Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-12-10
County Bar Hold
Banquet and Meeting

cclior of Great Britain was the
guest, and the last meeting in Bo.,-
ton when Great Britain was repre-
scented BY Niatount Farley and Can
ada by Chief Justice Riddell Of On
tario Judge Fish brought TO the
listeners many, strong thoughts OF
these great magistrates, saying of
he Boston meeting:
at seems to me a. | look back
on the meeting that the cardinal
point was that men always live with
in the law, and that '''o LAWYERS
5hould always and everywhere be the
advance agents to teach this doe
trinc among mcn. But you will re-
| member how hard on the heels of
The lawywcrs meeting came the po-
iccmen's strike, which showed gross
mi >conccption of public duty. if not
, utter disregard of law. For a time
| the good people of Boston were in
| clincd to laugh at the fine lessons
and high principles which the law
yer, discussed but the laugh wa
| 7tloll- INttl iIItl IL ''Il'Ntl WITH tIlt
Vermont boy, transplantrd to Massa-
,h,,Hetts, who had dclcd the striking
policemen rs governor Of the Old
Bay state was reelected by II ma
iority of $4,000. The heart of the
state was found to be on the side
of the law and order, Is it is sure
to be when the people take the time
to stop and think"
The speaker then gave some good
advice 10 the lawyers, urging
thoughtlulncss Of others and fol-
lowing this with some very ant it,
Illustrations of "reminiscences of Judge
Rowell, Judge Barrett, f.. J. Phelp,
ana others. He said he wondered
why the law was not as alluring =
formerly, and answering the criti
ci"m that court procedure was slow
in Vermont, said at l., doubtful If
there ever was a time when thc
work of the courts in Vermont was
better caught up than at the pres
e>t time. The case? are advanced
moro speedily for t."l in the c unity
courts, are argued earlier in The
Supreme court, and decisions are
announced sooner than have been
at any time, at least in recct
years"
| Touching upon proposed amend
mcnts to the constitution Judge Fish
said that if the side judges were to
be retained provision ought to b.
made that they need not sit in jury
trials. He thought it would also b;
in the interests of economy to
change the constitution so that NOR,
cases could be tried by the Court Il:
matter of right. "Finally, in this
connection, would it be too much I"
,, ask to have the constitution amend
ed by changing the county court to
superior courts! In such an event
the superior JUDGES would hold The
supoNor cour.s, and they would be
the Judges of the superior courts
and not superior Judges who held
the county courts. There would be
the chief Judge of the superior court
and the assistant Judges of lie SUI
perior court. Tbs would len some
thing to the side of dignity, and !,
good deal to the side of harmony in
nomenclature. With such a change
we should be saved the anomaly OF
having superior judges without Il
superior court, and the error that
is made almost daily OF calling u
the Judges of the superior court"
Judge Fish closed an address, FILL |
ed with strong thoughts with Il tri
butte to the noble profession to which
his hearers belonged.
eve approach the law from differ
cnt angles, but we are bound By
the same high oath and the same
lofty standards. Your duty is to your
circuit and il your advocacy Of hia
cause your sympathics, and not in
frequently your passions arc reused
to the highest pitch. | like 20 sec il
strong man in action CXcrting all HIS
powers for his client. You think
only of winning your case and you
bend all your energies to that end.
But you should not forget that you
ought to care more for right than /,
for victory, nor should it be over
looked that the highest rewards
come from deserved reputation i'r
fidelity to private trust and publ:
duty us an honest man and patriotic
md loyal citizen.
"If the judges do not measure up
in ability and learning to the high g.,
standard that Rufus Choate fixed !
Tor the ideal judge in Il speech :
made in the Massachusetts conJtitu- 8
ional convention rs years ago, in
which he is supposed to have been
lrawing the likeness of Chief JUS d
ice Shaw, they do, l say, meet the +
,thcr attributes that are deemed by
he great New England lawyer to be "
essential in the higher calling in o
which we are engaged. Let me clio e a
" quoting part of this remark tt
bic speech:
'Thc judge should know nothing l.
+ the parties, everything about. the d
ase; he should do everything for a
nstice, nothing for himself, nothing
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