The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-22
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! pie who desire to accomplish certain
| results how such results can legally be
accomplished, and by writing and in
struction to bring about such results
under the forms Of law
This Is executive In other words.
/ this executive faculty is Il very marked
necessity in the successful practice Of
/ the modern lawyer. With him the DOW
/ or Of initiation and Of devising the
methods Of accomplishment are fire.
! Quently the secret Of his professional
| success.
Is Great Lawyer
! "Of course. a great advocate is A
| great lawyer. In the presentation Of
/ the case Of the controversy TO court
| there is called out his power Of lucid
| statement, Of analysis, and Of forcible
presentation of the arguments in favor
! OF his client. and the great judge IS
/ ordinarily the great analyst who, with
/ common sense and the judicial quality,
| has the proper sense Of proportion which
! enables him to weigh and decide in IA
! vOr OF the better reason.
| But the lawyer, and especially the
! modern lawyer, whose business IS in
| OTga HiZing corporations and partner
/ ships, in the setting going Of enter
/ pTISes, has the counterpart Of these
J functions TO perform, and that is the
power Of initiation. of drawing con
tracts, and of drafting statutes 10 effect
/ the purpose either OF his client or the
/ people, as his duty may be
Now l am far from being blind TO
] the defects and weaknesses Of the pro
/ fesSiOn of the law, OF which L once had
! the honor to be member Lawyers
They adhere 10 the things that are sim
/ ply because they are, and reluctantly
admit the necessity for change
| When the business community yields
| TO temptation and goes into practices
that have an evil tendency, members
of the profession are ALWAYS found VINO
! for professional compensation can b IN
| duCed to promote the success of SuCu
| business methods. and the combinations
J to regulate the output and control OF
! various classes of merchandise and tC
sti1e competition by methods which
have had statutory deuunClauOn AM
which it has been the purpose OF tht
national administration to restrain, re-
press, and stamp out could only have
been as powerful and successful rs they
! have been through the manipulation
/ acutenesS and creative faculty Of mem
bers Of the legal profession; but, on the
| other hand, when statutory reforms are
TO be effected. especially IN business
methods and by introducing limitations
upon the use Of private property. so as
| TO stamp out the evil involved IN com
! binations of capital and at the same
time not destroy that enormous bench
| inUring 10 the public and insuring com
mercial progress Of such combinations
| the work Of drafting the statutes anC
! enforcing them so as 10 secure higher
pairing the means Of business progress
must ultimately fall TO the members o
/ the legal profession.
Must Determine Laws.
1T is members OF that profession o
the Supreme Court who are to deter
mine whether such limitations are with
in the constitutional power OF Congress
II IS the members Of the legal prOfes
sion on the trial courts and the su
pre- me courts that are 10 COnstrUe tn
. statutes and enforce the ultimate pen
! aIties for their violation,
I 1T must be, not whO3-y. but chiefly
2 members OF the legal profession tina
, shall draft the amendments 70 the Fed
4 eral and State statutes which shall Civ
such organization and efficiency Z
/ government machinery on the one ham
: and such clear definition Of the limita
; lions Of the combinations OF capital o,
! / the other that shall uphold legitimat
Z business progress on the one hand an
! / strike down vicious abuses on the other
/ Hence IL is that today, no less tina
, / at determination OF our Government
2 the profession Of the law IS the mos
; | important in its relation to politics an
-, | political government
d 1T IS said that business men hav