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apply again in trade and commerce. I believe that we will return 

 to those old-fashioned princiaples of honest private and public life, 

 which will require that the man who would be regarded as re- 

 spectable must be honest ; which will require that those who would 

 be respected by others must respect the rights of others; which 

 will require that lawyers shall cease to be accessories to the vio- 

 lation of law and shall be true to the principles and traditions of 

 their profession; which will require that the courts shall cease to 

 place the form above the substance and the method above the 

 right, and that they shall realize that time is also an essential of 

 litigation; which will require that every public officer, charged 

 with the enforcement of the law, shall unhesitatingly, uncom- 

 promisingly and unrelentlessly prosecute its offenders, until the 

 rights of the poor shall receive the same protection as the prop- 

 erty of the rich, and the weak and the strong shall stand as equals 

 before the bar of human justice. (Applause — continued.) 



