The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-02-23
FROM THE PEOPLE.

FROM THE PEOPLE.
PROJEcTs AND NOTIONS THAT
THEY WRITE ABOUT.
A. Colunn for tho Discussion of Any-
thing You Take an Interest In, and
Believe will RevOlutionize Society.
To TIE CHRONICLE If Bar Associa-
ton is designed for protection, certainly
we need it here more than in any other city
in the State, because our bar being much
larger, and this being the political centre,
there is much more Liability of inundation
from that class against whom protection ID
most necessary. If general promotion OF
the interest OF the profession here and in
the State at large be the object, we are bet
ter situated for that also. 1t has alWays
been true, since the human family was or
ganized into society, that most has been
accomplished by associated efforts. Why
this truth should fail only n its application
20 the subject under discusaion / an not
Able to understand It Is EenexA1ly true
tlhat : virtpous md highly cnltf 8dpeos
ple ere mot cApaefe Qf hlxzncl On
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ing 1oRed foF the henellt & 0f e1nse nj TIA
injQky of otheFs The pu6tomary oh1oo-
stions g e good entazprises would be
raised by the timid, and BY those who
thought that their best Interest. lay Ia the
present diserganized state Of af1airs. And
lastly, opposition might by bare posi-
bility be set up by one or two good men,
who having done tolerably well under ex-
lsting circumstances have q morbid aver
sion to change, or perhaps too great fear
of being spoken against. But If the assO-
ciation proposed would be of benefit to the
legal profession here, or here and else
where, any or all of these objections com
bined should not deter us in the least II
such an organization could be set ON foot
without opposition, should despair of its
success. But it is not the opposition of
open enemies, but the lukewarmness of
pretended friends that is mostly in the
way.
The druggists and doctors have already
recognized this truth and organized them
selves And their object is very laudable,
it being the protection of themselves and
the people against incompetence them
selves because incompetence ruins their
business the people because incompetence
kills. The Pharmaceutical Association
and the Medical Examining Board may
sometimes interfere with the speculations
of humbugs, and become oppressive to
quackery, but who will say for all that,
that fools ought to sell poisons, or the bo-
gus diploma doctors ought to use them
1t may be safely assumed that the general
tendency of a Bar Association would be
the elevation of the legal profession Can
anybody pretend that the people are less
interested in competent bar, whose busi-
ness is the protection of life, liberty and
property than in competent doctors, whose
business is the protection of life only2
Whether 70, tlhta, sraaiapt ant of a,anAration
a1aa So, ,,rostituted to llegitimate ends, or
e becanse it is made the stepping stone in
the too often dirty pool of politics or be-
cause of the impecuniOus and sometimes
barristers who are semi-annu-
ally turned out to Craze upon the short
crOpt pastures of law or because these
times have rendered success and influence
possible to class of business men inca
pable of appreciating either the virtue or
the necessity of the profession, or because
the struggle for existence has too often
caused them to stoop to acts of littleness
and shame-whether I say, from Gsay or
all these causes combined-it is fact that
the legal profession has lost, to a cOnsid-
erable extent, and is to-day losing, its
hold upon the people. If this be true it
ought not to be ignored now-if so, the
time will come when it cannot be. If this
be true, the fault lies partly with our
selves, and the remedy, perhaps, altogether.
proposed would tend to put stop to the
unprofessional acts of the few, for which
the whole body has had to suffer at times
heretofore.
When the reflection is INDUCED that the
law is the only training school for a large
and important class of our public SER
wants; when it is considered that it is the
best, and almost the only training. school
for all other public men, then it does
seem that a dignity and Importance ought
to be attached to it which would render q
want of appreciation not only culpable but
criminally unpatnOtic.
IF all the members of the bar are living
up to the rules of professional ethics, then
Bar Association would not sit heavy on
any-n any arc violating these rules, then
Whist would have been beneficial only, be
comes necessity a LAWYKR
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