tions, may do honor to the profession, the sacred profession which they, should adorn. We think You realize what sacred interests are committed to their care, and may they by their example protect the people through the services of their high vocation. We pray, that the eternal pillars of government, law, order, and peace may be laid more deeply in the hearts and lives of the people, and these things we ask, in the words, and according to Him who did say and pray:

Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

THE PRESIDENT: The first thing in order is the address of welcome, which will be delivered by Honorable John M. Grimm, of the local bar.

ADDRESS OF WELCOME

Mr. President, and Members of the Iowa State Bar Association: On behalf of the Linn County Bar Association, and the good people of this community, I extend to you a most cordial and hearty welcome on this occasion.

We greet you in reverent memory and as a token of our sincere appreciation of the life and deeds of that able and eminent citizen, lawyer and jurist, who played an important part in founding this city, and who in 1847 became a member of the Supreme Court of this State, the Honorable George Greene. He not only gave to the State, as a publisher and reporter, the second to the fifth inclusive of the Iowa Reports, but furnished many foundation opinions during his incumbency in that office. As a citizen of this community, he gave liberally of his ample means to every commendable enterprise, including charities, church and school, as well as the municipality itself which today points with pride to George Greene Square, the little beauty spot you saw as you entered the city, one of his many gifts to this community.

This welcome is also extended to you in the name of a long line of loyal and illustrious members of the legal profession in this county, and in the name of an industrious and happy citizenship of thirty-five thousand people living here to-day. We are all proud of the opportunity to play the part of host to the representatives of an association of this kind, and appreciate the honor you bestow upon us by your presence. The local Committee on Arrangements have provided some entertainment for you, of which they will in due time advise you, but you are expected to make yourselves truly at home in Cedar Rapids, and ask for what you wish and do not see.

You are no doubt familiar with Article II of the Constitution of this Association, which reads:

This Association is formed to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, to encourage a thorough and liberal education, and to cherish a spirit of brotherhood among the members thereof.

Our people hope to be able to assist you in accomplishing, in some small degree at least, the last mentioned object in said article, for we pride ourselves on the spirit of brotherhood and fraternity which prevails here.

Having thus officially and formally assured you that you are on friendly soil, with proper protection from your enemies, strictly speaking, my mission is fulfilled, and perhaps I should yield the floor for further progress in the regular order of busi

I find, however, by an examination of the official reports of this Association that a few mild suggestions with reference to the purposes and business of the Association, coupled with words of welcome have abundant precedent, enough in fact to satisfy the most ardent case lawyer.

It is said there are about three thousand regularly admitted lawyers in the State of Iowa, and yet there are only about five hundred members of this Association. The uncharitable might claim that the two thousand five hundred cannot meet the requirements of admission by obtaining the necessary recommendation from a County Bar Association or from three members of this Association in good standing. Unfortunately there

are a few men in the State of Iowa who claim to be lawyers, who perhaps could not gain admission under such regulations. Seriously speaking however it is a reproach upon the profession that only fifteen per cent maintains a membership in the Iowa State Bar Association.

It surely cannot be contended by anyone that such an association is not needed. The time has been when the profession, as such, commanded the unqualified respect of the business and social world, but in these latter days of hysterical unrest, suspicion, criticism, and vicious attack upon the existing order of things, it behooves the members of the profession to join their hearts and hands in an earnest endorsement of the purposes of this Association with the hope that they may materially assist in protecting the constitutions and statutes, which are the outgrowth of the wisdom and experience of the ages, from unwarranted and hasty assaults, and exert a wholesome, patriotic and beneficial influence in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the whole people.

A few days ago in a conversation relative to the judicial recall and recall of judicial decisions, a prominent manufacturer deliberately and vehemently stated he favored both recalls because the time had come when the people must protect themselves against "the damn lawyers of the country". Further discussion of the subject developed the fact that while the speaker had been eminently successful in his business and seemed fairly well informed on some subjects, his opinions in reference to the recall were based entirely upon ignorance and misconception. His authority for the faith within him, was an inflammable magazine article concerning the alleged misconduct of a single judge. He was in blissful ignorance of the underlying principles of our Government and of the wisely constituted checks and balances, which have so admirably saved the structure during all the stress and storm of the years. Like many another honest and wellintentioned man, what he needed most was light.

