New Britain herald., 1924-07-21
HUGHES SPEAKS AT
 BAR ASSOCIATION
J, s, Secretary Delivers Address
 al Westminster

London, July 2l, - Secretary
 Hughes, speaking today al weleom,
 ing exercises for lhe American BaT
 Association at Westminster Hall, de.
 elared the American delegates had
 come 10 England rejoicing In an
 amity which had become a hNed
 habit of two peoples intent on co.
 operation in the interest of peace,
 "Of all international contacts" he
 said, none could be happier than
 this We have no political ends 10
 serve. no differences to compose, no
 policies 10 advance. except the high.
 est of all---ihe 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 friendship"
 The secretary devoted a large por- lion of his address 10 the birth and progress Of the common laws. He gave an outline Of lis part in the
 American theory Of government and talked al length Of the working out were assigned in protecting the rights Of the individual as set forth in the constitution.
 Many. probably most af us," he said. "are bound 10 you by ties of blood, but oven stronger Is the sense Of the spiritual kinship that VIC are all privileged to have with those who in this land developed the institutions of liberty which were brought to the nd al, ished that they were safeguarded in an unprecedented manner.
 We come in the spirit of frater- nifty which has triumphed over the diversities Of the 4s commonuealths in our union because 1t is. in truth. the spirit Of the larger fellowship represented here today in which diff ferences of particular interest and environment cannot avail to obscure the community of tradition Of those who have been trained according to the standard and the method of the common law.
 We come with even a larger aim than the enjoyment of fraternal as- sociation In order that by these agreeable interchanges and more in- innate knowledge of each other we may promote clearer appreciation of our privilege, opportunity and re- sponsibility as ministers of justice in a world which needs justice and the which makes justice 1 possible.
 "The common law was treasured l IS part of our birthright and in- 1eritance. The ten talents that we hus received have been employed so that we are almost over- come by the wealth that has flowed rom the investment. The common yealths in our union of states, each 'overeign within its sphere, are pro- lucing laws at rate which has filled us with anxiety lest no one should be able to know the law. The fertility of the legislative soil is our despair. Our lady of the common aw has had an embarrassing prog my. Courts are pouring out deci- ions in such numbers that only the makers of encyclopedias can keep rack of them"
 Tt is of course inevitable that, with the legislatures and courts of 8 states constantly deciding and egislating, we should have not only but diversities of laws which your efforts to establish uni- orm laws especially in relation to he important transactions of com ( nercial life have modified only In a ; Imited degree.
 But before you have recovered from your surprise at hese diversities you will then have
 new surprise and a far more last 1g impression of the essential unity espite all these differences, a unity 'hich makes us, in our complex and intimate relations in our vast internal and net work of activi- es, one people with a constantly in- reasing consciousness of solidarity,
 unity which has been victorious ( yer the bitter sectional animosities the past and over the differences , origin in the colony settlement. in l limatic conditions, and in particular i