The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
THE LAWYERS.
A Few Mild Remarks.

A Few Mild Remarks.
The lawyers are to politics what the
Jews are to tinance:-they are too
devlllsh smart for anything. They
Will control a caucus, select the dele
gates and adjourn the meeting while
the honest people are scratching their
heads and rallying their faculties.
| They are trained mental athletes,
with no more honesty, as rule, than
would keep rat alive over night.
Some one said lawyer is like case
of itch in public school,-he will set
the whole community to scratching.
Three or four of them in state con-
yention will turn it upside down,
stand it on its head and the members
will not recover their mental equi-
poise until a week after they get
home. 1t will take week of country
air to blow the devilishness out of a
man that lawyer will inject into him
in five minutes. They may be count
ed on to be instinctively on the wrong
side. You might just as we'll try to
construct an image of Virtue out of
bowl of quicksilver as to hold lot of
lawyers together for any honest pur-
pose.
And subtle! Oh Lord!
| They will hair divide
ana argue tWlXt north and nOrthWeSt t
Side.''
Truth becomes plastic in their
hands, and assumes shapes that God
himself could not recognize. They
will make white, black; and then,
with turn of hand. it becomes ring
streaked, spleckled, blue, purple and
vermillion. If dozen of them ever
get into heaven they will move to an
mex hell to increase the territory
and they will carry it, and let in all
the rest of the lawyers that have died
since Gains time.
The Savior of mankind knew them
we'll.
"And all the people that heard him,
and the publicans, justified God, be-
ing baptized with the baptism of
John.
"But the Pharisees and lduyers re-
themselves"
OF course they did. They belonged
to the old parties.
And the Lord said:
''For John the Baptist came neither
eating bread nor drinking wine and ye
say, he hath devil.
1.-The Son of Man is come eating and
drinking; and We say, Behold a glut-
tonous man and wine -bibber, a friend
of publicans and sinners"
How adroitly that was turned.
Nothing would satisfy them. We can
fancy Macdonald making just such an
argument, on S. case, in Justice s
court.
And the Lord said:
"Woe unto you ye lawyers! for ye
lade men with burdens grievous to be
borne, and ye yourselves touch not
the burdens with one of your fingers.
"Woe unto ye, for ye build the
sepulchres of the prophets and your
fathers killed them"
But some one will say,-you we're a
lawyer once yourself. Yes; but l was
caught young.
Personally lawyers are good fellows
brilliant, talented, jovial; good hus-
bands; good fathers; splendid chaps
for fishing excursion or tea party;
agreeable conversationalists, literary
critics, and all that. But when it
comes to making laws for a people,
and protecting the poor many from
the fee-paying wealthy few, they are
of no use to God or man. How can
you make a statesman out Of one who
has been trained, from his youth up
ward, to defend wickedness as vigor-
ously as he does virtue: whose whole
genius and mental powers are at the
entire service of whoever will hire
him; who will rejoice to turn the red
handed robber and murderer loose un-
punished, if he is paid for it; and
whose greatness consists in his capac-
ity to defeat justice and thwart the
laws Of his country?
OF course there are exceptions to all
this-noble, heroic, honest souls, who
rise superior to the limitations OF
their professions; who refuse to defend
wrong: who stand like bulwarks in
defence of the peoples rights. These
men loom up like lighted watch
towers above the darkness and base
ness of their age:-Sir Mathew Hale,
Sir John More, Lord' Bacon. Lord
| Mansfield, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew
Jackson, Abraham Lincoln are ex-
amples that dignity the human race
But the Lord has not permitted
anything to exist on this earth mean
er and mas tier than low-fung, petit
Jogging, shyster lawyer. They com.
Dine the characteristics of the fox
the wolf, the tiger, the glutton, the
buzzard, the snake and the pole-cat!
May the good Lord keep that kind OF
vermin out of the Peoples Party, and
prevent them from any longer govern.
ing mankind. I'D.