and confusion, from lawlessness and dishonesty, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way, that we may be built up as a people in wisdom, justice and power, sensible of our obligation of service to the world, and mighty to set forward peace and happiness throughout the world. Be present with us this morning. Bless the deliberations of this assembly. We ask this in the name and for the sake of Him who taught us to pray, Our Fatuer who art in Heaven, halowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom.come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven: Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us:our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver :ys from evil, for Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever, Amen. THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen of the Bar Association, I have asked Judge W. H. Laughlin, of our local Circuit Bench, to extend a welcome to our brothers of the Tennessee Bar. Judge Laughlin. JUDGE W. H. LAUGHLIN: Mr. President and genlemen of the State Bar Association: It is a great pleasire to me to be allowed the privilege, on behalf of the Memphis Bar and the people of Memphis , of welcomng you here on this occasion. The people of our city re no less happy than are our lawyers in having you :ith us, for the reason that they know who you are and he purpose of your coming. They know that you are ne representative lawyers of Tennessee, and that your igh characters as such are a guarantee that the State ar Association, the embodiment of your highest ethical id professional ideals. makes for the common good of 1 the people of our honored State. So, in behalf of I lawyers and lavmen alike-I grasp you by the hand d greet you as brothers. I extend to you all a most arty welcome, I bid you thrice welcome to our city of the people and has never been actuated by motives of self-aggrandizement. In whatever community he has cast his lot and made his home, he has ever been a progressive, public spirited citizen, always endeavoring to influence, mold and direct a healthy public opinion in all questions affecting the general welfare of the people, and especially on all questions vital to the life and perpetuation of our republican institutions. And this great Bar Association, an emanation from his mind and heart, like himself, is unique, in that, unlike other associations which have largely for their object the aggrandizement of its members, it seeks not gain, nor place, nor power for any of its members. With a far loftier aim in view, it seeks to inspire its members to the faithful performance of that high duty which, as lawyers, they owe to the public of gratuitously giving their time and best thought to devising measures having as their end the welfare of the people, and of recommending, urging and influencing their enactment into law. This may be said to be a traditional duty of the profession, a duty which universal custom, since the earliest times in our history has placed on the lawyer, on the theory that, being a lawyer in a great republic, he is essentially a public man. Gentlemen, among other valuable objects of your association, the most popular and attractive is the social enjoyment of its members. This association does not subscribe to the poetic doctrine that, "Pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, the bloom is dead.” Had such a heresy injected itself into its co istitution and by-laws, this association would have been so torn by isms and scisms that it would have long ago ceased to exist. The old familiar doctrine that man is a social animal, lawyers accept as being altogether orthodox. And of all the animals in the world, it is their proud boast that they are the most social. To the end, then that you may cultivate and enoble your happy natures, you are here at the bidding of your genial president to participate in a glorious reunion and to partake of those pleasures and delights that can only arise from association and communion of kindred spirits. We are all of us ambitious that every moment of your stay in our midst shall be fraught with unmixed pleasure and happiness. The committee on entertainment, composed а r homes our hearts. Since the formation of our national government, in ich he was a leading spirit. the representative memr of the bar has always stood as the champion of conutional freedom in this country. As a servant of the ople in the legislative halls, State and National, he has ays labored with an eye single to the best interests of connoisseurs in the art of pleasing, has arranged a round of pleasures for your diversion. You will have every opportunity for beholding the glory and the grandeur of our magnificent city, the greatest convention city of the South, and the metropolis of our beloved State. Her park system is famed throughout the country. You will perhaps be whisked in automobiles along winding boulevards through her spacious parks, where the art and skill of the landscape gardener and the horticulturist have transformed acres of rolling woodland into scenes of entrancing beauty and loveliness. Memphis possesses other forms of beauty and loveliness which should be of especial interest to you widowers, old bachelors and young unmarried men. Attractive widows, as beautiful as ever artist limned upon smiling canvass, with no encumbrances other than Arkansas and Mississippi plantations and extensive real estate holdings in the city; and lovely maidens, as winsome and bewitching as ever poesy pictured to vivid imagination. Golden opportunity (as you were taught in the little boy copy book) should not be neglected. On your rounds of pleasure among our most hospitable people, you will doubtless be the honor guests at brilliant receptions in palacial homes, and as a sine qua non, the recipients of noon-day luncheons, where there will be placed before you the choicest viands to tempt the appetite, and, alack and alas! the thinnest potations to slake the thirst. The softness of the latter, I doubt not, will cause many of you to regret our quondam friend, that ancient dispenser of the "oil of joy" on festive occasions. Assuring you, gentlemen of the association, that we are enjoying, in amplest measure, our role of host, and trusting that your experience during your stay with us will prove to be so profitable and enjoyable that they will abide, at least until the next annual meeting of the State Bar Association, I again bid you a most cordial