Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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WW ff This is the primary duty of the State and of all good citizens: to abolish conflict between classes with divergent interests, and thus foster and promote harmony between the various ranks of society.

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DWARD DOUCLASS WHITE, sol- dier, lawyer, statesman, and Chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Louisiana in l845. During the Civil War he served actively as a Con- federate soldier, and when the war was ended, he continued his studies, receiving his degree in Law from Georgetown, in 1868. The high esteem in which he was held by his native state is evident from the fact that he was several times re-elected to the Senate, and his final appointment as the sec- ond Catholic Chief Iustice was the climax of a colorful political career of almost fifty years.

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Periodically throughout history citizens have manifested an antipathy and often a positive contempt for their civic obliga- tions. The results of this injudicious action are reflected in the increasing difficulty legislators encounter in their attempt to preserve a harmonious relationship between the manifold factors which, united, mean effective government. As Chief justice of the Supreme Court, judge White distin- guished himself by his refined sense of justice and equity discernible in all his decisions. That citizens, Catholics in par- ticular, should strive for the ideals which stimulated this man, and endeavor earn- estly to cultivate that same appreciation of duty to their civic institutions is forcibly brought to our attention by the defiance of the present generation towards legal enactments and its inexplicable indif- ference toward the principles upon which our legislative and judicial departments rest. That a continuance of the present evils means the inevitable downfall of our political system.