Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-09-12
evasion of the law. This the Judge


The overnment and the people re-
presented by their attorney generals
and states attorneys are at disad-
vantage in the trials of great cases
on account of the weakness of the le-
gal talent as opposed by the array Of
able. we'll paid LAWYERS employed by
the corporations. When lawyer be-
comes so noted that he rises above
the average member of the bar lin
point of success .or accomplishments
Of legal kind, he Is at once taken
into the employ of corporations, and
becomes a corporation lawyer.
The judge stated that a Yankee
lawyer was practically the legal ad-
visor Of Japan; that the people of
Canada have never yet overcome
their astonishment at the way in
which the chief Justice of England
was outdone by the American law
yers in the Alaska controversy. A
Harvard professor is 1.-The adviser of
Siam on legal matLers. In France, a
! we'll known New York lawyer, Mr..
Coudert, is regarded as especially
: high authority in certain phases Of
law. The English judge and the Eng
lish court trial differ greatly from
the free-for-all, independent proceed
ure in the United States. In Eng
land.the old.relics of legal pomp and
ceremony are still seen in court
trials. The attorneys are there part
of the court, as we'll as the sheriff
and other officers. Their duties are
to assist the court in determining the
law, and not, as in America in many
cases, to BAN boozle and deceive, if
possible, the court on what is and
what is not the law. The English
judge, the attorneys and court otfi-
cials represent the. majesty of the
King and precedent and established
custom are there upheld and re-
! veIed. The English conservative
| naturally believes that what has been
in law should continue to be. The
judge illustrated this Trait by a.story
of how two policemen had continued
TO be stationed near an empty bench
in a public park and had been for 200
years. Some Yankee inquired the
reason and no one knew, only it had
been always so and that was suffi-
cient. Finally it was learned that
200 years ago a procession was to
have been given through the park
and the King and Queen we're to
have been seated on certain bench
and two policemen we're pleased at
that bench for the protection of
their majesties. The custom had be-
come fixed and the policemen had
been stationed there all these years.
Judge Jaggard said that America
went to all countries for its law, to
Australia for the ballot law, to Scan
dinavian.. peninsula for the principles
OF liquor legislation. That our law
yers were less bound by precedent,
than in other countries and that the
principles of the American law were
slowly but surely being shaped and
changed.by the lawyers..o the coun-
try, many of.whom. were unknown to
fame. He referred to the fact that
great issues are at present.pending
in this country which must be deter
mined for or against the people by
wise patriotic, liberty loving lawyers
in framing legislation to com bat 1.-The
evils which threaten to seriously dis
turb the success of our republican
form of government. In the great
contest that has been ntly en-
gagged in between the general govern
ment and the overreaching power Of
the Standard Oil, and other private
corporations, President Roosevelt. had
found one of his most able and sue
cessful advisers in St. Paul attor-
ney. Hon. Frank b. Kellogg.
The Judge closed with an optimis-
tic view of the legal profession, and
maintained that deep down in the
hearts of all practising attorneys,
there was desire 10 get at the
truth and to obtain justice for
cause no matter what are or may
have been the shortcomings of the
profession In its intense desire to win
cases rather than to establish inex-
orable principles. of justice that
would prevail at .all times. He be-
lieved that the devotion of the law
yers to their profession and high
minded sense of Justice would in the
end prevail and be the dominating
influence 10 the enactment and ad-
ministration Of law in America.
Following the address Of Judge
Jaggard the attorneys assembled at
the Gladstone at 1880 p. 10. at a
banquet rendered by the citizens Of
Jamestown, the Com mercial club and
the local bar association. The large