The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-03
TAFT TELLS YOUNG MEN
 WHAT'S EXPECTED OF THEM
Raps "Muck Rakers," Law yers and Certain Agencies of Publicity Predicts Business Panic Inside
 of Ten Years

to do with the disgraceful condition in which we find its administration. The awakened moral conscience of the country can find no better object for it's influence than in making lawyers understand that their obligation to their clients is only to see that clients legal rights are protected and that they need not and ought not to lose law in the cause of their clients and recklessly resort to every expedient to win the cause.
 ''In the practice of medicine the field of discovery has become So wide that the neophytes of the profession, though they may have been dull and laggard in their academic training, find a stim- ulus in the stores of undiscovered truths with reference to the human body and mind that seem to lie just before them. This makes them stu dents and gives them the zeal of de- votees."
 'I regret to say that during the last generation the strongest young men do not seem to have been at tracted to the ministry. I look, how ever, for a reaction in this matter. believe that in the near future men of great native force will follow the ministry.
 "Of the profession of Journalism there is much to say. The increase in the intelligence and discrimination
 
 modified the power of the press.
 '"The newspapers are taken more for the news they contain than for advice as to the lessons which should be drawn from it.
 ''The reputation of a paper for ac- curacy and veracity is generally as well known as the reputation of a member of the community. There are some newspapers that seek to ef- feet their purposes and control opin- ion by an attempted misrepresenta- tion or suppression of the facts in re- spect to matters attracting public at- tention. But in the end they do not prosper.
 Journalism is a profession in which men of discriminating intelli- gence, of high courage, of accurate judgment, of love of truth and real patriotism, can find a sphere of use- fitness uneXcelled in any other, and such men are needed. For if the standards set by some of the most successful of the newspaper in lack of truth, in coarseness and unfairness of criticism, shall not improve in the next generation, it will vindicate the pessimists of today
 'I refer to class of newspapers and of magazines that are properly criticised as muck rakers'. that rely for their circulation on the vicious and unfounded attacks upon the honesty
 
 motives of men in public life and upon those conspicuous and prominent in society. This muck raking is an out growth and probably the unavoidable aftermath of a laudable and necessary attack on abuses which had shown themselves in a form of corporate greed and control of politics
 'It was necessary to have a prose- cution in this regard and MT. Roose- welt led the movement and much has been accomplished in clarifying busi- ness methods and political methods. In the doing of which he was himself the foremost to denounce those who took advantage of the general condi- tion of popular suspicion and filled their purses by unfounded attacks on men in public affairs who are strug- gling conscientiously. But this muck raking will pass. Indeed. I hope it is passing, because the people are begin hing to see what it really is, are re- fusing to be influenced by it and thus are not making the contributions to the pockets of muck rakers which is theironly motive force for continuing