Arizona republican., 1917-09-04
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 BY EL|HU ROOT ID SOUND ALARM CRY
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, Sept to sound a -cry of alarm" throughout the nation for a successful prosecu- tion of the war in an address deliV cred today by Elihu Root, before the conference of bar association dele gates, an organization allied with the American Bar association. He urged that members of the bar exert every influence he possesses over his clients, friends and associates, in that direc- tion.
 It has become evident" he said, that this is conflict between two opposed and inevitably opposed sys- tems of government, of policy, of poli tics. of human society. It has become evident that war was brought on with I purpose to establish a military au tocracy. It has become evident that more than a generation of careful preparation has been made for this very thing, and that the demOcracies of the world, rejoicing in peace and in prosperity, in political freedom and in individual liberty, were in great measure and in differing degree un- prepared to meet ths attack upon them
 Slowly they have gathered to the support of the principle of their li7es, the principle upon which they live, against the adverse attack con this principle, the domination of which means the death of democracy and the everlasting destruction of the sys- tenn of individual liberty of which we are the high priests of the bar.
 So long as there exists a great and powerful military autocrocy which has the purpose to secure domination by military force, so long republics de- mocracies, countries which preserve individual freedom and individual rights, countries which subordinate government to freedom must be at the mercy of autocracy. As well go to sleep with a burglar sitting in your front hall as to talk about peace and security of a democracy with Ger many still competent to pursue it's career of demonation.
 We are in the fight and the stake for which fight is liberty and it is our bar which stands at the door through which oppression would enter. It is not so easy for the farmer to see there will be a deficiency in his crops, or in the sale of them, for the manu-
 
 wearing clothes or shoes or using ma chinery; but it is easy for us to see that with the domination of that mili- tary system that subordinates the law, that makes the bar but a cog to an administrative system of government and leaves to the bench no independ- ence-it is easy for the lawyer to see that everything he has contended for of individual liberty and the suprem- acy of the law over executive power will be attacked and destroyed if we do not succeed in this war"
 MT Foot spoke after he had been elected chairman of the conference He was interrupted by applause many times during the address
 The delegates endorsed a plan for giving war time legal assistance which pledges the lawyers to give le- gal aid to those entering the federal or state service and the local exemp tion boards; to conserve the practice of lawyers entering such service; tu cooperate in relief work including gratuitous assistance in probating the estates of those who have died while in the service; and assisting the fed eral and state authorities in all activi- ties in connection with the war, in- oiuuiiS PioFiuiiS Puoiic opeaheiS ioi the promotion of patriotism and patrl- otic endeavors.
 Henry R. Rathbone, of Chicago. who proposed the resolution, was author iZed to offer it before the American Bar association which meets here to- morrow. Efforts made in many cities to give free legal aid to the worthy poor were indorsed in a resolution urging state and local bar associations to foster the formation in their re-