The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-25
Barometer of Public OpiniOn
\ Lawyer Makes Appeal.

10 the Members Of tho Tulsa Bar:
The voice Of his imperial majesty has spoken.
The fundamental principles composing your In
hercnt rights and dulles 10 your clientele as
members of the legal profession. are no more
Your place lu The sun, ever exalted. over en-
vously regarded by members OF tho human
family from time lmmomoroL has passed The
night of trial by jury s discarded and thnt trial
whieh Christian ciyUlzatiun for TWO thousand
Years Thought an Infamous muckcry tho trial
~ Christ before tho Sanhedr.n-stands vindi-
Gated.
Tho local faithful acting presumably upon
Instructions from hs hlghucsH last night told
member NJ the bar OF this community. who
and whom the profession might represent IN a
logul capacity. u ls pcrforcp incumbent upon
%" q" bow To this imperial pleasure.
-Four years ago tOday tho writer OF those lines
stood Win oihcrs before Mount kCmmul Ia Bel
GUM. The word had bcon passed that his high.
ness. Prince Ruppercht of Bavaria. would on
the morning OF the iJth of August. make q final
effort 10 break through TO tho channel ports.
The feeling was they shall not pass. The
fntos spared uH that dag for his highucts did
not come but fate. over tickle, cXacted a heavy
tdlrcst sons when later on september 2yth. they
stormod and took the supposed imprcEuabic
Hndcuburg line. budcd by dcspot who advo-
'''ed almost 'hoH" s"lt-same principles. Princ,-
plcs that tur ages have been intolcrablc 10 q ib-
oriy-loviuE people, but which now stand again
triumphant The principles for which ihos,
boys fought ana died, the very foundation upon
which they were promulgated and have over
hvcd mas crumhlod before the VIII ~ this ma
lestic sovereign.
+, would seem we must swear allegiance. tor
short while back there walked the streets of
this fair city man noted for his spoken ana
written ideals OF the things most beautiful In
bis NE. His biblical essays appeared and aull
appear In periodicals devoted 10 the Chr,stlaui-
1atiou OF mankind. This man guilty. according
To numerous witnesses. of the vIlest crime
known 10 nature, and to natures God, Haunted
himself on an unsuspccting and innocent public
through reported past aftilauon with the same
organization from whence this most unusual
edct emanates. This man. while driven from
Tulsa, was not whipped, Nouted openly, or
far as Is now known, banishcd from the en-
virons OF the p otccting wing Of his Inspired
master but enjoys today the liberties and social
privileges OF another unsuspecting community.
so, my brethren members Of ,he bar OF Tulsa
city and county, our usefulness as such has
ended. Tho beautiful traditions OF our profess
sion lie bleeding upon the alter of despouc usur-
patton, His imperial majesty, unlike Coustan-
tine. who only made himself arbltcr Of the
Christian creed. dictates our mode of political
ana professional procedure thus striking at our
very existence. Better had we all stood IN FInn-
dcrs fields, as his majesty didn't and few OF his
followers bowed 10 militnrist ana gone to
qucnch our thirst from the River Lethe o. which
unhappy souls may drink and rest in dream.
less sleep, than lived TO see the fabric OF our
professional rotherhood torn by one living man
from the monument that has endured and sur
vived the onsaughts Of every conceivable force,
civilized and pagan, down through tho ages.
MEMBER or THE TULSA BAR.
Tulsa, Aug. 10.