The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-30


 lie service corporations have domina-
 ted legislation. and by devious and | sinister methods controlled a majori- Senate?
 All of these deplorable conditions 1 III the nation and in the State have been possible in this era of mad
 money getting, and money idolizing,
 thT0ugh which we have passed.
 | This era was made possible by the 1 almost criminal apathy of the average
 American citizen in respect to political
 there a brighter one upon which we
 may gaze: that of the era of an
 awakened public conscience upon 1 of the old fashioned ideals are being restored to their accustomed niches. The people at the po11s, both east. and | west, are again demanding a just i stewardship at the hands of their | political servants.
 lowered their standards to serve selz fish interests rather than the peo-
 pIe' are being rejected by their hither- long needed political house-c1eaning is in progress and it will not cease until the inordinate and selfish greed of the so-ca1led special interests in
 this country is curbed, the false lead
 CTS thrown aside, and the fountain
 of government made to run as pure
 and crystal as in the days of the
 fathers-and thus the aspira ations of
 the constitution builders come to be
 fulfilled.
 The so-called progressive move
 ment within the dominant party that is sweeping aside the political barna- tical influence to the special interests is in direct response co a call for high
 CT ideals in the application of the science of government and is one of the best signs of the times. The same current is visible at home.
 Men and Measures Are Discussed.
 Where before was heavy laden apathy in the ranks of our citizens, to-day there is discussion of men and measures by the man on the street, and an alert and intelligent scrutiny of those who ask for their suffrages. i Who can advance this upheaval for higher standards in political life more suing semi-public profession, train l ed more than the Iayman in the bow-touch with public men and meas ures, the lawyer should remember | that the money to be gained is not his | sole guiding star. Rather remain poor than to give up those ideals that made Connecticut lawyers of the old school, | leaders in public thought in the van m ments, respected by the citizenship with which they mingled, strong enough to reject a retainer, however alluring, if compromising to his convictions, serving the needy as readily as the rich. scorning to take advantage of his compensation Yes, may these | ideals always remain with us, and it should require no artificial rules of standard of contemplation of that pro fession which a long line of mighty ones in the worlds history has made ] noble one. In one fortunate re- spect, the American people have never in maintaining the highest deals. They have yielded unhattering Cnd genuine respect to the courts of he land. Here in Connecticut, from he earliest days of Statehood to the uf eam pests ana npom fhe he waters Of the body polite, or he he waters are dashed into angry varks erected by the founders. both ut of the calm and out of the 4 torns a spirit of submission to the manifest.
 Court Always Venerated. g
 This deep rooted Veneration for the c 1dicia1 branch of our government, ve branches have been repeatedly lyolved in the maelstrom of con t. snding forces. may be accounted for e lstitutionS typical of law and order ut to no little degree it may. be n scribed to the high personnel of Con- b ectfcut's magistracy. W No cloud of suspicion of the integri- al of the Judges ever hung over the onnecticut Judiciary, and as officers b that Court we can take a just and a wing pride in the purity and high tI gal ability of it's members. We ex- n nd at this time our feIicitations of B 'rdia1 good will and respect to our Ia; hief Justice of the Supreme Court vt hose incumbency of that high office te stains the best traditions Of that in 0urt, and on this accession we pledge e ith special emphasis our friendship, | in Id fealty as members of this bar, tE
 the new member of that tribunal | of ldge George w. Wheeler.
 Judicial and Social Sides Balanced. nt When I asert that his probity of Il, laracter and high legal attainm ents oL fit him for the office to or hich he has been elevated, there is nc clare that he is also an al1-around bl an, you fat first will be perpIexed, oF 1t your countenances will betoken It! creasing intelligence when hasten pr
 explain that the judicial and the 10 cia1 sides of his character are so or cely adjusted that he who blithely CT d jauntiIy approaches the bench the in orping following some unusual ex- pc nsion of socia bi1ity and who i'm Sc ines that the social will be a sesame of the judicial, will soon discover the TOT of his immature Judgment We Ter lawy CTS remember Judge heeler as one of the doughtiest war tn ITS that ever buckled on legal armor is r the redress of those who appealed en him for relief We of both the old llk d the new generation of lawyers tn ow him as upright judge. a pro- we essiVe citizen, and true and just of end ~ tn
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