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1 Remarks of Hon. Hampton L. Carson 210 (1916)

handle is hein.usreports/rsohnhm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Reprinted from the Washington Proceedings of the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, December, xg6. REMARKS OF HON. HAMPTON L. CARSON Mr. Toastmaster, and ladies and gentlemen; the warn- ing which the Toastmaster has given a modest and unob- trusive stranger, not a member of your Society, that every member of the Society save one was viewing him at the present moment with a hostile eye, because de- priving each of you of an opportunity to make a speech makes it a little more a matter of wonder on my part that you should have sent all the way to Philadelphia and asked a Philadelphia lawyer to talk to you on this occasion. There was a time when Philadelphia lawyers were not so highly thought of. I recall having picked up a brochure on a bookstall in old London some fif- teen or sixteen years ago, which was published there n the year 169o, about eight years after William Penn had landed on the shores of the Delaware, which gave an account of the flourishing province of Pennsylvania, at that time consisting almost entirely of the city of Phila- delphia, containing two thousand people; and after speak- ing of butchers and bakers and brewers, bricklayers and masons and jewelers, the author said, Of doctors and of lawyers I shall say nothing because the place is very peaceable and healthy, and then he added this pious prayer, Long may we be preserved from the pestiferous drugs of the one and the abominable loquacity of the other. Now, I do not want, Mr. Toastmaster, to revenge my- self on this audience for such a discriminating remark. I do recall that about three years ago, when the hangman's rope in Pennsylvania was abolished and the electric chair was substituted, an old lady, reading the morning paper,

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