They misconceived the trend of affairs. I am of the opinion that the passage of the Roosevelt Act would have aided greatly in stemming the current which was gradually breaking down salutary restrictions upon corporations and which has since then been moving in increasing volume and with increasing swiftness-the tendency to make corporation laws popular, with a view to securing revenue to the State from corporate organizations. That State in the future which will secure to itself the best corporations, which will attract incorporated capital as opposed to incorporated wind, will not be the State which sets the standard in laxity, but the State which shall so frame its laws as to conform most closely to the principles of honesty in organization and integrity in management. witness the truth of cock yes and an imprecation of the vengeance of that being "I the swearer commits perjury, its obligation is derived from a supposition or beer on the port of the witness that, by vite of having subscaled to the ceremony, some dreidl fate will be a ca there is any deviation from the truth. I've cu fon of giving and demanding each in code aer or assert ons has existed from a te non of "wheresit. It orig ein's ièce ( f man runneth not to the contrary." of human records, when real, anything in nature more vd be endi pot understand we still fad survivas of oaths grets In Russia the Ostyaki bear and in Inda the Santal s day swear by the wa y the tiger. Each beneves that should he fail to keep the beast which he has affronted by his perjury will et me seek him out and devour him. In New Gau ca swear by the mountains, and a perjurer, they pebze, wil meet his fate beneath the dei ris of an avalançad Lam by the outraged deity. gong the very 'dest written records we ¦ refe; the neth which prove it to have been at that true an When Abraham let Ur of the Chees the art of his nativity and pitched his tent a Minie, he went out to badle against Arraphaci 1. : 1 Sonar and his associates. After he had prevailed g the King of Sodom desired him to share fe ham reped "I have lift up my Land |