Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-03-02

iuS ioICe Vi EmmettS elOQuenCe the
first words of his charge to the jury
we're
Gentlemen of the Jury, you must
remember that lawyers are paid for
talking"
"Emmet won his case. He was no
doubt honest in his belief in his clients
claims but within a fortnight after
ward it was found that the man who
had obtained q title to the land had
secured it by forged papers, and he was
sent to prison."
II remember" said Mr.. Cooper, 81
was about nine years old at the time,
when Washington was buried. That
is, he was buried at Mount Vernon; but
we had a funeral service in old st.
PauPs. stood in front of the church,
and | recall the event well, on account
of his old white horse and its trappings.
Yes, have lived under the admins
traticns of all of the Presidents of the
Republic.
Mr.. Cooper said that his hearing was
somewhat impaired and that his eyes
were little dim, so that he had to
have pretty strong light in order to
read the daily newspaper. His men,
DRY is remarkable. AS he talked and
threw his whole mind into any ques-
ton under consideration, he seemed
not older than man of seventy. He
SAID that he was going to have steno-
grapher, for he found that he,.could not
write fast enough now. Within the
past few days he sent a letter to Sena-
tor Beck, the great Kentucky free trader
and frec-ship man, denouncing in the
most vigorous way the three per cent.
funding bill of Senator Sherman, in
which he said "This whole system of
issuing money and making it a gratuity
to rich bankers is one of the most infa-
nous frauds ever perpetrated upon the
people"
81 owe any success which may have
been mine," continued Mr.. Cooper,
"largely to my attitude in regard to the
banks. would not put myself in their
power by running in debt. had learn
ed three trades by the time was twen-
ty-one years old-one of them on what
is now the corner of Broadway and
Chambers street | could make every
part of hat, and for several years
worked in an ale brewery with my
father. In my seventeenth year | en-
tered as apprentice to the coach-maklng
business, in which | remained four
years, till became of age. | made Tor
my employer machine for mortising
the hubs of carriages, which proved
very profitable to him, and was, per-
haps, the first of its kind used in this
country. When | was twenty-one
years old my employer offered to build
me shop and set me up in business,
bat Us | always had horror of being
burdened with debt, and having no cap
ital of my own, / declined his kind
offer. He himself became a bankrupt.
| have made it rule to pay everything
as | go. If, in the course of business,
anything is due from me to any one,
and the money is not called for, make
it my business on the last Saturday
before Christmas to take it to his bust
ness place"
Mr.. Cooper spoke of two matters of
special consequence to the public at
the present time In the first place,
he most heartily approved of the re-
cent movement for large public lending
libraries. In the twenty-three years
existence of the Cooper Institute over
~, 100000, he said, had been expended
upon it, and, from his experience, he
thought that these proposed libraries
should be endowed with from 81, 600, 900
to 100000. There should be, he
thought, at least six Of these libraries in
the city. The library buildings should
be tasteful, but comparatively inexpen-
sive. The main thing should be the
books. He would have connected
Herewith reading and lecture rooms.
He was at first inclined to think that 1t
would be better to have all these libra
ries under one board of management,
but on further reflection saw that the
great danger was that one manageme nt
would not have sufficient supervision
of details for so many libraries. He
liked direct responsibility. The Board
of Education, however, he thought,
might be properly entrusted with the
work. IL should be glad to know" he
added. chat some rich man had given
sufficient sum for the endowment and
sustaining of these libraries. For some
years there were annually over SIX
hundred thousand readers in the Cooper
Institute Library. Last year the read
ers numbered more than four hundr
thousand. Comparatively few books
we're stolen or mutilated. Sometimes,
but not often, we have a case calling
for punishment. | remember that one
man was sent to BIackwelps Island for
stealing books"
In speaking of the large lecture rooms
which should be connected with these
Libraries, Mr.. Cooper strongly urged the
importance of placing them under
ground, as in the case of the Cooper
Union Hail. "There is nothing" he
said, Sin which you could do the PEG.
pie more good than in advocating this.,
Tie commented on the fire on Park
Row on Tuesday and its terrible results;
upon the Vienna theatre fire and SINH
la CONGREGATIONS and said:-"Ihe PEG
pie in hall and underground would
not be in one-half the danger from a
panic as they would be in a hall where
the exits are down fights of stairs.
To a tho loroa hall of the CoOper ID-