The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-12
Lord Shaw ADDRESSES
Bar Association

, the associated Press)-A plea that
the members of the Anglo-America,
race must be comrades forever" was
made tonight at the convention of the
American Bar association by the RI
Hon. Lord Shaw of Dunfermline, rem.
resentative of the bar of Great Brit.
ain at the sessions.
Lord Shaw based his plea for com.
radeship on ga common LOYALTY to
law" and appealed for the abolition of
the ancient grudge." He paid high
tribute to number of American
statesmen, including Lincoln, Wash
ington, President Harding, Theodore
Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and
characterized Elihu Root as "the Gro
titus of America"
The call for unity came at the end
OF a lengthy address in which the
English barrister discussed many
technical points of laws which the
nations observed in common. He
touched briefly on the breakdown of
Russia and advised the legal profes-
sion in this country to "keep in touch
with the ground of common sense"
Humanity lies bleeding and
stricken said Lord Shaw. The hand
OF war and the hand Of the doctrin-
aire who knows not justice lie like a
curse. We think of, the union of tho
English speaking race, not for it's own
sake, but for the service that lies to
its hand-to staunch wounds, to re-
dress wrongs, to remove expressions,
and teach men new and better wav
for body and soul.
I'VE men of the Anglo-American
race must be comrades forever. I
know no palmer call to the comrade-
ship of righteousness than q common
loyalty to law. My appeal to you is
that the ancient grudge should 90 for.
ever, and that the ancient comrade
ship should be renewed and repledeed
forever.
DO not think we on the other side
are not aware of and sympathetic with
you in those constitutional difficulties
with which you are confronted. We
know the illumination of jefferson
against alliances, we know the power
OF the written constitution, not only
your minds but most deservedly over
your hearts. 1t will be the highest
task OF your craftsmanship to evolve
out of the citizenship of America
something which honoring and con-
serving it, will yet give it lofty place
In the citizenship of the world.
Watch that moving, jostling, elbow
ing, combatant crowd which we call
civilization. There is a figure there
bigger, more outstanding, more COM
nanding than the others. More and
more he seems to control the crowd, ,
suppressing confusing, regulating
traffic, making the rough places plain
and every place safe; and his hand Is
swift and heavy on crime and on the
sneak and tender and helpful to the
weak and the struggling and the op-
-presse....s1ey'' ~ '''-- -..~.,aet is-Eaw.
AT this hour, after the great war,
even as the smoke smell of blood clear
away, law resumes its sway, planting
anew the standards OF legality human
and divine.
81 reckon the conference of Wash
ington to have been greater than 3,
conference, and the five power naval
agreement and the four power pact
for the Pacific ocean, the one with its
real, instant, and definite limitation CT
armaments, the other turning posi-
bly, this great ocean into a Pacific
reserve. l reckon these things to be
sensible mitigation of the fears of
humanity, a sensible contribution to
the peace and progress of mankind
We heartily bear in mind the services
and achievements of America in the
world cause, and the firm and practi-
cal craftsmanship of it's president and
secretary of state
"The best amongst you probably
look back to the later fifties and the
carly sixties-that trying ordeal for
your citizenship. Then it was that
the law of status and the law of the
constitution had to be co-ordinated,
and that under the high planes of lib
erty and the rights of man. Lowell
puts the old view which the older le-
gality could always defend; Here
stand on the constitution, by thunder.
"These were defensible propositions
n the mouth of mere lawyer, a mere
constitutionalist, a mere politician,
and Lincoln was patient with them.
But when to yield to them would have
been to rive in twain the American
Commonwealth, then his heart, always
true, cleared his vision, and he seemed
to reason that man was more than
constitutions; that the law was made
for man and no man for the law.
"When every citizen can truly feel
that the law can be appealed to as his
friend, then strength and healing
come into the body polite and the
function of law, even on the everyday
level of individual disputes and of diff
ferences between man and man, add,
to the healthy sense of independence
xtrh. nl g h.