Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-08-24
Are Lawyers Educators.

Ed STANDARD:
Damn his addIe>s befoie the
Teuch"s, Institute, tuesday u!.Lt =.
the Governor o.: hi, Tenn ory, III
speaking ot lawyers. made the re-
mark ihat II was tor til, II che law
Nele IL vantage to Keep the ptoi lie
lSnuIauj.
Inns rem lrk from any other quar-
tel miLht no. have attracted II uch
at'en ioIst but cothlng from The Exc
Gu I've throne, the frUmulSatOr vi 1t
shall not go unrebuked. The remark
is either The result of an ignorance
unr Xcn,able, Oh of desire t. cater to
The tastes OF tina. class who are con-
stanIiy tiaduclhg the prot, SION,
aud Us constantly calling upon its
members TO help the traducers out
al troubles into which their own
cusSelness las lead them. That
Governor Newell, who has been 80
lonS Ill public ilte, know, that his
'enark Is not true, | have uot II
shadow OF doubt. Does he not
KNOW that 49, pen cent. OF the mule
teachers i'll our pubic schools, for
tn last quar.er Of II century, were
and are members Of the bar ? Doe s
he not know tina II per cent. of the
editors of the United STATE, 10 per
cent. OF Its historians and poets, and
% per cent. of Its statesmen, are,
and have been lawyers? Does he
not know that Kent, Story, jay,
Marshall, Parsons, Chase Lincoln,
aud an hundred other pure m.n,
were lawyers who spent their live, in
discriminating knowledge among
mankind? Does be not know that
magnG chartas. bills of right,
constitutions and edlcts of eman-
cipatlon came, and still come from
pens OF lawyers ? Does he not know
that The pen of lawyer wrote
" GreeDleai's Testimony of the Evan
gellsts, than which no book has
ever been written which SO measura-
ably proves the divinity If him who
came 10 save and the DIVINE origin
OF tie Testament Scriptures, book
which has done more to keep totter-
ing christianity from failing than
any book written by priest or rector :?
Does the Governor not know that
many of our most able dIvInes are
members of the bar? L scurn the
'luPutation that members Of the le-
gal profession are anxious to keen
the people III ignorance. Does he
not know that he who las just closed
HIS eyes III death; he wDo lived in
aud fed upon The Glorles of legal
lore; he whose peu was keener than
dagger point aud mlghller than the
darts of Insersoll; he, Jeremiah
Black. the great jurist and lawyer,
when all the so-catled servants of
God and followers of Christ were
awed to siience before the Arch In.
idel of the 18Th century, wa, the
only man in the land found ready
and able to answer him who seeks
to destroy our household gods and
give us chaotic faiths? We hope tie
remark was III Jest. Members Of the
bal whn have clients are mol able, like
tho politician, to leave then Office
an make speeches to every institute
aud every school house gathering or
political caucus; they have the
q" mightier matters OF the law" and
they ale willing to let politicians.
who are usually good for nothing
else, to say their speeches before the
various public assemblies. And after
that, The lawyer is willing land he
is depended upon as a Ile) to re-
duce the results of the actions of
these assemblies to legal phraseolosy
that they may become laws. Tue
first school law, and nearly every
other, drafted in the United States,
was written by lawyer. Out upon
the nonsense that lawyers are not
educators! Had it not been for the
legal profession Gov. Newell would
doubtless have been peddling pills
a: Two BITS box IN the 7,9 State of
New Jersey, in',ead OF holding the
place he now fills.