welcome. THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen of the Association, Senator Gwin, from our sister city of Covington, will respond on behalf of the Association. SENATOR GWIN: Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Association: It seems unfortunate that the harmony of this occasion should be broken by the charac of connoisseurs in the art of pleasing, has arranged a round of pleasures for your diversion. You will have every opportunity for beholding the glory and the grandeur of our magnificent city, the greatest convention city of the South, and the metropolis of our beloved State. Her park system is famed throughout the country. You will perhaps be whisked in automobiles along winding boulevards through her spacious parks, where the art and skill of the landscape gardener and the horticulturist have transformed acres of rolling woodland into scenes of entrancing beauty and loveliness. Memphis possesses other forms of beauty and loveliness which should be of especial interest to you widowers, old bachelors and young unmarried men. Attrac tive widows, as beautiful as ever artist limned upon smiling canvass, with no encumbrances other than Arkansas and Mississippi plantations and extensive real estate holdings in the city; and lovely maidens, as winsome and bewitching as ever poesy pictured to vivid imagination. Golden opportunity (as you were taught in the little boy copy book) should not be neglected. On your rounds of pleasure among our most hospitable people, you will doubtless be the honor guests at brilliant receptions in palacial homes, and as a sine qua non, the recipients of noon-day luncheons, where there will be placed before you the choicest viands to tempt the appetite, and, alack and alas! the thinnest potations to slake the thirst. The softness of the latter, I doubt not, will cause many of you to regret our quondam friend, that ancient dispenser of the "oil of joy” on fes tive occasions. Assuring you, gentlemen of the association, that we are enjoying, in amplest measure, our role of host, and trusting that your experience during your stay with us will prove to be so profitable and enjoyable that they will abide, at least until the next annual meeting of the State Bar Association, I again bid you a most cordial welcome. THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen of the Association, senator Gwin, from our sister city of Covington, will repond on behalf of the Association. SENATOR GWIN: Mr. President, and Gentlemen if the Association: It seems unfortunate that the harnony of this occasion should be broken by the charac concrete illustration of the patriotism of the lawyer rendering free and voluntary service to the government at a time when profiteering seems to be the prevailing fashion. Gentlemen of the Association, a human welfare organization, an organization of men who appreciate American institutions, who know American history, and who believe in constitutional government, cannot avoid thinking, as they congregate together, of some of the perils that loom large on the horizon of this republic. If I were to mention those, in a few words, so that we would not forget them, the first would be the peril of the black flag. And when I speak of this I do not have reference to the race question, though that presents difficulties for solution, but I refer to the peril of lawlessness, a peril that is intensified in the larger cities of our country. We know that law is the foundation of our social structure, and when we destroy that foundation the whole structure totters and falls. I sometimes think it is a misfortune, as I view municipal government, that the lawyer has ceased to be a controlling factor in municipal politics, and that this modern form of political machinery, or political bossism that prevails in so many of the larger cities of the country, has to some extent eliminated the individuality of the lawyer, whose vision is so clear in matters of government. Then we have another peril. We might refer to that as the peril of the red flag. The lawyer believes in this government. He believes it is the best government that was ever devised by the wisdom of man, and is determined, by the help of God, to preserve it in its original purity. The average lawyer not only believes that you should strike down, or strike from the hands of any man, the red flag whenever and wherever he finds it raised. He believes you should strike down the man that dares to raise the red flag in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave (Applause). Without elaborating upon this topic, which seems to strike a responsive chord, as it always will at the Bar meeting, may I not call attention to one fact, a sinister fact of more than local significance, that recently occurred in one of our large cities. I refer to the policemen's strike in that home of culture, one of the cradle places of American liberty, the policemen's strike in Boston. That was something more than an affront to concrete illustration of the patriotism of the lawyer Gentlemen of the Association, a human welfare or- , lawyer has ceased to be a controlling factor in municipal politics, and that this modern form of political machinery, or political bossism that prevails in so many of the larger cities of the country, has to some extent eliminated the individuality of the lawyer, whose vision is 80 clear in matters of government. Then we have another peril. We might refer to that as the peril of the red flag. The lawyer believes in this government. He believes it is the best government that was ever devised by the wisdom of man, and is determined, by the help of God, to preserve it in its original purity. The average lawyer not only believes that you should strike down, or strike from the hands of any man, the red flag whenever and wherever he finds it raised. He believes you should strike down the man that dares to raise the red flag in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave (Applause). Without elaborating upon this topic, which seems to strike a responsive chord, as it always will at the Bar meeting, may I not call attention to one fact, a sinister fact of more than local significance, that recently occurred in one of our large cities. I refer to the policemen's strike in that home of culture, one of the cradle places of American liberty, the policemen's strike in inston. That was something more than an affront to |
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