forth in his annual address, present the views which I entertain and in which, because they are his, I have the greater confidence.

Against the unpleasant duties which have fallen to the Association during the past year, may be placed the delightful one of receiving and entertaining the members of The American Bar Association. This Association met for the first time West of the Mississippi River. Whether attributable to the fact that the meeting was held in Denver I cannot say, but we were assured that it was the best attended, the most instructive and the best and most entertained assemblage in the history of that distinguished body.

This common country of ours is a good deal like an important legal problem. The more you examine it, the more you find in it. It is not given to any one to know the law by intuition. No more is it possible to know this country without travel.

I once propounded to a young lawyer, or would-be lawyer, of my acquaintance, that old-time legal conundrum, "What is the law when a man leaves the State?" He took it under serious consideration for a long time, and the only answer I ever obtained was that it was the biggest question and had more sides to it than any he had ever tackled. I understand he is still, in good faith, pursuing his investigation of the authorities supposed to throw light on this troublesome inquiry.

Wherever the lawyer may go in this broad land, or in any land in which the English language is spoken, he finds the cement of government and society in the general principles and maxims of the common law, in the teachings of which we have all been educated; so that, whether the Eastern lawyer comes to meet the lawyers of the West, or the Western lawyer goes to meet the lawyers of the East, the professional latch-string, when pulled, reveals the same old row of text-books and reports.

That we of Colorado may continue lawyers in the true sense of that word, faithful to every interest confided to us and earnest in the pursuit of every worthy ambition, is the motive of this organization, and I shall ever retain, as my choicest professional jewel, the recollection of your confidence in placing me for one year at its head.

ADDRESS

OF

WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME

OF

NEW YORK CITY.

Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Colorado Bar Association, and Ladies Especially:

You are not the only man that has notes, Mr. Rogers. I remember a celebrated campaign in New York, when a distinguished gentleman by the name of Flower was running and had his typewritten notes. He had gotten rather confused in the course of his address, when some gentleman of Hibernian extraction in the rear of the audience, while he was finding the thirteenth sheet, called out: "You had better let the fellow as wrote them read them."

I seem to be drafted from the effete civilization of the East as a horrible example. I have no doubt I am. I feel it a very great honor and a great delight and pleasure to come out here, although why on earth I should come two thousand miles, as I thought to address Westerners, and find when I get here that the Westerner is as great a rarity in the West as in the East, and that I was to address a lot of Eastern men living in the West, I do not know. It is a result, I suppose, of that same notion through which the Civil War came on, every politician was made colonel of a regiment, and when after a while the colonels were all weeded out, either by court-martial or by being killed, and we got real soldiers and the war ended, then every soldier was made a statesman and we had in turn to weed them out. When Mr. Rogers came to me: