Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-10
LAW AND LAWYERS.
A PROFESSION IN WHICH MANY ARE
 CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.

Difficulties Which Confront Young Bar
 risters-How Literature and Politics Ar
 feet tho Lawyers Prospects-us Need Not Necessarily Be a Rascal.
 Mir. Richard Deyereux Doyle, prom inent member of the Norfolk bar, contributes to The Southern Nigga zine an article entitled My Impress sions of Law and Lawyers, " which will prove very interesting to laymen as we'll as to members of the legal pro- fession. Mir. Doyle discusses his theme instructively. entertainingly and with judicial impartiality and candor. He refers to tho Confessions of a Junior Barrister, by the brilliant Richard Labor Shiel, as embodying the early ex- periences of many hopeful and talented young lawyers.
 "How many" says Mir. Doyle, "havo passed through n similar course of study and preparation, perhaps graduating in the humanities as we'll as the law, bearing away the prize for elocution and oratory at some of our great insti- tutions of learningl How many have thought that such talents as theirs were sure to command early if not immedi- ate success, and, alasi how many have been disappointed!" differing. it may be added, in this respect from Shiel, who passed safely through the depress- ing period of waiting and probation which tries the soul of the ordinary legal neophyte, and who won the dis tinction of which he had dreamed at the outset of his career.
 Many of this grand army of the dis appointed fail, Mir. Doyle thinks, not because they are lacking in genuine talent" which is frequently of high order," but "bccause there are so many I other elements that should but do not enter into tho calculation" of tho youth. full aspirant. Youth, for one thing, ''is | too sanguire and expects too much. Some fail because of their bad personal habits; somo by infirm health and too hard study and confinement are stricken down, like poor Kirk White, when life is in its spring. some arc not polite enough to WOO the world, but hold | proudly alCof, trusting to their talents and knowledge, while the busy world goes bustling by without stopping to | look at their credentials" Some stray into the pleasant and fiowery paths of literature and some into tho seductive field of politics.
 I "A literary reputation, Mir. Doyle declares, "is perhaps more dangerous than a political one, especially If one is given, like MT. Wegg, to dropping into poetry. The ago is too practical for a successful combination of law and liter ature. A lawyer may and should be cultivated. but he must not be known as a litterateur or poet. Nor will it do for the young lawyer to seek to make himself known by going into politics. To do so lis n risky venture for one who intends to make law the profession of lifetime, and even a reputation for political oratory is of little if any bene- fit to a lawyer. The public soon come to regard him as politician and may be willing tn vote with him or for him, but not to give him business. "
 Turning from the causes of failure to the qualities important to what is ordi- narily deemed success. Mir. Doyle sum- marizcs them as follows: "Lovc of the profession and evident desire to get business and attention to it when in hand; industry and the appearance of industry and good native sense, with an | dkSACSSlNS V 'slu l asI tl-Si4l U Fluency of speech. cluqucmcc of diction and genuine Oratorical talent are use ful, but not essential '' This partisan and aggressive spirit, which is akin to what Lord Bacon calls "boldncss, " Mir. Doyle considers particularly impor- tant element of success. Men hire lawyers. as the expression is among the people, to attend to their business and | 4 II. .l s-.t. and the lawyer who goes into n case thoroughly i:nbuCd with tho clients s feelings, b,licving or making believe that he is certainly right and tho other party an unmitigatcd rascal, is sure tc please.
 As to the ethical side of tho law, Mir Doyle admits that much may be said pro and con. Ono of tho demoralizing features of the profession is that "a lawyer cannot choose his cases" He is sometimes Cn the wrong side. the side of falschood and injustice. and when on tho wrong side ''there is al- most irresistible temptation to express belief in the justice of his cause, and lawyers too often yield to it, thus giv- ing some ground for tho popular accu- sation that lawyers lie for their clients. " After all, whether "tho law is 6 noble and elevating profession" depends upon tho man. ." There is nothing in the nature of his profession which compcls a lawyer to bo a rascal. It has its temp tations, but so has every other business. Many hard things have been said of lawyers, but the account is nearly bal anced by the complimentary things that they have said of themselves and of their profession. Sir Edward Coke speaks of the gladsome light of juris- prudence. " and lack of self apprecia- tion is not in geucral one of the defects of the disciples of the law. They have, however, the consolation of knowing that ill spite of all the abuse to which they have hcen subjected by satirical writers and poets they are not only use ful but essential members of society. , and that thoso who abuse them most orG generally the very first to rush to the lawyers to avonge or protecs them ir their hour of need. Sun.
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