The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-13
SPEAKS T0LAWYERS
AT SPECIAL SESSION
OF ANNUAL MEETING
Requests Defense Against
Reckless Assaults BY
Designing Persons
8 WINS PROLONGED APPLAUSE
Declares Citadel of Poor Against
Oppression Is judicial
System

Washington, Oct. 13.-(P)-Members
OF the American Bar association
Thursday were summoned by Presi-
dent Hoover ito defend our system of
government against reckless assaults
by designing persons"
This message was given them We'd
nesday night when Hoover addressed
a large gathering of the law profess
sion in Constitution Hall at special
session of the 55th annual meeting Of
the association. The president said:
1T is your task to prove again what
none knows better than you, that the
very citadel of the rights of the poor
against the oppression of rulers and
against the extortions of the rapaci-
Gus is the judicial system of the coun-
try, and that the ilnpregnable apex
of that system is the supreme court OF
the United States"
President Hoover was presented by
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
AS he entered the chamber with Mrs.
Hoover, and Guy A. Thompson OF st.
Louis, president of the association, the
chief executive was greeted with ap-
i. plause by an audience attendants estl-
mated at 5000. Several times his ad-
dress was interrupted by handclapping
and at the conclusion he acknowledge
ed prolonged applause by arising a
second time from his seat.
Welcomed By Justice
Chief Justice Hughes welcomed the
president with the greeting I'VE ten
der to him our fitting assurances OF
profound respect and deserved es-
teem."
At the conclusion, the chief justice
thanked the president "for his con-
tribution" on behalf of the associa-
ton.
On the platform was distinguish
ed assemblage of national and inter-
national barristers, including Marquis
Reading of England, Paul Reynaud.
French statesman, members OF the
supreme court and John w. Davis, OF
New York, 1924 Democratic president
ial nominee.
"Our form of government Is on
trial in the eyes of millions OF our
citizens" President Hoover said.
economic stresses of unparalleled
magnitude have wracked our people,
and in their distress some are tempt
ed to lay the blame for their troubles
upon the system of government under
which they live. >.
TT can be a dangerous thing. If
wise and trusted men fail to explain
to the people how often In history
the peoples interests have been be-
trayed by false prophets Of millen-
ium, promised through seductive but
unavoidable and disastrous theories OF
government.
1.-THE menace is doubled by the fact
that these vain allurements are today
being offered to our harassed people
by men of public reputation in econo-
mics and even by men in public LIE"
Procedures Too Unwieldy
President Hoover told the lawyers
"your court procedures are too un-
wieldy" and that it was their duty to
simplify them Ito make the admins
tration of law a terror to evil-doers
by it's promptness and certainty" He
continued: 80,
"A corollary duty, one that will
hasten this end, is that you shall
purge your profession of men un-
worthy of its trust. You occupy a
position unlike that Of other men,
who may honorably pursue only their
private gain. You are, besides that,
quite specifically officers OF the gov
eminent, sworn members OF the courts
in which you practice.
"Too many men have been allowed
tn take this oath and then be false
to it. They use the complexities OF
law and procedure, not to effect JUS
tice, but to defeat it. These men you
must scourge from the temple wnlcn
they profane."
Earlier the association approved q
report urging uniform state anti.
machine gun law, and commended
police for adopting scientific methods
of detecting crime to replace the
third-degree."
After cornerstone ceremonies at the
new supreme court building Thurs
day the association was to hear At
torney General Mitchell speak on
'.Reform in Federal Criminal Proce-
dure."
The association elected its general
council for the year after the presi-
dents address. Those elected In
-!,:acd ~ A. Hildreth, Fargo, N. D.