Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-02
'HALDANE APPEALS
TO NATION ETHICS
Lord Chancellor Makes EpOchal
Address at Bar Ass0cia.
ton Convention.
THINKS PUBLIC OPINION
WILL SUPPLANT CANNON
Assembled Lawyers Propose
Matrimonial and Other Laws.
Taft to Speak Tonight.

g MONTREAL, Sept. 2.-This was the
= busiest day of the annual meeting OF
= the American Bar Association. The
z evening was set aside to hearing an
: address by ex-President Taft on The
Selection and Tenure of Judges"
At the session Of the Bar Associa-
ton the committee on commercial law
& recommended an Endorsement of the
< Pomerene bill on uniform bills OF
lading in interstate and foreign COM
!. merce and opposing any attempt to
repeal the national bankruptcy act.
The committee on Jurisprudence and
law reform disapproved a resolution
calling upon the association to con-
denim the use of the so-called tniro
= degree in criminal prosecutions.
The committee on uniform State
laws submitted a so-called marriage
& eyasion act" which in substance seeks
: to prevent persons from evading the
maria ee laws of their own states
by getting married in other States.
A special report by committee
appointed at the last meeting de-
clared that public opinion was grow
ing in favor of uniform laws lot
compensation for industrial accidents
and their prevention. Such law
said the report, should make COM
pensation proportioned TO the wages
of the person injured.
Thomas w Shelton, chairman OF
the committee on uniform judicial
procedure, said, in his report, tnat
Tex President Taft's dream OF inter
state judicial relations on oasis
as scientific and permanent as inter
state commerce relations seemed III
a fair way of contamination. Neces,
sary legislation had been introduced
In both houses of Congress, ne saiu,
for a model Federal system on the
law side of the inferior Federal courts
to be prepared and promulgated oy
the United States Supreme Court
AT Yesterdays session, Lord High
Chancellor Haldane spoke.
yiscount Haldanes theme was
higher Nationality-A Study In Law
and Ethics"
# was in many ways an epoch
making speech, dealing, as 1t ala,
with the future relationships OF tae
United States. Canada and Greae
Britain.
The speaker argued that the great
force that actuated mankind in OIL
serving the law was not fear OF the
officers of justice, but fear of public
opinion. and that therefore pubic
opinion tended more than the arb
trary execution of justice to restrain
men from lawbreaking.
Developing this argument, Loro
Haldane proceeded to suggest that
the same policy might possibly pc
sadopted by nations, and that tHe
time had come when nations might
be, as much ashamed to follow the
ancient methods of setting diner
ences and disputes as individuals
uFhad become in late years.
Bound Together by Tradition.
2 The lord chancellor emphasized the
,afact that the United States, Canada
and Great Britain together form a
slunioue group because of the common
snheritance of traditions, surround
Sfngs and ideals, and particularly in
ethe region of Jurisprudence.
2 The English visitor urged lawyers
TO assist in the freshening of the con-
vcntional atmosphere which sur
rounds men in public life by omit
ting no opportunity to think rightly.
and to contribute to the fashioning
of a more hopeful and resolute kind
*of public opinion. 1t was the chance
Eof laying before the audience at the
tAmerican Bar Association at Mon
streal this thought that induced him
ITO obtain permission from King
George v. to visit this meeting.
q Lord Haldane presented the follow
I ing message from King George ":
II have given my lord chancellor
permission to cross the seas, so that
y he may address the meeting at
Montreal. l have asked him to con-
svey from me to that great meeting
pf the lawyers of the United States
and of Canada my best wishes for its
success. I entertain the hope that
sthe deliberations of the distinguished
fmen of both countries who are to as
gs,semble at Montreal may yet further
add to the esteem and good VIII
(which the people of the United States
sand of Canada and the United
Kingdom have for each other"
= Advocates Ethical Feeling.
- Lord Haldane then dwelt at some
fength upon the differences between
formulated law. whether civil or Grim
.inal; the moral rule enjoined by pri-
waite conscience and the spirit of the
seommunity for which the English
have no name. but which the Ger
mans call "Sittlichkeit," and which
She defined as the system of habitual
Cor customary conduct, ethical rather
.sthan legal, which embraces all those
obligations of the citizen which 1t is
ts'bad form or mot the thing" to dis