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Show TUT ATTIGKS I THE RECALL OF THE JUDICIARY Calls Upon Members of New i York State Bar Association j to Speak Truth, That People Peo-ple May Not Be Misled. GREETED BV GREAT THRONG AT DINNER Following the Address of the President, Senator Root Takes Up the Subject in Forceful Speech.. j Ry In-err.atloral New Service. NEW FOBK, an. 80. President Tat'T came tr, New York today, spoke at three ba nqut1 during the evening, and returned to v7ashinjrton ou the midnight train H;s DIOSt important speech was made at the banquet of the State Bar association in the Waldorf-Astoria. After attacking the recall of judges, the president said; "Popular government wr a I! believe id There are those who do not be- j liere that, all people are fitted fori popular government. The fact is. we know they are not. 8ome of us don 'I. J dare paj so, but f do. "The question whether a people is fitted tor popular government, so as to make that crovernment. best for that) people is determined In the ability ol I the majority of the people o pluce upon themselves restrictions by which the minority shall receive justice. Question of Restraint. ''It is a question of BCU-impOsed re straint to determiue whether a people iB fitted to govern itself. "Now, then, t.be constitution i? but self-unpotied restrain! AV'e are called upon now. we of the bar. to say whether we are going to protect the institution I of the judiciary and continue it independent inde-pendent of the majority or of all the people. "We must bear in mind that this matter of judicial recall is being urged the country over. 1 would call your attention to the fact that it i necessary neces-sary in order that the good people of this country may uot be misled. 1h.1t you membeiK of the profession and oih- ers like you should $peak the Irulb that is in you and give the reasons for the truth that in in you. ''Judiciary recall' he ejaculated. 'Thc words are so inconsistent thai T hale to u! for tbem together. Are we coiner to make our constitution a mere liouid thine j0 that the majority shall) flood every branch of government and destroy bv momentary seutiment. ot the neonle every thernp and principle ot . our aovernmenl t.but our fathers putl j in the. constitution to sive us the great est government that. God ever made?' President Taft spoke also -it the dinner of the. Twenty-four Carat club in the. Hotel Astor, and at the dinner of the Gencse society in tW Hold Knickerbocker, Great Crowd Present. IHlUv two thousand peri-ons greerei the president at the bar association j dinner, the gallery being thronged with spcetBtors including many women Senator Klihu Root presided and scnoog the truest were Embs?;jdor Jussergnd of TVatice. Qoveroor lx. Supreme; out Justices .lonks and Ingmham.' Judgea Jlough .md Holr. Bobert sniith. K. C; F'rancis L. Stetson. William Wil-liam H. Horn blower and other eminent members of the bench and bar. Before introducing the speakers en a tor Roo! made g brief speech, in! wb'ch he at tai ked the recall of judges, j "We are upon the threshold of :i period in which more fundamental Questions must be considered by the profession ot" the law than we hav ever been confronted with," he said. "We must by thoughtful considern tion, bv testing of the purity o: motive mo-tive and the uriselflVnncss of pariotism.; qualify ourselves not merely for the contention as to individual rights under un-der established laws but for the defense de-fense aud maintenance or the fun. la mental principles of those laws them- seli ee. Justice Is Supreme "We fear not not the weakest of us to nssert the right of the humbl' is( and t ho weakest ng;iitit all overwhelming over-whelming power. 8o lonrr there eg ist.s in n community a great bodv of (Continued on Page Twelve.) TIFT ATTACKS THE RECALIJF JUDGES Calls Upon the Members of the New York Bar Association to Speak Truth. (Continued from Page One.) men who have that characteristic, liberty lib-erty cannot dip. Throughout, the community com-munity ihero cxistb a docp and inerad-icable inerad-icable sense of the supremacy of justicejustice jus-ticejustice dependent upon no whim Hi- fum y oi' a. ruler, juatieo dependent upon no impulse or DOSSiOn of B n,a' jority, justiee which is a covenant between be-tween all government and tho bumbles! bum-bles! citizen who is governed. "Now we arc told thai the question ques-tion whether the great principles of justice, which wo havo declared without with-out regard io person or to interests, or to tune, ,-ne io he subordinated to the will of a majority and, if thai Vo so, then the independence and ihe dignity of tho har are gone. If that ho ao. the liberty of our people will soon be gone. "My friends, you all have eases M which vou arc interested, clients, lor Whom yon are anxious to do your best, but you havo here now beginning begin-ning the greatest 1 auso that any American Amer-ican lawyer ever had. Rests Upon Laws of God. "All tho clionls you ever had or ever will have, and" all the interests for which you ever argued urn involved in-volved in vour maintaining the greal cause of the American people of .jus- ticc that is above majorities and rests not upon popular votes, but upon the eternal laws of LrOd.,J Toasts were drunk in succession to the President, of the United Stales, the president of Prance, the king of England, Governor Dix and to tbo dist ineniishcd guests from Canada. Embassador Jussorand then dis-'u&sed dis-'u&sed Ihe proeeduro in French courts of justice, prefacing ins remarks with a jocular suggestion that this country was "the paradise pf lawyers," and said bo thought he could see tbc wings sprouting on "the well rounded shoulders" of his hearers. He said be regretted to state that Frame had fonght with about every country in the world, but happy thai it. had never been to war with tbe United States. |