Lectures on the Fourteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
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America's Debt to France: The Most Unalterable Gratitude
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Meeting of the Philadelphia Red Cross War Committees: Held at the Hotel Ritz, Philadelphia, Monday Evening, June 18, 1917 (Classic Reprint)
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But the objectors wholly fail to recognize that the Liberty Loan called for no gift and no sacrifice. Every dollar will be returned with interest. Not a single cent of risk is involved in buying the best investment bond in the world. Every dollar subscribed could have been procured by taxation, but bond issues were fairer and more advantageous. The present appeal is the first call upon the Nation at large - upon every citizen of the Re public voluntarily to make some sacrifice for safeguard ing our own sons and relieving the misery of countless human beings.
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William Dameron Guthrie was an American lawyer and educator.
Background
Guthrie was born on February 3, 1859, in San Francisco, California, a descendant of John Guthrie, of Edinburgh, Scotland, who emigrated to Litchfield County, Connecticut, about 1718, and third of the seven children of George Whitney and Emma (Gosson) Guthrie. His father, a native of Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York, was deputy surveyor of the port (1854-1861) and the owner of several newspapers.
Education
During the decade 1863-1873, when the family lived in Europe, William attended school, first in France until the siege of Paris, then in England. After the Guthries became permanent residents of New York City, in 1873, he spent two years in its public schools before financial reverses put an end to his meager formal education. The training received in France was of importance, however; it developed in him orderly habits of mind and study, laid the foundation of a graceful command of the French language, and inspired a love for the country and its people that became an abiding passion of his life.
Career
In 1875, at the age of sixteen, Guthrie was employed as a stenographer by the law firm Blatchford, Seward, Griswold & Da Costa. After reading law in the office and attending Columbia Law School (1879-1880), he was admitted to the bar in May 1880. Within four years he became a partner in the firm and remained such through various changes in its name until 1905 when he retired as the senior member of Guthrie, Cravath & Henderson. From 1909 to 1922 he was senior partner of Guthrie, Bangs & Van Sinderen; and from 1922 to 1924 senior partner of Guthrie, Jerome, Rand & Kresel. In the latter year he discontinued general practice but acted as counsel until his death in many matters of public interest. His talent as counsel for great corporations and property interests brought him wealth and influence, his talent as a constitutional lawyer and scholar, national fame. In 1902 as attorney for the widow of Henry B. Plant he successfully contested the latter's will, recovering eight million dollars for his client. Many cases he argued in the Supreme Court of the United States made history: Pollock vs. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company; the Kansas City Stock Yards Case; the Lottery Case; the Northern Securities Case; the Oleomargarine Case; the National Prohibition Cases, and the Oregon School Law Case. He delivered the William L. Storrs Lectures at Yale University, February 24-28, 1908, on constitutional law, and lectured on the subject as a member of both the law and political science faculties of Columbia University, 1909-1922, being Ruggles Professor of Constitutional Law, 1913-1922. His eminence in this field and his fidelity to the best traditions of his profession brought him recognition of the kind he valued most, including honorary degrees from universities. Throughout his life he sought to promote friendship between France and the United States. For many years he was a member of the Lafayette Day Committee and president of the France-American Society of New York, which he organized. During the First World War he collected many thousands of dollars for the relief of the orphans and devastated churches of France. After the war he advocated reduction of the French debt to the United States and supported French policy toward Germany. He was a grand officer of the Legion of Honor and in 1924 founded the American Society of that order. In the year of his death, as representative of the American Bar Association, he led the successful opposition to the ratification of the child labor amendment to the federal Constitution by the New York Senate. He was the author of Lectures on the Fourteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (1898); Magna Carta and Other Essays (1916); The League of Nations and Miscellaneous Addresses (1923); and various magazine and newspaper articles. He died on December 8, 1935, of a heart attack on his estate, "Meudon, " Lattingtown, Long Island, and is buried in nearby Locust Valley Cemetery.
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Religion
To the Roman Catholic Church, of which he was a devout communicant, Guthrie rendered frequent services. He appeared as its counsel before the New York State constitutional convention of 1915; he wrote, on its behalf, an opinion characterizing the anticlerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1926 as violations of international law, and before the Supreme Court, argued the Oregon School Law Case and Gonzalez vs. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila, controversies in which the Church was vitally concerned. For these and for various benefactions the Vatican made him commander of the Order of St. Gregory, master knight of the Sovereign Order of Malta, and holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.
Politics
Guthrie was a Republican in politics and high in the party council. He sought no political office but served as mayor of the village of Lattingtown, Long Island, from 1931 until his death.
Membership
President of the New York State Bar Association (1921-1922); President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1925-1927); member of the Lafayette Day Committee; President of the France-American Society of New York
Personality
Guthrie was medium-sized, neat in attire, and formal in manner and speech. His authoritarian philosophy and deep convictions won him a reputation for rigidity at times. There can be little doubt of his ultraconservatism. But he was an able and respected lawyer who believed in the Anglo-American system of personal liberty and fought continually for higher ethical and educational standards for bench and bar. His briefs were the products of exhaustive labor; his arguments were quiet and effective. He had a passion for exactitude.
Connections
On May 12, 1891, Guthrie married Ella Fuller, who, with a step-daughter, survived him.