The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-08-29
Judge kaVanaugh Expounds
On Limitations of Justice
While Ralph Bingham Sub.
mGrgGS The Audience
In An Ocean OF Joy

The Mt. Vernon chautauqua is an
established institution!
9S9 pledges have been secured for
its return next year and, as the com.
| mittee states, the other II can easily
be got The elimination of an az.
gressive campaign at the chautauqua
Tuesday night on the part of the COM
mittee and Supt. Whitney, vice Mr..
Blackwood who is i'll, resulted in the
people signing freely for the tickets,
thus raising the number heretofore
subscribed to the above figures.
1t is with a sense of gratitude that
credit for this is ascribed to the COM
mittee and to Messrs. Luther A.
Stream and Story Woolson in par
ticular. These latter gentlemen have
practically deserted their business
the last week and worked assiduous-
ly to make this years chautauqua a
go" and next years chautauqua a
reality. The trick was turned and
everybody is delighted.
good old conservative, or, rather
sanely progressive, type of lawyer
faced the largest afternoon chautu-
qua audience assembled during the
week on Tuesday and held them en-
raptured with the simplicity of his ad-
dress, the purport of his thoughts and
his radiatng personality.B 'Tis not all
speakers who can command the at
tention of an audience for over an
hour without resorting to the device
of telling humorous story, but Judge
Kavanagh is the exception.
The theme of his lecture was woven
about one striking figure-a statue of
Justice" in Dusseldorf, Germany,
with the usual scales in one hand, but
no sword clasped in the other, it hav-
ing been blown away by strong
wind. That, he said, personifed
American justice as it is now dealt
out. With the modern machinery of
law so hopelessly clogged by the ov-
erburden of innumerable technicali-
ties, it is a difficult matter to have JUS
tice properly meted out-criminals,
particularly in cities, rarely get their
just and due punishment, but general
ly are immune, by virtue of these
very technicalities. And that is why
the United States has so many more
criminals than any other country, 80
to every million people, in contradis-
tinction to Is to every million in Rus
sia, which has the highest percentage
of any European country.
The laws are good, per Sc, insisted
Juge Kavanagh, but the outward
cloak of technicalities effectively
shields even earnest efforts to pene-
trate to them. According to the speak
en- all forms of legal procedure should
be directory, not mandatory and then
much evil would be done away with,
He cited another way by which rem
edial conditions could be established,
viz, more farmers, merchants and
business men going to the legislatures
"to put little 'hoss' sense into the
legislation"
Judge Kavanagh spoke in plain,
conversational fashion and it was pro-
badly this that settled everybody in
the conviction that his, in its line. was
the best address of the week.
Ralph Bingham, in the evening, pro-
duced laugh out OF every word he
let fall and sent away the most mer-
ry audience of the week. He sang a
little played the piano and violin
little and recited Kipling's Danny
Deever" quite dramatically. His YER
satility, however, was demonstrated in
his use OF dialect, particularly his
closing number, a mythical crea-
tion, in the negro. 'brogue", of a pos
sum hunt ex-President Taft attended
in Georgia.