Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-10
GOING TO LAW.
q Luxury which No hensfble Man shoula
Indulge In.

a Luxury Which No sensible Man Should
Indulge In.
Law has been called luxury, but |
surely more with a view TO its cost |
than to the pleasure men can derive |
from recourse to it. Save in very ex-
ceptional cases-such as the settlement |
of great question of principle in
which whole classes may be involved,
and in which the parties TO the case
are really representative individuals,
through which circumstance personal
bias or luminosity is largely removed
from them-law is the resort of the
foolish and imprudent- In nine cases
out of ten of mere litigation, narrow
mindedness and ill-temper have much
20 do with it, and, once in, the whole
machinery seems contrived, by a
hundred little articles, to fan the
flame rather than to allay it.
We gratefully remember, as a
relief to the depressing story
of what we may call legal hunger. the
case of Mr.. Thomas Brassey, who, In
all his long experience as contractor,
engaged in most extensive and COM
plicated transactions, only once al
lowed himself to be led into lawsuit,
and that, he tells us, was in the case OF
a Spanish railway in which, unfortu-
nately, he had partner who would
not rest satisfied without recourse to
law on some point in dispute. Mr..
Brassey declared that he would not
enter on another lawsuit in any cir
| cumstances whatever; his conviction
being that, even If you won your case,
it would not repay you for the loss OF
peace of mind the strength taken from
your business, and the general disar-
rangement in your affairs consequent
on such process.
| Sir Walter Scott, who knew well
what going to law means, being him
self a lawyer, has embodied for us the
passion for law which grows with what
it feeds on in the person of Petel
PEBBLES; and Charles Dickens in moth
ing showed more humor and more
sympathy than in his most graph,
pictures of the characters who, like
ghosts, haunted the old CHANGER,
Courts in London. And George Elio
in the mill on the Floss we'll Illus
trates the absorbing power of the Law
mania, even on minds otherwise 81
strong and healthy as that of Mr.
Tulliver:
"'What want, you know said Mr.
Tulliver; what | want is to give Tor
a good eddication; an eddication as
be bread for him. That was what
was thinking of when l gave motto
.. for him to leave the academy at Lady
day. | mean to put him to dowI
right good school at midsummer. Th
two years at tn academy 'ud ha' don
we'll enough, if I'd meant to make
miller and farmer of him; for he's ha
, fine sight more schoolin' not | eve
got; all the learnin' my father eve
) paid for was a bit o birch at one en-
: and the alphabet at the other. But
e should like Tom to be bit of scho
S AIRED, so as he might be up to tricl
e % these fellows as talk fine al
e write with flourish. 1t u
9 be help to me with the lawsuits, al
n arbitrations and things. | wouldn
IS make downright lawyer O. the lad
should be sorry for him to be rask
but sort O. enginser or a surveyo
: or an auctioneer and vallyer, Ill
:, Riley; or one O. them smartish bus
nesses as are all profits and no outla
II only for big watch chain and his
IS stool. They're pretty nigh all on
IS and they're not far off being even wi
"a the law, | believe. For Riley loo
l. Lawyer Wakem i the face as hard
Is one cat looks another. He's none frigt
d ened at him. christian Union.