The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1852-10-30
For the Free Trader.
To the Working m9n

Cf the couatyct la Sale, Farmers, Mechanics,
L0JoreJs
Your attentive consideration Is called to- the
consideration Of your classes and the relation
they bear to wha, are commonly called the pro
fessional"
We wish to ask you to consider the daily sver-
age earnings Of your numerous order, when una>
sisted by capital compared with the daily aver
age earnings of the medical, the legal ur TIA,
classical pursuits aud to consider the rank which
you occupy Individually OF collectively IN tue
esteem Of your fellow msu as compared with
them.
Ifit be de-rab. thing to be highly esteemed
among men, ie it not as important to your ordr.
ns to Others, that you should be IN the foremo-,
ranksl If it be important To ill public office,
and high stations is it not as important to you a.
to them
Why is it that it is so rare thing, to find one
Of your number in either Of these po,itions' Why
il it the the services of your physician or your
lawyer ate rated at many dollars for single
hour while yours are rated at as many cents
Is his birth, intellect; capacity No! Ia all
these, naturally you are his equal. 1t is hi,
training, his education and thus, his skill real or
supposed
| For every class, except the Industrial there
are training places peculiarly adapted to produce
experIuc.s IN the disciples of each, in the calling
intended for them Theological Seminaries, Com
mercial and Medical Colleges aud State Law
Schools fill the land with men in broadcoath
who secure With ease to themselves the elegancies
and lsxurIe. OF life denied TO you with your sever.
est tolls except in rarest cases, Where are your
schools your seminares your colleges You
point to your district schools and scaniy painted
buildings you call semlaaries. Here where are
taught the alrhabate and the minor English
branches, some French, some Latin.
Is this the farmers learningi the mechanics
the laonrers the arliZans Is 1t with no other
arms than these that you are sent and your chill
dren to be sent into the field of the great struggl,
Of life
How should the surgeon on his patient fare
who entered that field of practice with only hes,
qualifications He is trained IN the use of hi
tools and in the knowledge Of anatomy Of tn,
human frame, For him past ages, by the thou
sands OF years, have garnered up their experisnc,
and recorded it in vast Libraries For him learn
ed professors, best skilled IN their own art are
supported at great salaries and expense. in build
ings and with apparatus procured at vast cos
to enable their training to be complete that the,
may successfully enter the arena Of life.
How should fare the lawyer, who, with only
the training Of your district schools, should clam
to be fitted for practice in the highest walks Of h
professoni
For his class your district schools are exhaust
ed, classical schools opened and passed eoeg,
claims four years Of tuition and their his o,c,
peculiar school fits him for his work Here it
this his school, is centered the learning of ages
Here are watched and trained, his thoughts hi
words, his acts, his very motions gestures, tone.
all his being here is trained in the practice of hi
profession. For him here, are formed cnurt- an,
forms and formulas, cases, plcadmgs, judges
iuries, clients, advocates, sherlls, constabes. wit
nesse' and veriicts Here are carried on with
all the soemuity of reality a Congress, with it
Senate and House, which go through with tn
regular business of such body, all thi. produce
a finished student, ftted for the practice of hi
profession and for the duties OF his life Belur
such training how shall yotr class stand in com
pehng for ths'honors aud emolument' of life
Even in the ranks ofliwvers themselves what i
the testimony of the usefulness their profe.sona
school They say that w,M them all this give
the student in two years course more actua
practice in ali the arts II tia proiessnn that
LAWYERS. usually have in the first ten y-nts o
their professional life which constitutes , mos
importan, fass Of EXPERIENCE ON which to star, II
the world and without them "ef 60 cases (prac
ticing lawayers) in single county, examined u