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1 Struggle for Simplification of Legal Procedure: The Goal and Its Attainment 1913

handle is hein.beal/ssplpga0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, ADVANCE INFORMATION FOR NEWSPAPER USE ONLY. TO BE RELEASED AFTERNOON PAPERS SEPTEMBER 3, 1913. THE STRUGGLE FOR SIMPLIFICATION OF LEGAL PROCEDURE. THE GOAL AND ITS ATTAINMENT. BY WILLIAM A. BLOUNT, OF FLORIDA (To be presented at the meeting of the American Bar Association, at Montreal, Canada, September 1-3, 1913.) What the goal in the struggle for simplification of procedure should be, whether it has been attained, and, if not, what further should be done, are questions, the solution of which depends upon the view-point of the questioner. In law, as in politics, social and economic, there are reactionaries, stand-patters and progressives, and in law, as in politics, the characteristics are the same. The reactionary harks back to the past, and finds good only in that which is as it was; to the stand-patter, whatever is is right; to the progressive whatever is is wrong. In view of the first, we have gone too far already; of the second, we have gone just far enough, and should go no further; and of the third, we should obliterate all paths of the past, destroy the founda- tions, of the present, and, unaided by the things accomplished by our fathers and our contemporaries, build structures, not only of untried material, but by untried plans. Sad would be our plight, if our destinies were in the hands of either of these, but fortunately, there is a further class, thus far undesignated by any popular epithet, which is not influenced solely by either the charm of the past, or the apparent stability and wisdom of the present, or the gleam of the untried and unmeasured future- the progressive conservatives. They cry not out from the housetops, nor proclaim their virtues and their strength, but they constitute a living, though quiet, force, that garners from the past and the present the best of grain, and makes of it grist for the better- ment of the future. These men, when lawyers, recognize the truth of the eulogium by Blackstone:

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