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Excerpt from Constitution, by-Laws, Roll of Members, and Proceedings of the California Bar Association: At Its Meeting Held in San Francisco, California, November Eleventh Nineteen Hundred Nine The second point that I want to call to your attention is this: the constitution and laws which you may adopt may be ever so good, but if they have not men behind them who are earnestly striving to carry them out, the man behind the gun, the lawyer behind the constitution, they will be of no avail. Therefore, Gentlemen, in the selection of the men who are to lead your movement in the next year, you ought to be extremely careful. You ought to select men who stand high in our noble profession, men whose very names will be a guaranty to the scoffer on the outside and on the inside of our profession, that the promises which we make today, the pledges which we make to the profession and to the State, will be carried out to the letter, and if they cannot be carried out to the letter, that the men we put at the helm will at least try to carry them out, for it is better to strive than to do nothing at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.