Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
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Northern Arizona Bar Association Takes Formal Steps at Annual Banquet To Carry Campaign To
 Legislature
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 dersiand what good bar the com.
 munity has. He has yet 10 hear the
 first man say a disparaging word of Judge Sloan, and his only objection to
 statehood was that the local bar may
 lose him, although i, was the duty of
 the association to endorse him as
 federal judge of the new state The
 speaker summed up his tribute to
 Judge Sloan in this quotation;
 "i He was scholar and n ripe and
 good one; exceeding wise, fair.spoken
 and persuading; lofty and sour 10 them
 that loved him not but to those men
 that sougnt him, sweet as summer. "
 In concluding, Mir. Ling thanked
 the association for the honor confer.
 Ted upon him in his election as its
 next president, and endorsed the an.
 nual banquets, even suggesting that
 they be held more often.
 After standing toast had been
 drunk to Judge Sloan, F. <. Clark was given the subject "If Portia Came
 to Prescott.' After rcciting ths his.
 tory of the woman lawyer immortaliz
 ed by Shakespeare in "Tne Merchant
 of Venice" the speaker averred tbat
 if she came to Prescott, she would not
 he defending Antonio against some
 avaricious Shylock, but instead would
 he occupied in inducing some rich
 Shylock to loan money to the mem. bcrs of tine ioca bar with pound of some poor lawyers tough flesh as the
 security. Moreover, if she attempted to practice law in Prescott she would find that snc could not get an office If she had to pay her debts. She would find here. though, "a just and upright . judge" Dwelling upon the good - deeds and charity of the members Of the association. he stated that while l lawyers are most unjustly criticized yet when any emergency arises in { community, they arc the first to b' | conNult'us III bht i'S"iN VT $ achievements, he concluded. the law | yer will stand among the first in th'
 list.
 ,, "our Clients" was the subject as Q signed to r. W. O'Sullivan, who treat }, cd it in a witty and original manner t He said in part: "The great secre !. is to cultivate your clients so that m e other lawyer can get them. A lawye c must be n metaphysician and n psy [. chologist- he must understand numa e nature. You lose your clients whe |. you lose their case, the same as doc Q tor when he fails to cure his patient h On the other hand, there is no grcate h. pleasure than to defend those client g who place their life or their rights le vonr hands with the utmost conhdenc II in your ability and fidelity to then &. Most clients, however, think the Id know more law than their attorney SC Colonel J. r. Wilson spoke upo as "The Needs of the Hour" and req ld paper which he aad prepared for ne Bar Association meeting in PhoenI e. but was called east without deliverin IT. if. He opened his remarks with ~ of declaration that there is no gran .c. government except the law has mac nt f. so. Law is the vanguard Of eiVi' is zotion. In recent days, it has n ,t kept pace with the advance m t' .o. sciences or in other lines Of hnm' ch epdeavor. There is loose statu'o' at construction and from this come q m. delays in the low. The speaker of plained that his comments must n in. bo construed as an arraignment od I,be practice of the law, or of the b' he lut were for the purpose of calling ,r. ,on,io, to what nc termed blii "A con.ervatism. The legal profession
 ,ho adyisor of thc people and shou
 ,rooress as other sciences. The st' ,lv nto, should be made harmonious a ve conform with the times, and the enc .rt would be Co avoid many civil eon'' lc- lions. .w An innovation in the shape or ng song was here introduced and 'A mn. Judge Hawkins related some in'ere mn. ina "reminiscences of fac local o i'm when he came here about tweniyh be ycars aeo such men as Judge ku in Clark Churchill, r P. Dam Jo ,r Howell. John P. llargrcave' hieh' b Mccormick. J C. Herndon and E, .os Wells were praeticiug law I'D
 were bniIding what win soon be one ire ,he great states of Che union Tl oe ,o,ked for statehood and fought ,o5 it and though they did not su'e' % ,ar neir works do follow them. ! '"'f .t... ,ha ,on1 work