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PRESIDENT, ladies and gentlemen of the Associa tion: I think I may safely premise with the general principle that shorthand in this country owes more to lawyers and the bar in general than to any other department of business, or any other profession. In the early days of shorthand, there were only two main fields for shorthand writers, the courtroom and the newspaper. The newspaper did not require of a shorthand reporter that degree of excellence, that skill and that accuracy, that forms the most essential feature of law reporting. A man could take a synopsis of a speech if he had a good memory, was possessed of a reasonable number of word-signs, and had good judgment. It was an easy matter to make an acceptable report of a public speech, but as soon as the courts began to use stenographers, the necessity arose, and had to be filled, for a class of men whose speed was only equaled by their accuracy, and whose reports could be relied upon as evidence in future proceedings in the same matter. The consequence was that there grew up, in this country particularly, a class of men perhaps the most skilled in shorthand of any that we have any account of. About 15 years ago, there were in the city of Chicago a few men, such as Merrett H. Dement, the brother of your president, John Ritchie, John Gray, Mr. Burnham and a few others, whose skill, I think, has never been exceeded by any reporter since. These men and a few others controlled the entire business of shorthand writing in Cook county. There were no amanuenses in those days to amount to anything. All of the shorthand writing was done in the court house. All of the transcribing was done at so much a folio, or so much a page. In the early history of shorthand in this State, a law had been passed by the Legislature creating the office of official reporter for the Circuit Court of this county, but it was said that the law was passed for the benefit of two or three reporters. At any rate, two or three reporters gained the benefit of the law, but, subsequently, on the application of the members of the bar of this county to the Supreme Court, this law was declared unconstitutional, and from that day to this the courts have been as open to competition to the most skillful and the most industrious as the business offices are today. This statute was due to the lawyers, and I think to that statute was due the congregation here, about that period, of a number of first-class reporters. In their offices, from time to time, grew up young men (there were no women reporters employed at that |