Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-03-21
LEWIS POINTS
TO CORRUPTION
CORPORATION COUNSEL MAKES
SENSATIONAL ATTACKS.
BE REFORMED
Declares That Revolution and Auar-
chy Will Follow Unless Law
Courts and Lawyers are Purified
Chief Justice cassoday Pays Trib
ute TO Carpenter.

Milwaukee. March 15.-At the
closing session of the joint meeting
of he State and Milwaukee Bar as
sociations yesterday. Corporation
Counsel Lewis of Chicago made a
sensational attack on the courts. law,
lawyers and wealthy corporations
and personages of the country wnom
he charged with swapping their fin,
gers at the law and courts and thus
leading and giving birth to the in
science the lower classes exhibit for
the law On one side ne said.
there is anarchy and arrogance, and
on The other side the insolence OF ig-
norance.
Lewis did not mince his words in
criticising the courts which allow the
powerful interests of the country %
escape the law. while the inveighed
against those lawyers whom he
charged with abandoning the ideas OF
olden times Revolution and anar-
chy he said. will follow unless the
law, courts and lawyers are purified.
tribute To Carpenter.
Chief Justice John B. Casso-
day Of the Wisconsin supreme
court read an interesting paper
on the life OF Matthew Hale Car,
penter al the morn ng session of the
State Bar associations in the United
States circuit courtroom. In his ad-
dress, Justice Cassoday traced the
career of Wisconsin's distinguished
senator with particular reference to
his achievements as a lawyer, dwell
ing at length on the noted cases in
which he figured and quoting liberal
extracts from his celebrated speeches
in court and on the public rostrum.
In opening his address, Justice Cas-
soday briefly traced the history O.
Senator Carpenters life, from his
birth in a little town of Vermont mn
til his death in Washington, d. C..
in 1881 He told of his early strug-
giles To gain an education and of the
aid given him by Paul Dillingham; and
Rufus Choate and OF he temporary
blindness which at one time threat
ened the career OF the great lawyer
Matthew Hale Carpenter was bold
clear, aggressive and COMMANDING
splendid qualities in an advocate. he
said In addition TO being a bl7r
liant advocate he was learned and
profound lawyer
Two traits developed in him cary
and chung to him through life. One
was profound distaste for manua
labor and the other and profound love
OF study"
No one ever accused Matt Carpea
ter of neglecting his senatorial dut
les said Judge Cass )day at another
point. but the fact remains that dur
ing his first term in the senate he
| argued thirty-one cases before the su
preme court of the Tn 'ted States
During the interim of his retiremen,
and in the two years of lis next sen
atorial term, preceding Ais death. h
argued siXty-one cases before the
same tribunal"
| After quoting at length from 10,
| eulogies on Senator Carpenter. @
| nounced ny Chief Justice Chase, Jus
! tice Miller. Senator Roscoe Conkling
| Justice Field, Allan G. Thudman ant
| others, Justice Cassoday concluded
his paper as follows;
Certainly there can he no highel
| praise of lawyer than to be Regarded
| by the American bar as one of the
few greatest lawyers. Matthew Hale
| Carpenter achieved that distinction