Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-29

company rose to their feet and, with nap
kins in the air and cheering that must nave
attracted the attention Of men in the street
10 stories below, paid him deserved TRIBUTE
NEXT to that OF the Chief Justice, the
IN speech of the occasion was that OF Mr
Carson He never did better in his life and
will never do better live he as long as Methu-
saleh and speak he at all the dinners that
will be given to him. His tribute to the
Supreme Court was superb, his impromptu
to the women-hundreds Of whom the wives
and daughters of the members of the asso-
citation, occupied seats on the floor among the
diners, but, naturally, after the men had
eaten all the dinner-would have made him
the best man at any suffrage meeting; but
the special thing that he said was his COM
ment upon what President Wilson had said
in his address of welcome to the Bar Asso-
citation at its first meeting on Tuesday. In
his speech, one OF the most happily expressed
of his many public utterances, the President
said that "in this time of world change, In
this time when we are going to find out just
how, in what particulars and to what extent
the real facts OF human life and the real
moral judgments Of mankind prevail, 1t Is
worth while looking inside our municipal law
and seeing whether the judgments of the law
are made square with the moral judgments
of mankind" The President further said
that 1.-The opinion of the world is the mis-
tress of the world" and that what we
should be watchful of is not so much Jealous
interests as sound principles of action" 1t
was in comment upon what the President
said that Mr.. Carson scored his most effective
point when he spoke follows:
There is a matter of consequence which
has arisen within the last two days which
calls for the gravest consideration. The
President of the United States in his address
of welcome to this associaton-an address
which was one Of the most perfect examples
OF conversational oratory that have ever
heard-suggested in words fit for the delecta-
tion OF the Saints, that the Judges should
extract from the atmosphere about them
subtle something, a natural equity rowing
sense of justice, and breathe 1t into their
decisions. So far as the thought implies
lofty purpose to promote justice and prevent
the preparation of wrongs, either public or
private, the Courts and the Bar will heartily
respond, and the history of the Courts is the
best vindcation of the doctrine; but II 1t
implies that the Judges are at liberty to dis
regard fixed principles and substitute an
underlined and intangible popular apprehen-
sion Of what decision ought to be, which
will vary with the sensitiveness of each in
dividual Judge, then the doctrine is fraught
with peril.
1T is not judicially safe that the Constitu-
tion should be so inflated to act like
balloon driven hither and thither by every
gust and wind Of doctrine, and care should
be exercised against the escape Of noXious
vapors that might suffocate those restraints
and limitations of power which the people
have ordained for their own protection
against themselves"
THE President declared that 1t was not his
i purpose to "impeach the law; but his
speech, otherwise than as Mr.. Carson inter
preted it, would have been so regarded by
many mischievous persons of political ambi-
ton who are constantly seeking to do this