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Show VISCOUNT FINLAY, British j statesman and lawyer, who ! heads English delegation to the j American Bar association meeting. f rl i ENGLISH BENCH GREETSJ. S. BAR Viscount Finlay Speaker Before American Association Asso-ciation Meeting. BOSTON, Sept. 3. The greetings of tlw3 bench and bar ol' England were brought to the American Bur association associa-tion at its annual meeting here toilay by Viscount-Finlay, former lord chancellor chan-cellor of England. The famous jurist said that the legal profession of England En-gland was proud of the development which the common law of England had received in tli3 United States. "It is, indeed, a great heritage, that of the common law of England, to which we of boih sides of the Atlantic have fallen heir," Viscount Finlay said. "You, like ourselves, are proud of its traditions and of the spirit of liberty which it breeds. ' ' "The recent war,"' he continued, "has given a signal illustration ' of what international law owes to the supreme court of the United States, it was by that court that, the doctrine of continuous voyage, in its application applica-tion to contraband and blockade, was worked out at the time of your Civil war on lilies originally traced by Lord Storey in another connection." Viscount Finlay said that the relations rela-tions between the iudiciary bench in England and the judiciary bench in America have ever been most cordial, and that the same was true of the relations re-lations of the bars of the two countries. Tho need of Americanization of t ho foreign population of this country, better bet-ter education of tlue native-born residents resi-dents in the meaning of government, and harmonizing of tho interests of capital and labor, was emphasized by George T. Page, of Peoria, ill., president presi-dent of the association, at the opening session of the convention hero today. "We must tako up int elligentiy, " he said, "and with courage and determination, deter-mination, the seemingly impossible tasks that aie all about us, and reconstruct and readjust, the broken and disturbed condition of things produced, on the one hand by war and on the other hand by what seems to be our utter disregard of some of the fundamentals necessary to establish and perpetuate a democratic form of government." lie characterized as a "most, dangerous danger-ous difficulty ' ' the fact (hat lack of (Continued on Page 7, Column 4.) ENGLISH BENCH GREETS U. S. BAR (Continued From Page One.) Americanization work had left most of the great body of foreigners in this country ' wholly incapable of even to-coming to-coming students of our form of government. govern-ment. ' ' Mr. Page declared that immigrants should be taught they have no right "to place America and Americnn institutions second to any other nation or proposed nation on earth," and that an immigrant immi-grant capable of refusing to become an American should be "driven back to the country from which he came.'' "It is the belief of the people of this country that neither capital nor labor cares much what happen? to anybody, . other than themselves,' Mr. Page declared. de-clared. Tn conclusion he expressed confidence that ' ' the American peopV? will keep their hcao!s cool and their feet on the ground, and that wise counsels will prevail, pre-vail, not only through present difficulties, difficul-ties, but through every year yet to come." |