Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Iowa State Bar Association Volume 10, PT. 1904 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... doing and acting. The star that attracts at this hour, is not that of war or peace, beautiful and significant though it may be. It is not the accumulation of wealth, for this is within the reach of any who makes it the object of hislife. It is not ambition with its turbulent waves, its thorny path, and final loss on the rock of greed and jealously. It is not these that claim the plaudits of mankind. It is that virtue marked out through all the ages, when man places his confidence and his hopes in the keeping of his brother, knowing full well he is safe from adversity without and estrangement within. It is fidelity to every hope and aspiration, the love of truth and fellowman, that becomes the acme of our life. Fidelity is the one flower that makes charity sweeter, that surrounds every thought by a noble purpose, that has strewn on life's pathway the sparkling gems of gentleness and simplicity, alleviates every sorrow with the crown of well doing and weaves into one garland of immaculate whiteness the final trend of human events. Fidelity to purpose as well as cause, is as necessary for nations as men. That nation lives to-day that first annonuced liberty and equality of all men before law, and that nation will live to-morrow that places fidelity to principle as the eternal rock upon which its perpetuity is based. What worthier object can you and I espouse to-day than fidelity, fidelity to home, to land, to equality and to humanity. It is remaining true to this very thought that has made it possible to have laws that are just, and their enforcement fair and equitable. When the members of the legal profession are unfaithful to this virtue, they have sworn to support and protect, then indeed has humanity surrendered the only weapon that raissi it above the le...