me before you hear a word from my mouth. Really I am not the great, resplendent character that the learned Chief Justice and your learned Chairman have made me out to be. I am just a plain, blunt man.

Sir Francois, if the speech, so full of learning and sagacious. wisdom, with which you have just favoured this company, had been embodied in a judgment which had been submitted to the review of the Privy Council, and if I had, as sometimes occurs, been charged with the duty of writing the judgment upon your utterances, I declare to you it would have been brief. I should have expressed my entire concurrence with the very distinguished judge of Quebec, and my inability to improve upon his utterance by any imperfect paraphrase. Thus sir, in the law books you would have gone down to posterity as the man who, not having been in the Privy Council, had exactly expressed its mind.

There are some other circumstances with regard to you which even on your own showing demand explanation. I am quite willing to make allowance for the absence of other witnesses; I am quite willing in those circumstances to accept from you that you have hitherto led a blameless life (laughter). I understand from what you have observed that you have been constant in your family devotions, and have achieved numerous family successes (laughter), although how you reconcile that statement with what you are pleased to call monastic abstinence (laughter) is a little puzzling to a poor far-travelled stranger like myself.

Gentlemen of the Bar, you should speak back to the judges when you get a chance, that is to say, not in Court, but when they have been so weak in the head as to join in full membership your Bar Association. My recommendation for the Bar is, whenever you see a judge popping up his head, hit it hard (laughter). You all know of the placard in a western saloon which was put up on the platform, which referred to the pianist; the placard was, "Don't shoot the performer. He is doing his best," and you, every time a judge interferes in your discussion, should quote that adage to him. You are all doing your best, you judges, I admit-who is not?-but you are here on a common democratic platform, and the Bench must be content to take its course of criticism.

There are two things that I desire to refer to that have arisen from the speech, the delightful feast of reason which we have just heard. I was to have addressed you first. I said to myself, "Catch me; put up the other fellow first." Sir Francois said he would rebel. I asserted my jurisdiction. Then he

said, "You will be scratching my back," and I replied, "Yes, but I will do it affectionately." There were two things which he did refer to, one was the wonderful binding force of justice in a community, another the public force of domestic virtue.

One touching illustration recurs to my mind appropriate of his observations about the latter. Sir James Barrie, a distinguished friend of mine, a great author and a great playwright, was recently appointed Lord Rector of the ancient University of St. Andrews. When he accepted that honour, he made a speech, and those of you who can should get that speech and read it. He pointed out that in the Old Country, to which he and I belong, there were said to be four universities in Scotland, St. Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. He said, Sir Francois, in the same spirit as your address, to those students of St. Andrews that, in addition to those four universities, there was a fifth, and that was the Scottish home. (Applause.) What an influence upon life is the home. You may teach your young men and your young women all the learning that their poor heads could contain and in doing so you may shrink and shrivel up the hearts within them. But, if to the learning of the ordinary university you add the influence, the faith, the character of the home, then indeed you secure that which is above all other pleasures in life greater than the intellect, greater than the endowment of scientific knowledge, and the appreciation of art, far greater than business success. It is a treasure that cannot be measured, and yet its force may mould character from generation to generation. Do not forget the influence of the home. These things are beyond price. Take the admonition of the learned Chief Justice: do not forget the influence of the home. (Applause.)

A certain thought which occurred to me in hearing his beautiful address was to Justice itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, it was my good-or shall I say sad?-fortune some months ago to motor through a large portion of France. I went through the devastated regions of Rheims and saw the ruins of the cathedral. I remarked that hardly one street was left intact, save here and there a trace had been spared from obliteration. In other parts there were but piles of stone and ruin. At the cathedral door I beheld probably the most tragic sight which any devout Christian could see. Twelve saintly and angelic figures surrounded the main doorway of the Rheims Cathedral, one of those beautiful figures known as the Smiling Angel of Rheims. I recalled that there had been a time when peasants,

after exhausting toil in the fields, had gone and sought consolation in their troubles, and travelled weary miles often and often in order that they might gaze upon the Smiling Angel of Rheims. War brought the German hosts, and those angelic figures had been beheaded-all of them-the work of the god of war. They had not spared a single one. In their utter disregard for justice, which was at the back of the war, they had massacred even those stones. But the angel that I saw there, still had its wings outstretched. After all, ladies and gentlemen, nothing is worth fighting for in this world except Justice. It seemed to me that the beheaded figure of the Smiling Angel still with its wings outstretched, the beautiful head gone as if Justice itself had been massacred, done to pieces by the Germans, yet the very figure of Justice still remained, lifting its appealing wings to heaven in the hope of restoration of Justice in the world.

