The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-17
!, the bar and in his community. and

!, the bar and in his community. and
rightly SO.
Il do insist" he said. that the
judges In this county have SO con-
Quoted the courts as to command
and demand the confidence of the
people, and my confidence in the
courts increase with my years and
Experience. 1t is important that the
people have confidence in the courts
and this will not be If we lawyers
indulge in thoughtless criticism after
a defeat Every lawyer should be 3
good loser.
THE Judge upon the bench is more
than the moderator OF town meet
ing, or the umpire of game" he
said, and scored carptng, faulthnd-
I ing lawyers while his audience OF
lawyers applauded. especially when
he condemned criticising q judge to
ones client.
4 II came before Judge Bank when
Inc was ripe in experience and learn.
ed In the law" Mr.. O'Harra said,
"and it seemed to me the lawyers all
showed the respect to Judge Bank
| to which he was so eminently en-
titled Our presence here tonight
means that, II we ever lacked IN
showing him Difference, we take 1t
all back and ask him to forgive US.
This is a great occasion, splendid
occasion, and / know of nothing that
could show him greater honor"
The EIoquence Of the Occasion.
| The safety of the people as the
highest function Of law was the sub
lject of the address of Judge w. 5.
Hamilton, now on the district court
bench.
"The kind words you have heard
about Judge Bank are not more KIND
than they are true" he began.
Never has his integrity been ques-
toned, and like all Of us Judge Bank
was imbued with the feeling that the
safety of the people is the supreme
law.
Il would rather say the law is the
supreme safety of the people, for
when the laws fail, arts and ltera-
ture fall Judge Hamilton said In
la very eloquent, classical, thought
full and earnest Grafton, and his as
Icussion of the laws as the founda-
ton of civilization and the highest
flights of human endeavor.
The most modern problems of the
days after the changes wrought by
the war were touched upon and
Judge Hamilton said: 1--WE are not
at the end Of a revolution OF thought,
we are in the midst of great reVo-
Tuition of ideas"
! He paid a high compliment to
Judge Bank as his conferee on the
bench, in closing his address.
i How judges are Made.
i John p. Kennedy, of Montrose,
) talked on the training of judge,
) and started by saying a judge must
) train himself.
) Judges are born, not trained" he
said, and few lawyers have the
characteristics that make good
Judge. 1t requires peculiar tenn
perament"
Judge Bank has all the qualities
Judge should have, Mr.. Kennedy said,
las he reviewed the work in the
superior and district courts OF the
quest of honor, referring to the
superior court position as the hard
est of the two.
ITO be tender with the younger
members of the bar is one of the
characteristics of good judge and
Judge Bank always was that" said
Mr. Kennedy.
\ Tho Just Judge.
4 at isn't very often that three
Estates get together with common
purpose" said Toastmaster McManus
lin introducing j. M. Dawson. of Ka-
lhoka, who practices law here in Keo-
ikuk. whose topic was "a Just Judge"
i Hes said this characteristic is ap-
iplicable to Judge Bank, and said:
1 He is an unusually popular man,
personally, and his administration OF
the Office of district Judge was COM
mended by all classes OF the people.
/ THE results Of his labors on the
bench are not only recognized by the
bar and people of Lee county, but
are spoken of, in highest terms, by
the lawyers of the state and sister
states, who, during his long tenure
in office as judge have had occa-
sion to appear before him.
/ His rulings show that he believed
in the healthful life and growth of
the law. but that he also had respect
flor precedents and followed them,
when to do SO, would not defeat the
lends of Justice in a concrete case.
Judge Bank Analysed.
speaking personally, more than
any one thing that appealed to me
aside from what I have heretofore
said was the mind of this Judge; so
competent to unravel the most COM
lplicated subjects and to determine
with exactness the most abtruse
questions of right or wrong.
( lone of the distinguishing charac-
iteristics of Judge Bank, while on the
district bench. / must not overlook.
It was his kindness and considera-
ton for the young men of the bar. If
he could be said to ever have been
over Jealous, it could only have been