New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-09
St Augustine Fla. Jan. g. 1900.
THE LEGAL AID soCIETY's WORK.
-. .r,..1r, =. oil z AGENCY ENR ASSISTING THE

THE LEGAL AID SOCiEI1'S WOfNh'
AN ADMIRABLE AGENCY FOR ASSISTING THE
POOR AND OPPRESSED TO SECURE JUSTICE.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Str. For the last ten days so l have been
looking at the papers in the hope OF seeing ateh-
ton called 10 a meeting had the privilege OF at
tending and which was held on the l4th inst'' IA
furtherance Of the work and needs OF one OF the
nobiest associations In this city.
aIIude to the Legal Aid Society, an organization
of which this community ought to be PROUD. II
was founded nearly quarter of a century ago oy
Arthur Won Briesen, still. fortunately, IT'S presiahs
officer To-day, under the heading OF Justice 1oi
the Poor" find in your columns some Oh tue IN
formation given at that meeting as 10 inc [eceti'
esta blIshnent OF three branch ofces' IN oroef 70
make It more convenient for the poor ana OPP
pressed who need the assistance OF the soeiets'
At that meeting under the Craftsmanship Oh AfS'
Louise Waring, we learned from MISS Loew no"
tustice and mercy had been brought to the hearth-
stoves of nearly one hundred thousand sufferers
unable to employ legal talent, and who nave oeeh
carried through court by It's minlstTauohs lhos
securing for their own needs wages and othef dues
aggregating nearly quarter OF million dollars'
which would otherwise have swelled the Ill gotten
gains of their well do debtors. while the righing
wrongs done TO, or the prevention OF Wrohss AZ
marriage other relations. goes Tar beyond any
pecuniary estimation IN etoquen. e nrqed the
cause submitted to them Judge g Z Beanan was
knowingly. with burning Scriptural citations for all
whose absolute or comparative poverty or lgno-
rance leaves them defenceess. whereas on the sioe
of the despoiler and the oppressor there Is power
Mr. Johnson invoked its aid for the thousands OF
simple hearted and generous-if not always from
the conventional standpoint saintly-toIers VINO
Ego down to the sea In ships; and VINO, under
circumstances of cruel hardship and frequent gross
oppression to themselves at the hands or lano
and luxury TO those who live at home at ease
Mrs Warning earnestly invoked for that multitude
Of helpless women bereft of or Isolated from male
protection who must suffer from wrongdotng and
cruelty at the hands of the physically stronger MOL
ETY. of kind, the sympathy, ENCOURAGEMENT anu
une or their own superior intelligence, education or
natural competency has placed In poSitlohs OF
nositiye or comparative wellbeing and influence
She cited as an example for women SO placed as
to be able afford influence and aid 20 otheFs
what had been accomplished for the sanitation or
New-Orleans by the women OF that city, leu by
NV own share in the administration OF the United
States Sanitary Commission during the civil war
and nv vivid recollection of the extraordinary sue
cess resulting from the influence and labors OF the
women of that period give me feeling OF assur-
properly presented to the women OF our time
result SURPRISING the expectations OF the admins
traitors Of the organization will follow such pres
Let me suggest that there is no way in which
the legal profession more effectively be re-
ueved of the generally unjust reputation in which
II is often held by the iliterate and poorer classes
(and somewhat even by those OF liberal education)
than by the object lesson afforded. through It's
practically gratuftous counsels and plead1ngs Tor
Justice to the poor and helpless by the benenceht
Society established by Mr.. Won Briesen and upheld
by the membership and counsels of some OF the
ih New et7It,r Dec. g. 1893 A. ]. BLOOR.