Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-04

/ they should be opposed 70
farmers or any other class Of laborlno
men is surely not 20 be expected. More
over, lawyers az a general thing are 20
be given credit for possessing some In.
telligence, and that being so, Il Is highly
unreasonable to charge them with hos.
tility 70 farmers In view Of thoifact that
they are more largely dependent on the
farmers than any other class. Not only
Is the greater part OF their business de-
4 rived from farmers, but in ours, an agri-
cultural country, there are more farmers
on juriee than any other class of men;
and the lawyer who docs not desire and
cultivate the friendship of men who are 10
try his cases is exceedingly unwlse. But
there Is higher view Of the matter.
Lawyers in our country are not such by
right Of Inheritance, nor do they come
from any one class. Que OF the beauties
Of our system Of government Is that, re-
CARELESS of the social position and bust.
ness pursuit OF parents, the doors Of
every trade and profession are open to
all alike; and many are the instances in
American history where the sons OF
farmers and the sons Of mechanics have
arisen 10 eminence in all OF
the learned professions. That men
thus springlng from the body of the
people should have any prejudice against
or animosity towards the producers OF
what we eat and wear, Is TO put low
estimate on human nature, unless there is
something debesin IN the business itself
And, certainly, this can not be true, for,
as already shown, the law aims at the
yindication and establishment Of what Is
right and the prevention Of what is wrong
Nothing human can have a loftler pur-
pose Some of the purest and most
useful patriots our country has
had have been lawyers. The mon
who have headed great reforms, having
in view the amelioration OF the condition
OF the people OF America, have generally
been lawyers
You farmers who are daily donounclng
lawyers should remember that you have
sous who may possess an aptitude for the
law. VIII you, by engendering IN their
minds prejudice against noble profess
] sion, do them the injustice Of keeping
| them out of 1t, when, II left to inclination
and choice, they might enter II, and en-.
terIng It, might achieve the highest dis
tinction in its ranks9 II you do, you do
a thing which, II IL lad been done by all
would have deprived our country
Of most of its leading jurists. Surely
you would not wrong your own offspring
Intentionally, but those Of you who
preach hatred TO lawyers may unwilling
ly do the wrong II you continue TO instill
such notions in the minds OF your child
rem. do not say, nor do think, that
Il your son becomes distinguished law
yer, that he will therefore become bet
ter man than you are, but you know that
you would rather see him an eminent
lawyer than for him TO live as
you have lived. Excellence In any pur.
suit purely intellectual is desired by all
men; or, at least, ought to be. Another
point and shall be done. The members
OF the so-called Peoples party are guilty
of strange Inconsistency in regard TO
lawyers. While they are constantly decry-
ing lawyers, yet when you find lawyer so
devoid OF professional pride and self
respect as to ally himself with them, they
receive him with open arms and treat
him with distinguished consideration.
! Messrs. Blair, Bowlin, Priest, Martin and
Kent are shining lights ia their party.
II can hardly be claimed that the
gentlemen named surpass others here In
the legal fraternity Ia ability; nor uutil
they affiliated with the "People'a party
had any one ever heard that they were
more honest or patriotic than other
lawyers. The "People's party first
rendered the nomination for county Judge
to Sam Furman, lawyer, and had he ac-
cepted the nomination, they would have
classed him with the great and good Ave
named above; but he declined, and then
at once he became as bad as his brethren
| generally. A LAWYER