The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-30
JUDGES NOT
 :. CONCERNED
 IN LEGISLATION
Custom Incorporated in Prece- dent Becomes Authenticated and the Precedent is Law
Judge Wheeler Refers to Pre- sent Agitation Against Judici-
MT. Toastmaster, and Brethren of the

MT. Toastmaster, and Brethren of the Bar:
 My thought can turn to no part of this State and not there find the mem
 lasting admiration and esteem; held
 always with friendly, and often with
 afectionate regard.
 But this is different, so different the
 same in kind, yet intensive in degree.
 This is home
 This the place where 27 years ago, aud I began the fight of life.
 This the place where the strong friendships of life have been made, and where every interest of the pro fess1on pulls, as it has never ceased strings
 I could find no comfort or happiness in Judicial place, or advancement un- less it came with your cordial ap- prova1.
 I am not dealing in fine language.
 Tonight I speak my heart, and it re- jo1ces greatly in the quality of the feeling you've shown me years past and it can never know icy more com plete than that which comes through friendship with the brethren of the bar. This mark of confidence and re- gard, you give me not as the measure of a Judgment upon work done in strength and fullness, but rather be- of this lower world'' placed in early professional life in my keeping the highest trust of the law and of our profession, and you have seen past the mistakes and the infrmities with the eye of a friend, and if you have seen the man, trying to tread duty's round striving for the right with an eye sin gle to truth and justice, and knowing no life fuller in service and usefulness than that jealous pursuit which holds us all in her grasp, my cup of happi- ness overhows
 When too often the practice is to pull down, to look below Hinstead of above, to think the i'll and forget the good, when we have seen the unkind- Illness of the printed page towards the heroes Of the nation, lifting them high as though to throw them the further down, seen our hopes of peace at the | first call of the enVious or the scan dalmonger torn from the proud pedes- 1 tai raised by their years of patriotic | toll, seen but a day ago the great ad- 1 vocate of our profession, he who has | graced the place Phelps became and 1 Lowell adorned, but who though far from us denied his own axiom that l the more a lawyer became something l else the less a lawyer he becomes, and 1 in his last speech on English soil spoke the words I love to recall gro De 2. priest, and possibly a, high priest n the Temple of Justice; to serve at ler altar, and to aid her to maintain md defend those inaIienable rights of fife, liberty and property, upon which he safety of society depends; and 'uccor the oppressed and to defend the to maintain constitutional lights against all violence whether by he executive, or by the legislature, or oy the resistless power of the press, ,r. worst of a1l against the ruthless of an unbridled majority. and 'estore it to it's proper place in the world; all this seemed to me to fur fish field worthy of any mans ann oition''; he. who has in honest contest snatched the highest prizes of the pro-