Every age has its mountain peaks of intelligence. Few men are endowed as were Marshall and Taney, yet years of earnest preparatory study, supplemented by more years of research and practical application have given the average members of the

profession a vast insight and grasp of all questions pertaining to government. Surely it must be admitted that no man or set of men are better prepared to make a proper study of such questions and give an explanation of them which may be understood by all, so well as the members of the legal profession.

To live comfortably and happily, enjoying the privileges of a stable government and the rewards of a prosperous business or profession should not be the sole aim of any patriotic citizen. Every man owes much to the community in which he lives, and in proportion to his knowledge and strength. Upon such a basis the three thousand lawyers of the State of Iowa should be closely united in a great organization formed and maintained for the purposes, among others, of creating a healthy public sentiment in reference to the various questions peculiar to the profession, and about which it is best advised, and to give proper shape to progress and resistance to mere unfounded impatience and discontent. One of its chief aims should be to purge the profession of the blackmailer and crook whose improper conduct is permitted, for lack of discrimination, to cast suspicion and reflection upon the vast army of industrious, earnest, honest, and patriotic members of the profession.

If perchance, in a rare occasion, the appointive power or the electorate should elevate an unfit man to judicial distinction, a thoroughly organized, active and fearless Bar Association should be the first to carefully and thoroughly investigate all charges publicly made and upon such investigation take such steps as the occasion required, to the end that only men of honest capability and integrity shall fill judicial positions and the great active profession, as well as that noble band of self-sacrificing men who grace the bench of this country, might be protected from the insinuations and slurs now being cast upon them by the impetuous and misinformed, because of the misconduct of a few isolated judges. The Bar Association should earnestly strive to maintain the highest possible standard of integrity for bench and bar, and then it should protect itself and its mighty membership from all unfounded and scurrilous attacks by whomsoever made.

We are making history rapidly in these days. It has been

said that "so easy is the transition from peace and order to uprising and revolution, so thoughtless are the most of us until the torch burns or the knife drops, that when governments fall or governments change, they seem almost to come and go by magic." The American people have never yet failed to meet every emergency. There is every foundation for the belief that when fully informed and properly aroused to a sense of duty, they will continue in the future as they have in the past to patriotically solve every issue that may arise, but a great responsibility rests to-day upon the legal profession of this country to see to it that the people are properly informed and patriotically advised upon all those important subjects which come peculiarly within the knowledge of the legal profession.

We have, as it were, a great unseen, intangible client, to whom we owe a great service, and whose interests committed to our charge are most vital-a client whose business is apt to be postponed and overlooked because his calls are infrequent and his demands are seldom heard, yet whose business when earnestly and properly attended to, brings an invisible retainer and fee, producing more satisfaction and happiness than the drafts and coin of ordinary business, much as they are to be desired. The satisfaction and consciousness of a solemn duty honestly performed, of exerting a mighty influence in molding the policies of our day and age, and shaping the destiny of the future, should be and is to every loyal, highminded lawyer, adequate and satisfactory compensation for all services rendered in the furtherance of the public welfare.

It may be said in answer that a large percentage of the legis lating bodies of this land is composed of lawyers, and that therefore the influence of the profession is already abundantly exercised. Unfortunately the lawyer, as a trained, loyal, patriotic and highminded citizen, and the lawyer seeking, or seeking to retain, public office, are often like the famous Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It can perhaps be safely said that one of the greatest menaces of the age arises from the stultification of honest individual opinion for the purpose of trimming sails to the ever changing breezes of public sentiment, whether informed or misinformed, patriotic or selfish, honest or corrupt. It should be the patriotic