Arizona republican., 1909-02-23

bringing physicians more and more into political and governmental re- lation, and we may expect that in the next decade they will play a far greater part than they have heretofore: and it is proper that they should.
 T may stop here to mention other technical professions like those of the chemist, soil expert. botanist, hosti- culturtst, forester, meteorologist, and the student of general agricultural science, all of whom must be con- suited and have been consulted in the improvement of our agriculture, aLC in that movement generally charac- erized as a conservation of our na- tural resources. The waste which is going on today in our forest, water and soil supplies has been brought to the attention of the public in startling statistics by the president and the commission whose report he has transmitted to congress, and such conservation may well be consid- cred with conservation of human life, in the progress of governmental san itation, hygiene and the preventatives and cure of disease by quarantine and health regulations. We must look in the future to great develop ment in all these branches and to prominence in political power and authority of those who shall succeed in effecting a reduction fin the loss of human life from preventable dis ease and a saving of the national resources. The department Of agri- culture is expanding in its usefulness and in the scope of its functions. and exercises a power directly bene- ficial to the production and sale of farm products and the profit of the farmer that no one could have anti cipated at the time of it's creation and organization. This will bring even more into political prominence than heretofore the scientific farmer generally familiar with the needs of agriculture throughout the country and able to understand the intricacies of the policy of foreign governments our farm products.
 THE LAW
 We come finally to the profession of the law. With the exception per haps of the profession of arms, law has always been in all countries most prominent in political and gov ernmental matters. This is so be- cause in a wide sense the profess sion of the law is the profession or government, or at least it is the profession in the course of which agencies of the government are all ways used, and in which the prin- ciDleS aDplied are those which af- feet either the relations between in- dividuals or the relation between the government and individuals and all of which are defined >by what. for want of a better term, is called municipal law It is natural that those whose business it is to con- strue laws and whose profession it is to know what existing law is; should be called upon in the framing of new laws; to act an important part. It was natural that the fram- CTS of the Constitution which was to be the Fundamental law of the land and to employ the limitations upon the central government deen< necessary in favor of the separate states, should be those who knew the laws of the separate states and who had the professional capacity of drafting, written laws. The creative function of the lawyer, as distin- guished from his analytical function, is to put in written and legal form the intention of the person or per sons which he wishes to make effec- tive; if it be that of a people, through the legislature, then in the