The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-02-17
A wen-Deserved Compliment.

The following deserved compliment To an
old and well-tried friend Of the Labor
Movement, we republish with pleasure.
We find it in one of our New York eN-
changes
THE TRUE CHARACTER oF JAMES T. BRADY
All who knew James L. Brady, who came
into close relations with this remarkable
man, have borne testimony to his generous
manly character Magnanimity and gen
erosity had such a natural home in Mr.
Brady that it was not a surprise to his
friends that his estate at his death was easy
Of administration, for the vast revenue dc
rived from a lucrative practice was never 10
be found, except in the grateful hearts of
those whom he had secretly aided. while h.
lived
One of the cases in which Mr. Bradys
eminent legal talents had been long exer-
cised, was the great India rubber litigation
Of Goodyear and Day and Day and Good
year The last Of these cases in which Mr.
Brady was ever employed was upon a com
mittee of Congress, upon the application
for the extension Of the Goodyear Patent
In this case it was known that all the Law
yers educated in the facts had been retain
ed by the associates Of Mr. Goodyear, and
Mr.. Day was compelled to prepare and
argue his case himself, and defeated the ex-
tension.
In his closing argument against MIR. Day,
Mr.. Brady illustrated his character for
magnanimity in the following expressions.
which were as honorable To his opponent
as to himself We copy from the work
Goodyear before Congress, published hy
! the American News Co., New York
:" Now, here, Horace III. Day. when not
being an amateur, not being actuated ex-
clusively by an ardent love Of the public
I Just before he compromised with the Good
year interest, and received q very large
amount of money, which ] am happy to say
he is enjoying-having retired. as | hoped,
to pass the evening Of his days in that re-
pose which think he deserves-for there
has never been a more industrious, perse-
vering, energetic man on the earth and
there has never been in the history of our
race an instance like that struggle Of Mr.
| Day-almost unaided, he, through his
prowess and peculiarities, having run the
gauntlet against this formidable array Of
I lawyers, Of whom Mr.. Webster was the
head and the other extremity"
The originality of the patent, says Day
not loQ,titU, but swearing" has never
been passed upon by any jury since it was
first issued in June, 1874, up to this time
in the United States. 1t has been in Law,
and the right Of Charles Goodyear denied
continually from the time Of its original
issue. Neither Mr. Goodyear nor the law
yers, nor capitalists who controlled the
patent, would allow it to 90 to a Jury.
Frequent defaults have been taken. The
questions Of fact arising under any disputes
either in equity OF law, have never been
passed upon by jury. The number of
suits growing out Of this patent, and others
forming part of it, l estimate at 100 in the
United States alone The amount ex-
pended in such litigation exceeds a million
Of dollars"
In the extraordinary document which is
in my hand, ne says at the end
This is, you see, Goodyear's portion W
the plunder His licenses, the dozens Of
millionaires all over the country, the scores
Of lawyers made rich, and who have shared
in the fifty or seventy-fve millions of profit
on the manufacture, all combine to illus
trate the genius Of Charles Goodyear and
his associates in this gigantic operation,
and his sons falsity or truthfulness in his
sworn statement before Congress, de-
claring his receipts to be $50, 900 per year
Will the Committee permit me to say to
brother Day that as the time for taking
testimony in this case il never to close, /
wish he would call Witnesses to prove that
| am one of the rich lawyers.
Mr.. DAY-You might have been rich II
you had kept your money. Laughter
Mr.. BRADY-That is very good but
prefer now to 60 on with Mr.. Days testi-
mony.