St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-30
sense of responsibility taken away

no matter what they may decide some
superior and supposed wiser tribunal
is going to review their decisions and
correct whatever of mistake they may
make! If our profession is to maintain
its prominence, if it is going to con-
tlnue the great profession, that which
leads and directs the movements OF
society, longer course of preparatory
study must be required. A better edu-
cation is the great need and the most
important reform. The door of admis>
sion to the bar must swing on re-
luctant hinges and only he be per-
mitted to pass through who has by
continued and patient study fitted him
self for the work of a safe counselor
and the place of a leader.
why is a higher education today
the special need of the profession? Be,
cause, first, the law is a more intricatc
and difficult science than heretofore.
Because, second, to preserve the con-
hdence of community in the profession,
higher demands now made upon il.
Because, third, his mistakes are
freighted with greater possibilities or
injury. When business transactions
are nothing more than an occasional
barter of a chattel or a simple con-
tract for labor a mistake works but
little injury, and only to a few. Blu,
when they involve the great railroad
today, a mistake may be fruitful OF
large and widespread ruin. Because,
fourth, society each day of its advanc-
ing civilization needs and demands d
manity rests not on what has been
accomplished, but on the steps forward
which it takes. If those steps arc
wisely advised and prudently taken
coming on of the day of which poets
have sung and which prophets have
foretold, when peace and righteous
ness shall fill the earth. While, on the
rnfh Hrrl too Ill,
taken, progress ceases and society re-
solves itself again into the anarchy
and chaos from which it has so slowly
arisen.
TOO MANY BAD LAWYERS.
ST know that mere education is not
all sufficient There must be man to
be educated 1t is an old and true say
ing that you cannot make a silk purse
out Of the ear of the female swine.
No more will any amount of study and
training pour legal lore into some
craniums or give that rare and blessed
gift, common sense. 1t may be OBJ
jected that if the course of study is
extended and the conditions of admis-
SIGN tc the bar increased a great many
will be deferred from entering the pro-
feSSlcn. perfect answer is that a.
great many ought to be deferred. a
growing multitude is crowding in who
are not hJ to be lawyers, who disgrace
the profession after they are in it, who,
u,
debasing the noblest of professions
into the meaneSt of avocations, who,
instead of being leaders and looked up
to for advice and guidance, are de-
spised as the hangers-on of police
courts and the nibblers after crumbs
which a. dog ought to be ashamed to
touch. Even of those who would love
to keep up the dignity CT the profess
sion many find no adequate compensa-
ton for the practice, and SO mingle
with it dealing in insurance, real
estate, and kindred matters to eke out
the living the law does not furnish. 1t
would be a blessing to the profession,
and to the community as we'll, if some
Noachian deluge would enguIf half of
those who have a license to practice.
Websters reply to the question wheth-
er the profession was not crowded was
that the first story was full. but that
there was plenty of room in the sec
ond We should see to it that there is
no first story, and that only second
story lawyers be found on our rolls.
"Gaul and Teuton, S1av and Saxon
is thicker than water. Because indi-
viduals of these varied races come to
this new land Of ours, and, dwelling as
neighbors, are slowly moving towards
one henaog geneous people il. does not
follow that the law of race will ever
be forgotten or ignored in the native
land. The vision of one great nation
with single parliament is only a
work out the final peace, and bring the
glad day when the spear shall be
turned into a plowshare, and the sword
into q pruning hook, and nations shall
learn war no more. In each separate
nation, as 1t advances in civilization,
more and more are differences settled
and rights adjusted by the lawyer and
the Judge rather than by the pistol and
bowie-knife; SO as the world advances
in civilization will differences between
nations be in like manner settled. Ar
bitrauonS are growing in favor, and
international courts will soon be part
of the common life of the world. /
know the time may seem far distant
when any such court shall come into
existence. 1t will be witness to a great
advance in civilization, and yet within
the last fortnight I have seen it stated
in the papers that the French assembly
has unanimously passed a resolution
looking to the establishment of some
tribunal of arbitration to settle all Off
ferences that may in the future arise
between that nation and this country
The world is becoming familiar with
international arbitrationS and the set
tlement of disputes thereby; and every
successful arbitration is but a har-
binger of the day when all disputes be-
tween nations shall be settled in courts
of peace, and not by the roar of can
non and waste of blood"
MLEAN MADE PRESIDENT.
At the conclusion of Justice Brewers
address general discussion followed
on the subject, brief remarks being
made by President Carter Judge Noah
w. Chever. of Ann Arbor; Judge
Sherman, of Illinois, and others The
committee on the nomination of Off
GERS reported the names of Chancellor
Mclean, of Iowa, for president, and
George M. Sharpe, of Maryland, for
secretary, who were unanimously
elected. A meeting of the section of
patent law. was then held and the
delegates listened to the reading of a
paper by Judge Taylor, of Chicago.