Gentlemen of the Bar, the one thing that is essential is the keeping of Justice as a living, moving institution. The cornerstone of, business is Justice, and please remember, gentlemen of the Bar, that the service that you can render in arguing even one side of a case, because every case has two sides, and sometimes more, is that you are paying your tribute to Justice by trying to show that your side of the case represents the honest, fair, just view of the question.

Gentlemen, do not be too long in presenting your case to the court. I speak to you perfectly frankly; arguments are too long. Sometimes I say to myself I do not believe in argument -I believe in stating the case. There is a wonderful gift, the gift of exposition-that is the art of the lawyer to explain thoroughly, clearly and in such a way that before your exposition is over you have your Court with you.

And yet I withdraw the words that I do not believe in argument. Various cases have occurred in my own experience in which I had to advise great corporations and in which, having advised them that they had no case, yet they had insisted that they had a case, and I had to take their instructions and that case I had to argue. Now, Gentlemen of the Bar, take this from me, that in several of those cases, which in private I had advised had no foundation, yet before the end of my own argument I was convinced that my client was right and I was wrong, and the Court too was convinced of this. Therefore, do not be disheartened when you get an uphill case, and do not be afraid to state it before the judge. That is what he is there

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for. What is he there for, except to hear uphill arguments? If these arguments were all simple, then the judges, the Chief Justice here and all that kind of people, would have a very easy time. It is not your business to give them an easy time. It is your business to give them a pretty stiff time and to make them listen. It is their duty to listen and to hear to the last word every particular of argument which you present to them.

It has been said of the Privy Council, that great, that wonderful tribunal, which no word of mine can ever overrate, but of which we must speak with becoming modesty—it has been said: "How patient you gentlemen are." To which I have replied, "They come from all parts of the Empire, men as black as coal, able-minded men, to plead to us from Ceylon, swarthyfeatured, subtle-minded men from Hindustan, and others from the uttermost corners of the Empire." Gentlemen of the Bar, I have said, "Why should we not be patient? They come to us, it is their last appeal for justice on earth; see that in all events when they leave the highest court of the land, they can leave with the full feeling that they have been amply and sufficiently heard and that every argument that they had to move the human mind has been fully presented."

Now, I have detained you too long. (No, no.) I ask you only to take from me this concluding word. My experiences have been greatly enriched since I came at the call of Canada and America on this mission, accompanied by my dear daughter. Numerous tributes paid to the tribunal of which I happen to be a member, courtesies, kindnesses and expressions of affection which every now and again have touched our hearts, and as we moved further and further westward to your noble Pacific shore we found, as it were, a revelation of the goodness of God and a revelation of the energy of man. With your energy the wilderness and the waste places have been glad for you, you have made the desert rejoice and blossom as the rose. From personal experience I feel that by your physical energy and the greatness of your determination and mental capacity and your rectitude, you have laid the solid foundation for that culture which sweetens and uplifts society at large. (Applause.)

ADDRESS OF THE HON. JOHN W. DAVIS.

I am here to-day in the discharge of a double duty. In the first place I have come to make delivery to you of the persons of your distinguished guests, the Right Honorable Lord Shaw of Dunfermline and the Dear Lady of the Letters. Three short weeks ago His Lordship landed in the City of New York, a Scotchman by birth and upbringing, an Englishman by, residence, and with a strong bit of of Dublin brogue accumulated in the preceding weeks still lingering on his tongue. Perhaps you may find him changed, for many things have happened to him since the day of his arrival. We have baked him on the prairies, balanced him on the Rockies, plunged him in the Grand Canyon and dipped him in the Pacific Ocean, and as a post-graduate course have called upon him to endure a lengthy session of the American Bar Association. Our national beverage he finds singularly lacking in Caledonian flavor; but disembarking in the very midst of a general coal and railroad strike the atmosphere was immediately familiar. From all this he has emerged such as you see him, and I now ask for a certificate that he is delivered in good order and condition, reasonable wear and tear alone excepted. We in the States part from him with sincere regret, and only a strong sense of duty to a friendly neighbor could have induced us to consent that he should cross the border. We count on you to join us in insisting that he shall not make this visit to either country his last.

My other function, which is clouded by no shadow or surrender or regret, is to transmit to you on behalf of the American Bar Association the fraternal greetings of your brethren across the line. Our Association adjourned at San Francisco last week, after a useful discussion of many of the problems which beset the profession and the State. To you who have begun a meeting that will no doubt be equally fruitful, it sends a message of friendship and good will as cordial and sincere as heart can frame or language can convey. The lawyers of the United States recognize in their Canadian confreres not only the joint heirs of a common legal heritage but in a very vital sense their co-workers in a common cause. They salute you in the name of all the centuries of expanding freedom that lie behind us and all the hoped-for span of ordered liberty that lies ahead.