Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-22
FATE OF SLAYERS LOEB and
LEOPOLD IN HANDS OF JUDGE
HUGHES DWELLS ON
COMMON INTERESTS
BRITAIN, AMERICA

London, July "1.-Se cretary
Hughes, speaking today at welcom-
ing exercises for the American Bar
Association at Westminster Hall, de-
clared the American delegates had
come to England rejoicing in amity
which had become a fixed habit of
two peoples intent on cooperation
in the interest of peace.
"Of all international contacts" he
said. none could be happier than
this. We have no political ends to
serve, no differences to compose, no
policies to advance, except the high
est of all-the policy of understand
ing and good will. The fact that we
are here, is more eloquent than any,
thing we can say here. We come
to tighten the bonds of friend
ship.
MANY, probably, of us. are bound
to YOU by ties of blood, but even
stronger is the sense of spiritual kim
ship that We are all privileged to
have with those who in this island
developed the institutions of liberty
which were brought to the new
world and were so fondly cherished
that they were Safeguarded in an
unprecedented manner.
we come in the spirit of frater-
nifty which has triumphed over the
diversities of the ~ commemorative
in our union, because it is in truth,
the spirit of the larger Fellowship
represented here today, III which
differences of particular interest and
environment cannot avail to obscure
the community of tradition of those
who have been trained according to
the standSru~ the method OF the
common law.
I'VE come with even a larger aim
than the enjoyment of fraternal as
ISOLATION in order that by these
agreeable interchanges and more in
innate knowledge of each other we
may promote a clearer appreciation
of our privilege. opportunity and
responsibility as ministers of justice
in u world which needs justice and
the reasonableness which makes
justice possible.
The common law was treasurer as
n part or our birthright and inheri-
lance. Inc ten talents that We thus
received have been employed so profit
ably that We are almost overcome by
the wealth that has flowed from the In
Nestment. The commemorative i'm our
union of states each sovereign within
its sphere. are producing laws at n
rate which has filled us with anxiety
lest no one should be able to know
the law. The fertility of the 1cgisla-
tive soil Is our despair. Our lady of
the common law has had an embarrass-
ing progeny. Courts are pouring out
decisions in such numbers that only tho
makers of encyclopedias can keep
track of them"
ut is of course inevitable that, with
the legislatures and courts of As states
constantly deciding and legislating, We
should have not only multiplicity but
diverSities of laws which your efforts
to establish uniform laws especially
in relation to the important transac-
tons of commercial life have modified
only in limited degree.
THE spirit of the common law is
opposed to those insidious encroach-
ments upon liberty which take the form
of an uncontrolled administrative au-
thority-the modern guise of an an
cient tyranny not the more welcome to
intelligent freemen because it may
bear the label of democracy. There is
still the need to recognize the ancient
right-and it is the most precious right
of democracy-the right to be governed
by law and not by officials-the right
to reasonable, definite and proclaimed
Continued on Pace g. Col 81