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1 Relation of the Bench and Bar: Address by Hon. W. Z. Davis, before the Ohio State Bar Association, July 12, 1900 1 (1900)

handle is hein.congcourts/rltbncbr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RELATION OF THE BENCH AND.BAR. ADDRESS BY HON. W. Z. DAVIS, BEFORE THU OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, JULY 12, 1900. Mr. President, and Members of the Ohio State Bar Association: The topic on which I address you to-day, The relation of the Bench and Bar is a subdivision of legal ethics. I offer no apology for discussing it; for professional ethics, like the ever- lasting truths of Christianity, need to be dinned into the ears of each generation, and of every individual of each generation. The transcendent importance of my subject is indicated by the fact that it was the topic of a large part of the President's address yesterday, or rather of that part of the address which was appropriate to the business of a bar association. The relation of the bench and the bar is reciprocal. The bench cannot exist in its highest efficiency without the bar; and lawyers would be comparatively useless and uninfluential where there were no courts. These two factors of judicial administra- tion, working together, constitute one of the chief safeguards of a free government. This is an age of the supremacy of law, and in the maintenance of this supremacy is the hope of the world, as to the perpetuation of popular liberty and the security of individual rights. Accordingly DeToqueville and Bryce have noted with approval the ascendancy of the bar in American politics, and the influence of the courts in the conservation of liberty. The latter author, however, while commending the dignity and worth of the federal judiciary, says: Of the state judges it is hard to speak generally, because there are great differences between state and state. In six or seven common- wealths, of which Massachusetts is the best example among the L D A.

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