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profession is naturally conservative. It is our natural disposition to have things done in an orderly way and to believe that the way in which things have been done should not be departed from until we clearly see an opportunity for improvement. I do not object to this spirit. Especially in this country, I think there will be progressive movements sufficient to prevent such con servatism from being a real obstruction to our general progress. I venture to think, however, that in the matter of procedure and

in the adoption of special methods and systems for the settling of classes of contro versies we ought to be careful that this professional conservatism does not keep us, with the power that we necessarily exercise in respect to technical legal legisla tion, from adopting the reforms which are in the interest of equalizing the administra tion of justice as far as possible between the rich and the poor. HOT SPRINGS, VA., August, 1908.