The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-24
THE NORTHERN PACIF1C RAIL
ROAD COMPANY.

tured out of sight of land.
THE NORTHERN ACIF1C RAIL
ROAD COMPANY.
WE are not surprised to learn that the bonds
of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
are being sold with great rapidity in many
sections of the country. The eastern portion
of the road passes through the most vigorous
and productive of the new States. Among
all the marvels of American development,
nothing equals the rapidity with which the
wilds of Minnesota have been converted into
fourishing wheat farms. A district which a
few years ago was bowling wilderness is to-
day outstripping all the old agricultural
States in the amount of its wheat crop and in
the ease and certainty with which the farmer
can secure remunerative returns. That
the western portions of this line are also ex-
tremely promising is proved alike by the
prosperity of the Northern States and Terri
tories on the Pacific coast and the rapidity
of the mineral and agricultural development
of Idaho and Montana. A road passing
through this region, which is backed up by
land grant of enormous magnitude, which is
now fairly under way, and which is
under the financial and mechani-
cal management of the ablest fnauciers
and railroad men in this country, must sue
ceed. For such an enterprise there is, liter
ally, no such word as fail; and as every step
of its progress opens at once new homes for
pioneers and new sources of supply for con-
sumers of agricultural and mineral products,
we can only look upon the Congressional wit
who vainly strives to impede its course as a
weak imitator of the bull that tried to butt
locomotive off the track.
THE DUTIES AND RESPO NSIBILl-
TIES OF La WYEIS
A MEMBER of the New York bar, by the name
of Orson A. House, has lately got himself
into serious difficulty by the manner in which
he has conducted the business of procuring
divorces for parties who are dissatisfied with
their marital relations, House made spe-
cialty of divorce cases, and advertised extern
sively that he would procure the separation
of discontented husbands and wives at low
rates, and on the principle of satisfaction
guaranteed" or no payment. The theory of
House appears to have been that it was his
duty to win case, no matter what means he
adopted to do it, and the cause of his pre-
sent troubles is in the fact that he considered
perjury, both on his own part and on that of
his paid witnesses, perfectly legitimate
weapon in his legal armory. The misery that
can be caused by scamp of this kind
can scarcely be estimated, and
yet House, the peoples divorce
lawyer" only carried to its extreme a theory
that appears to be extensively acted upon in
the legal profession. A far more distin-
guished member of the New York bar than
House, has lately appeared before the public
as defender of the principle that lawyer
is not merely employed to defend the legal
rights of his client, but that it is both his
privilege and duty to gain his cause by any
possible means, whether it is just or not. This
in plain language is the principle enunciated
by David Dudley Field, Esq, in his endeayors
to defend himself from the charges brought
against him of having aided the corrupt prae-
tees of Fisk, Jr., and the New York Tam
many ring, by means other than those a lawyer
governed by any of the rules of integrity
which are held IN other professions would
adopt. More significant even than this is the
fact that a champion for the peculiar line
of tactics advocated by Field and
House appears in the person of an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
this State, gentleman justly celebrated for
his legal attainments, and who has had the
reputation hitherto of being, to reasonable
extent at least, governed by conscientious
motives That other lawyers who occupy
seats upon the bench incline to the same
opinions was shown in this city few weeks
ago, when young practitioner, who was
charged with particularly gross attempt to
defeat the ends OF justice by threatening wit
nesses in private and otherwise endeavorine
to prevent their attendance, was almost apollo
gized to by one of the Quarter Sessions
Judges for the slight inconvenience to which
he had been put, after an examination which
if it proved anything, proved that he was
guilty of the charge made against him.
That there are numerous members of the