where he repeat ed the address he had before made on student life.