Milford chronicle., 1903-05-08

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We end. That IS my advice" This is til
Sc same kind of advice which John L
" Porter, for many years the leader o
e. the New York bar, once gave to m
n IL her My father determined on on
Le occasion to appeal to the courts 70
s. vindication. He had conclusive evi
1t dence to support his case. He tool
this evidence to Mr. POrter's office ant
read it to him. After reading it. Joh1
X. Porter, as a conscientious lawyer
: turned and said. DIR Talmage. upor
: that evidence l can win the suit fol
. YOU but | am going to tell you what ]
told Horace Greeley who last week
! came on the same kind of an errand
and sat in the same chair on which YOU
: are now sitting. Go home and mind
your business. You have n work to do.
Life is too short for you to spend any
of that time fighting in a court of law
unless your work is menaced." Ny IA
ther went home. The suit was never
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But" says some young lawyer, that
may be all right for a well established
attorney like John X. Porter to do. He
had all the business he could carry.
He could afford in his position to turn
down a Greeley. But that is not the
way young man can build up a prac-
tiee. 1t is what he does in the court
and not outside Of it, that wins him
fame" No, my friend, you are wrong.
The public is not as stupid as You
think. If that public once hears
whispering that you are trying TO keen
clients out of trouble instead of push
ing them in. you will have all the eli
ents you want. Study the history Of
Mayor Jones of Toledo, O., who has
just been reelected for his fourth con
secutive term. He is generally called |
Golden Rule Jones. | know nothing |
about Mr.. Jones private life. nothing /
about his politics, but this do know
the people, the common people of that .
city. believe that Mr. Jones is their
friend and is trying to help them as far
as is able to do. Every newspaper in
that city was against him. During the
campaign they would not even print
A-NtAA-Ns 4 III AAN'liuulltNH anu lilt
Democrats organizations We're against
him. Each party had its separate cam
didate. Yet Golden Rule Jones went
quietly ahead. At the public ballot
boxes he received an Overwhelming
majority. his vote being 20 per cent of
all the votes cast Why? The people.
the common people, believed he was !
trying TO tighten their burdens instead I
OF getting them into deeper trouble. i
What is true in reference to politics is a
true in the lawyers office. One Of the q
best recommendations a lawyer can I
have is that he always conscientiously 1
and faithfully makes his clients inter II
ests his own. h
The Young Lawyers Duty. +
The high principlcd lawyer protects s
The weak as we'll as the strong The ri
Toung graduate from a legal school is 7
likely to take any case which comes in
his way. 1t is not so much then ques-
ion of money as of getting something 81
o do. He will spend as much time .,
Ver the case Of pet dog which has .,
'een poisoned in a back yard as he W
VIII twenty years later on a 100000 n
uit. But after awhile that young man l.,
'or6s his way up the legal iadder. ~
lis brain becomes keener, his expert a.
nee greater. He stands in the front -,
lnk of his profession. What is the re- 10
lIt? He ceases. as Il rule. to deal with
lses involving small fees. He is a -,
lllroad attorney or a rich mans ad- %
ocate. %
My legal friend, now Is your Opportu-
Ity for heroic self sacrifice. Do you -
now of case In which a poor man is -,
enaced with injustice? Do you know ~
Il man who is charged with a crime ~
which lie is innocent? The glory ~,
VI win in championing his cause is - -
tier to you than S1.OOO.OOO fee. The - -
eat corporations and the wealthy -
en- have reserved for their services -
g strongest legal brains of the coun- oi Nv
J. l ask, who are going to look after
legal interests OF the poor and the
lpless? You know just as well as ! ~" ""
Mt the critical time in the young '. ,nC
ms life is Just after he has com. Nv
tied that sin which he did thought ~
sly and without realizing its hei- ~
uSness. You know that if he is-Once ,iiS
lvicted and sent to the penitentiary , you
d herded in with lot of old Grim lei
lis he will become one of the black Mh
of the black. VIII you leave him ne,
the care of one of those legal in. pen
npetents who are found hanging uee
'ut every court room. waiting like oui
lures TO pounce upon the helpless oe
the slain? Or will you, in the SIZE
Mt rank of the legal profession. give Au'
IT time and services to save that ever
ing man? You know as well as / IL
that that little child who had her proi
cut Off by the cruel wheels of the graz
.tric car through the carelessness Of ei'te
motOrman will get nothing unless Leu
IAN of your brain plead her cause. sul'
!, with your legal ability. could win oar
her verdict of $4,000 cash. VIII SON.
let that little child be sent TO a at u
PIES home and pass all of her life son.
e in poverty because you. Il sue ster'
ful lawyer, are not willing to plead sne