The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21
By julius w. Muller.

ills \ one OF the few thousands OF bit
I,,,k York lawsuits over that sacred
|YSahoney. Tho plaintiffs lawyer had
|sT19 manager OF a big corporation
,aas the humane grucling process that
b ir1ed civilization has substituted for
/ W and unpleasant thumbscrew.
:. y and implacably tho lawyer
u I'd once defended the very coTpo-
~ taat he was now attacking. and
- ilmost the game kind OF charge,
t-s5thc manager through an elevat-
c-.Sal OF successive financial may
~. ID commercial manslaughterings
ID y bth one triumphant eye on the
one glittcring eye on the un-
I--s-.J Jble subject, he rose 10 the qucs-
'Va-'rh was to produce the climax OF
|rcdsmls.
Dy, se cried. his voice trembling with
he IA grief. $50 you crushed these
Of nA your school-time friend: one
lon q business partner; one your dead
|m to son; and one your bencfoctor
|iou nu were poor
his Tsieezcd n tear out OF the eye that
|desz bury; but II did not blind him to
Tying fact that he had the twelve
N with him, They looked upon
hxesu I'm the witness box as other in
nah, used TO look upon the hated gen
IN 1Jeing squeezed In the iron boot.
lIu. said the witness, there was no
rrs, ,of crushing about It. There was
sss,.on OF thirty thousand dollars be-
vsT 3 and II belonged 10 me by right.
|,h,t them fair and square. 1T was
|a liter OF business.
nr,.sever lawyer, who knew the value
! fT-eech TO well TO permit anybody
la .hmake one, shouted four separate
- Is during the course OF this ut
1nItIPgal answer But the witness,
,err at least as clever as tho lawyer,
II $50 quickly that II got In all right
oy t}he Judge indulged in the ingcni-
IN, - pastimo of wiping out the reply
|, ihs Ring II stricken from the record.
IL ndh jury was instructed solcmnly
|ersr remarks really had not been
Es,s-znd that they had not heard them
90 and that besides this, they must
|n,os nem; and Furthermore, they must
ihat Sider them in arriving at YER
all exquisltely legal and celes-
.u<ipartial. But the lawyer looked
Is hi'' on the jury that had just been
|,sd ~, soul and verdict He felt in
|hsea Eessional bones that the magic
,ss business" and thirty thousand
EorN had retired the lmpracticable
|hut ats OF friendship and gratitude
I'M &C their proper humble place, and
oMcei verdict would be rendered in due
referslce with the laws Of evidence and
Ing es-established rules OF. commercial
kere ions between man and man.
|traytts right. The verdict was in IA
|,r ea.he corporation.
ttshI days afterward a writer sat in
nr sfing-room OF the New York Har-
bo,h ss,ts, in Stnto street. north
Lesn nth wet ormfuls OF sleet was an
|Ir hDg New York for business pur-
ear1ad making II pretty. The writing
! kea611 and Just asked tho pilots to tell
ktc n,ne adventure stories for publica-
[ee n an anxious world, and the demand
In AZ iiicken them quite specchless. To
exScthe tedium. he told some stories
|rpgt land ones. and among them the
! L ~ this lawsuit
b rly tough. wasn't It?' said he at
|k,5 = He went back on all his friends
sssl N up. busted ono OF them higher
|s Ef7 tite' and cleaned out his benefac-
,.s said the Oldest pilot. consider
don see as they had any right
|e o. IL was business. according to
10 yn showing. And thirty thousand
ln Us lot OF money"
|aylt you are. Cap'n Bill" said an
FrSlot, getting up md shaking him
Of his ovcrcoat, right YOU are |
the Eierc amt any Of Us that wouIdn't
Of y q terrible rastlc Tor thirty thou
|iy w llars"
be ,ke to sec just the tail end o, r.
|y way said the third and last
Hul1tunS up. I'D snatch al II and II
- by my fault il any other fcllcr
|IstcI WAY from mo. Come on. boys
lpSs.n 10 get down TO Tomp5nsvllIe n
be p<N TO use the tide down TO tho
|opa ~ tney went, noddnG "Cood-bve"
|g c@s'lng the poor writer utterly story