Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-04-28
BLOOMINGTON IOWA. FRIDAY APRIL o. 1913
THE BAR AND THE PRESS.

While efforts are making in this . Tree
country to destroy the liberty of the Press
or 10 hedge /. around with restriction
and bench laws unknnwn TO the Consti
tuiion. i, is Il too apparent fact that TIL
Bar is increasing its own powers and con
serving lis own privileges in every posi-
BILE way. The reason Of this is obvious
The press is always waging kind o
"civil war" upon itself and it's interests
There is no unity Of feeling among those
who control it. There is no common OBJ
ject around which TO center lis Interests
or 10 draw forth its collective power. Blu
with the Bar il is far otherwise. Tht
lawyer has no personal feeling to crafty
at the expense Of his contemporaries. ant
no in,eres. a. stake excep, the second han
ded ones OF his clients. AL. his hopes lie
in preserving the peculiar privileges Of his
profession, and in marking his own as a
distinct and superior class.
The following remarks from the Lon
don Standard, high tory paper. shows
that the Bar in England, has, by the same
process which has marked its operators
in this country, become so powerful and
influential as 10 awaken the fears of those
even who advocate the maintenance of
conservative abuse, and vino dread the ex,
tension Of of the :" largest liberty" among
the people. The subject is worth good
deal of reaec.ion.-lron City.
The Bar AND THE Press. priyi-
leges of the Bar are properly very extern
si.e. II is only necessary to contrast the
position of the feed advocate Of cuprit
with The unfeed advocate Of public cause ;
The barrister with the journaiist-,o appre-
cia,e The prodigious extent of the Prlvie-
ges Of the Bar barris,er may tell for
his client what he knows to be lies, and
malignant lies. and use every ar,iice to
give these lies the color of truth. 1t is
enough for him if they are set down by
All attorney no more responsible than him
self for his client, barrisler may insult
one whom he knows in his secret heart to
be an honest man, as perjurer and VIII
ror that shall afford ground for the "dlous
impula,ion. That these privileges are not
suffered 10 lie idle is proved by every
days experience. Indeed. the barris,er
must exercise them if he would thrive in
his psofossian. = Coz manners ass. ss'urni
character are no indispensable requisites
ii. the Bar, and as he who shall 90 fursh>
est for client will cateris paribus all
ways be preferred in all bnt.he very nigh
est rank of tho Bar. we are sure to find the
readiest perverlers of the truth, the most
INSCRIPTIONS DULLES, whether of judges,
iuries or witnesses. The favorites.
The journalist, on the other hand. gen
orally man Of better birth, education.
manners and morals, than the majority OF
barristers, and therefore restrained by the
feelings proper TO this superiority-rc-
strained, too. by the care for good char
ac,er, the loss of which, 10 HIM would be
falal-has none of the privileges with
which the barris,er is armed. So far from
being allowed wilfulIy to state falsehood
"a privilege which we most joyfully re-
nounce) he is not always permitted to tell
even the truth, and when imposed upon
by INSTRUMENTATION the clearest proofs of
the imposition offers no excuse.-London
Standard